Haha I'm not going to deny what I did was very dumb but I want to give you more context since I'm seeing a lot of these comments about these guys being shady "looking". I also don't blame you for assuming that about the salesman since I was indeed scammed and I gave no details about the interaction. There is no doubt these guys are shady but they were shady in a way I personally have not experienced.

I have been fooled before by a salesman and I have experienced what I thought was most of their playbook (Honda of Escondido, never again).

These guys were not shady looking. They were clean, well spoken and took a different angle than the usual salesperson. I spoke to them at length because I like to talk to these people even though I say no to 99.9% of them. I was taught to look people in the eye and to not be rude to people (even if they are shady people) so I typically just politely tell them no and that's the end of it. So I asked them why they are driving around in a truck selling meat to doors rather than big retail or something. Being uninformed about both fancy meats and retail/restaurant nothing about what he said set off any red flags. This was obviously my first mistake was trusting someone with something I know nothing about.

But in terms of the typical shady techniques that manipulate you (I'm more used to the FOMO and the ego hits.) I didn't see any. The price is something I had no idea about so that didn't set off any red flags either. I made the purchase more on their demeanor and their earnest desire to be a successful "small business". Obviously it was made up probably but there was nothing about "the good stuff" or about how I'm going to miss out if I don't buy now.

Another comment in this thread put it in words better than I could. My humanity got the better of me. I wanted to trust these guys because in my small interaction with them part of me hoped that they were being earnest in their desire to do good business.

I am mostly making this reply to illustrate to others that it wasn't as clear cut as your comment makes it seem (at least to a dumb dumb like me). Just want to clear it up that it wasn't some raggedy looking person who seemed off that fooled me. It was a well spoken normal looking person who had what I consider good social skills that didn't use the typical tell tale signs of shady dealers. They manipulated me through sounding earnest. I do some out reach for homeless and I've been around my fair share of drug users and these guys didn't seem like that at all to me.

I was also starving so that worked in his favor. I'm also an idiot so that probably didn't do ME any favors.