TikToker Sued By Billion Dollar Company For "Challenge" 

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Of course they sued him. They HAVE to make an example out of him. He just showed millions of people that they could potentially do the same thing, and Nike wants everyone to know that they could end up just like him.

I don’t get the sneaker hype at all. I mean I appreciate good sneakers but spending a fortune on them is just ridiculous 😂

It's mind-blowing to me that there's an generation of people out there who think that if you commit a crime for a RU-vid video it somehow doesn't count as a crime.

Not only did he document his own fraud but he tagged the evidence.

I can't believe that he thought he invented this scam. People have tried this with all kinds of expensive products. But none of them filmed and uploaded videos of themselves doing it.

What’s really unfortunate is that at the very start of his video, Cedaz was making some valid points about the shoe industry and if it had continued on to be an investigative piece, it might have been something great. But nope, he highlights the exploited labor before showing how he too exploits it while also committing crime. What an exhausting world we live in.

Those poor employees… you know they’re not paid enough for the corporate bs that came down on them for this.

Nike attorneys be like: This is gonna be the easiest payday of our lives. 😂😂😂😂

I just hope the employee that accepted the return did not get into trouble.

Damn… the self snitching in this one is so wild, Im surprised they didn’t call up Nike themselves to let them know of their plans. 😂

This isn't just scamming Nike. Imagine someone going to that store and getting someone's returned fakes.

I used to work at Best Buy and I remember a guy did this with Beats headphones. He had us fooled for a couple weeks, ended up swapping out 3 or 4 sets of the $500 ones. He was eventually caught and got a couple years in prison for it.

Having spent too much time invested in the Lauren the Mortician drama, it's refreshing to see well written legal documentation.

People use the term “prank” nowadays is to get away with a crime or scam and claim they weren’t serious to face zero accountability.

Just paying Nikes attorney fees are gonna have him in debt for the rest of his life🤣

My dude literally bought it all on a CC. Linked the transaction to his account. Laid out all his plans on a video. Then UPLOADED that video. It's just so mindboggling how detached from reality people are.

and this is how we lose the ability to return truely defective products to companies

This and the guy who punched people as a prank are the most blatant displays of literal stupidity I've ever seen...

He's going from Nike Air Force 1's to prison slippers...🤣🤣🤣

Plot twist: the genuine Nike's and the fake Nike's were made in the same third world sweatshop by the same starving worker.

I hope that woman wasn't fired.

I love that we live in a world where lawyers are actively digging deep inside of discords

7 minutes in. If only the dude revealed what happened and refused the refund at the point before receiving the refund, this would be a whole different story.

I can't imagine being so materialistic. There's nothing wrong with wanting to treat yourself from time to time with a special pair of shoes, a bag or clothes. But I can't imagine wanting to own so many of them that I'd try to commit fraud like this and encourage others to do it.

His thought process really was: im gunna film myself committing a crim, nothing bad can ever happen

I was originally like "Well, this guy's dumb, but I can see how some Z tier youtuber could naively assume this sort of thing would work out" and by the end I'm like "How can you be running *an entire counterfeit operation* and not understanding that making a viral video advertising another counterfeit operation you're collaborating with would have some sort of impact on your buisness, all on top of the already mentioned fraud???"

Ah, refund fraud. Brilliant. Nobody has ever thought of that before.

My boyfriend is a criminal defense attorney and I worked for the Court for a few years on criminal cases. You wouldn't how many people document and post their crimes, then lie to their attorneys about it, too 😅 My boyfriend always does investigations into his clients and will confront them on evidence they hid from him, and they're always shocked that their idiotic behavior bites them in the ass.

LOL he's the type of dude to shake a bees nest then be shocked when they sting him

I’m convinced people keep making these mistakes posting the crimes online or not all cognitively there. It feels like not posting a crime is the sensible thing yet were we are and they clearly didn’t think hard enough about it

Just because your intentions in your head were innocent to you, YOUR ACTIONS ARE WHAT SPEAKS TO PEOPLE ! ! !

My horribly abusive ex's name was "Eben"... I guess the lesson here is to not name your kid the first half of Ebenezer if you don't want them to turn out scummy.

Not only can they link it to him through the app but he literally signed the evidence against him.

LOL I just realized that Nike didn't even bother suing him for the fraudulent return. They only went after the rep company he plugged in his video which he did to show how great the reps are ("Look how great these reps are! Even the Nikr store couldn't tell the difference!")

Don't worry. Cedaz could have that psychic lady to be his defense in court. I'm sure she will be very effective in handling the case for his defense.

Are the goods counterfeit if they are produced in the same factory that Nike uses?

The lawsuit is the least of his problems. He has broken so many real crimes that are felonies and can get him years in prison.

