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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.
He also made claims about the child labor thing, which Im sure triggered their legal team and PR team to act and make an example. I know likely Nike’s legal team is pissed off. I say that likely was the final nail in the shoe (coffiin) just because I have a distant relative who back in the day was Nike’s CFO for their corporate office up in I think western WA, and I guess helped with or was apart of their legal group there too? Not sure on the specifics. In the early to mid 2010s when people started kinda paying more attention to those sort of human rights conflicts or issues (he worked there for decades), he was close to retirement anyway, but was becoming exhausted and more jaded with having to coordinate internal memos and shit with the rest of the employees over it and whatever other BS he was tasked with doing or minimizing to keep profits up.
@@Tayl0r_you think they sure him becauE of that comment? Lol no they just want to set an example to scare off everyone else. They dont give a shit if you shittalk their brand
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.
It’s so strange but it makes sense that people like him would be delulu enough to think he had an original thought for what is a rather simplistic scam.
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.
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.
I don’t even think he realized how much of a strong investigation he had done. It was good journalism and even well written. To think this could have gone a completely different direction had he used his intellect for positive industry change, and instead he chose criminal activity.
it makes me believe a lot of people in jail would do good at many jobs that we see on a decline. We need to push the govt to take lobbyists out of prisons sadly Capitalism will always reign supreme
@@esseaem1451 Yeah, I legit thought this was going in a different direction because at first it seemed like he actually wanted to investigate/prove a flaw in the industry but then he pivoted it to selling the fakes and honestly seems to have just been lucky (or unlucky with the more money he has to pay back) that he wasn't caught sooner.
Lol no. He was not investigating or research anything. He's just one of the many kid influencer Chinese company contact to boots their sales. Had there was no sponsor or affiliate link. He wouldn't have done anything similar
Racketeering is setting up (or conspiring to set up) a criminal organization. A Florida RICO charge thus contends that a person was associated with a criminal enterprise and that they willingly and knowingly supported or carried out the same kinds of crime more than once in a five-year span." "Because of the broadness of the types of crimes that could be committed under the RICO statute, judges are given a considerable amount of discretion in terms of sentencing. Florida RICO charges can result in a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $10,000."
My thoughts exactly. I was just thinking "hopefully there won't be any consequences for the sales clerk" because companies can impose ridiculous expectations such as the employees checking those shoes as if they were Batman analysing a piece of evidence he found at a crime scene.
Reminds me of the time I was working at a credit union and a woman forged her business partner’s signature to withdraw money. The guy who was being robbed had a very distinctive signature that I recognized on sight. I’m no handwriting expert but she did a good job with the forgery. I was called in to the bank manager’s office so he could show me the very slight differences on a few of the letters within the signature. This went on my record. 🙄🙄🙄 It was a terrible place to work.
@@Ivotasit's the manager that normally takes the fall if the stock check or numbers don't add up.... Not the grunts on the floor (at least in my experience as a store clerk, then manager of a high end UK electrical company) That's why managers bust clerks asses about stock loss, the clerk's heads won't roll, only the manager. As he should be efficiently managing the store.
Yeah, everyone thinks lawyers are universally professional and articulate, but after dealing with some estate planning for my grandpa, the first lawyer we consulted with was an absolute dunce. Typos in all of his written communication, properties listed as assets that he doesn’t even own. Some lawyers are morons, oddly enough. Though Nike of course has top dollar lawyers. It shows in their writing prose.
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.
Hopefully they will get a bonus. Their action led to him being sued for vast sums of money and the takedown of his network. Perhaps Nike might also get the idea of putting a cheap transponder chip in every shoe so this can never happen again.
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.
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.
@@Theunicorn2012 I think your bot is broken - it's stealing comments and pasting them under the original comment, not elsewhere in the comment section.
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.
I absolutely love that I come to RUclips to shake my head about humanity and without fail your channel hit a home run. Love this. Long time, First time.
It's like a counterfeiter giving a store a counterfeit bill, who unknowingly takes it and gives it to a different customer. Then that customer goes to use it at a different store and either has it confiscated and/or is arrested.
@@greenmanjphthe feds take counterfeiting extremely seriously lol. they investigate that shit _thoroughly._ if they find you had no way of knowing the cash was fake, they're not going to punish you for it. they want the guy you got it from. they could be doing other shit, but smooth-ass fake hundos is their main concern lmao
discord is easy has open access and a search feature easier than using a search engine like google,ect because know you are getting the posts from the person doing it
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???"
