Given the sales situation, even if it was all name-brand,
top-of-the-line stuff, the offer is suspect. You dodged the bullet.

Even if everything was in order and he gave you some phone number and
address, that's small consolation when local law enforcement comes and
confiscates it. The phone number is disconnected and the address
bogus.

Koz wrote:
A guy showed up at the shop door today with a pick-up load of new
equipment to sell.
Koz