Comixbooks
Fully [H]
- Joined
- Jun 7, 2008
- Messages
- 22,019
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
20,000,000 a year to Bankrupt everything is going to be auctioned off I never heard of them but maybe someone did.
That is pretty much what happened. That company got shredded like some balsa wood in a tornado in like a week.Yeah, they were hiring influencers, and they had a contest to give out a new gaming PC to their influencers, and the person who won "didn't have enough followers"[1], so they revoked the PC after announcing the winner live on stream.
Then everyone went wild over it and the company folded. Although it looks like the guy who made the decision to screw over a supporter was already in the process of wrecking the company.
[1] I'm simpllifying a little, but not much.
It probably is, but people will have to sue fast."repair units that existing customers sent in for repair with their files .... they will never be able to get them back because all of it is being sold at auction."
Why wouldn't that be illegal?
From a legal perspective, you can't really put value on data as its value is highly subjective. Not to mention the fact that anytime you send a PC in for service there are usually all kinds of disclaimers about data loss.I'm just thinking whoever officiates the auction for property that is owned by private individuals is eligible for 1 FREE FELONY per box over $500(value determined by who owns the box), at least where I live. That's if we don't put a dollar amount on data. Although I have little sympathy for someone who didn't back up. Some sympathy. But only a little.
What a piece of shit.I'm watching the video now and holy crap, the claims: the guy had employees buy GPUs individually so they could be put in new builds at serious markups, then disputed the transactions where he paid his employees.
dude needs to be in prison.I'm watching the video now and holy crap, the claims: the guy had employees buy GPUs individually so they could be put in new builds at serious markups, then disputed the transactions where he paid his employees.
One of the shops I worked at had a quota of 7 repairs a day. They weren't super strict about it. Some days you'd have a bunch of stuff waiting on parts and other days I could knock out 20 machines or more. At the Best Buy centralized service center I worked at, I can't remember the daily quota, but I think it was around 10 machines or so per day. I remember doing well more than 100 in one month.And this is why I don’t buy pre-builds.
I remember working for two guys similar to the CEO of Artesian Builds.
First one had us cold calling, and hounding businesses into buying computers, create fake work orders to trick businesses, and if an employee wasn’t aggressive enough he wouldn’t get paid, and eventually would get fired.
I was on the latter since I have a clear moral guideline I like to follow in life, and screwing people over isn’t a part of it. The good thing is, about six months after I left the owner got sued into oblivion.
The second one ram a PC repair shop, now he wouldn’t have us do anything wrong, we just repaired the PC’s. Problem is he didn’t have a price sheet, he charged based on what he felt it was worth to the customer. I lasted about six months, I examined roughly six systems, and would have roughly four to five repairs a day. I got fired in the shitty way—accused of stealing money that was stored in a room I had no access to. No cameras in the place so it was my word against his. I feel though I was let go because I wasn’t profitable enough, he wanted me to focus more on laptop repairs and I just couldn’t get soldering down because I’m legally blind in one eye so my depth perception is off.
I heard five months after I left he fired His golden egg employee in the same manner I was fired, and then was arrested on multiple counts of fraud, unpaid child support, and numerous domestic violence charges.
People like this are the scum of the earth.
Yeah a lot of what held my repair numbers down was waiting on parts. On good days I did about six or seven as well, but that’s when I had all the parts, which very seldomly was the case.One of the shops I worked at had a quota of 7 repairs a day. They weren't super strict about it. Some days you'd have a bunch of stuff waiting on parts and other days I could knock out 20 machines or more. At the Best Buy centralized service center I worked at, I can't remember the daily quota, but I think it was around 10 machines or so per day. I remember doing well more than 100 in one month.
That's some pretty shady shit.Yeah a lot of what held my repair numbers down was waiting on parts. On good days I did about six or seven as well, but that’s when I had all the parts, which very seldomly was the case.
Sometimes I’d wait 3-4 days on parts so I’d go days where I’d have one or two repairs and a bunch of PC’s examined waiting on repairs.