Not just fraud, he could face a RICO charge! "Racketeering is setting up (or conspiring to set up) a criminal organization. A Florida RICO charge thus contends that a person was associated with a criminal enterprise and that they willingly and knowingly supported or carried out the same kinds of crime more than once in a five-year span." "Because of the broadness of the types of crimes that could be committed under the RICO statute, judges are given a considerable amount of discretion in terms of sentencing. Florida RICO charges can result in a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $10,000."
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.
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.
Gotta disagree here. The $118 he scammed by returning the Nike shoes is the very, very least of his sins, and the least worry for Nike. The guy is running a website selling fake Nike shoes; the return scam was just an advertising stunt for that. (To be fair, the Nike lawsuit is in part an advertising stunt where Nike is trying to lure local prosecutors into paying attention to Fox...)
@@jeremydale4548 I think it's borderline exploitation or something. The only thing that employee would get in trouble is that they work together and get a share of the profit. Otherwise it's usually not going to get them into trouble.
RUclips 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 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
I think that people might forget that irl and online arent two different universes like what you post Will be shown to real people. Sure the internet is Big af but its not a blackhole. I do agree with you too but i just Think that it might be another factor too
I used to get arrested for being late to school. Like all the time. I only lived 18 miles from school and no buses came anywhere near me but that’s a minors fault…… so yeah I have a healthy fear of the government.
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!")
> LOL I just realized that Nike didn't even bother suing him for the fraudulent return That is not for the Nike to do, that's for state and or federal (since it involved shipped/imported goods) to charge him with. I imagine Nike lawyers were just faster.
@@floridamanHooningthere’s a law firm that I’ve seen advertised in Kansas City called Jungle Law. Look up their billboards, they’re hilarious. They always made me do a double take when I drove by them on my way to work.
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.
@@tavuong666 Except counterfeiting consumer goods is a state AND federal crime. There are federal prosecutors who specialize is prosecuting this sort of things
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 🤣
Yes. If they were produced using Nike's IP without their consent it's definitely counterfeit. This issue has plagued outsource manufacturing for years. I remember a Popular Science article on it over 10 years ago.
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.
@@SirZipper that's probably exactly what he thought was going to happen. Or he thought the employee who took the fakes were going to have to pay for them out of their pocket 😂
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.
So he paid anywhere from 60 to 100 bucks on shipping for a $20 pair of fakes. The real ones cost $110 versus $80 to $130 for the fakes. . . Smooth brained muppet
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.
100% - you can pry my Converse off my cold dead feet. They're so comfortable and they last forever - and yet it pisses me off that they're $60. I have no clue how people are okay with paying hundreds for shoes - especially when they're made just as cheaply as shoes you can get for so much less. Out of curiosity are you also a Toms girlie? Converse and Toms are about the only shoes I wear lol. I don't like the feeling of "normal" sneakers.
Here's the thing... you just never can tell what people are going to choose an their expensive hobby. Some people collect 40K miniatures; some people get paintings for the wall; and, apparently, some folks buy ridiculously overpriced shoes. As long as they're happy doing it, I don't mind, though I will secretly shake my head and not understand why.
Stop making everything about yourself. Everything isn’t going to catered towards you you’re not the target demographic anyways. I don’t understand comics or legos but I still respect their right to spend their money as they see fit.
@@gates3827lol no one’s making about themselves in here except you being a butt hurt sneaker head theirs a reason I stopped my collection and being a sneaker head years ago bc of people like you and dude in video and all the little squeakers w mommy and daddy money flexing their shoes their parents bought acting like they came up on their own 😂
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.
It’s only a prank if you tell them it is a prank and not actually return the rep shoe as the real shoe. Nikes biggest issue is that he is pushing reps/fakes and this so called prank brought him way too much attention
Hopefully he aquires the amount of debt as if her were 100 college students that each had 2 mortgages on their house with 2 cars in the garage that need to be paid off
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 💀
Im convinced people arnt all cognitively there these days cus this seems so obvious to me to no post about like wtf even if it was an experiment or a joke
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.
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 🤷🏾
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!).
He has those videos as well, he has just pushed it way too far this time. He started as bashing on the sneaker reselling market, resale sites and app shoe checkers. I stopped watching his channel when he started pushing fakes but he does have some good videos calling out sneaker conventions(and some bad ones like wearing fakes at a convention).
