COPS CALLED: We Go Undercover To BUST Hotel Auction SCAM! BEWARE!

[Music] the thing i'm more upset was he literally looked everybody in the face and said that he couldn't get it he was shaking people's hands telling him that he was owed negative blood that it was impossible for him to get it he didn't say a lower risk of getting it which i believe that's what the truth is he straight up said he's never gonna get it can't get it always trying to make sure because you don't want to bust anybody if you're not doing anything obviously you don't you don't even want to bring them that negative attention hello vicki um are you all having an auction there today [Music] i i have concerns about that auction i was a licensed auctioneer he has fake people in the crowd saying this is not a legitimate auction do y'all have his auction id number because he has to be licensed in the state of texas to be doing this i don't want this to be negative on you guys because he's a scam artist i believe you could get somebody to call me back because again [Music] um and i am going to be warning the community of rockwall just through some of our pages and stuff i'm going to be letting them know not not to go because i don't want them getting ripped off and because i love rockwall i love all the businesses there but i i know it's unknowingly but he's scamming people and i know y'all don't want to be a part of that yeah no we don't but let me see what i can do [Music] okay thank you i feel like we should drive up there i don't let the authorities handle it but i'm thinking we should go up there because if the hotel doesn't do something about like there's people up there getting scammed we should go up there to see the same black ladies gina has got her disguise on we're going to send her in we're going to head up there right now and we're going to send gina in she's going to go in like she's looking because i'll be recognized he was really eyeballing me yesterday she's going to go and act like she's looking at some items get some video of inside and we're going to see if any of those same people are in there [Music] [Music] hmm hey y'all we are here at rockwall texas at the marriott we're doing a little recon that had to be i bet that was it yeah they had it in a u-haul yesterday i think i wish somebody just saw who got out of that truck i know who are these people are they part of the auction no that just like we're just traveling all right guys we are here at the marriott like i said in rock wall uh we're just gonna do a little recon i wanna look i wanna you always wanna make sure you're right about something but i mean here's what i do know for sure i do know that he's done two auctions in this area with the same people in the audience bidding because i definitely trust the source i got it from uh he was definitely uh bidding to no one uh when he was bidding behind me he was definitely doing that i mean i've i've done ringing jobs like ringing is where you're catching bids for auctioneers like i've done hundreds of those jobs so i mean i know how to catch bids if you noticed in the video at one point he said hey nice eye or something i have to give you a job he was actually talking to me because he missed a bid and it might have been a legitimate bid but he missed a bid over in the corner and i pointed at her to let him know so i mean i know what i'm doing i know what i what i'm seeing and what i'm not seeing um so anyway we are here gina is gonna go in she took all her makeup off she put her hair up in a bunch put her glasses on she looks halfway homeless right now so she's gonna go in and she's just gonna register she's gonna get pictures of the papers because they don't give you a copy of what you sign so we're going to get a picture of everything you sign and she's going to go in and see if just get some video and see if uh the same people are in there that were bidding some of the same people and we're going to see if some of the same items were in there that we know we sell because my assumption is is that they have multiple of certain pieces because some of those things like i said i showed you in the video yesterday the one thing i mean that that was what what frustrated me the most to make me make this video again was the covid thing because i was just dumbfounded that he told the crowd that so anyway i don't know if he just didn't want to wear a mask or whatnot but uh anyway so that's that i need to put the camera down before they come rolling in the parking lot and be like hey who's these people that big fuzzy thing on the thing so gina's gonna run in uh it's 1103 right now it's the same gig she's going to go in about 10 minutes sign up for a thing she's going to see if she sees some of the jewelry here's the thing my client also told me y'all know the pearl necklace he sold at first for 150 something something like that he sold for 150 the guy who went to another auction said that's exactly what he started with in this one so let's see how many of those pearl necklaces he has um in there so if we go in and gina sees another pearl necklace i mean he's probably got a bag of them to be honest and he's just selling them so anyway y'all hey cross your fingers say a prayer for gina this is her first undercover gig y'all it's normally me going undercover but gina's got to do it now because i'm just too recognizable you know he's gonna be like who's this well he came up to your he i think he knew i knew what i was doing um so he did he he definitely kept coming uh he he definitely was keeping his eye on me so i'm definitely not gonna go in i do have a buddy that's near here he may come over and go in because he likes sports memorabilia he may sit in the audience and do some bidding we'll see gina's going to go in do the preview act like she's going to the bathroom she's going to come back in i'm going to watch the footage i'm going to share the footage with you and then we're going to make an assessment where we go from there hello guys walking in looking homeless like justin said see what we find out hello um where's the auction [Music] all right thank you oh so [Music] [Music] let us know