There's a thief among page 2

8/21/2010 1:38:48 AM

lurkers gunna lurk

8/21/2010 1:44:13 AM

HOLY SHIT IT WAS BMEL

8/21/2010 5:51:30 AM

paerabol did it.

8/21/2010 6:09:27 AM

Quote :

"I don't even know how to respond to this thread."

8/21/2010 8:57:54 AM

Unrelated, but I have an XBox 360 and the following games for sale:

Mw2
Halo 3
Halo ODST
Beatles Rock Band
Crackdown 2
Red Dead Redemption
Resident Evil 5
Skate 1
Fight Night Round 4

Give me a few days and I'll have a shit ton of Blu Rays and a set of golf clubs for sale as well.

[Edited on August 21, 2010 at 10:35 AM. Reason : Hit ton]

8/21/2010 10:34:06 AM

fuuuuuuck I missed page 1

8/21/2010 10:51:20 AM

I realize this thread is about TWW thieves....which I am not. Hear me out, maybe I can offer some insight.

I am in outside sales, which is currently salary+commission, but will move into straight commission starting at the beginning of July 2010. I have been in this position since July 2009. I have competition from several direct manufacturing sales reps, large distributors, and local distributors. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each:

Direct Advantages: Immediate knowledge of new technology, no middle man mark up, one shipping bill (paid by manufacturer or buyer of goods), access to larger range of non-commodity items, control inventory, have access to many distributors that can effectively sell their goods which increases market share, and set prices of commodity they manufacture.

Direct disadvantages: Typically have 1-3 sales reps per region (i.e. southeast, mid-atlantic, northeast, etc.) limiting the number of accounts they can successfully manage/cold-call, lack physical customer service or physical technical service available to or affordable for smaller users or altogether, are sometimes not trustworthy because they will go in behind their distributors that sell their commodity to one account in large quantities (i.e. they missed a big account, and have found out about it through a distributor selling their particular product) which leads to the distributor not selling their product anymore, have too many distributors selling the product ultimately driving the set price down through deviations, possibly rely on distributors to actually sell the product, and competition from other direct sources.

Large distributor advantages: have access to other commodities that go hand in hand with other manufacturers (poor example- grocery stores sell milk as well as cereal), get direct pricing, many locations regionally or nationally easing the shipping burden of buyers with multiple locations, personal service either customer or technical, many sales reps that are able to cover a broader territory, access to multiple manufacturers of the same commodity allowing to keep prices in check, service programs that smaller companies can't offer and direct providers can't match in price or value, and experts of many many commodities as opposed to one or a few.

Large distributor disadvantages: smaller local distributors creating price wars (think Michael Scott Paper Co vs Dunder-Mifflin), direct mfg's going in behind and stealing business, limited access to all of the mfg's (you won't find Harris Teeter name brands in Food Lion and visa versa), can't truly set prices because it's based on both supply and demand, territory management, and tough growth prospects in slower economies (this is true for direct as well really)

Local distributor advantages: Typically a good ol' boy setting where the seller and the buyer know each other for years (this does happen at all levels, but mostly at the local level), local folks are right down the street and can be used in emergencies, if the local guy buys at high enough volumes then there is no shipping charge to the end user, and access to both direct mfg's and large distributors.

Local distributor disadvantages: easily beaten in price, array of commodities, array of technology, lack of trained staff, low cash flow, etc etc etc.

This is what I have noticed in my six months, I am sure there are plenty more that need mentioning. The way I am setting myself apart as a sales person is this: I go after the big accounts right now while I am new. The big accounts, if I land them, will take care of me while I am new and building a customer base. The money made off of those allows me to focus free time on smaller accounts that get me higher margins. I build up big accounts, I would like to have 5-10 of these, then get 20-30 medium accounts. If I lose 1 or 2 big accounts, the 20-30 medium accounts keep me afloat while I go after new big accounts. I don't really waste time on small accounts simply because they basically pay for breakfast or something really small.

I will say this, if you can't get a big account in the first 6-8 months (assuming you have cash flow that you can ride this long) you could be in a world of trouble. If you can get one, it will really make going after the others a lot more enjoyable and less stressful. It's simply just very exhausting wasting any time on anything other than big accounts in the very beginning. You work just as hard on the medium sized accounts and see 1/3 to 1/36 of the money in my situation.

If you have any other questions, you can PM me. I hope this helps in the slightest!

8/21/2010 10:52:41 AM

i saw dje do it, tried to stop him but he knocked over my wheel chair

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

8/21/2010 11:08:20 AM

Give me any odds of what you think TWW stealing the xbox is.

Let's do something large.

Let's do something like....

"There's a 1 out of 1x10^10 chance."