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.
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.
*Twist:* He did this and got caught in the past, lied, said he did it for a video, so now he had to make a video to cover his tracks. Maybe a great lying game?
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
as someone who works retail, we (the people actually in store) don't care and we're trained not to kick up a fuss. loss prevention cares and is watching. linking transactions to accounts (like by scanning someones app qr code) helps deter that. they also like being able to see how fakes are made
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
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.
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 might be able to get a lawyer to try to convince the company to charge a lesser fine or some other kind of damage control. That's what lawyers do a lot of the time, damage control.
OP did say “Qualified Lawyer”. Given the videos and self snitching I don’t think a Qualified Lawyer would want to touch the case. The kid left too much damage to control.
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.
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thats a crazy sponsorship dawg
Morgan and Morgan are not a defense firm, why are you making them sound like they defend people.
Morgan & Morgan just fuck people over. They are not a defense firm
Please, watch the tv show ‘Nathan Barley’.
Charlie Brooker (Creator of Black Mirror) predicted all of this 20+ years ago
stop posting trash sponsors as you'd accept a sponsor from Jeffrey Epstein and it shows
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.
RUclips could take a few pages outta their book
i'm pretty sure he just snitched on hundreds of people that already do that. so now every company is gonna crack down on shit like this.
Just like how Japan made an example out of Johnny Somali a few months back 🤣
He also made claims about the child labor thing, which Im sure triggered their legal team and PR team to act and make an example. I know likely Nike’s legal team is pissed off.
I say that likely was the final nail in the shoe (coffiin) just because I have a distant relative who back in the day was Nike’s CFO for their corporate office up in I think western WA, and I guess helped with or was apart of their legal group there too? Not sure on the specifics.
In the early to mid 2010s when people started kinda paying more attention to those sort of human rights conflicts or issues (he worked there for decades), he was close to retirement anyway, but was becoming exhausted and more jaded with having to coordinate internal memos and shit with the rest of the employees over it and whatever other BS he was tasked with doing or minimizing to keep profits up.
@@Tayl0r_you think they sure him becauE of that comment? Lol no they just want to set an example to scare off everyone else. They dont give a shit if you shittalk their brand
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.
People dit it with graphic cards on Amazon. Swapping returns is an old trick. He thought he was some kind of genius.
It’s so strange but it makes sense that people like him would be delulu enough to think he had an original thought for what is a rather simplistic scam.
Addicts been pulling these scams for decades! 😂
Todays society everyone wants to be the first! That includes politicians.
@@Tayl0r_ it’s delusional. Not delulu, speak English or fail to deserve to be respected and taken seriously.
Not only did he document his own fraud but he tagged the evidence.
Right? Thats like writing “your name was here” at a murder scene in the victims blood
@@RageUnchainedlmao
thats how beloved air jordan is!
It's like writing a death threat and signing it under your name using the company paper with a letterhead and a return address to your house. 😁.
Not only did he document his own fraud but he tagged the evidence.
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.
😂😂
Technology is the most advanced in history but sadly the people are the dumbest in history. The world is insane
But him hiding his face 😂
it will be fine he wrote his tictok name in a secret spot so whoever buys them cam contact him and he will give them their money back
Just paying Nikes attorney fees are gonna have him in debt for the rest of his life🤣
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.
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I don’t even think he realized how much of a strong investigation he had done. It was good journalism and even well written. To think this could have gone a completely different direction had he used his intellect for positive industry change, and instead he chose criminal activity.
it makes me believe a lot of people in jail would do good at many jobs that we see on a decline. We need to push the govt to take lobbyists out of prisons sadly Capitalism will always reign supreme
@@esseaem1451 Yeah, I legit thought this was going in a different direction because at first it seemed like he actually wanted to investigate/prove a flaw in the industry but then he pivoted it to selling the fakes and honestly seems to have just been lucky (or unlucky with the more money he has to pay back) that he wasn't caught sooner.
Lol no. He was not investigating or research anything. He's just one of the many kid influencer Chinese company contact to boots their sales.
Had there was no sponsor or affiliate link. He wouldn't have done anything similar
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. 😂
It's the I'm so famous but I'll never get caught mentality, narc
Racketeering is setting up (or conspiring to set up) a criminal organization. A Florida RICO charge thus contends that a person was associated with a criminal enterprise and that they willingly and knowingly supported or carried out the same kinds of crime more than once in a five-year span."
