How Stolen Goods End Up On Amazon, eBay And Facebook Marketplace 

If you have nothing to lose then no punishment is going to stop it. Even when they hung bandits, there were always new ones coming along.

The problem is that people are so poor and the rich are so rich that organized shoplifting rings are seen as a viable option for many. The problem is that Capitalism incentivizes this behavior. The punishment for theft is the US varies on how much is stolen, but stealing from these high-end stores would be classed as Grand Larceny, and has up to 6 years of prison time and up to 10,000 in fines. This is far higher than most sentences in places throughout Europe, such as Sweden, Norway, Spain, and France, but the theft rates in these countries are far lower. Why? Because these other countries have social safety nets that make theivery not as tempting an option for so many. People aren't as likely to join gangs or theivery rings if their basic needs are taken care of. If your taxpayer dollars went towards the needs of the people instead of for stipends to corperations, then people are less likely to feel entitled to luxury bags ad clothes that are already extremely overpriced and made by the labor of exploited people, often children. So the issue isn't that the crime penalty is not harsh enough, the issue is poverty, Capitalism, and lack of benefits.

Another thought, so then things like from all these loses, we all pay for those price hikes. In some cases they call it inflation. How about we boycott online marketplaces. Period.

This is true. In my country robbers will be beaten near death if caught by the public and the police will just watch. No one will care and no lawyer will try to sue for the beatings.

Need to bring back to the bible days, chop off their hands, no more stealing.. so easy , solved.. lets go hands.

That or we would need a scanable membership to the store to unlock cages or plexiglass.

@@DarknessReprieved that's a great idea!

Facts 💯 💯

I'd leave..

We don’t have that rampant looting here but that was like a normal thing ever since in our city. They hide those expensive items behind locked plexiglass like moisturizers, perfumes etc. Our stores here mostly have private security service at the entrance and with that scanner that will buzz if someone brings an unscanned item outside. Weird tho that US has that crazy thing in there for years and they are not like Japan lol, so why not tighten thé security. Those cctv will not do anything honestly.

Yes, but they can use third-party solutions as well. So they wouldn't collect it at their end.

So sorry but I don't get it. Wasn't the building with sprinklers? It didn't look like it in the video. A thief burnt down the building as a distraction ploy?

@@timsteinkamp2245 Yes. A thief started a fire back in the lumber section so he could steal a bunch of powertools (pretty sure they arrested him - he was part of a ring of smash-n-grabbers etc working all over the bay area). Yes, the store had sprinklers which may have malfunctioned(?) (I am very curious abt that btw). An employee attempted to fight the lumber fire with an extinguisher but the conflagration grew too fast. The sprinklers did appear to come on - just too little/too late. It was a scary-fast fire.

DAMN!!! 😳 that is horrific!! Always get more info & better news from the folks in the comments than the stinkin video I swear. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻 thank goodness your home & the doggies next door didn't get hurt further 💔 thank God. Hope youb& your family are doing OK, the stress prob made ya sick for days😔 Many many blessings dear

You lost me at dinner plates

Big facts

Man who stand on toilet.....high on pot....

@@calvincandie5344 excuse me?

@@calvincandie5344 Man who drink brake fluid, can stop whenever he want.

Pooping is a 'Situation', Confucius. Checkmate-deezutz

And you are proud of your neighbors? No wonder retailers don’t want to set up in certain areas. Malls are shutting done.

Ah you must be from the hood 🥴

@Anthony Mercado You're a Bori (ask me how I know), Connecticut got some of the filthiest hoods around. Just as bad as some of those states you mentioned. Also, the prescription drug abuse is unreal. Especially in the "well to do areas." Most of them soccer moms shuffling around like zombies from all the pills they are on.

Sadly, it is things like that that destroy communities. and create poverty in communities

the tribe of Wakanda is doing the stealing and not the NEO-NAZIS

Give every home depot employee more hours a tazer, a shotgun with rubber bullets and a company bonus for every incapacitated shoplifter on their tally at the end of the financial year.

