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Sketchy house calls?

pabloscooterpabloscooter 370 Posts
edited June 2009 in Strut Central
Anyone ever had trouble during a house call?Got shook down or something similar?

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  • pabloscooterpabloscooter 370 Posts
  • kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts
    I've never run into any problems like that, and I've done quite a few. Always good to try to feel people out on the phone and skip the ones you get a bad vibe from.
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    I've done close to a thousand house calls, and I've run into some seriously negative scenes, but I've never been shaken down or robbed (at least not outright). It's always been on behalf of a store, so that might make things a little more legit and a little safer.

    In the process I've developed a sort of sixth sense about who to avoid.

    I also don't carry a serious roll on me, as I don't want to be known as the dude who is carrying heavy cash.
  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,849 Posts
    Anyone ever had trouble during a house call?

    Got shook down or something similar?

    You talking about making house calls, or getting rolled by the cable guy in your own house?
  • pabloscooterpabloscooter 370 Posts
    Thats sort of what I always go by (and have never had anything bad happen either) but wondered if anyone had bad experiences.

    Seems like an untold part of THA GAME
  • pabloscooterpabloscooter 370 Posts
    Anyone ever had trouble during a house call?

    Got shook down or something similar?

    You talking about making house calls, or getting rolled by the cable guy in your own house?

    No but cable guy scenario sounds like possible law and order fodder
  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    WHO WHO WHO was the person who did the housecall with the dead husband on the couch? Damnit, that was a good story...
  • selperfugeselperfuge 1,165 Posts
    i have not done a house call for some time.

    never had much trouble apart from pity buys. the only scary moment was a lock-in with a clearly insane person. major kathy bates moves.

    i pulled a skated last poets, gil scott and brian jackson, and idris muhammad common to get out of there before he went into the basement for his hip hop collection "mint but no sleeves".
  • discos_almadiscos_alma discos_alma 2,164 Posts
    Always good to try to feel people out on the phone and skip the ones you get a bad vibe from.



    A few important questions go a long way.
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    one of the best housecalls I've ever been to was an abandoned house - a dude was squating there - the living room was filled with a dozen stolen rusty lawnmowers - he brought the 45s up from the basement in suitcases - fiyah! - I declined a hit of his ditchweed pinner
  • holmesholmes 3,532 Posts
    i'm pretty sure someone on here posted about getting set up on a housecall then getting robbed on their way there or on their way out, it sounded pretty scary.
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    meaty I think was
  • cpeetzcpeetz 2,112 Posts
    I recently went on a Craigslist sketch mission.
    The post said they were an "auto parts warehouse" that had a bunch of records.
    Not the most promising lead but I was gonna be in that part of town so I figured I'd check it out.
    Roll into the "warehouse" that had a small office and can see a few boxes of 78's.
    I ask dude if these were all the records they had, Oh no we have a bunch more in the back.
    "Hey Jimi you wanna show this guy the rest of the records"
    "No"
    "Come on man!"
    "He doesn't sound interested"
    At this point they are screaming at each other. I think Jimi was surfing porn on his laptop
    and didn't wanna get up, but he leads me in back.
    This is when I see that this joint has to be a chop shop, their "auto parts warehouse", appears to be a couple
    disassembled cars and random parts, transmissions, engines etc.
    He leads me to about 6 crates of pure shite.
    Nothing even remotely worth buying is found so, I make my way up front and let them know
    there isn't anything I can use.
    Jimi is pissed, "So you don't want'em huh?"
    I realize as I'm standing in the office that they have two parrots that live there and that they are
    free to roam and of course that means bird shit everywhere.
    I bounce with a quickness.
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    have you ever declined buying anything to a dude with a pistol sitting on the desk in front of him?

    it's a little un-nerving
  • cpeetzcpeetz 2,112 Posts
    have you ever declined buying anything to a dude with a pistol sitting on the desk in front of him?

    it's a little un-nerving

    Thankfully no, I'll bet money that there were a couple firearms at the parrot shit palace
    but they were not in plain site.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    I just did a house call.
    Not sketchy, we had met before in the non-record world.
    Her husband had died and she was selling the records.
    She kept flipping back and forth between being surprised how much I was paying and thinking I was cheating her.

    I hate when people think I am cheating them.

    Often when I tell someone there is nothing I can use, they get mad and think I am cheating them by not buying anything.

    I look at hundred records, and say, I can give $5 for these 4 (mostly because I am trying to be nice) and they start raving about how much their records are worth. Yeah, they are worth so much I only want 4 of them.

    I've been in a lot of sketchy houses, but have never worried.
    If you are feeling a little uneasy with the situation let them know at the start you will have to write a check, or stop by the bank because you didn't bring any cash.
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