"Because of the broadness of the types of crimes that could be committed under the RICO statute, judges are given a considerable amount of discretion in terms of sentencing. Florida RICO charges can result in a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $10,000."
@@nigel6956 I just realized that since he works with an over seas company they can get him on international charges its so over for him😂😂😂
@@Gundamman Where overseas? That's the nerve racking question.... Do you know?
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. 😂
Those poor employees… you know they’re not paid enough for the corporate bs that came down on them for this.
My thoughts exactly. I was just thinking "hopefully there won't be any consequences for the sales clerk" because companies can impose ridiculous expectations such as the employees checking those shoes as if they were Batman analysing a piece of evidence he found at a crime scene.
@@Ivotas Nah, I don't think they would expect a random clerk to check those things. She probably kept her job.
Reminds me of the time I was working at a credit union and a woman forged her business partner’s signature to withdraw money. The guy who was being robbed had a very distinctive signature that I recognized on sight. I’m no handwriting expert but she did a good job with the forgery. I was called in to the bank manager’s office so he could show me the very slight differences on a few of the letters within the signature. This went on my record. 🙄🙄🙄
It was a terrible place to work.
Those poor employees… you know they’re not paid enough for the corporate bs that came down on them for this.
@@Ivotasit's the manager that normally takes the fall if the stock check or numbers don't add up.... Not the grunts on the floor (at least in my experience as a store clerk, then manager of a high end UK electrical company)
That's why managers bust clerks asses about stock loss, the clerk's heads won't roll, only the manager. As he should be efficiently managing the store.
Nike attorneys be like: This is gonna be the easiest payday of our lives. 😂😂😂😂
Nike attorneys be like: This is gonna be the easiest payday of our lives. 😂😂😂😂
@@Theunicorn2012 Nike attorneys be like: This is gonna be the easiest payday of our lives. 😂😂😂😂
Except he wont have the money to pay them for whatever they win and the state is not going to pay that for him.
Who's going to pay them?
@@OneOut1nike.
Ah, refund fraud. Brilliant. Nobody has ever thought of that before.
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 is like a hobby like collecting comics
I do but im more a platform boot fan so the price actually makes sense since there is more material
"New shoes."
- Leo Johnson
@@coollightning3465 You can read a comic.
Neither do I... I'll pay between 10$-60$ for shoes/boots and be content paying hundreds for Nike Shoes? Nah I'll pass
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 some good ol' boys never meanin' any harm. Cretins actually.
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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.
@@Theunicorn2012 ???
Someone killed your pet/family member,burned your home down with all your stuff inside why you mad it just a prank
Having spent too much time invested in the Lauren the Mortician drama, it's refreshing to see well written legal documentation.
Agreed!
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Haha I know right? It’s refreshing.
Yeah, everyone thinks lawyers are universally professional and articulate, but after dealing with some estate planning for my grandpa, the first lawyer we consulted with was an absolute dunce. Typos in all of his written communication, properties listed as assets that he doesn’t even own. Some lawyers are morons, oddly enough. Though Nike of course has top dollar lawyers. It shows in their writing prose.
Has Janet sued you for this comment yet?
Just because your intentions in your head were innocent to you, YOUR ACTIONS ARE WHAT SPEAKS TO PEOPLE ! ! !
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.
While driving your Tesla 😂😅
I just hope the employee that accepted the return did not get into trouble.
Hopefully they will get a bonus. Their action led to him being sued for vast sums of money and the takedown of his network. Perhaps Nike might also get the idea of putting a cheap transponder chip in every shoe so this can never happen again.
@@williamgeorgefraserThis is a joke right? Yeah, you must be joking.
@@calicojakk9974bro you must not get money people will do anything to make sure they’re keeping their cash
They probably will sadly
Stores already put only single shoes out and high end often do have some kind of tagging.
and this is how we lose the ability to return truely defective products to companies
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.
Couple years?! He shoot someone and all?! 😮
@@AlSweetnessforeal wtf he must’ve shot someone inside Best Buy 😂cause ain’t no way he got a couple years for some headphones
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.
@@AlSweetness2,000k, grand larceny and probably a fraud charge or something I dont know
@@Theunicorn2012 I think your bot is broken - it's stealing comments and pasting them under the original comment, not elsewhere in the comment section.
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.
I absolutely love that I come to RUclips to shake my head about humanity and without fail your channel hit a home run. Love this. Long time, First time.