Sounds like you need to invent your own 5 finger bonus... maybe you just give info and look the other way..? Take a cut.

@@ralph1881 that is not the answer.

@@manp1039 it's a step in the right direction.... management all the way to the top WILL NOT HELP, will not stop accepting ridiculous bonuses- while commoners struggle. MILLIONS!!! IT IS MORE RIGHT THAN BEING A LEMMING!! This is assertive action!

@@ralph1881 its immoral. and there are better ways to handle that situation

You'd be called a racist.

@@Handlebrake2 first thought which came to my mind also.

@@Handlebrake2 0:31 they seem pretty white to me.

We live in a world where common sense and logic are not something people want to do

Stop the resale and you take away the incentive for the bulk of this theft. Sure you will still have people stealing stuff for their own personal use, but tackling the reseller issue will make the biggest impact to the bottom line.

love that film

wait, wtf, seriously?!

Home Depot police would be a interesting show series .

Big brother is watching

That movie has becoming alarmingly accurate. I saw it again recently, and I didn't find it funny, as much as I did terrifying.

In some countries, they cut the thieves hands off

@@tashalynn29 and theft still happens. It's almost as if no deterrent will stop theft 🤔.

He was HOME FREE!!!

So are you saying that say someone stills a snack cake from Walmart .should get the same type of time as someone who say stills a whole shopping cart full of snack cakes?

Lead in the @ss should be legal irregardless if its a snack cake or power tool

Criminals are arrested and released before the ink dries on the arrest paperwork.

Start with politicians and there insider trading.

So should murder, but we don’t have that yet.

vote red

@@neverhomepnw really? Vote for the biggest thieves of all? You didn't think that one through.

Retail stores should just pull out of these criminal enabled areas. They are let back into the streets and continue this delinquent cycle. Blue states are going to lose a lot of retail stores because of this

Right. They spend millions to combat and potentially lose billions in items instead of keeping items at a price ppl can afford

Greed happens whether there is inflation or not!

You would think inflation would get people to stop buying crap they don’t need but

@@lefthanded5473 lol this is America

Exactly!! I don’t get it! what is going on…? How is it at every turn people are being let off the hook for the crimes they commit, it’s a growing trend that’s going to lead to big issue.

Research what the word "enable" means.

​@mikeries8549 we should start cracking down on purchase of knives since knifes enable people to hurt other people. We should also start regulating what people can watch since youtube can enable people to have different views.

Police only protect capital

Say what?

Care to elaborate? Because most of the time the police don't get there until the thieves are gone (and you guys file charges using video), or if you manage to make the stop and wait on them to get there (which means you had a booster who actually stopped without resistance- and I don't mean physical, I mean none at all since you guys are hands off- and then also peacefully waited for the police to arrive). I don't know the details of your situation- as you didn't give them- but it sounds to me as if you likely broke your companies policy. Still not sure how you ended up getting "beat up by the police" though...

@@Dumpus7 I was out of work for more than 6 months

@@Dumpus7 criminal told the police I was assaulting his girl and the police believed them. I'm assuming the figured out I was the bad guy. It's hard to go against the police. I tried and I failed saved all the files and I will reveal them in 20 years.

Bingo, we have to get to a place of respect. The world does not provide security. Whether it is savings in your account or buried in the ground or in a store by armed men.

would that be called physical penetration testing of a sort?

I would ebay is great always has been better then amazon...

eBay actually hand verifies luxury items on their site. So when you buy a Rolex it's authenticated

The business modle of eBay makes it pay a lot more attention to stolen goods. Also, I don't think eBay is ever the evil one compared to amazon and FB.

Right! I used to think that EBay had all the sketchy items. Amazon is getting that way. eBay’s seems to have more protections for the buyer and will allow you to post a complaint about the seller and the product. I had a complaint about getting a fake item on Amazon and they said I couldn’t complain about the seller only the product. What?

@@q-chan4764 Just return it. I contact Amazon customer service a few time, they are very helpful compare to some internet companies.

