By adamg on Sun., 9/19/2021 - 2:16 pm 
Signs all over Chinatown.
From Neponset Circle to Chinatown, agitated citizens are filing 311 complaints about those stupid yellow "forced auction" signs that have sprung up in recent days. One person even walked around Chinatown to take photos with which to urge the city to take down the "P.O.S." signs.
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Not just Boston
By adamg
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 2:32pm
Rte. 9 to 128. Also Waltham, Dedham, Needham, Winchester and Arlington and the Lowell area.
Saw a number of them on 3A/ 3
By anon_wd
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 2:35pm
Saw a number of them on 3A/ 3 in Burlington the other day
I guess the Rhode Island
By anon_wd
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 2:40pm
I guess the Rhode Island version of this was supposedly 8/22
https://twitter.com/HayleyBuckey/status/1433938782...
also on 2a in lexington and lincoln
By anon
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 4:19pm
a bunch of them by minutemen tech
Looks like a scam
By anon
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 5:33pm
I seriously doubt they are auctioning off Picassos. That's not the kind of think that advertises with cheesy yellow signs taped to poles.
Also....
By michaelc
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 10:22pm
..there are a bunch of these in Belmont as well
Newton, too
By Essteess
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 9:13am
Was visiting a friend in the Watertown Street area, and it seemed like these posters were on every other utility pole and street sign.
Can we have a real
By Notfromboston
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 2:59pm
Can we have a real journalistic investigation on whether these auctions are legit, or are they for BU students?
Picassos
By Jess Hamilton
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 4:21pm
I. All in if they sell Picassos for cheap......oh wait I don't like Picassos
Also around Morrissey Blvd
By anon
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 4:20pm
Also around Morrissey Blvd/Neponset Bridge area, Melnea Cass, Tremont
Who would attend this
By Will LaTulippe
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 4:33pm
During a Pats game?
It's a nationwide, on-going scam
By jered
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 5:36pm
Some details here from last time around: https://www.reddit.com/r/LasVegas/comments/kpwzqq/...
I want to be surprised that these criminals don't get arrested and shut down (given there's a physical spot to go and pick them up), but not naive enough to think the police care about this sort of fraud.
Not exactly a new idea
By downtown-anon
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 11:10pm
Back when I followed auctions in the 80s and 90s more closely this type of ad would show up in papers with some regularity. Not every week, but definitely multiple times a year. I don't remember Lamborghinis, but Picasso was so prolific that it was plausible that one could just show up.
Flashbacks to the Reagan Recession
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 5:46pm
I remember this sort of stuff plastered everywhere when I was just getting into high school. That, and empty anchor stores full of sleazy flea market vendors.
They are just things. I'd
By anon
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 7:34pm
They are just things. I'd rather take cash to pay my bills and rent and medical bills.
They are just things. I'd
By anon
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 7:47pm
They are just things. I'd rather take cash to pay my bills and rent and medical bills.
Do something
By johnmcboston
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 9:26pm
Of course, the Chinatown walker couldn't have taken those signs down themselves?
I took some down in Brookline
By anon
Sun, 09/19/2021 - 10:16pm
Some in Coolidge Corner have been removed by me personally.
I think the point here
By fungwah
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 10:48am
is to get the city to take some kind of action to keep the signs from being put up at all (which would be pretty hard for some random citizen to do).
Pissing in the wind
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 5:47pm
I'm sure whoever was paid by the sign to put them up would appreciate the opportunity to put more up.
Just bring back
By fredly
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 12:42am
Just bring back
CA$H FOR YOUR WARHOL
I seen these
By Good Guy
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 3:58am
I was driving in Watertown and asked my wife to hurry up and get a picture. I seen the auction & Lamborghini and lost it. Lol
Almost as annoying as
By anon
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 8:11am
Almost as annoying as campaign signs,
Money For Your Insulin
By Constance Hirsch
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 8:26am
Those signs infuriate me. I really have to start carrying small wirecutters when I'm walking around.
I was all over the place this
By Anon
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 8:41am
I was all over the place this weekend and saw these signs everywhere outside of Boston. It makes you wonder how much they make off of the scam if it is worth all the time and effort to put so many signs up. Unlike a scam email this takes significant time, expense and resources.
If you hate the sign so much
By anon
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 8:44am
If you hate the sign so much spend the thirty seconds to take it down.
Reddit went
By anon
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 10:15am
Someone on reddit actually went, confirmed scam.
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/pqrklt/fo...
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