Everything about him was fake honestly. Besides the “Two Tone Two Time Tuggies” he gave. And he did make money, and was able to get people to let him access millions. Not many people have ability to do that honestly. He just didn’t know how to control himself.
When this went down and I saw this real time, I was like, "That was horrible what happened to him, glad they didn't hurt or kill him. Then when it broke that he was a thief everything lined up!! He was selling watches off consignment and keeping all the money, than the people who were asking where my money is for my watch he would tell them they didn't sell yet and just give them excuses for months. So convenient that a briefcase with watches was stolen and his laptop! Now he can tell the consignors your watch was stolen and file a potential insurance claim...even if it was a legitimate home invasion once people determine you are a thief and scammer people won't believe you!
When he started asking the surveillance guy to stick cameras everywhere with no blind spots; then when he was decorating the penthouse and just said to the interior decorator, can you do this and can you do that...and she was like yes yes; Never once asked how much anything cost; I am in construction and doing 300% markups and I could never live the life this guy lived; I'll bet his tax bill is so behind in years;
The most shocking thing about this whole thing is how many real intelligent people believed this guy was for real. I came into the drama late and as soon as I saw a dude driving a lambo with a 120m penthouse on lease go on camera and spend an hour of his time on the phone hustling a 300 dollar profit on an 1986 women’s Frankenstein 26mm datejust all the alarms in my head went off. That is the most expensive condo in LA. Supposed to be for someone on the level of Elon, Bezos, etc. This man should have been driving an M3 with a 4K apartment- and be thankful for having that great lifestyle after all his past. But he got greedy. Like ridiculously greedy.
@@BusterMSC1 Yea i agree, the stolen watches were just a bonus. Some idiot gave this guy a massive investment and he had that cash just sitting somewhere. I have no idea what these investor's or this this scammer thought the end game even was. You make like 5% commission seeking watches. Sure its a nice living, but come on, the guy was probably near the peak for a middle man watch reseller.
@@KettleBell-md8ph Just a TEXTBOOK CONman! What is it about his 'image' that was able to win the 'confidence' of enough wealthy people to finance what he must have made sound like a great investment in him & his 'business'. It's great when he's talking to someone who actually knows how to run a business, and sounds like he doesn't have a clue what they're really trying to communicate! lol Although I guess you could get by for a while on credit if you just sold a few ~$500,000 Pateks on consignment, and didn't actually pay the owner.
40:24 is by far the best part of the video. Anthony just embarrassed himself anytime he got around people. “Dont read me the numbers, just tell me the name of the watch” lol😂
The greatest con artist of our era ....... you can see by his body language and demeanor that he knew he f upped on the home invasion thing and Jimmy jumped ship so good on him!
Yah, ya notice that he never followed up on the doggie(s)🐶😂😂 As former federal LE, first, nothing about that "home invasion" made sense, though the best was when lil man said the guy asked the other guy, "should I shoot him," 😂😂? I'm surprised that LAPD didn't hit him up for filing a false police report, as though those state charges would take a back seat to the federal charges, when we had that, the federal sentences(he's looking at 11 federal charges currently and in all likelihood that will probably get cut in half in some type of plea deal) would run concurrently, ie., at the same time, with the state charges running consecutively, which means that they would start AFTER tugster completed his federal sentence. FWIW, having done some personal security work in LA and having worked with Clients' home security/alarm companies to coordinate their systems, the type of system that tugger was asking for, #1, would have been above the level of three Hollywood A-Listers' home set-ups that I knew of. #2, the system that tugster was asking for, with uber-top level cameras, sensors, audio/visual controls & panels would have run $300-350,000+, EASILY!! That meeting with the alarm guy, just like the phone call with the $100k+ guard doggy was ALL for optics and his videos. He could no more have paid for either one of those at that time as you or I could, lolol. Cheers🍻 RP
Right.. the fact that in all of these fake home invasion stories there’s always a nice robber that wants to spare the victim and then there’s always a mean one that wants to shoot the victim in the head lol. But the mean one just goes along with what the nice robber wants. Also, how come the robbers didn’t take Anthony’s own watches? They only wanted the watches that weren’t his? You would think Anthony had his own very expensive Watch collection aside from these other watches.. makes no sense
And what kind of MARGINS do they manage on most of the sales? It always seems like they're making MAYBE a few grand on a sale, if they're lucky. So, how many watches are they selling every day in order to run these extravagant & unnecessary offices.
