Story Created: Feb 8, 2010 at 12:15 PM MDT
Story Updated: Feb 8, 2010 at 12:15 PM MDT
But now he'll have to pay for the price for acting on an impulse.
"John" was leaving his office when a white Escalade pulled up to him.
"They said 'I got something for you that is unbelievable,'" said John, who asked not to be identified.
The men opened up their trunk and showed John a brand new surround sound system.
"They pulled a speaker out of the box and said they ordered four and five were delivered so they had one extra. They didn't want to to take it back to the shop because their boss would take it," he said.
In their convincing sales pitch, they told John it was worth about $3,000 and even had a catalog to show him the price. Still trying to fetch a fair deal, John talked them down to $300 and took home what he thought was a high quality system.
John had big plans for the stereo system.
"I was going to put in my house, but when I hooked it up, it sounded terrible," he said.
The "state of the art" Kinetic system featured only one connection so hooking it up to a DVD player or DIRECT TV wouldn't be possible.
"I felt terrible after I did it, I knew I had been scammed, and so I immediately contacted (The Truth Squad)," he said.
A search of Kinetic populates two websites. At Kineticloudspeaker.com you see what John now has collecting dust in his garage. If you want to contact them, you'll have to send them an email - there's no phone number listed.
But at the real company website, KineticAudio.com, there's a clear warning on the site that says "other companies have been using a variation of our name to sell their products."
The Truth Squad contacted the company for a comment, but has not heard back.
John isn't the first to fall victim to the stereo game. A consumer website has comments from people across the country with similar stories - all singing a somber tune.
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