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If you go on ebay, you can find tons of shady gopro listings. They'll have all the original packaging and put it up as a "pre-owned" unit, but then you open th
by at-fates-hands 4y ago
If you go on ebay, you can find tons of shady gopro listings.
They'll have all the original packaging and put it up as a "pre-owned" unit, but then you open the listing and they have 20 of them for sale.
We also had a local hotel/waterpark that was running a burglary/fencing operation in the mid aughts. The room cleaners would look for gopros, iphones and other electronics. If they found anything, they'd take it and hand it over to the two managers, who then fenced it out to local guys who'd either pawn them or sell it on Craigslist and they'd split the money.
Customers routinely complained to the managers who were the fences so they'd tell the customer they'd fill out a complaint form and send in a police report to the local PD. Obviously, that never happened. This went on for about two years until people on social media and review sites like Yelp started discovering what was happening was not an accident. They finally busted the ring and within a few weeks, the waterpark and hotel were shut down for various other repeated OSHA and other infractions that went unfixed. The local paper reported even though they busted the ring, the money and the goods were long gone, leaving the victims with little recourse.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoIt sounds like an example where review sites help warn others where management and the local police do nothing. If you're the victim of a crime, you should do the police report yourself - also for things like insurance claims.