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It looks like the best deals for Wii U consoles will be on Craigslist in Seattle this Christmas. What's with all these elaborate heists at airports lately?
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Thieves Steal $2M Worth of Wii Consoles
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Good luck offloading them...
that would only hurt the people buying them off the guys who stole them. the thieves would already have the money.
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Sounds like the reporter doesn't know exactly what got stolen, first they are Wii's, then they are Wii portable devices, and then there is a link for the Wii U, and someone on the inside knew where the items were kept, how to get the trucks, and knew how to run a forklift...Nope not a clue how they found the keys to the trucks, location of storage, if there would be a way of transporting the goods, or how they navigated their way through the airport cargo area...haven't seen Dave since this happened though, maybe he's got the flu or something
Nintendo would give away Wii consoles if they knew for sure the people getting them could buy lots of games. They make more money selling one game than they do an entire console.
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I suppose a lot of things can be considered portable when you have two 53-foot trucks.
This.
Just like like the iPad Mini heist.
Somebody on the inside knew they where there and what time nobody would be around and that they could bring in a couple trucks to steal them.
Somebody from corporate knows they won't sell and set up the heist.
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Yeah and? If you buy a Wii "portable" (whatever the fuck that is) device for significantly below MSRP (considering everyone sells them at the same price) you kind of deserve to get spanked for buying stolen goods. But lets say "yeah so, some people are stupid" ok fine at least this will allow them to perhaps find out where said individuals bought the "discounted" portable Wii U-DSi consoles.
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This is a win for Nintendo. They can file an insurance claim with the carrier at wholesale value and they get free publicity.
One way to bypass security is to appear very official though.
Who expects a professional looking crew of workers perhaps all in appropriate jumpsuits and fake badges and the like to have fork lifts and multiple 18 wheelers and the like. Just seems too legitimate to even really question, compared to say some guys working fast with skimasks and a small white van.
Who expects a professional looking crew of workers perhaps all in appropriate jumpsuits and fake badges and the like to have fork lifts and multiple 18 wheelers and the like. Just seems too legitimate to even really question, compared to say some guys working fast with skimasks and a small white van.
Actually, if you have the mac address, you can also track the exact IP as well. The ISP can tell exactly what address a unit is at.
All they have to do is cross reference the id of the modem with what IP it has.
Simple as pie.
The article doesn't explicitly mention the airport, but it starts with "Police in SeaTac, Wash".... SeaTac International Airport is in SeaTac Washington. It's the main public airport for Seattle.
http://www.ci.seatac.wa.us/index.aspx?page=438
Also Seattle Air Cargo isn't a "plane" it's the name of the cargo company.
did anyone else catch this part?:
really? it took them until noon the next day to realize that 7,000 Nintendo systems went missing?
i mean, i could understand it if this was some massive, general-purpose warehouse where all sorts of products from multiple different companies, but they said that this was a "Nintendo distribution site".
the only way this would make any sort of sense is if the employees there don't go in until after 10am - 11am or so on Sundays...
as far as the problem of offloading them, these things are probably already in a shipping container in some massive international port, just waiting to be exported to some other country that doesn't cooperate with the U.S. (if they're not already gone)
really? it took them until noon the next day to realize that 7,000 Nintendo systems went missing?
i mean, i could understand it if this was some massive, general-purpose warehouse where all sorts of products from multiple different companies, but they said that this was a "Nintendo distribution site".
the only way this would make any sort of sense is if the employees there don't go in until after 10am - 11am or so on Sundays...
as far as the problem of offloading them, these things are probably already in a shipping container in some massive international port, just waiting to be exported to some other country that doesn't cooperate with the U.S. (if they're not already gone)