I saw in another youtube video, might have been a CNBC one as well, it's because Amazon puts all the stock together, as in the Amazon LLC stock with the third party stock. So when they went to ship the one you bought, it was one of the the third party stock. They don't care to keep them seperate. Since learning that and getting two items in the past year I bought new that were used, I now I pay more to buy from anyone other than Amazon or the from the manufacturer directly.

Sad

Try working in a pawnshop. There you’ll be robbed at gunpoint so often, that it will just become routine.

stop being a racist

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Lmao. Mamon. 😂

Makes me question everything people buy online and swear it’s a deal!

ever watch 'forensic detectives'? if a murderer leaves fingerprints on a plastic bucket purchased at wal-mart, that person's account details, face, vehicle, purchases and payment are all produced for law enforcement, including where and when it was made, which store and cashier sold it and video evidence of it being purchased and loaded into a vehicle, from multiple angles. Every. Single. Item., going back years.

People in need are being helped by the government, they don't need to steal. Only horrible people feel a need to steal, we don't live in a third world country in which there is no help for the needy.

Can I come into your house and take things because I “need” them more than you do?

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They’re making it seem like cracking down on shoplifting will only harm the single mother stealing bread, milk, and eggs from Walmart while the criminals hitting Neiman Marcus and Saks 5th Ave will go unpunished.

not an excuse

I see people not giving money to corps. The price increase isn't inflation, it's too high. The increase is due to greed... people are just not getting scammed.

Oh yeah they dont need hand bags , tools or clothething . If they were steeling to survive they steal food . Even at that unaceplatable. Theirs free food banks , churches , and ebt . No need to steal nothing.

How about having an armed security with an m1?

@@yukiosakura4969 a stick should be sufficient

I gave up on selling or giving away my deceased parent's stuff for fear of people knowing where I live. I just take that stuff to a charity like Goodwill.

I HEAR THAT!!!!

Or stop voting democrat...

Where is that? I bet Costlyfornia.

@@dannydaw59 no,NM, but good guess. The southwest, and west coast for that matter, are getting a little to crazy for me. I hope to move to a smaller town in the midwest someday.

Albertsons don’t exist anymore in the southeast

That's how it should be. If they steal, you shoot them.

Maybe increase minimum wage and have affordable housing in the area for people to earn a decent living to self support

I never boosted but I used to do return fraud and sell counterfeit. I did it during college then I stopped. I was never nervous, back then nobody knew the difference. I’m glad those days are behind me.

You both should have gone to jail.

Good on you for not being a snitch Sue. You do know what happens to snitches right?

Don’t narc on somebody for shoplifting they could need it for food or other reasons that are a necessity Also someone could beat you up stab you or shoot you for being a narc

@@l3rlc for snitching the rule to commoner you need to get taken care of

it is possible they were in cahoots.. but it is also possible that person was making it appear like he was with her and just continued walking to not bring any attention to him while she did stop.. I saw a video of 2 people walking into a walmart.. and they were trying to use a fake receipt or had a history of trying to use fake receipts.. turns out the police were called.. and the guy had warrants for his arrest he had a concealed knife and a concealed gun. the woman with him escaped. he is now dead. What happened is, once the police said they don't want you to leave the store and not come back.. but we will take care of doing a "trespass" on you.. but we will need your ID.. that is when he started to freak out and was trying to escape. hes started to try and run.. he didnt abide by the police orders to stop.. and they had to grab him and put cuffs on him.. then he began to resist having cuffs put on.. that is when the knife was spot in under his pants. he tried to reach for the knife.. then the gun was spotted .. and he tried to reach for that.. then the police told him to stop.. but interestingly.. there was a guys.. supposedly a civillian trying to help the police.. but then the civilian yelled "he has a gun.. Shoot him!!" repeatedly.. and i began to think.. that "civilian" probably knew him.. and wanted to get him killed.. probably didn't want him to identify him as an accomplice?? the civilian disappeared and so did the woman. I have a feeling that guys was a patsy.. and easy patsy whom they could get to do crimes for them without themselves getting caught. and the final straw was actually yelling to the police to shoot him.. saying "he has a gun! Shoot him!" that seemed too professional to me.. it was a form of manipulating the police.. in star wars genre.. they call that "using the force"

