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What do you do with 100,000 central asian guest workers each carrying one GPU in their cabin baggage when they go to Russia for their construction gig? Smuggli
by thriftwy 4y ago
What do you do with 100,000 central asian guest workers each carrying one GPU in their cabin baggage when they go to Russia for their construction gig?
Smuggling electronics beats smuggling drugs, danger-wise.
- colechristensen 4y agoBillion dollar operations like that would be noticed by someone up the chain of suppliers. That just isn’t how these things usually happen. It’s usually a couple of hops of resellers in increasingly distant from American jurisdiction areas.
- thriftwy 4y agoThey are going to buy those GPUs in retail and offload for a 20% markup on Russian market. One or two GPUs and they paid for the plane ticket. They can even sell it on Avito on their own. Look, ma, no operation. So you have noticed a lot of retail demand for those consumer goods, what would you do?