Matthew Cox

So we can do our business.

And the rest of the raid is basically just doing inventory and discovering things.

A lot of times things are in hidden locations and things like that.

But yeah, just doing inventory and handing them a receipt in the end.

telling them that, you know, this is what we have.

You wanna check against it, here it is.

You can go count everything and, you know, and claim it back if the case goes your way.

Who are the typical, like, what are some of the big names, like clients?

Well, a lot of the raids, especially in my heyday, like I'm talking like, well, the 90s, the heyday was, especially in my days in Los Angeles, it was comic book characters.

Believe it or not, Jurassic Park, Rugrats, Power Rangers, Batman, Looney Tunes, T-shirts, little toy wallets for kids.

I mean, everything you could think of, toys, actual toys of Spider-Man, Batman and those things.

The 90s had a lot of that because it was an explosion.

If you remember, between Batman and Jurassic Park in the early 90s, it commercialized so much of film that the world hadn't seen really.

So there was so much entertainment swag out there being sold counterfeit.

So, yeah, there was a lot of that, a lot of work for the studios.

And then, of course, the luxury brands, you know, the big ones we work for.

In those days were, you know, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Tiffany Chanel, you know, and Rolex.

Those are the big five.

You know, then we worked for a lot of the others too, but they were the ones that had the budgets and, um, you know, the volume, but you know, it's cool, you know, doing this for so long, you get to work for some of these brands that didn't survive either.

Like gotcha, you know, and Ed Hardy, you know, and these companies that just kind of, they're flashing the pad, but they have a counterfeiting problem.