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01-20-2020, 12:20 PM #126Registered User
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Damn that's a lot of skis to steal. Geez...
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01-20-2020, 12:56 PM #127
8,760 pair of skis stolen.
Estimated value was $6,000,000.
6,000,000 / 8,760 = $685 average per pair of skis.
$2,400,000 in eBay profit.
2,400,000 / 8,760 = $275 average sale price of eBay ski.
Those are some impressive numbers.
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01-20-2020, 12:59 PM #128Hucked to flat once
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That's a lot of skis to not notice missing. Who had oversight and who still has a job?
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01-20-2020, 02:15 PM #129
He (Derek) had the oversight as head of retail for SkiCo and apparently enough credibility with the C-Levels above him to continually justify missed budgets and squishy numbers year after year. He was able to manage and cover his tracks from start to finish, and also have the time to run his whole enterprise on the side.
I think the logistics of physically taking 8,760 skis and accompanying packaging over that time period is what's also staggering. Very surprising that that went unnoticed/unsuspected by people below him?
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01-20-2020, 02:33 PM #130www.apriliaforum.com
"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
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01-20-2020, 05:21 PM #131
He should get as much jail time as those bankers we put in jail for creating billions of dollars in fraudulent mortgages and selling trillions of dollars of derivatives based on them. Oh, wait.....
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01-20-2020, 05:36 PM #132Funky But Chic
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8760 pairs of skis? That guy's garage must look like SFB's shop.
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01-20-2020, 05:37 PM #133
He must have been ordering pallets full of ski boxes and tape.
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01-20-2020, 05:38 PM #134
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01-20-2020, 05:40 PM #135
I honestly cannot believe those numbers. Like it is a lot of skis but just the logistics of selling and shipping all of them would take 10,000 hours. Thats 5 years of full time work.
Like there needs to be some fluffing going on here, like when they caught your weed dealer back in the day and he was supposedly carrying enough weight that is was worth the GDP of a small island nation.Live Free or Die
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01-20-2020, 05:45 PM #136Funky But Chic
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It would be in SkiCo's interest if the number of pairs of lost skis reported to their insurer got inflated.
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01-20-2020, 06:45 PM #137www.apriliaforum.com
"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
"I have no idea what I am talking about but would be happy to share my biased opinions as fact on the matter. "
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01-20-2020, 06:56 PM #138
His UPS driver must have fucking hated him.
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01-20-2020, 07:04 PM #139Funky But Chic
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01-20-2020, 07:11 PM #140
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01-20-2020, 07:14 PM #141"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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01-20-2020, 07:28 PM #142
Procure ski
Catalog ski
take picture of ski
list ski on ebay
collect money
ship ski
deal wit CS as required, including blocking investigators eBay purchasers (after the comma is a hunch)
an hour isn’t a bad estimate. Even if it’s half that all in, or a quarter, it’s still a lot of work.
also points out the only way to make money on eBay is to value your product at $0
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01-20-2020, 07:37 PM #143
8800 skis over 10 years
880 skis a year
You only really sell 7 months a year, so 146 skis in a month or 34 skis a week or 5 skis a day.
-End of day look at the your eBay sales. 5-10 minutes (on company time)
-5 skis sold daily
-click, print shipping labels, schedule the pick up. - 10 minutes (on company time)
-3 times a week, on the way home from work, stop by the storage unit. Pull 15 pair of skis, box them up (supplies are there) tape the shipping label to the box - 45-60 minutes
-Leave the ski boxes for pick up in the storage unit office, or take them home and leave them on the porch for pick up. 15 minutes.
15 pair of skis, $4,125 profit in an hour of work. So 3 hrs a week is netting him $12,375
Add buying more skis (on company time) loading new listings to eBay (on company time) maintaining eBay (on company time).
The only other time consumption is taking a load of new skis (and shipping supplies) to the storage unit a few times a season.
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01-20-2020, 07:48 PM #144
Why only seven months a year? I've bought in August twice.
Did he have employees?
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01-20-2020, 07:48 PM #145
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01-20-2020, 07:52 PM #146
The argument was for economy of scale:
Making the averages work by assuming most of his sales were Oct - April
Yes his wife would be considered a employee. She plead guilty to her involvement, including moving skis, to/from storage units, packaging and shipping skis.
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01-20-2020, 10:37 PM #147
Death penalty for stealing skis.
Life for stealing snowboards.
If you steal someones girlfriend in a ski town and then she leaves you....time served.
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01-21-2020, 04:39 AM #148
I am good with that.
watch out for snakes
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01-21-2020, 10:48 AM #149
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01-21-2020, 10:53 AM #150
No doubt he did a bunch of this on company time, but it is still a grip of work. I think an hour per sale feels right, if you include the time to actually steal the things.
The theft of the packing materials though is a nice touch. Go big or go home I guess.Live Free or Die
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