Honestly, good on Nike for being trusting on returns. I wouldn't be a repeat customer from any brand that makes me jump through hoops to return a purchase

There's a luxury channel I follow that had a series of community posts comparing genuine and fake designer handbags/purses. I don't own anything like that, but I enjoy fashion, however there were plenty of people who swore blind they could tell the difference because they owned similar items. It was hilarious to me to see people passionately defend the fake bag ("Anyone can see it's real!"), or denigrate the real one ("Horrible stitching!). It just demonstrates that the consumer is being overcharged for the real thing, when near-idental fakes are just as good (probably made in the same bloody factory!).

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Morgan and Morgan doing RU-vid ad reads is hilarious.

It cracks me up how in 6. they actually use the word "cop" in the sentence, and also "troll" in 7. which means somewhere in that lawsuit there has to be a glossary of terms where it explains what that all means in that context hahaha 🤣

6:34 So he is basically saying: "Hey, u can buy fake shoes from that website to scam stores like me and earn some extra money 😃". He is a HORRIBLE person.

Love it . “ the trash takes itself out now “ 🎉🎉🎉

As a person that used to act a fool in my younger years I can positively state that I would never want that many people to know about my hustles not for fear of getting caught but because I didn't want my hustle to get burned out. The more often something like this happens the quicker that window gets shut, when a window gets shut someone goes down for it.

His lawyers better get paid upfront while he still has money.

RU-vid randomly recommended me your channel with a different video, been going through a few now and I gotta say I'm glad it did. Laughing at idiots getting caught for being idiots is great. I feel sorry for all the victims for having to put up with that

I’m dying 😂😂 Morgan & Morgan are really sponsoring content creators now

I do not get why he didn’t think he was breaking the law? A lawsuit is the least of his troubles. He may even get arrested, and sent to jail. There’s a reason why it’s hard to get fake sneakers sent to the US. Because it’s ILLEGAL! That’s insane that he documented all of it.

Thank you for making it more difficult to return products that are *actually defective* 🙄

RU-vid should bare some responsibility for profiting from the illegal content they have allowed on their platform.

Just gained a subscriber! So glad to see this guy get called out. I seen the signs a long time ago but his whole community is so behind him that they are blinded by facts. So many things wrong with what he does.

At least he got the attention he so desperately wanted...

Im a Converse girl, and appalled i have to pay more than 20 bucks for canvas basketball shoes, i cant imagine paying what the sneakerheads do for Nike

Atozy, whether you care or not, I dig you the most for identifying these fools. In the parlance of folks my age, you rock!

The lawyers had fun writing this filing

Honestly, this is a pretty good idea for a video. If he had just stopped a few steps short of actually committing fraud I can see a video like that doing well.

Maybe he can sell his Tesla to pay for his legal fees 🤣

Used to work in a shoe store here in the UK and this guy doesn’t release how common this was 10 years ago. Used to get customers come in, buy a brand new pair (of whatever brand and Nike and Adidas was the two most popular) take them home and come back in a few days to return what they’ve swapped at home. It used to work due to staff not inspecting the shoes so the store owner did probably the clearest thing to help staff spot a fake and that was load up pictures that they made on the computers we had at the tills. It would point out easy ways on noticing fakes to real ones. They was inspected and the chances of customers getting there money back for fake shoes dropped massively due to the help of those pictures. Although it caused some right arguments with customers until you mentioned the police and it was straight to the “I didn’t know this happened” blah blah lie. Edit: not only was these people stealing money from the company but hard earn workers as well as we used to get commission from selling these products. As soon as a return comes through us staff members who sold the shoe immediately lost that commission for said shoe. Honestly people who did this had zero morals.

I get a crime is a crime and he deserves to be punished. But outside of buying a real one and returning the fakes, let's be real both the real and the fakes were made in a sweatshop in China.

Clout is a helluva drug!

I bet he's looking for a fake lawyer thats under $10 😂 to represent him

I am so thankfull for people like this. They make me feel smarter then I actually am.

Shoe stores are gonna hire specialists for spotting fake shoes

I bet he thought NIKE would go, broo that was hilarious how did you do that!?! That prank was hilarious!

His best defense is to say that he never actually really returned the fakes and he actually returned the real shoes unless they can find the shoes he returned and use them against him but their probably already sold to somebody else 🤷🏾

He didn't really care about proving that the employees can't tell the difference much beyond him making money off of this. If he wanted to make this an informative experiment, he would have stopped the employee prior to the return being finalized and pointing out what he did. If he actually did that, this would be a very interesting series to watch. Showing how it would be hard to tell the fakes from the real. But he didn't do that. So that's on him.

I bet if he sent those shoes to someone who is trained to spot fakes there would be 1000 things wrong with them.

So he gave them enough evidence to sue him lol this is like the tik tok psychic again lol Edit: just watched the lawsuit part man isnt cooked or charcoal man is dust now 💀

A fish who doesn’t open his mouth doesn’t get caught and a fish who doesn’t post his crimes on TikTok doesn’t get sued

I used to find old shoes in various shoeboxes at a walmart i went to. People didnt even do the return hassle. Just walk in with old shoes and walk out with new ones lol

As a figure collector of both western and Japanese items. This hurt to watch. You pay for the authenticity and quality makes it all worth it. If you want a bargain. Buy a bargain, not a fake.

