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Rob Holmes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
380 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

Six months ago, a bunch of these channels got hit with this massive lawsuit.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

where I was like Nike and I think a couple others like just sued all of these creators, content creators.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

So that's always cracks me up because prior to that,

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

I've had a couple of buddies who, and straight from China, like all of us from China, and they'll literally have somebody they can contact in China for let's say sunglasses, like Oakley sunglasses or something.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

And they're like, listen, I like them, but you're giving me plastic lenses.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

I'm gonna need actual, like they're almost perfect except the lenses.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

They'll tweak the lenses and can you give us glass lenses?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

They have to be glass.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

And they'll go back and forth to get the product exactly the way they want it.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

And then they just start buying them.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

And I'm like,

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

if you're, and what they'll do is they'll sell them like Instagram or something and they'll put them up for sale and like, you know, at a discount, you know, say that they're supposed to be 800 bucks, they'll put them up for,

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

300 bucks and people, you know, come out, you know, then they'll deliver them or they'll mail them to them or whatever it is.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

And I'm like, if you're going to be that brazen, why don't you just start up, start a website with a whole store?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

Like why, why?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

I mean, you're, you're pretty brazen anyway.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

They're like, nah, because this way I, I go and I drop them off.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

And, and if I'm afraid they'll track it back to me and I, they pay me cash or they'll do cash app and the cash app is in somebody else's name.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

And it's just like,

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Insider Reveals How Counterfeit Markets Actually Work | $500B/YR

But they are making a ton of money because they're buying these things for like $17, $12, and they're selling them for $400.