I’ve seen on several videos where Anthony says he is temporarily halting watch purchases for one reason or another, and is only doing consignments…huge red flag!
Crazy when he called the guy and asked about guard dogs, add more to his fictious home invasion story. Plus buying a 50 to 100k dog? Just get an alarm on house, cameras and gun!!
22:00 the guy he’s talking to on phone talks about how he lost his NFTs to a discord link scam when he tried minting the NFTs, giving Tugger more ideas
And what's the point of the GLOVE when he handles them with both hands anyway? Did he just have a bunch of Tugging Gloves leftover that he needed to get rid of?
When he got caught he blamed it on alcohol. Never once in this video did he drink. When your a severe alcoholic you drink all the time. He actually was working hard but he wanted to make more money then possible. He wanted to peacock to everyone.
I knew it was bs when this story first broke… the whole story and his narrative is so obviously fictitious. It’s even funnier now that everyone’s in on the joke😂
First thing he does is decide to spend 150 k on a dog , then he orders 40 cameras in full colour with sound for the penthouse, he was spending money like water if he was a billionaire he would have gone bust. No idea whatsoever how to budget
This guy had an Oppurtunity to run a great business with a huge following and he just got too greedy. He could have easily maintained 1-2 million a year for himself. Instead he wanted to live like he made 20. Greed
i often thought that too. he could have had a solid business with healthy growth, had good marketing, i watched his videos every now and then when i was looking for special watches. but yeah, he's like the loser from the bronx who wins the lottery. he can't handle money and is greedy
All those cameras were to just show the insurance company. He lied about the home invasion and thought if he got more cameras it would show he wasn’t lying
Was this security equipment ever fully installed? Hope the guy got paid because we're talking about 30+ cameras, a state-of-the-art centralized alarm system, system design, installation... Easily six figures.
Who the EFF would want anything to do with this lifestyle, even if it's legit? It's just being a phony 24-7, not even true to yourself. This guy spent his whole day scamming people, making a few legit deals here or there, but it wasn't enough. He probably could have done ok and lived a nice life, but he had to try and keep up with people that have far more worth than him and that's when the real scam artist, liar, convict came out.
Whats mind boggling to me, is he knew at this time that the shit was getting ready to hit the fan, and he still goes & blows a crap load of $ on security over a fake robbery instead of trying to round some coin up for the incoming shit storm headed his way! UNFREAKINBELIEVABLE!!!!!!
When I started watching his videos years ago I was like this guy went to prison, did his time, now he is a business owner and successful, good for him!! I didn't know anything about luxury watches and found these videos interesting, and he knew his stuff. But I was always curious on he afforded that lifestyle, a mansion that is millions, a G Wagon, Lambo, Ferrari, a store in Beverly Hills and that penthouse project, if it doesnt make sense it doesnt make sense, ponzi scheme! He mentioned in one of his videos that buying the ferrari brings him extra notoriety and clout to open doors for more networking and clients, he just got in above his head with all the lavish purchases, the gambling etc...and that will catch up to you at some point,, case in point!!
Yea I don’t get that and why can’t find the watches they are looking for, I don’t understand that. But then again I guess if you’re rich like that and want people to do everything for you then it makes sense. Have someone sale you’re watch and find the one you want so you don’t have to spend time doing it
@ThatWrapperDude yeah rich and lazy, got so much money "im just gonna let my peasants do all the work but give them a little reward for it" mentality I guess
I have the same question about ALL of these 'Grey Market' dealers. What kind of profit can they POSSIBLY be making on each sale, and just how many 'deals' are they managing to do? I seem to remember Luxury Bazar challenging their sales team to log $1M sales in a month, so 10% markup is what, $100,000? Do even with 4 great sales people, you're looking at around $300K a month to cover everyone's salaries, the facilities & festivities? And these guys appear to prefer travelling first class and driving only luxury cars. The only way it easily works is if you can unload a few choice consignment pieces, and don't immediately reimburse the original owner.
I love the guy on the phone complaining about getting hacked and someone stealing $125K worth of NFTs! lol Apparently he had a couple 'Apes' and a few 'Dogs'? Don't remember the DOG ones, but I bet his Apes aren't still worth $125k.
That dog stuff is so fikin crazy....@18:00 it started. @21:00 You can hear how the dog dude swallows and thinks "wow this dude is redacted" 100 to 150k for dog? So his brain rebboots and he makes up numbers way over but under Anfeenes stupid calls....😂 "U can get U can get U can get"