He was a private owner so he used eBay for most all the parts, and would only order OEM when it was absolutely necessary.
He wasn’t super strict about numbers per day so much as he only cared about averages. As long as your average was four repairs, 4 examinations was met he mostly left me alone. It was a decent job though, sit in the back watching movies or browsing the net while I have four machines all doing Windows installations. Another thing just popped into my memory—he made it a requirement to install Norton 2005 (it was 2007 at the time), illegal copies though using key loggers, without the customers consent.
More than likely, they couldn't afford to repair the broken machines or send them back to the customers.So how can they seize customer owned pc's that were sent in for repair, and just keep/liquidate them? Potentially with their data on them? That's hardware they do not even own.
What a clusterfuck.
I got to know why, do you know? He wasn't making money from it, or was he charging for Norton? (Not that it matters but he used a keygen, not a logger, at least I hope not).Another thing just popped into my memory—he made it a requirement to install Norton 2005 (it was 2007 at the time), illegal copies though using key loggers, without the customers consent.
I got the impression from the GN video that this was a holding company created to shut down the company and sell off assets, which is a common thing to do with a bankrupt company.They've already reformed under a slightly modified name.
Or, reformation. Have a feeling that mommy and daddy want to see their child succeed.I got the impression from the GN video that this was a holding company created to shut down the company and sell off assets, which is a common thing to do with a bankrupt company.
Legal or not I would find the guy, take a trip and beat the living shit outta him for stealing my money."repair units that existing customers sent in for repair with their files .... they will never be able to get them back because all of it is being sold at auction."
Why wouldn't that be illegal?
Yeah, thanks for the correction. I just saw that today and told myself “Make sure to drink coffee before posting on the internet,” lol.I got to know why, do you know? He wasn't making money from it, or was he charging for Norton? (Not that it matters but he used a keygen, not a logger, at least I hope not).
This would make anybody spitting mad to the point of violence.So how can they seize customer owned pc's that were sent in for repair, and just keep/liquidate them? Potentially with their data on them? That's hardware they do not even own.
What a clusterfuck.
"repair units that existing customers sent in for repair with their files .... they will never be able to get them back because all of it is being sold at auction."
Why wouldn't that be illegal?
"repair units that existing customers sent in for repair with their files .... they will never be able to get them back because all of it is being sold at auction."
Why wouldn't that be illegal?
How the hell does a company get the balls to tray to sell things that don't belong to them? Like, if a auto repair shop folds up while my car is there they don't have the legal ability to sell my vehicle to somebody else.
That's ridiculous on the face of it alone, not saying you are lying, but it is ridiculous. A bit of common sense should prevail here.The problem here is documentation of assets and inventory of the business, or lack thereof. In the GN video, they made mention that documentation was lacking or non-existent in many cases, so when the company goes into receivership from bankruptcy, all onsite inventory and assets are considered part of said business and sold/disposed of accordingly.
In the quagmire of legal insanity that is bankruptcy liquidation, the bankrupt entity usually doesn't have much pull or desire to sort out matters of property ownership. The creditors of the business usually want to sell everything down to the last bolt and nut to recoup any losses they incurred, and also don't really want to be bothered of who owns what inventory.
If it's a facility that *only* produces new goods or whatnot, then it's likely the contents/products inside the facility are all owned by the business and would be subject to a recouping capital process to he sold and disposed to creditors.
If it's a facility that accepts outside property for repairs then in no way is it remotely reasonable to assume everything there is property or an asset of the business. They repair other parties property, so of course it's almost a certainty other parties property will be on site.
I understand that, as you say, creditors "don't really want to be bothered of who owns what inventory." My response would be: too damn bad. You shouldn't have authority to sell other parties owned property as a "Oops" simply because you don't want to take the time to see who it is owned by, doubly so if the business in question deals in repairing property not owned by them. They should be forced to do determine who owns what property on site, even if they don't want to.