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This isn't just scamming Nike. Imagine someone going to that store and getting someone's returned fakes.
Then they go to cool kicks and get put on blast for having fakes lol
Then you return the fakes and get arrested even though you did nothing wrong.
It's like a counterfeiter giving a store a counterfeit bill, who unknowingly takes it and gives it to a different customer. Then that customer goes to use it at a different store and either has it confiscated and/or is arrested.
@@greenmanjphthe feds take counterfeiting extremely seriously lol. they investigate that shit _thoroughly._ if they find you had no way of knowing the cash was fake, they're not going to punish you for it. they want the guy you got it from. they could be doing other shit, but smooth-ass fake hundos is their main concern lmao
I love that we live in a world where lawyers are actively digging deep inside of discords
Probably law clerks.
Feds*
i mean when your dumb enough to provide all the evidence for them, why not go and dig a little deeper and gather more evidence.
not even a real thing. that went out with 4chan and the Yak like 3 years ago.
discord is easy has open access and a search feature easier than using a search engine like google,ect because know you are getting the posts from the person doing it
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???"
You can't even call this dumb anymore. Dumb still has SOME level of intelligence.
Minimal... But it there.
Not just fraud, he could face a RICO charge! "Racketeering is setting up (or conspiring to set up) a criminal organization. A Florida RICO charge thus contends that a person was associated with a criminal enterprise and that they willingly and knowingly supported or carried out the same kinds of crime more than once in a five-year span."
"Because of the broadness of the types of crimes that could be committed under the RICO statute, judges are given a considerable amount of discretion in terms of sentencing. Florida RICO charges can result in a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $10,000."
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.
Good for him.
If he didn't do that:
"Your honor my client will never do that"
Prosecutor plays video of said crime, filmed by the person themselves
I bet he's looking for a fake lawyer thats under $10 😂 to represent him
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.
Gotta disagree here. The $118 he scammed by returning the Nike shoes is the very, very least of his sins, and the least worry for Nike. The guy is running a website selling fake Nike shoes; the return scam was just an advertising stunt for that. (To be fair, the Nike lawsuit is in part an advertising stunt where Nike is trying to lure local prosecutors into paying attention to Fox...)
Not really. The Civil case would be the same. He might not have caught the not-yet-charged criminal fraud charges he's about to catch though.
Maybe Nike put him up to this to warn the public.
Not really, they would still go after him for selling counterfeit Nike.
LOL he's the type of dude to shake a bees nest then be shocked when they sting him
He's the type to force everyone to stop using fossil fuels but sees no problem hopping on a private jet for an $80k vacation 😂
My dad did that one time 😂
I hope that woman wasn't fired.
You just -know- they took that out of her paycheck.
Which is scummy and should be illegal. You can't punish the employee for doing their job that's shitty=@@FaerieFlossPrince
@@jeremydale4548 I think it's borderline exploitation or something.
The only thing that employee would get in trouble is that they work together and get a share of the profit. Otherwise it's usually not going to get them into trouble.
RUclips 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
Plot twist: the genuine Nike's and the fake Nike's were made in the same third world sweatshop by the same starving worker.
It's so close to the actual truth that I don't think it qualifies as a Plot Twist
Straight facts!This has been shown over and over
Thats actually whats happening i think
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
think people like this just don't think there is gonna be consequences no matter what and don't realize big companies are on the internett too
Maybe they can use that as a defence in court.
Someone should have kept the wipits away from their 3 year olds
I think that people might forget that irl and online arent two different universes like what you post Will be shown to real people. Sure the internet is Big af but its not a blackhole. I do agree with you too but i just Think that it might be another factor too
I used to get arrested for being late to school. Like all the time. I only lived 18 miles from school and no buses came anywhere near me but that’s a minors fault…… so yeah I have a healthy fear of the government.
His thought process really was: im gunna film myself committing a crim, nothing bad can ever happen
"'It's just a prank bro' worked out so well for others, this plan is FOOLPROOF!!"
bro thought he was Sandra Bullock in Oceans 8
He said it was just a prank bro earlier in the video. That should kill Nike’s lawsuit.
Judge: what do you have to say for yourself?
This guy probably: it’s just a prank bro!
Judge: oh. Ok. Haha you got us. All charges are dropped.
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!")
If your product is so easily faked maybe its not worth it to begin with
@branch7628 I mean they're shoes made by kids. How good can they be?