And sometimes the "greeter" at WalMart treats you like they want to frisk you even tho you did nothing and just a regular customer.

it does happen i had a coworker ( born in the usa 🇺🇸 aka 100% usa passport holder ) before i knew them they did it and the food banks/charities wouldn't help same with the 🇺🇸 governments so starve or steal lunch/jail time. i can't condone there behaviour but i understand there will to steal cheap food to live like a smaller loaf 🍞 i these cases removing poverty removes crime now mobsters are a different problem of crime

@@richardprice5978 what does their passport have to do with anything

@@whatever5922 shows there a usa 🇺🇸 citizen and not a foreign national looking for handouts for the next 50 years as you generally need to have a green card/work visas or 🇺🇸-passport to work in the usa 🇺🇸 that or brake the law's and hope you and those how adided and embedded don't get caught by the fed's 😉 a fast way of jail time and or deportation

That’s the goal of a corporation, to make profit.

thats why i steal from them

@@TheSuperi9 and what about poverty people down the road? as so crime rings like targeting them and or making there life harder like stealing all of there tool's ( because paying the dealership's or anyone else is out of the question as there poor and barely can afford parts or rent/food/utility's ect ) to work on the family car and or jacking the family car so its harder to get to work on Monday morning?

The aren't YOUR Milwaukee tools until you pay for them, that's why. If they don't lock stuff up that is being commonly stolen, there won't be any Milwaukee tools left for you to even buy.

you can thank blm for that one

I prefer Lowe's when I have to go get something for a construction job.

@@bigbob7021 I used to work in department stores years ago; 90% of the ones the cops were hauling off to jail were black.

Bc you probably look like one

It would also be very easy to make a seemingly legit receipt for an item, even if it was stolen. You either destroy legitimate resale, or accidentally enable fencing... stopping actual theft is much easier.

take photos, have emailed receipts, there are many ways you can keep trace of your purchase

@@kyliemiu okay, but what if i bought something a decade ago and want to sell it now

​@@kyliemiuwhat if you didn't buy but a family member gave it to you? The point is, all of this is just punishing the non-criminals. What needs to be done is make the punishment for theft more severe but Noone wants to do that because there's an agenda to destroy the country.

Capitalist society is already a hell.

@@Pyasa.shaitan What is your “solution”?

@@Supraking12 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B_i8_WuyqAY.html

@@mantrapalsingh Feelings are not an economic system.

I guess you hate poor people and love corporations… According to the civil rights corps… 4:30

@@NVGEAR Islam has a solution for thieves.... We could try that

It is overburdened, but is it more costly than all the theft?

@@Li0nshare ,I don't hate poor people, but I dislike thieves. Do you think all poor people are thieves?

True. In my country if you caught a thief the public can beat him near death and you won't be prosecuted. Of course we don't have guns so public brawling is not deadly.

What about stealing food to feed the homeless? Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor?

Unless it’s food to eat

@@christopherbonanno1120 there food bank , and a lot organization that provide free food .. !!! not mention aid from government .. unless u miss use those service ..

agree with those so call thieves supporter that make them so bold to do what they did until one of those or their families become victims ( i never wish any of this unfortunate happen to anyone ) they will never wake up.

Corporations steal, pollute developing nations, and steal from employees. They aren’t innocent either. A lot of the same factories make both the knockoffs and brand names.

Don’t they factor in a certain amount of loss?

