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by **Valandar** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:14 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8582096.stm

"A US couple who boasted on a TV show they made as much as $3,500 (£2,318) a week by selling shoplifted toys online have been sentenced to prison terms."

Let 'em burn!

News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:22 pm

of all the reasons to go to prison, that has got to be one of the lamest.

smuggling lego.

by **ang3l3s** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:52 pm

We don't need no water let' em burn let em burn!!!!

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:55 am

They weren't scalpers; they were thieves. I'm not defending the practice of buying things and reselling them for a higher price, but there's a big difference between buying something and reselling it versus stealing something and then selling it.

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:28 am

GuyIncognito wrote:They weren't scalpers; they were thieves. I'm not defending the practice of buying things and reselling them for a higher price, but there's a big difference between buying something and reselling it versus stealing something and then selling it.

Yeah, this topic's title is misleading.

News Credits: 1 · by **mesh** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:43 am

Convotron wrote:
GuyIncognito wrote:They weren't scalpers; they were thieves. I'm not defending the practice of buying things and reselling them for a higher price, but there's a big difference between buying something and reselling it versus stealing something and then selling it.

Yeah, this topic's title is misleading.

yeah, i agree.

please remove this thread or rename it somehow.

thanks

by **Valandar** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:37 pm

mesh wrote:
Convotron wrote:
GuyIncognito wrote:They weren't scalpers; they were thieves. I'm not defending the practice of buying things and reselling them for a higher price, but there's a big difference between buying something and reselling it versus stealing something and then selling it.

Yeah, this topic's title is misleading.

yeah, i agree.

please remove this thread or rename it somehow.

thanks

Perhaps, but I'm more than willing to bet that a big chunk of the scalped toys on Ebay are not legit, but stolen like this.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:40 pm

Valandar wrote:Perhaps, but I'm more than willing to bet that a big chunk of the scalped toys on Ebay are not legit, but stolen like this.

No, only the stolen toys are stolen. The ones that are being "scalped" were bought and are now being re-sold at a higher price (which is exactly what the entire retail industry is based on).

News Credits: 5 · by **--B--** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:42 pm

A lot of the vendors on ebay actuall order straight from Hasbro, and since they don't have to go through major store distribution, they get onto ebay a lot faster.

I work for a small webstore, and 9 time out of 10 we get Mattel stuff a couple of weeks to several months before any of it hits retail. We sell on Amazon, not eBay, but eBay is where a lot of small "stores" sell.

News Credits: 5 · by **zodconvoy** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:45 pm

--B-- wrote:I work for a small webstore...

In PA? Small Blue Planet?

News Credits: 5 · by **--B--** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:13 am

zodconvoy wrote:
--B-- wrote:I work for a small webstore...

In PA? Small Blue Planet?

Nope, it's called Bull Market Toys http://webuytoys.com/ , based out of Exton. Like I said, we sell on amazon mostly, but are working on a new brick and mortor storefront, so we can buy from certain companies, like Playmobil. We spent A LOT between Lego, Mattel, Learning Curve, etc. at Toyfair this past February! No orders from Hasbro yet, they have a 10g minimum. It's only me and the owner putting in about 10 hours a week total, but we had 300k in sales last year.