Filed under: iPod Family
iPods worth $35000 go missing from Best Buy
Talk about MacHeist, indeed. More than thirty five thousand dollars worth of iPod inventory are missing from a Pembroke Pines, Florida Best Buy store and the lack of forced entry is making police think that this may have been an inside job. About 175 iPods, valued at about $200 each, disappeared.
So what would you personally do with 175 iPods? I mean, outside of the obvious reselling on eBay or on a street corner situation? I suppose you could use them to decorate a Christmas tree in a techno-white theme or you could create a fairly funky chandelier. Nope, I'm betting these babies are eBay fodder.
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Carl Trimble said 10:09AM on 12-11-2006
Apple tracks stolen stuff like you wouldn't believe. These guys are going to jail for sure. It is just a matter of time. I would be willing to bet that it is before Christmas.
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LittleJoe said 10:05AM on 12-11-2006
Well someone isn't going to have a job much longer.
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Cello said 10:26AM on 12-11-2006
Eventually, one of the buyers will register its purchase on apple.com and there you go...
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detective said 10:39AM on 12-11-2006
in related news...the Pembroke Pines Best Buy store reports that the shipment of 300 Zunes was not touched at all....
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penguinboy said 11:05AM on 12-11-2006
In a related story, a local youth builds a beowulf cluster with 174 ipods and an xbox.
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ToeKnee said 11:19AM on 12-11-2006
I worked for Best Buy when it was a much smaller company, and I remember a whole warehouse staff was busted taking the empty boxes from large TVs put out for display and filling them with camcorders, then having one of their friends come in and buy said model TV, and hauling out the box right past the loss prevention agent, ending up with thousands of dollars in profit after selling off the camcorders. It caused much tighter inventory controls company-wide, and I have no doubt a similar method was used here, as it was obviously an inside job. In this case, though, as written above, serial numbers will eventually bust the offenders, idiots as they are.
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Roberto said 12:33PM on 12-11-2006
Probably Jim Kung Il contracted the work for his iPod-starved country.
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Christian said 1:08PM on 12-11-2006
Contrary to the first few posters claims, Apple doesn't track stolen merchandise at all, even though they have all the means to. Speaking as someone whose one-month-old 30GB iPod 5G was stolen, calling Apple to report it stolen got me a lot of nowhere. They finally agreed to make a note that it was stolen, but didn't say they'd ever do anything about it. Thanks, Apple. Thanks for nothing.
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mickimicki said 1:53PM on 12-11-2006
Erica, I just love your idea for a "techno-white theme" decorated christmas theme. I wish I was filthy rich just to do that... aren't there any photoshoppers out there to give it a try?
(I don't know about the US, but here in Germany we love nativity scene figures under the tree. I am just imagining one of these in the form of a nativity scene wallpaper on an opened MacBook ...)
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Bobby Koerper said 6:00PM on 12-11-2006
i'm not one to complain about grammar, but not putting a comma in that 35000 makes it about five times harder to read. 100% Easy 2 Read http://www.informationarchitects.jp/100E2R/
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xSmurf said 12:26AM on 12-12-2006
I'd install iPod linux on them and make a cluster computer out of iPods with software RAID and all! (I know it doesn't, yet, support the 2nd gen nano)
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