Thieves rob Best Buy blind
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted June 22nd 2007 9:21AM
posted June 22nd 2007 9:21AM
posted June 22nd 2007 9:21AM
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I bet they were pretty happy with their take, until they went home and checked prices on newegg and realized they still got ripped off.
At least there weren't any employees pushing service plans on them to go with the stolen loot. Did they pick up any Monster Cable?
I wonder if this was all just an elaborate scheme to get around having someone checking their receipts on the way out. Way to treat your customers like thieves, Best Buy.
People gotta quit stealing. It's ghetto. Best buy has the right to rape(charge) people whatever they want. Don't shop there. Stealing is still illegal however you look at it.
Man ghetto people just want to justify stealing whatever way they can.
Get a f'ing job like most of us.
Um guys, this is still stealing and isn't right. It doesn't matter if its a big business or a person. Stealing is still stealing. I hope these thieves get caught.
I hate Best Buy, so these theives have my thanks.
David,
Yes, people do go to the store voluntarily, but Best Buy preys on people's ignorance, indifference, and trust in order to STEAL. I'm not saying that anyone stealing is right. If there was real justice, people just wouldn't shop there anymore and BB would go bankrupt. Until then, there's http:/www.bestbuysux.org and the occasional theft. Ha ha.
By the way, I do not shop at BB and I try to steer anyone I know away from shopping there. I know Circuit City isn't all that either, but BB is just the worst and so avoidable.
it must have been an inside job for them to disable the security system (I wonder if they had a very large van to carry all that stuff?)
I live in Tulsa...
I didn't even know about this. I'm gonna have to start watching the "real" news.
Watch the video. They've been working in Tulsa for years now, hitting appliance stores, jewelry stores and other businesses in the same manner. It's also impressive that none of the stolen goods have ever been recovered. They must have a good fence.
stop fuking flaming every1
well dun for the robbery
and i dont give a shit that the prices will maby rise
i live in the uk :D
say wat u want about this comment cos i'll never look at this page agen
I know you guys don't know this, but line-level employees get a bonus of a few hundred dollars every year if NOP is above 102%. Stuff like this usually guarantees that they don't get it. Of course it's not going to affect Brad Anderson or Brian Dunn, but it is going to affect the engadget reader working there to pay for his internet connection and who really doesn't care whether you buy that 100$ cable.
In stealing, the ends never justify the means. Customers CHOOSE to shop at these stores. I have had smart customers come in, buy an ipod, and buy everything else online. Remember, best buy started out as a single store just like newegg or zipzoomfly. Brick and mortar stores have more overhead than places online who can be some guy in his house who ships stuff to you.
That joint only needed to be ripped off! All they do is give their customers the run around. Namely my mother had gotten a new dishwasher from them; it was delivered to the house, but the no good maggot farmer who came to the house said he couldn't install it, but do it on his own time on a Sunday. My mother later got a plumber to install the dishwasher. Now, the no good maggot farmers known as Best Buy won't come by the house and take away the old dishwasher. They suck, and I will not patronize Best Buy.
Maybe Best Buy's prices will go up as they need to spend more on security....
...but in the end, isn't that just creating more jobs?
:)
Not really. Theft causes your budgets for everything to decrease. So, no new camera, no new anti-theft devices, no more hiring, less money for labor, etc. So the existing employees get less hours and there are no new jobs.
Also, to a post i read before... Of course you can find better prices online... they don't have to worry about maintaining over 800 stores, theft, and paying about 150 employees for each of those stores not including the corporate level employees, so those cost saving areas are passed down to the consumers.
If you don't know how a business runs or have never worked in retail, its really irresponsible to think you know what you are talking about.
You guys don't realize what theft does to a store. I work at Best Buy and we had professional thieves stealing video games. They got $27,000 worth in a little over 6 months. During that time, because we lost so much money from the games (which, mind most of you, only have a 4-5 dollar mark-up on average.) caused our labor budgets. So, people already complain about the 'lack of service' in Best Buy, imagine how it is when theft is up and there is 1 or 2 people at a time in a large department like Computers. And yes, there is a budget set aside for theft... its generally .30 of your revenue. (...a very small amount.) And a lot of the time, despite "ripping people off" so bad, we still don't make money each day. So, on a bad day, we already aren't making money, and now we are losing money for everything stolen that day.
