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Man Buys 300 iPhones from Apple Store and Gets Robbed Soon After

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0:00 if you're doing a transaction like that and you've done it before you would take necessary precautions was he holding a Subway sandwich that was perfectly intense that's what we need someone poured bleach on his sock [Music] so there's a dude right he goes in the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan he buys 300 iPhones you can do that I thought they limited yeah yeah me too holy ████ did you sure do on Black Friday yeah well that's like 300 G's right almost 500 maybe he buys 300 iPhones at 1 45 a.m on Monday evening November 28th why so many uh however while he's making his way back to his

0:50 car clutching on the three bags full brimming with technology oh someone came to ████ Rob's ass a car pulls up quickly beside him two men get out they forcefully demand he gives the bags over to them which he initially refuses to do but the men were giving up that easily and one of them punches him in the face and then runs off with one of the back is this Inside Job sounds like in the end the men get away with more than a third of the total iPhones that he bought making off with 125 devices totaling 95 000 so you guys can't get three bags from here no I was wondering that too well guys the getaway driver though oh two guys get out oh two guys get out maybe one of them was the ideas guy he said I'm not doing it I'm gonna get my hands there yeah he's not the muscle yeah you got to do that or maybe the guy that bought it

1:40 was like a tug of war Champion oh he's a big strong guy that's definitely the second option that I was like maybe the bag broke so it was hard to pick it up now that's on the tug of war Champion makes way more sense we already established tug of war makes sense so this 27 year old man is well known around that particular Apple Store and he likes to come in and buy up large quantities of devices so that he can sell them at his own smaller store elsewhere I think he buys them at retail though yeah that's weird what the ████ but why would he run around with those iPhones in a bag just like feel to them in Manhattan how come I can't start a cat 1 45 a.m yeah yeah 24-hour Apple Stores how come I can't start a candy business by buying Costco candy and reselling it but this guy

2:30 could buy as many iPhones as he wants and resell maybe there's some sort of authorized reseller relationship that like they have again I'm just speculating here it's not official it doesn't say that but it just says at 1 45 a.m he went to the Manhattan Apple Store I didn't even know they're open 24 hours like why'd he go that early in the morning or late at night the Apple Store next to the jumbee and um waikikis open till like nine or ten they're open late this was 1 45 a.m so it's open 24 hours they're like was this a Black Friday thing I have no idea I don't know police are obviously on the hunt for the men who punched him and sold a bag and have appealed for anyone with information about the incident to come forward and make themselves known it's not yet known whether the man was specifically targeted by the criminals because of his buying habits nor is it known why he was buying the iPhone so late at night

3:20 is that some kind of ████ insurance fraud or some ████ sounds like it trying to claim losses for it oh ████ it sounds like fraud it feels like it because like if you're doing a transaction like that and you've done it before you would take necessary precautions was he holding a Subway sandwich that was perfectly intact that's true that's what we need someone poured bleach on his sock this is weird because if you're gonna buy 300 iPhones and if he has a business it's way more secure to just get it sent to your business right so that you can sign off for it and it all comes in an unmarked box and you put it away like in the back maybe as a Chinese guy and he's like I'm not paying for shipping that's true there's a hundred solutions to this problem and he did none of them there's a hundred problems to this problem he

4:12 did all of them versus like going to the bank and pulling out money and then going like I'll put all the money on my shirt so the whole world can see it yeah I got my money guys and I do this every week at this hour everybody yeah like what the ████ did this guys did they say anything to the guy that he's pretty dumb yeah they're like you're pretty dumb oh okay they're like this is Samsung country they're wearing bag of hats too or what like you think even the store if if the store was uh in on it or at least if you would think they would go okay you want 300 phones we're gonna put it in a blank ████ cardboard box at least no the store was in on it they're like you want insurance for these no oh good yeah that's what I'm thinking it's got to be some kind of there's like a million things you could do to make this a better situation

