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Man Robbed After Buying 300 iPhones From Apple Fifth Avenue
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Compare that to the new New Jersey store that's going to be closed on Sundays because of some stupid law.
Pretty much in the way NYC is ran now. They release criminals for robbery, shoplifting, and they go right back to robbing.
Not to be outdone by a man who proposed with 99 iPhone 6s...
Man buys 99 iPhone 6s to propose to girlfriend - only to be rejected
A crowd gathered to record the moment and quickly shared the moment on China's social media network Weibo
www.independent.co.uk
This is a great example of those things where philosophically a person should be able to do without any cynical ideas being thrown at him...BUT let's be real I can smell that fish 3000 miles away! If as a business owner you wouldn't put $95k in cash in a bag and walk around town you shouldn't do it with merchandise either.
Here let me fix it for you:
Three robbers concoct a plot to steal iPhones without stealing them from a store. One dude goes in and buys 300 iPhones (um…. Nothing weird there, right? Pretty typical purchase especially in the middle of the night) and his two buddies pretend to attack him and steal some of them. All of this goes down in the middle of the night.
But sure, it was just a random attack lol.
Question is: are we dealing with the world’s dumbest media reporting or the world’s dumbest criminals? Can’t wait to hear more!
Three robbers concoct a plot to steal iPhones without stealing them from a store. One dude goes in and buys 300 iPhones (um…. Nothing weird there, right? Pretty typical purchase especially in the middle of the night) and his two buddies pretend to attack him and steal some of them. All of this goes down in the middle of the night.
But sure, it was just a random attack lol.
Question is: are we dealing with the world’s dumbest media reporting or the world’s dumbest criminals? Can’t wait to hear more!
Not to mention no sane physical store would even allow such a sale. They wouldn't even let my dad buy a cart full of sodas at Walmart, a manager flagged the transaction, and cancelled the whole thing. Apple has even more money than Walmart, which means they probably can afford to lose such a sale as well. Generally brick and mortar stores discourage/disallow their products from being resold.
I replied to another question with a little more information on what they're doing. These large purchases are more common during new product launches, but especially so when there's a global constraint.
The online store and retail stores have different inventory buckets, so the phones are most likely sold out online. When going through the normal Apple Store you're limited on how many items you can buy before you get flagged for potential fraud (by Apple, not their credit card company), or flagged as a volume purchaser. This prevents these NEU's (non end users) to be able to purchase online. They must come in and buy store stock using their credit card.
They don't purchase bulk orders like most wholesaling companies do from Apple at a discount because they're not a company and the product gets shipped to Dubai, and then from Dubai to trade sanctioned countries such as Syria that cannot receive iPhones direct from Apple due to trade bans.
Source: I was an employee that sold to these "customers", and fought the **** out of it at management level.
What is your evidence to claim insurance fraud?
The article offers nothing, even as an inference, that indicates that in any way. Before saying that you should have some basis, facts, statement from the police, an article that indicates the victim is filing an insurance claim, etc.
I don't know where you are from or where you live, but very little about this is strange for NYC and an Apple Store open 24/7.
Very disappointed that so many here assume something is amiss and there are crimes, other than the robbery, being committed.
There is no basis for it in the information reported here or in any other article elsewhere that I found.
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Read the story…it said he had them in three bags…I still can’t see fitting 100 boxed iPhones in one of those bags.
They use duffel bags not Apple bags. These types of purchases are very unethical but extremely common in Apple Stores.
Just not a smart move. Clearly he had the money for these phones, now use some money to hire security and a private driver...maybe request security. I don't know. But don't walk to the car lugging 3 massive white Apple bags. Just use common sense!
Remember the 13 boxes are about 30% smaller due to package redesign and no wall adapter!
I don’t think it is very little. I reside in San Diego, and in 2021 there were 26 homicides. In NYC, there were 488.
Well. I bet her won’t be doing that again. Now it would be nice if we lived in a world where you didn’t get robbed but this guy was was extremely stupid. Who does that?
We are questioning him because it sounds like either A) he is an idiot who deserves what he got... you make your own luck. Someone with that much money but this much lack of common sense should be budgeting some funds for an advisor, who would have recommended a more secure method. B) this is an insurance fraud scam -why else did the robbers only "punch him"??
Either way zero sympathy. The only sad part here are the suckers who fell for it. I'm not trying to be mean; I really do feel sympathy for the people who can't control their emotions rationally.
Sorry I am not jumping on the "believe him at his word" bus. If anything this whole event proves we can't trust anyone.
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Per 100,000, San Diego had 2.5 homicides in 2019 and NYC 3.4. Not a big difference.
The guy should've bought 300 iPhone 14 plus devices. You can't give those away. 😂
Analysis | New York City Is a Lot Safer Than Small-Town America
Rising homicide rates don’t tell the whole story. When you dig deeper into data on deaths, you’ll find the more urban your surroundings, the less danger you face.
www.washingtonpost.com