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Business Owners, Does This Sound Suspicious?
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Brilliant!
This thread just gets better and better. Pure gold. I'm loving every post. Squilly you are the gift that keeps on giving.
Squilly, who actually paid Apple for these items. Have you got confirmation that the payment has actually been made? I would expect that for this volume of product payment would be by post-paid invoice. So who is actually on the hook here? I would expect those that the items were delivered to...
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Alright, now that we've agreed upon the proper term for these adapters, let me revisit your earlier statement:
Who says? Your brother? He paid for these adapters? Already? I thought you said there was no up-front costs?
I'm not sure if they're paid for yet as I don't have access to the account, I can only go off of hearsay. They're still in the US now, going to Poland whenever the time comes.
He has them picked out. Paid with the funds in the PFCU bank account.
Yes, this is what I'd worry about: the reseller will invoice with, say, 30 days to pay. The shipment goes to Poland within this. Then the invoice does not get paid. The delivery addressees signed for the shipments and get sued.
By the way: there is no Feature Points or Free My Apps apps on the App Store. They simply redirect you to a website. (Screenshots from Feature Points below). And why don't they have apps on the App Store but do on Google Play? I would say: because Apple doesn't allow such apps.
So, don't go paying for an app which will never get approved.
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Are you capable of precisely and clearly explaining everything that has happened and is expected to happen, including everything the Poles have told your brother.
In chronological order.
Please limit yourself to what is fact. Exclude anything you are merely taking as fact. Admittedly I don't think you can tell the difference.
That's what I'm talking about, also the only way to download it and still be optimized to work with iPhone. It's on the Play Store since it isn't against their policy to artificially "bump" popularity.
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It's hard to say since I'm not going off of any fact. Just hearsay, like I said. Insult?
If they were doing your brother a favor, they wouldn't be paying him $20K for a few hours of work. The $20K is to lure him into a bad deal. Ordering this stuff and setting up the UPS shipments and such was, what, a couple of hours of work at most? And the guys from Poland are apparently thinking "hey, there's an 18-year-old guy in the US that one of our friends knows from when he was a security guard at a high school - let's pay that 18 year old $20K to do that for us instead of paying him a few hundred dollars to do a few hours of work, because we'd much rather some American kid have the money than us... that's how we became such good businessmen! I mean, that makes soooo much more sense than just having the security guy do it for us."
Slowly, I am starting to think this story was made up. I imagine how the OP is entertaining himself reading all the suggestions/advice.
And your opinion is that, as businessmen, they feel that $20K is the least they could offer for your brother to do a few hours of work for them? Really? It doesn't seem... disproportionate to his efforts as well as a huge chunk of their profits even if you do the math in a way that suggests there is any profit at all for them (if it's legitimate, which a few of us think that - just maybe - it isn't)?
******* quote of the year?
Insult?
No, my friend, it isn't meant to be an insult. It is an honest observation.
Okay then. It's more of a mobile app optimized for iOS devices (a provisioning profile still needs to be installed on the device before it could be used). There's a regular site, mobile site optimized for iPhone, and Play Store app.
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It's much more than a few hours. Maybe it's being drawn out a lot but it's tens of hours, I can't count. That's what he tells me.
So the system can't be abused. It just attaches the UDID of the device to link to the app to see what you've downloaded, give you points to redeem for $, and keep track of your points.
Apply my same question about paying $20K for "tens of hours" instead of a couple, then.
Squilly, did you even read this? robbieduncan could not have made it any more clearer.
This is how the scam works. Your brother is the end of the paper trail. He's the one who gets sued for the cost of the pallets of Apple products when Apple or their distributor doesn't get paid. The Poles get tens of thousands of dollars of Apple products for free.
Do you not get it? It's not difficult to understand. Your brother is their patsy.
I simply don't see $160K (-$20K = $140K?) worth of Apple product leaving Apple on pallets, delivered to three different addresses, in three different states, signed for by an 18 year old with the business sense of a turnip, on any kind of terms other than PAID IN FULL, FOB wherever it left from.
With the proliferation of Apple stores, getting a dealer "license" is practically not even possible anymore. Apple specialist, a VAR like reseller channel, and they have pretty specific limits on what they can and can't sell.
No insult.
Just that this whole story has more holes in it than the backstop at a shooting range.
Accounts can be floated with stolen funds, faked cashiers checks, and you said that someone at the institution could not find the account, perhaps because there are 15 partners in Poland, and who knows who's name it's really under?
These, and many more, are very simple specifics that I would have figured out -before- I even lifted a finger to look at a list of products to order.
Exactly WHO am I dealing with?
Scamalamadingdong.
With the proliferation of Apple stores, getting a dealer "license" is practically not even possible anymore. Apple specialist, a VAR like reseller channel, and they have pretty specific limits on what they can and can't sell.
No insult.
Just that this whole story has more holes in it than the backstop at a shooting range.
Accounts can be floated with stolen funds, faked cashiers checks, and you said that someone at the institution could not find the account, perhaps because there are 15 partners in Poland, and who knows who's name it's really under?
These, and many more, are very simple specifics that I would have figured out -before- I even lifted a finger to look at a list of products to order.
Exactly WHO am I dealing with?
Scamalamadingdong.
On the other hand, it could be money laundering that's going on, and paying off Squilly's brother is just part of the cost of turning dirty money into clean cash.
or maybe the Poles will find themselves sitting around wondering why their 8 pallets haven't shown up ......and where's the $160,000 that's gone missing too?
After reading this whole thread today and thinking about it a bit, I call foul.
This is a made up story to get attention.
This is a made up story to get attention.
I'm pretty sure they were already paid for though. Apple wouldn't just release product without getting paid, would they?
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My brother isn't a dealer of Apple directly, he deals with a dealer of Apple, if that makes sense, known as Apumac. They're the dealer of Apple.
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I wouldn't make up such an elaborate scheme. I couldn't either, my imagination isn't that great.
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