Secret Squirrel wrote:Just to satisfy curiosity, I counted his VGM sales for the last week, and he grossed over $2200. Of course, since it's holiday time, it's probably not valid to extrapolate, but that works out to over $100,000 per year he's grossing from selling fakes.
This is interesting, as a 6 figure income from counterfit goods could be high enough of an amount to spark some interest through his hometown local police department.
Also, he's probably not claiming these profits as income, in addition to any day-job he might have, and not paying taxes to Uncle Sam on that might be enough to raise eyebrows at the IRS as well.
So far everyone on this thread has been focused on solely online tactics, but I propose that some live and in-person law enforcement knocking at his home address door would likely have a greater effect.
So here's the idea. For those who have received discs from him, did he have a regular return address and his name on the package? Or did he try to use a business name/P.O.Box for the return address?
Either way, get his name and residential address for the town/city he's in, and then look up which local police department is nearby and serves that area, and call them up with a tip about a counterfit goods dealer.
Supply all the necessary info and offer to show them examples of both the real items and his fake items, and ask if they'd conduct their own an investigation into the matter.
Remind them that 100,000 a year in bootleg goods is passing through their fine city, which they may or may not care about, and that possible tax-evasion might be occuring.
But if they decide to investigate and warrant a search of the premises to look for duplication equipment, it would certainly make the seller nervous enough to think twice if an officer would show up to ask some questions at his front door.