or if you want to read this word [Music] yes okay the complete sign we can sign we have this and then we add text on top of it thank you oh i'm not done yet i'm just taking pictures so i know what i signed the appraisals [Music] how did you hear about the option wait i just oh just online i see you okay perfect thank you ready to sign up yes uh just complete time we add this and then we added so who's the auctioneer today uh who's the auctioneer where is he yeah uh he was sitting up there earlier okay he's already here he is okay do you have any information about him uh he's been an auctioneer for a long time i've had him also and we've been in the business for so many years so yeah i just like to know okay who the person is here uh he'll introduce himself at the auction oh okay in the beginning yeah yeah does he have an auction license in texas uh he does he does he okay all right great oh wow those big enough i know they're really big aren't they these are beautiful so you said it's like a request only yes all right so if i want to bid on something i need the stickers yeah oh okay oh that's fine thank you so much [Music] my fingers are falling i heard that they all do that that date just might be nice um [Music] seven six six or seven six years she's been buying off me i met her in dallas six years ago she came to las vegas to a couple of my auctions you need that watch i've got seven thousand dollars bid yes anybody want to try 7500 dingleberry dave in case y'all don't know dingleberry dave i'll show you how he became famous right here i'm gonna insert it right no no no i should have used this a little more what is that that's a duster without the dust part of it yeah i don't know man this is the grossest unit this is [Music] three and a half minutes and you he didn't even feel that that buddy hey you better call tyrone i don't know all right so you tell us what happened when you went in there uh so i was i was no nothing for the texas id i did i was just looking at the jewelry and i was acting like i was really interested in purchasing um you know purchasing some pieces and i asked you know like if there's any information that came with it you know to verify authenticity and whatnot and if there was any way to get the texas um license id number you know just to make sure that it was all authentic and stuff like that and she kind of skirted the question she did she started it and she she went you know she was like we travel all over the place and stuff like that that's all they're doing they're they're using these stories of oh she she just made up a story about we've been in business forever you know in 1994 yesterday at the auction she said you've been around for 1994 and you've got no fingerprint or footprint online of your business i heard him say something about he was doing on carnival auction on carnival cruises or something back in the 80s that was his pitch yep those are all scams too those are taught to be scams mike jones my texas auctioneer guy he taught us that that was a scam and had a video so hold on a second all right y'all so look i got my whole freaking crew in here about to take the off road so i've been texting back and forth um so some of you may not know that i well you know i've told you i was a licensed auctioneer i went through mike jones uh auction academy here in the dallas area he's one of the most respected like people in live auctions period like he's just he's one of the dudes to know but i've been texting back and forth with him just to get some advice and he's been walking me through this to get what to get um so because i just knew it's a scam and i mean he does he still has one of the biggest auction academies you know period and he does a good job so i don't do live auctions but i love this industry so i want to take this clown down you know what i mean so anyway so uh they have skirted they're supposed to have like their auction id number is supposed to be on the paperwork they're supposed to announce it before the bidding starts uh they don't have it posted anywhere in there there's no i couldn't find it yeah it's not anywhere in there i looked for yesterday because that's how i usually know like it's legit you know what i mean so anyway so gina asked on film he asked um and i was there in person yesterday so that's three times they've avoided giving the license auctioneer number the problem is mike said that if i called the cops they're not going to do anything because i want to shut this beast down there's people in there right now being taken advantage of yeah i actually might go in there to the hotel and tell them like look i don't believe these people are licensed i don't believe that that any of this is legit i'm gonna tell them right now your customers are getting ripped off right now you think that it's even customers from here or well some of them just come down from the lobby yeah you think so but if you look at their ads online there's no information about the company i'm calling bs that you've been around a long time because i've been around six years and anytime i put any ad out there i want everybody to know about my business right yeah so you don't have and there's no id number in his ads either which is he's supposed to put in the ass too i looked over the the registration form and that's when i started asking her you know like about the tax or the id number so here's the dots and this is what mike jones even said uh when i was messaging him today he said look that's like the video i showed y'all in auction academy and he said it's the red dot method well they use green dots but basically that's what they do is it's a scam so uh anyway so i think what i'm going to do is i think i'm going to pull up because he's in their bidding right now and i'm just going to go in there and let them know that like look this guy's supposed to have a b c d and he doesn't have any of the above and your customers right now and people in this community are being ripped off and i'll tell you what i'm going to do tomorrow when he posts on that thing again because he posts real quick and takes them down i'm gonna find out where his butt