@@marilynmonheaux6356 every retail business does account for "shrinkage" aka theft, breakage, miscounted during receiving etc.. But the theft has gone up so much once they allowed masks inside plus, the state banned plastic bags so its now common for shoppers to buy groceries and leave with a cart full without bagging, so when people skip the registers it's not obvious they didn't pay when they're leaving without bagged groceries

@@realbangbang Very informative. I would bet in this climate the thieves are getting really clever with it

Scapegoat

Because its harder to reprimand the thief I think, I mean everybody know it's not Facebook/Amazon's fault but they are the one who hold the power here

how about we stop the bigger problem of corporations stealing from us lol These corporations sell this to pass laws through . Little by little they are just eliminating competition. It's funny how they promote less regulation on what they can do but fight for more regulation on the consumer.

Just report the seller to the Ebay security and their account will be banned...(a few days later) oh look they set up a new account using a stolen identity oh darn.

Or, you go to jail for buying it.

Imagine being gullible enough to buy a brand new power tool marked half off from some guy with a made up name and never questioning whether it was stolen or not.

ARGOS in the UK does this.

I remember a store doing this over 20 years ago, can't even remember the name. Of course no lcd back then

@@xavierarizmendi You thinking of Service Merchandise? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Merchandise

@@shaneoneill1338 wow Service Merchandise... haven't heard of that on yrs

@@shaneoneill1338 that's the one! When I was a teen I bought a BB gun from there by looking at a picture of it and taking a ticket to the cashier. It would come down a conveyer once you paid for it. It didn't seem like an inconvenience really. I went there for that model.

And you know you're not giving your money to people selling stolen goods.

Yes I wass thinking how i can make some money

how about we stop the bigger problem of corporations stealing from us lol These corporations sell this to pass laws through . Little by little they are just eliminating competition. It's funny how they promote less regulation on what they can do but fight for more regulation on the consumer.

@@elvisherrera960 mmkay so...where is your big tv episode entirely free of corporate interference, huh? What do you have against these laws? And if yoir whole eliminating competition argument was valid then why did I mention them separate from netflix?

@@juliahart8593 tell me what making it difficult as an individual to sell online has to do with stopping crime? You stop stealing at the source from inside the store . I Don't have an issue with harsher punishment on stealing it's all the other crap they are pushing through. They are masking it because fools believe the crap they promoted.

it all started with the rampant looting during the protests.

Why does somebody stealing a saw bother you so much?

@@avonfettydale9166 isn't the question, why does stealing bother you so little? it says something about your morality when you find one of the oldest social principles, the aversion to stealing, one that's even present in the animal kingdom, doesn't bother you.

@CharlesNemon In a way I don't blame the workers for doing this. Why should a person who makes minimum wage be responsible in protecting a multi billion dollar company. You never know if cart checking will lead to violence. Let them hire trained security personal and pay them the wage they deserve

lol you suggest company's/stores start putting tracking devices in their products so they can track you once you leave their store? Yeah that'd be nice for the products that get stolen but id say like 99% of the products are bought legitimately so I'd definitely not be ok with going to the store and buying some stuff and having the off chance there is a tracker in one of the products I just bought..

how about we stop the bigger problem of corporations stealing from us lol These corporations sell this to pass laws through . Little by little they are just eliminating competition. It's funny how they promote less regulation on what they can do but fight for more regulation on the consumer.

Also why not just mandate big box retailers to track this info differently vs passing legislation? Tax them for not having the protocols in place. Legislation gets in the way and affects everyone as a result of a small few. Taxing big company marketplaces for not fixing these problems is a better approach

We already don’t have privacy that’s always their solution punish the law abiding citizen with authoritarian reactions because of criminals actions.

@@censoredfromtheinternet3110 If there is anything I learned from playing Watch Dogs pretty soon in the future everyone is going to be spied on. Its inevitable but its going to happen.

@@iamjohnporter67 yes the fourth industrial revolution brought to you by the world health organization and all the other “elites”

Now, if less people would buy online, we could further reduce the risk of buying stolen goods. Online shopping wasn't a thing 30 years ago and people survived just fine.

Not only that, they want to state to attack the competition and regular citizens to make it easier for them

Well said!

If the state punish ALL theft even 2 dollar gums, life will be so much better

what you are saying is they don't pay enough for employees to provide security for the products in teh store? It is my impression.. that many stores hire employees that specifically work in "Loss prevention" and also they hire security guards to also monitor and apprehend thieves?

