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    Image of Mike Mike
    08/18/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    Forget picture quality that fries your brain, this bakes it in at 450 degrees!
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    VenomIreland promoted this comment Mike was starred Mike was unstarred
    Image of ploopsy ploopsy
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    He not totally full of it. The picture quality on that is superb! Its just limited to showing turkeys and lasagnas.
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    Well I'm sure people would fall for it, especially since people fell for the other walmart scam when the guy pretended to be an employee in the parking lot and offered to buy tvs for them with his discount if they gave him cash. He would then go in and sneak out and they would be out of the money. So so sad
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    Image of S-Express S-Express
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    I guess he'd seen Microsoft label the new Zune as HD, so he figured he could use the same logic on the oven door....
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    OrbitalGun promoted this comment S-Express was starred S-Express was unstarred
    Image of OrbitalGun OrbitalGun
    08/14/09

    @S-Express: Well played, sir.
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    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    08/14/09

    @S-Express: so the oven door plays HD video then?
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    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    08/14/09

    @switchblade saints: No, it only upconverts to HD when connected to an HDCP compatible Microwave door. The native resolution of the oven door is only 1280x800.
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    Image of Bandit Bandit
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    What brand over door has that much glass? And where's the door handle? Assuming he got the door from a junkyard, it's still a lot of work for $100!
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    Image of SajalaEumelus SajalaEumelus
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    Just $100? That's an awful damn lot of work to go through for just $100. That thing has more crap stuck on it than a NASCAR driver.
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    Danny Allen promoted this comment SajalaEumelus was starred SajalaEumelus was unstarred
    Image of frigg frigg
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    Hey Danny,

    I may or may not have sat in on some meetings for the forthcoming Apple [redacted]. Anyway, just wanted to say great article! Oh, and I also wanted to mention that I just gotta call from [redacted] who said "who the [redacted] cares where I [redacted] park, you [redacted] piece of [redacted], and tell [redacted] Gizmodo to take down the [redacted] photo or our [redacted] or forget about parking your [redacted] little Prius anywhere in Cupertino."

    So anywho, just wanted to say keep up the great work! Really great article, hehe! And if you had a moment, perhaps you might be able to find a different picture to illustrate the story? Would really appreciate it!

    Thanks!!!
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    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    08/14/09

    @frigg: ¿Qué ?
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    Image of RainyDayInterns RainyDayInterns
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    Buying something from "a guy" in a parking lot for 95% off...if the thing is real, it's hot.

    Those who get taken by these schemes pretty much deserved it. We find their ignorance amusing (paraphrasing from Lara Croft: tomb raider) . We feel no sympathy for such fools.
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    Image of Poster99 Poster99
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    The funny thing is, that if it's a brand new oven door it might have actually been worth more than $100 as is!

    I wonder if he first had to steal all the stickers before he could convert it into a HDTV.
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    Image of DragTimes DragTimes
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    That must have been the TV at Best Buy for $9.95
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    Image of Curves Curves
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    You have to give the guy props for imagination; I would never have thought of it. He did a pretty good job of making it look like what people would expect unless they have read the posts on Giz about excessive packaging.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    Who has a 37" Oven door?
    Ours is like what 28" which seemed kinda standard.
    But I suppose our's isn't full HD. Heck ours doesn't even have Freeview
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    Image of The Nacon The Nacon
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    An oven door?

    I would never thought of that... but I'm not surprised that people are scamming more than ever this year.

    Go Recession! :/
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    Image of craig_16 craig_16
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    Full Heat-Dissipation
    for cooking 1080pies!!
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    Image of kentsmithnz kentsmithnz
    08/14/09

    In reply to Cops Bust Guy Selling Oven Door Disguised as HDTV
    I need an oven door - can someone post contact details please?
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    geiko promoted this comment kentsmithnz was starred kentsmithnz was unstarred
    Image of craig_16 craig_16
    08/14/09

    @kentsmithnz: Try San Leandro P.D!
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    08/14/09

    @kentsmithnz:
    [ovendoor.com]
    [www.ovendoors.com]
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