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Re:How to lose $6,537 and create a product nobody wants by refulgentis on Friday December 12, 2014 @01:57PM (#8741985)
Why out an NFL player buying your equipment to facilitate illegal activity directly prohibited by his profession's collective bargaining agreement?
Re:How to lose $6,537 and create a product nobody wants by error54 on Friday December 12, 2014 @02:07PM (#8742040)
It may not be for illegal activity but showing a specific customers purchases for the sake of a blog post is a terrible business practice. I'd never buy anything from this person.
Re:How to lose $6,537 and create a product nobody wants by karlgrz on Friday December 12, 2014 @02:12PM (#8742068)
Totally agree. I just don't think buying this product automatically correlates to illegal activity. It's not a bong or a pipe. It's a plastic box.
Re:How to lose $6,537 and create a product nobody wants by karlgrz on Friday December 12, 2014 @01:59PM (#8741996)
Who says Troy is using it for illegal purposes? He could be using it to hold his...chewing gum.
Re:How to lose $6,537 and create a product nobody wants by vernie on Friday December 12, 2014 @02:01PM (#8742005)
Or maybe he can't afford a real iPhone and this is how he keeps up appearances.
Re:How to lose $6,537 and create a product nobody wants by pavel_lishin on Friday December 12, 2014 @02:58PM (#8742352)
> I shipped a sample to each of those 2 factories, but never heard back from them (never do this).

I wish he'd gone into more detail about why this should not be done.

Re:How to lose $6,537 and create a product nobody wants by theryanrobinson on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:19PM (#8743303)
Hey Pavel! I updated the post with a more in-depth explanation, you can check out the details right below that paragraph in the post.
Re:How to lose $6,537 and create a product nobody wants by pavel_lishin on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:03AM (#8752634)
Thanks!