@@manp1039 That would literally be the point, however most of these locations have zero security at all at any hour of the day even in rough places just to cut down labor hours. The country can not afford to jail/capture every single criminal in the country who torrents a Disney film or lifts an over priced drill from home depot at the same time as charging functionally zero taxes on these same companies when they do business. If you don't want your drills lifted hire some guards, buy some locked cases or better yet pay liveable wages so we don't have roaming bands of shoplifters who can't afford to eat and pay rent if they work in your store. The idea that these companies want to run with is pay nothing in taxes and let the government stop all the shoplifting, they don't get both. They can have the c suit bonuses they have grown addicted to or they can have police on every corner, the money has to go somewhere and these guys have chosen not to pay for public services and instead capture as much profit as possible. No one should have sympathy for people living the consequences of their own actions as is the case with these retailers.

And releasing them from jail the next day.

Apparently that's racist or whatever

That and the fact they decriminalized theft because muh imaginary discrimination. And they wonder why there’s a spike in organized shoplifting.

@@ViIgax Where is theft decriminalized? I'm not aware of a state in the union that considers any theft lower than a misdemeanor, but I'm far from perfect, so maybe I missed a change somewhere.

It’s not giving poor people economic equality but turning them into criminals?

agreed

ABSOLUTELY AGREE

Don’t ask, don’t tell !!

What other marketplace vet sellers? They all pretty much the same. You create and account with them and list your item.

@@Supraking12 the others that “vet sellers” along with how they “vet” said sellers is LITERALLY in the video. Try to keep up.

Under the cover that they are just stealing to feed their families. So I’m stealing power tools to get food on my table? As opposed to actually stealing food?

CNBC contradicted itself in its own report. It distinguised between organized criminal gangs and petty thieves. Later, they said organized crime gangs hire individual thieves. They can't even keep a report honest, so do you think they did not lie more everyday?

Also they deserve to have their stuff stolen considering they steal from the people that shop there. For example Walmart steals 300+ million dollars from it's customers every two years and many companies does crap like this keep going at it people you're not stealing you're reclaiming it just hopefully you're giving it back to the people and not just yourself.

@ScammersHub Facts!!!!

where are you going to shop then?

Amazon also ruined the union election in Bessimer Alabama.

I work at an Amazon warehouse. They treat me really well.

I'm currently working at Amazon. Not sure where you get your facts that we're being treated like slaves. I would advise you to keep your mouth shut if you never work for them

More like they can't, since they can get fired for interfering

Lol

Yep. As much as people may complain about how these companies are already "big enough," the truth is that these losses eventually get passed on to the customers as even further increased prices

YEP

Not to mention the monitoring/ID check on the way in. And high number of staff compared to a place like Walgreens. I was also wondering about Costco.

Serial numbers don’t have to be serial, they could be random letters and/or numbers so it doesn’t reveal how many were made.

@@fornello123 They have to be unique, which means people can track them and count how much overpriced trash LV is dumping out. LV intentionally does not serialize their products, nor do they provide any way to authenticate them.

Such a narrow-minded normie reply

@@nadias6435 🤣

Nice things no longer exist, only nice-looking, made cheap and sold for vast profit things. The greater the market cap, the more the company subscribes to this philosophy. Also, businesses factor shrinkage into their forecasts, they expect it to happen and hope it remains below threshold. Holding anyone accountable won't change this.

@@Psycandy you should travel more my friend, you'd be shocked

You have to feed them for ever lol, why not just cut their hand off

@@jimmyhoac7 How about not feeding them?

Jail don't last long though. There's always a release date

That's crazy 🤪

@@OLAUUBER I'm sure the savings from theft will pay for it.

What type of business?

You would lose a lot of customers who need things today🤣🤣 Why would I want to pay for express delivery when I can just go pick it up myself and have it within minutes

Not even Amazon is a fully online store anymore

Then thieves would rob warehouses and big trucks. They will find a way