That means there's a one in ten billion chance of aliens existing.

Is that not rare enough for you? Okay. Let's do 1 out of 1x10^15. That's a one in one quadrillion chance.

Based on observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, there are at least 125 billion galaxies in the universe.

It is estimated that at least ten percent of all sun-like stars have a system of planets, there are 6.25×10^18 stars with planets orbiting them in the universe.

If even a billionth of these stars have planets supporting life, there are some 6.25×10^9 (billion) life-supporting planetary systems in the universe.

6,250,000,000.

Now, what are the odds that SOMEONE from TWW stole your xbox and lunch money?

8/21/2010 11:11:01 AM

the aliens came for me, but all they abducted was my xbox and the most expensive games i had for it. somewhere in time and space, it is receiving the anal probe i missed out on

8/21/2010 11:55:54 AM

^^hahahahhahaha

8/21/2010 12:01:15 PM

Time to check Craigslist and local gamestops/pawnshops

8/21/2010 1:13:36 PM

I heard from a very reliable source that Joie is responsible for this.

8/21/2010 1:17:16 PM

Always stealing hearts. And xboxes.

8/21/2010 1:20:24 PM

anything ever happen with this?

10/5/2010 11:43:59 PM

^Probably got pawned, so yes.

10/6/2010 12:02:33 AM

this thread is boring

what game should I play tonight?

Red Dead Redemption or Resident Evil 5?

10/6/2010 12:05:03 AM

red dead...on the wii. waggle like a motherfucker snewf.

10/6/2010 12:11:39 AM

i cant believe i missed this the first time

update please

10/6/2010 8:07:55 AM

i cant believe i missed this the first time

update please

10/6/2010 9:12:55 AM

the original intent of this thread sucks, but page 2 is great.

10/6/2010 9:45:34 AM

Interesting that none of the people who were called out ever responded to this thread. I wonder if they are even aware of it.

rnzinser has not posted on TWW since 8/13. Prior to that he was a relatively regular poster for a year. That seems a little odd.

theitalian and rokko211 both seem to have joined solely for the classifieds section.

[Edited on October 6, 2010 at 10:09 AM. Reason : l]

10/6/2010 10:08:44 AM

[Edited on October 6, 2010 at 10:13 AM. Reason : ASDF]

10/6/2010 10:12:31 AM

lol

10/6/2010 10:14:20 AM

^^now just photoshop a 360 in the window of the car and you're set

[Edited on October 6, 2010 at 10:22 AM. Reason : ]

10/6/2010 10:22:07 AM

i cant believe i missed this the first time

update please

10/6/2010 10:34:30 AM

?

11/5/2010 9:02:31 AM

Quote :

"Ernie said they got in a fight at breakfast one day and theitalian jerked off on his french toast."

11/5/2010 9:43:16 AM

UPDATE


They caught the guy breaking into another house last week. They returned 2 of my 360 games and my iphone!

12/6/2010 9:25:34 AM

so was he from TWW?

12/6/2010 9:27:20 AM

JUSTICE = SERVED

[Edited on December 6, 2010 at 9:28 AM. Reason : also, ^]

12/6/2010 9:28:26 AM

So was it a tdubber or not?

12/6/2010 9:28:26 AM

Quote :

"so was he from TWW?"

12/6/2010 9:33:21 AM

details!

12/6/2010 9:34:57 AM

WE MUST KNOW

12/6/2010 9:35:23 AM

he got the games back but what about the 360?

and who was the thief?

12/6/2010 9:39:24 AM

^

12/6/2010 9:41:51 AM

Quote :

"he got the games back but what about the 360? and who was the thief?"

WE MUST KNOW NOW!!!!!

12/6/2010 10:22:10 AM

THEN WHO WAS THIEF??

12/6/2010 10:23:18 AM

OH SNAP

12/6/2010 10:44:49 AM

Quote :

"WHO WAS THIEF? "

12/6/2010 10:49:19 AM

Did they figure out it was yours via the iPhone or was it a tdubber you described?

12/6/2010 10:53:11 AM

They only got the games and iPhone because I had already sold the 360

ironically enough, I sold it in TWW Classifieds

[Edited on December 6, 2010 at 10:57 AM. Reason : a]

12/6/2010 10:56:48 AM

probably two crappy games he couldn't sell

12/6/2010 10:57:18 AM

jchill2 is a cock tease

12/6/2010 11:35:42 AM

WHO. WAS. THIEF!

12/6/2010 11:43:46 AM

after interviewing all the suspects, i have determined that the thief goes by the name of Michael Glapion

12/6/2010 6:00:34 PM

who is that?

12/6/2010 6:08:35 PM

He's a thief and liar

Set em up

12/6/2010 6:09:56 PM