is tomorrow and i'm gonna stay on his butt i'm gonna let actually i think i'm gonna send all this information uh over to mike to let him kind of because i mean he knows anybody and everybody if there's anybody can get this clown off the street it's him but all he'll do is move over to the next state or something that's what these fools do he said they're gypsy auctioneers so anyway hey guys we are like for real this is a mission now to take this fool down because he's literally gina just said if you saw in the video that mom and that son like they were being freaking hosed in there they were there so much money in there and she she spent easily three times retail on most of the stuff in there she spent thousands of dollars and this guy and the people he had hid in the crowds is freaking hosing people did you look at any of his jewelry no i mean he was over i mean but what he said about the appraisals that's not how appraisals work this guy is a complete butt clown and freaking uh i wanted to say the other word but i just i'm not going to but he's a butt clown so anyway here's what to do i'm going to go in the office one last time and i'm going to let them know hey i called you i warned you now if you get a complaint that this dude's freaking hosing people in your freaking thing it's gonna come down because i'm turning all this information over to the texas department of license to get this guy out of our state all right guys i'm gonna go in and warn the hotel one more time if they don't do anything there's nothing else i can do if they don't want to protect their customers and there's nothing i can do but let's go in and warn them it's like leaving the wallet it's like leaving your wallet you this morning about the auction stuff and i'm just gonna let you know that i've been on the phone with the state and your customers are being ripped off he legally has to have all his information posted on all of this by the state of texas and i have him on film from yesterday where he was ripping people off and has fake people in there bidding people up and i'm just telling you that this is the last morning because this is going to come out i know you can't do anything today about it but i'm telling your customers being ripped off and that is legal illegal the police won't do anything about it but you are allowing that guy in there no no auction id number no not you not you not you do you all have any of his information like his texas state yeah you have to be licensed and all of his stuff has to be on every piece of paper it has to be posted in the sign he has to announce it before and i went to one of his ones up to the street he's traveling around they're called gypsy auctioneers and that's that's cheap stuff they're knocking off people with i'm just telling you this is going to come out already contacted channel 4 because i'm going to shut him down so you might want to call your manager one more time to say that guy needs to go i was a state licenseer one of the people that directly that does the runs the auction academy here in texas is licensed he actually does the education to license auctioneers i've been on the phone with him and he's he's the one that asked me to get all this information together because this i promise you i wouldn't be here if this wasn't true but this is my industry and i'm protecting my industry and you all need to protect your customers because if you walk in there i've already sent three people in there with the camera to get his auction id number and they keep skirting it they won't give it to us they're scamming people so if you were to go in there and ask him for his auction state texas state id number he has to legally give it to you if they don't have one what he's doing is illegal [Music] yeah i'm just telling you it takes me off because he's he's ripping people off in there i had him on camera yesterday i have a youtube channel almost 100 000 followers okay yeah i watched one of the videos okay so you saw him yesterday yeah okay that's illegal and you saw the stuff where i popped up the pictures of the 150 items the 100 items he's telling people are worth 8 000 i can buy that stuff in bulk right now and that's what they do they throw this penske truck and they ride around and they rip people off so i literally watched a lady and her son get bamboozled out of thousands of dollars yesterday that would upset you wasn't it and if you noticed he wasn't wearing him is he wearing a mask in there is there any way that you can get your manager you know don't get that information yeah she did she was very nice so yeah he's going around town selling people all this fake junk if you saw my video yesterday okay the lady that was sitting right in front of me to have the african-american ladies sitting right in front of me with the black person she's in there right now the same lady go look at my videos she's in there right now bidding people up go back to my video and look at that lady it's the same lady i've already got her on film in this room right here my wife went in there and she's in there doing it again what they do is they pay these people to go around and sit in the audience and bid people up after he gives them a story of that it's worth 8 000 when it's not i this is what i do and it ticks me off that he's taking advantage of people it is and if i call it if i go in there just be bad i'm not going to call the scene because it's a texas license thing they have to you have to file a complaint and i could call them up here to make a report but y'all don't need that you know what i mean i can take this guy down without causing a scene up here to you guys because i don't want to do that to y'all i don't know but you might call your manager again and just say look he's supposed to he is he's supposed to have his license on here all the paperwork and if you notice they're not giving copies of the paperwork my wife went in there registered and she had to take pictures and they you know then they were avoiding giving her the information so they're scammers yeah they're scammers in here taking advantage of it like i said if you go back to my video you'll