> LOL I just realized that Nike didn't even bother suing him for the fraudulent return
That is not for the Nike to do, that's for state and or federal (since it involved shipped/imported goods) to charge him with. I imagine Nike lawyers were just faster.
Isn't there also a possibility of federal charges considering he used a debit card or credit card for the purchase and refund at the store?
Atozy, whether you care or not, I dig you the most for identifying these fools. In the parlance of folks my age, you rock!
Not only can they link it to him through the app but he literally signed the evidence against him.
If the electronic signature crossed state lines, it's a federal offense of wire fraud.
Morgan and Morgan doing RUclips ad reads is hilarious.
I've done work for them previously, Mr. Morgan is non discriminatory about ads, their billboards are wild
@@floridamanHooningthere’s a law firm that I’ve seen advertised in Kansas City called Jungle Law. Look up their billboards, they’re hilarious. They always made me do a double take when I drove by them on my way to work.
@@floridamanHooning Oh believe me I can tell
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.
PART 2 of this video: ruclips.net/video/rek7Mg87H5I/видео.htmlsi=ctH7NWkuszTwRqe9
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
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.
I guarantee it gets thrown out
The DA probably too busy to care about this non violent crimes.
@@tavuong666not if a big corporation starts to put pressure on them
@@tavuong666 Except counterfeiting consumer goods is a state AND federal crime. There are federal prosecutors who specialize is prosecuting this sort of things
@@simon0077007if he gets fed charges there conviction rate is like 93%
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 🤣
I want to be there for the trial.
"Do you swear to keep it a buck, an entire buck, and nothing but a buck?"
"I so swear, no cap"
His lawyers better get paid upfront while he still has money.
When you said Morgan and Morgan (esp w/this particular video) I laughed because I thought you were kidding. A Morgan and Morgan spon is crazy! Lol
Are the goods counterfeit if they are produced in the same factory that Nike uses?
Yes. If they were produced using Nike's IP without their consent it's definitely counterfeit. This issue has plagued outsource manufacturing for years. I remember a Popular Science article on it over 10 years ago.
Love it . “ the trash takes itself out now “ 🎉🎉🎉
Yeah, the problem is the landfill...
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.
He probably thought because they accepted the shoes it's their fault lol
@@SirZipper that's probably exactly what he thought was going to happen. Or he thought the employee who took the fakes were going to have to pay for them out of their pocket 😂
He admitted he was breaking the law
Fake sneakers are found everywhere, even in legitimate stores. 80% of Louis Vuitton products out there are counterfeit.
its very easy to get fake sneakers sent to the US. its also been uncovered that shops sell the fakes at 'real' prices
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.
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.
1:20 never knew YT added this feature, the like button glows with colors when the video says "like this video"
I bet he thought NIKE would go, broo that was hilarious how did you do that!?! That prank was hilarious!
You're probably giving him too much credit when you imply he thought at all. 😒
So he paid anywhere from 60 to 100 bucks on shipping for a $20 pair of fakes.
The real ones cost $110 versus $80 to $130 for the fakes. . .
Smooth brained muppet
At least he got the attention he so desperately wanted...
Clout is a hell of a drug
6:34 So he is basically saying: "Hey, u can buy fake shoes from that website to scam stores like me and earn some extra money 😃". He is a HORRIBLE person.
I’m dying 😂😂 Morgan & Morgan are really sponsoring content creators now
For the people. (Including the internet people.)
Im a Converse girl, and appalled i have to pay more than 20 bucks for canvas basketball shoes, i cant imagine paying what the sneakerheads do for Nike
I've traded and sold shoes op to 2000$ before
100% - you can pry my Converse off my cold dead feet. They're so comfortable and they last forever - and yet it pisses me off that they're $60. I have no clue how people are okay with paying hundreds for shoes - especially when they're made just as cheaply as shoes you can get for so much less.
Out of curiosity are you also a Toms girlie? Converse and Toms are about the only shoes I wear lol. I don't like the feeling of "normal" sneakers.
Here's the thing... you just never can tell what people are going to choose an their expensive hobby. Some people collect 40K miniatures; some people get paintings for the wall; and, apparently, some folks buy ridiculously overpriced shoes. As long as they're happy doing it, I don't mind, though I will secretly shake my head and not understand why.
Stop making everything about yourself. Everything isn’t going to catered towards you you’re not the target demographic anyways. I don’t understand comics or legos but I still respect their right to spend their money as they see fit.
