My mom was almost conned into buying cutlery

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It's a classical con played in many variations. Here it goes. My father was working in the garden when a big BMW stopped, a man in suit got out of the car and said he just came from a neighbor a lawyer where I delivered cutlery bought at a fair. He had some left over and had asked the neighbor to tell him where he could stop to sell it at rockbottom price. The laywer (neighbor) advice him to go to and stop at my dad's house. This was his story. My mum less naive than my dad, asked where he came from, he pointed to some house in the distance. My mum replied I know these people there's no laywer living there, he then said no it's the house behind it they just moved in. My mum said I would have know if a house was on sale. Then my dad remembered he came from the opposite direction as to the direction he supposedly came from. Something was fishy. Turns out this con is played on many people to sell overpriced low quality products that look expensive. Anyone experienced something like this?