Nothing like giving the plaintiff a case on a gold platter. Rule one in a conspiracy, keep your mouth.

As someone who works retail, yeah they'll care. Especially at Nike. They're nuts about their shit and it could effect someone's job

I agree the employees at Nike probably could care less…as long as you have a receipt they’ll probably give you the refund…I will guarantee if he took them to a true sneaker head they would know the difference.

He could’ve avoided all of this and gotten even more content if he just told them at the end that they were fake and that was the end of the “experiment” and then went to a couple other places to do the same thing. No fraud, just a prank, more content still gets to advertise the knock-off’s.

This reminds me of my Basic/AIT experience for Army Bootcamp. Everyone recieved a "3 Day Pass" to leave base for a small vacation between our Basic and AIT segments of training. Several people partied, but a select few documented the experience they had over the 3 days. Those select few took pictures of the bottles of booze and cigarettes they enjoyed. Then brought the pictures back with them to the barracks. Well when we all came back, they lined us up for a "Shakedown" where our belongings were inspected thoroughly by our Drill Seargents. Taking any contraband we were not supposed to have. The select few who took pictures of their partying essentially snitched on themselves.

Did he think because he said " its just a prank" it absolved him of the responsibility of committing a crime?

The difference between people showing"dupes" they find online and talking about it and people collaborating with the actual companies making direct counterfeit copies of a product and showing it online/selling them

This dude just made working at a sneaker store 10 times more difficult now because they probably have to train to spot fakes from real sneakers😢

I wonder what would have happened to him, if he hadn't openly admitted to this crime and recorded it. Judging from his lifestyle, he went unnoticed by the law for way too long

My big brother is a HUGE sneakerhead when it comes to Jordans (along with gators) but there's absolutely no way he'd do something like this. No way. Neither would my little brother when it comes to his own Nikes. Also, Self Snitching just gets worse and worse by the year, thank God. This dude has a website for pushing counterfeit goods??? Really???! "It's just a prank, Bro" isn't a Get Out of Jail For Free Card and I HATE that clout goblins keep involving hardworking retail and food service workers in their nonsense. It's gross and I hope they throw the book at him.

If these counterfeit goods are so good why did he return them in place orf actual ones to keep true ones from Nike? He is clearly in it for the scam and not the quality of the items like he is trying to advertise. He probably could've just advertised the items as good quality knock offs without the scam.

I really love that term” the trash took itself out” 😂

Plot twist: The same sweat shop that makes the counterfeit Nike shoes, actually make the REAL Nike shoes too.

Oh my god this is happening with dolls! Monster high dolls in particular. I see it pop up on reddit from time to time. People will buy a doll (sometimes play line, sometimes collectors) & replace it with an older version of the doll and it some how winds up back on shelves (this often happens at Walmart i noticed, but still the dolls look nothing a like? How we not clocking this???) But what makes it even wilder is some people are making custom dolls or clothes for the old dolls to make the ruse more convincing. Customs that people say are good enough quality to sell for more then what the doll is worth. I didn't know this was a bigger thing but I guess if it is happening in one place it's probably happening somewhere else too.

I love it when criminals post their crimes on social media. It makes it so easy for them to get arrested and found guilty.

How the hell did he think he would get away with this😂

On top of all the 3x damages he's gonna have to pay, you already know those nike lawyer fees are gonna be astronomical lol

I couldn’t help but laugh, hard and full, after hearing how badly this went for him. Like it’s one thing selling a little w**d but doing something new? Something that could get you in so much trouble if caught and you post it online? Man I’m happy I’m only addicted to caffeine and not clout.

If he made mad money from it, I would have just moved overseas too and done the returns all online/mail lol. If they can't prosecute China or another country then they can't prosecute their ppl either 😅 Its just wild he did all that

He ain’t cooked, he is burnt🔥

Social media does rot the brain. Anyone who freely publishes the prosecution's evidence against them at a trial needs a couple extra years tacked on to be filled with classes on basic commonsense. Counterfeits aren't just laughed off by corporations. Who thinks advertising their business selling counterfeits is a good idea? Who makes a video of their crimes with the hope millions of people will watch it? Younger generations just aren't very bright.

I wonder if he'll even be able to get a qualified lawyer to represent him.

I literally just checked your channel ten minutes ago for a new video. Thanks for the content my man

1:20 never knew YT added this feature, the like button glows with colors when the video says "like this video"

Lol “Nike’s good will” interesting choice of words from the suit lol

That's the main issue with this type of "prank" or "social experiment", when you document it and you're a relatively well-known influencer you'll get caught.

TBH, He actually could’ve gotten away with it…..IF HE DIDN’T FILM IT!!!!!