5:02 yeah dude that sounds like so much work too it's like I just bought ████ 700 000 iPhones or whatever it's like I gotta sell all these things I'm gonna personally sell every one of them I love it you said 700 000. or what is that how much money worth from 300 or 300 000 worth right no just I gotta sell 300 000 worth of iPhones holy ████ just to break even I got something else oh my God I'm surprised they even had stock that's what I'm saying when you're buying at that volume I mean you can't even buy seven chicken fried rice is at Thai Barbecue unless you tell them the day before yeah you can't eat alone yeah you gotta like give some advance notice so I'm sure there's had to be some kind of like hey I'm gonna come in there by 300 phones like come on speaking of Costco you guys mentioned earlier yeah when the ████ did someone say you said it at 9am yeah dude I thought you would be like speaking of Ty Barbie it's in the same video it's 9 53 a.m you guys

5:54 said 53 seconds speaking of the Chick-fil-A the way you guys are talking about during the walk it was in the same video okay but what what and we're talking about reselling here because he's a businessman right what I found out is Costco is actually a price leader like for it's a real wholesale warehouse like you like I thought low prices was just one of their kind of sales pitches right and if I went down the chain and I went to real wholesalers in big batches of sugar or whatever I'd get a better price it's ████ Costco will give you really ████ good pricing Joe I could have told you this I've been a Costco member for five years so I could have told you this we sell Kinder bank noodles at Costco no but I'm telling you straight up wholesale I mean Costco prices are better than like a Restaurant Depot exactly what so like like Cisco the the

6:47 but you got to understand it's also familiar are you guys familiar with like uh Forever 21's business model no no okay so Forever 21 which I'll see other people and make the same thing no no it's not copy other people so it's like t-shirts like Amazon style it's like ████ ████ up the the the small people if you can't hang right yeah so Forever 21 would be such a large buyer because they have the means to because they have the distribution and the locations they'd be such a large buyer that they can go to anybody regardless what the business or the product is and be like hey we want like 5 million of these pieces let's say you like made one ████ dress or some ████ a certain way they want we want like five million suddenly that's your entire business model your whole One account with with ████ Forever 21 is like 10 years of your business with like 800 retailers you know what I'm saying so it's like you have to your entire

7:38 business is dedicated to them now but if they go hey um you're not selling too well so we're gonna cut it all off now but you ████ changed your entire business structures you've dedicated it yeah and then on top of that too or if they go something like this like hey we need uh this much order like we're gonna put you in all of our stores you're like holy ████ I have to make like six hundred thousand piece now and then like oh you made 600 000 pieces oh you kind of made it wrong there's this one thing off here so we can't buy these anymore you're ████ so they're like actually okay look we'll buy it for 20 of the price you have no option you have to subscribe you know what I'm saying so like they're they're bullies I'm not saying Costco does we love Costco keep on buying a product here I'm just saying when you have that large of a scale of uh yeah you have Monopoly on something you have

8:28 that larger scale on distribution uh from a global retail ship and products like the margins are so ridiculous you have to play by certain rules because they have the power but I didn't know they were passing on those savings to the consumer I actually thought that they were just ████ using that as a marketing they're not passing on savings to Consumers their entire business model is membership prices yeah it's all membership you guys ████ with our pay and I don't even know how many commercials I'm in now because Bart was doing this ████ earlier and it wasn't even 10 minute Mark Bart's like talking about some great product that he loves yeah now Joe's here Joe's like how do you know they pass out the savings to the customer there's hidden ad reads in all these videos you guys are in all the talking points are you guys doing around us we don't even ████ know it's crazy this video is brought to you by Costco The Branding is sick welcome to Costco I love you prices

9:20 is even cheaper than like an actual wholesale place wow wow like all these places that you have to be a restaurant business to get like an account from yeah like a half have a seller's permit or whatever yeah they're not from everything but like a lot of things like ████ milk ████ sugar or ████ coconut milk soy milk like all those things lots of milk a lot of uh things to make test milk how deep are we gonna go to this ad read well it was all the Talking boys at the head I said he's I do where you get your bobo where you get your milk where you get your coconut milk your savings are passed on to the customer yeah you get your plastic cups your straws what else can you save on at Costco hot dogs they haven't changed their prices

10:10 just three chickens Optometry still good very good oh yeah Optometry is fire dude you get your eye doctor ████ there no I don't hey no ████ I get my contacts from uh Costco optometry I'll get my tires from Costco tires oh you get your tires there yeah dude it's just cheaper it's cheaper I don't because I I've already flexed fuel so I get E85 and diff on my E85 app and have you waited in one of those lines the Costco line will empty your full tank by the time you get there you know what you can't get Psychiatry for that better help use the code anime

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