@@gates3827lol no one’s making about themselves in here except you being a butt hurt sneaker head theirs a reason I stopped my collection and being a sneaker head years ago bc of people like you and dude in video and all the little squeakers w mommy and daddy money flexing their shoes their parents bought acting like they came up on their own 😂
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.
Yes, if he had just compared the two pairs, it could have been a great video.
It’s only a prank if you tell them it is a prank and not actually return the rep shoe as the real shoe. Nikes biggest issue is that he is pushing reps/fakes and this so called prank brought him way too much attention
@@AvellaniaOr ask the employee if they could tell the difference and blur their face out.
Maybe he can sell his Tesla to pay for his legal fees 🤣
I am so thankfull for people like this. They make me feel smarter then I actually am.
How the hell did he think he would get away with this😂
Thank you for making it more difficult to return products that are *actually defective* 🙄
Plot twist: The same sweat shop that makes the counterfeit Nike shoes, actually make the REAL Nike shoes too.
Shoe stores are gonna hire specialists for spotting fake shoes
Hopefully he aquires the amount of debt as if her were 100 college students that each had 2 mortgages on their house with 2 cars in the garage that need to be paid off
He can just say he lied in the video, that he actually didnt swap the shoes.
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 💀
Im convinced people arnt all cognitively there these days cus this seems so obvious to me to no post about like wtf even if it was an experiment or a joke
@@Pocket_Sized_SatanRight lol
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.
Clout is a helluva drug!
I will never understand spending hundreds or thousands on a pair of sneakers made from $15 worth of materials in a Chinese sweat shop.
The like button highlighting when it's a clip of someone else saying "hit the like button" rubs me the wrong way.
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 🤷🏾
Oh shit someone might actually bought fake nikes at a real story💀
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!).
6:53 this line hits hard even 9 months later
It’s funny that the scammer can’t decide how much he paid for his Nikes. First it’s $10, then $20 and now $15.
Be consistent.
He really gave them the perfect evidence in a silver platter 😂 mind as well go to the jail live stream 😂
I bet if he sent those shoes to someone who is trained to spot fakes there would be 1000 things wrong with them.
That would have made for an actually informative video too
He has those videos as well, he has just pushed it way too far this time. He started as bashing on the sneaker reselling market, resale sites and app shoe checkers. I stopped watching his channel when he started pushing fakes but he does have some good videos calling out sneaker conventions(and some bad ones like wearing fakes at a convention).
Oh no believe me he could have sent either one and they wouldn't be able to tell
Product verification/certificatation is its own genre of scam
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.
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'm surprised he didn't try this with Jordans since he is only making like $7 profit with each Nike refund
*Twist:* He did this and got caught in the past, lied, said he did it for a video, so now he had to make a video to cover his tracks. Maybe a great lying game?
you're giving to much credit to a moron.
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
0:25 - my man said "out of cost pocket"
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
as someone who works retail, we (the people actually in store) don't care and we're trained not to kick up a fuss. loss prevention cares and is watching. linking transactions to accounts (like by scanning someones app qr code) helps deter that. they also like being able to see how fakes are made
I ain't even mad that was one hell of a sponsor transition
3:06
He turned off the lights and that was what he ended up doing first.
I love shoes too, but not that much. 😂
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
Jokes on everyone: the same Chinese sweatshop that made the knockoff also makes the real Nikes.
Much love atozy been here for along time
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.
Fox should publicly state he wants to hire Michael Avenatti as his lawyer against Nike.
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 love it when criminals post their crimes on social media. It makes it so easy for them to get arrested and found guilty.
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.
Amen 😂😂😂
The lawyers had fun writing this filing
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
I wonder if he'll even be able to get a qualified lawyer to represent him.
I hope not.
He might be able to get a lawyer to try to convince the company to charge a lesser fine or some other kind of damage control. That's what lawyers do a lot of the time, damage control.
I doubt any lawyer would want to fight in a legal battle with nike
OP did say “Qualified Lawyer”. Given the videos and self snitching I don’t think a Qualified Lawyer would want to touch the case. The kid left too much damage to control.
Well he might represent himself 😂😅
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.
Exactly
AYEEE BROOO!!! HE SAID “JUST A PRANK LIIIKE THE VIDEO” & your like button animated glowing gold. wtf?
This is why I don't buy name brand stuff. No one counterfeits Walmart brand.