see some of the same people and they're beating people up so make youtube it's just nice doesn't make you mad there's people in there right now being taken advantage of right now they're being lied to and there's people in there cheating on right now yeah well they give you the spill that they'll size it and all this other stuff yeah it's just it's such a joke but anyway i might call the police and just to make a report but um i don't want to cause y'all any problems because you are great [Music] they have not been vetted they're using another company's name from california this has no relation to them if they've been in business since 1994 they would have a footprint the reason i knew it was a scam first is because on the auction sites we advertise they put zero information about their company on it which is very suspicious and they pop it up the night before and legally the the id number's supposed to be in there so i might just go ahead and do that so if they come up here that's why oh boy all right guys so she said maybe i should call the police just to make a report all right guys so i'm gonna go back to the car i think i'm gonna text mike and just see i might call the police just to have him come up here to make a report uh just so we can say that he was here so i'm gonna do that um and we'll see we'll go from there i'm calling the cops we've asked for it twice they should be able to provide it immediately what hotel are we at marry us spring hill suites and rock wall areas of their emergency uh it's it's i just i need to see if i can get an officer to speak with me about an event that's going on at the what hotel is this marriott the marriott it's by the center mark right on the um service road okay you're in rockwall so let me get your rhythm okay no not for youtube bro yes ma'am are you with the hilton no we're at the marriott it's right next to culp peppers the one on the service road spring hill yeah that one okay what's going on i need to see if i could get an officer out here because i want to i need to make a report because they're holding an auction here that's it's illegal by the state law requirements and i was at his one of his auctions the other day and i followed his caravan here to rockwall today and they're they're in there illegally holding an auction and they're ripping i mean people off for like thousands of dollars worth of stuff and i at least need to know that i did the right thing to report it to you guys i've already talked to the hotel he's he's supposed to have a texas he said he's from california he's supposed to have a texas i was a licensed auctioneer he's supposed to have a texas license and he's supposed to have it posted in the building on his paperwork and he's not this is a fraud and i watched i have it on film of him ripping people off for literally like thousands upon thousands of dollars uh yesterday and now he's hearing rockwall doing it are you totally in a conference room in the hotel yes ma'am and i just i know i need to make a report of it because i'm reporting him to the state i've already spoke to one of the representatives but they just told me to get as many pictures and videos as i can and i have copies of his paperwork which are completely he's not this is it's he's in there selling people stuff telling him it's worth twenty thousand dollars when i can buy it online for 150 and i have proof that he has fake people in there in the audience uh bidding people up on it and that this is completely illegal in the state of texas okay what was your name justin grimes justin grime yes ma'am i'm just sitting in my truck i don't i didn't want to cause a scene for the hotel but i've went in there three times you've already talked to the management at the hotel uh they're out of town the front desk lady says there you know she's tried to call there's no hotel management hotel right now that's what she said and she she we do we do youtube as well and she watched our youtube video yesterday where i was warning people about him and i looked up his his uh and i saw he threw up at advertising that's what they do they're called gypsy auctioneers and he threw up an ad and they're here so she said the management is out of town but at least if an officer can make what's that what's a good phone number for you uh 214. okay what kind of car are you in out front um i'm parked right by the service road in a blue 2020 dodge it's like it's got little american flags on it's a royal blue it's me and my wife there's three of us sitting in the truck i'll go ahead and have an option okay thank you you're welcome po-po on the way police card i'm right here dude there's look there's a puzzle it's royal blue right here we're a navy blue hello yes ma'am yeah he just drove past us he's in the culpepper parking lot i mean i'm literally parked right by the service road and i have there's a washer in the back of my truck tell them that's easy to spot there is this is it spring hill sweets yeah marriott yes i'm literally like right up by the service road oh here he is he's right here okay thank you ma'am so nice so i got you on film too you dumb jackass [Music] all right guys so hey rockwall pd obviously has no desire that guy had an attitude from the second he got out of the the car and so eventually just let's look let's go let's drive off oh okay um basically what i told them there at the end i said look man obviously you you don't you don't care he said well there's nothing he said he's not doing anything i said yes he's there he's breaking state law auction laws i said that's an illegal event he's ripping p but he didn't want to hear anything he's like what can i do and so anyway i just said look man he had an attitude though he had a bad attitude like just from the second he got out he must be having a bad day but i just said look obviously you're not going to be of any help so i said just thank you and i walked off so we're just going to go home so i mean i guess at the marriott and rockwall pd or cool with people being ripped off then hey cool beans i did what i could do

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Published: Sun Jan 03 2021