And people don't understand theft. Let's say one CD gets stolen @ $13. We buy it for $9. So a 4 dollar markup. We have to sell about 2 more of those Cd's to make up for that one stolen CD. (In case you still don't get it... the stolen cd costs $9, the next 2 cd's we sell will make us about 4 dollars each in profit, just shy of making up for that 9 dollars we lost.) Now think about those 40 laptops... there is very little markup on computer systems, especially laptops. So lets say the laptops were $1,299 and we bought them for $1,200... I'll do the math. FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY LAPTOPS HAVE TO BE SOLD AT THAT SAME PRICE TO MAKE UP FOR IT. Way to stick it to the big corporation...
So overall, stealing from a company makes their markup on items go up further, causes them to staff less people per day, resulting in higher prices and very little customer service.
Flame on.
^^ Caused our labor budgets to decrease substantially**** Typos suck.
I have a few things to say as an AUTHORITY on this matter.
1st - anyone who thinks that they spent hours or days planning this is nuts. YOu are giving these guys too much credit.
I committed over 20 felonios breaking and enterings about 8 years ago on businesses at night. I broke into many businesses with security systems, etc. My typical modus operandi was through the roof, usually I dismantled/disconnected exhaust fans on the roof (4 bolts and VOILA). I didn't waste my time carting off safes I cut them about 8 times with an industrial saw and pried the outer housing away from the many door lock mechanisms, I disabled many alarm systems in one of two ways, one way made them inoperable, the other made them still emit a siren but not call the alarm co. But if you are familiar with how they operate you don't even need to disable them, you can easily prevent them from detecting you even infront of 90% of them.
I never planned a place and typically perfromed several B+E in one night. I have removed 6 desktop computers and many small electronics ON MY OWN.
These guys just have to be brazen enough to get a large truck close enough to throw the large amount of crap into.
They aren't geniouses just very brave or dumb.
2. It hurts people even though it is not a home, I used to make this distinction myself, but after the fact I knwo that individuals ARE HARMED.
Since the things I did are almost exactly the same (except for the magnitude of mechandise taken)
I know what happens. First, a store manager is called at 3:00 AM and has to go to the store with the police or they walk in the next day. There is the thought of What if? What if they are still here? What if they took my (insert personal item here) out of my desk, what if they damaged my photos of my kids, what if they got every employee's address and plan to 'hit' them at home next?
Then there is the usual few days of the store being closed. Big deal, right? Not to Best Buy or what ever big business that was hit. It is a big deal to the single mom that can't work for the next 3 days because of investigation and repair, because the insurance doens't pay for her missed days due to the incident, what about the father working two jobs or the college student, the REAL people who may have to think about finding a new job because they can't afford to lose a day's pay?
Tell me that they aren't hurt. . . .
In my case I went a little off after my wife passed away and I got overused by my employers (salary pay with 60-80 hours a weeks worked and NO COMPENSATION) I decided to get revenge in the form of cash and then in my temporarily state of reduced morals I committed the many other crimes.
I basically turned myself in a few months later and made a full confession, in the midst of everything I had the minimal foresight to leave no fingerprints, no DNA evidence, and I typically took items which were difficult to trace, or only cash.
I served time and have paid back enough in restitution and fines to buy a house.
The local police thought I was a ring of approx 9 people, and dubbed me as 'The Rooftop Bandits'.
Throughout the entire ordeal I accumulated over 30 felonies and 6 misdemeanors and 'harmed' over 45 people NOT including my family and friends.
These guys will eventually get caught, it is inevitable, especially having more than one person involved, someone will get caught and then the domino effect will occur.
Any romatic notion about Mission Impossible and Robin Hood are B.S. These guys are greedy and stupidly brazen. Bad combinations.
Lol for some reason I can just imagine the Mission Impossible theme tune in the background as they broke in... But props to them for doing it in style.
yay for logic :)
To the best buy employee from the store that was robbed:
Maybe if you guys were Union you wouldn't get all shafted on pay raises and such for something that is not the fault of the employees...(well, except the 'inside man').
At the store I work, we're union, it wouldn't hurt us financially if that happened...and probably not the store either, because of insurance.