Damn son, you dont have to *deepthroat* the boot.

Not in the US. Legally, if you are sent something, it’s considered a gift and is yours. This law was instituted to crack down the Columbia House sort of companies who send you stuff you didn’t ask for and then demand you pay for it.

Even in the worst possible light. Even if we assume this guy broke in someplace and stole those cards... you don’t get to just send thugs to go shake someone down. Not thugs without badges and a warrant at least. There are procedures for this sort of thing, and people who’s job it is (ostensibly) to deal with it. You…

It’s Panglossian thinking. If everyone who gets roughed up by private security or shot by cops has it coming, then there’s nothing wrong with the system and nothing ever needs to change. Truly we live in the best of all possible worlds.

Wrong, your example has you seeing the theft first hand, that is not what happened here. If street dates are broken the only repercussions is for the store who broke embargo and its just that the company wont sell to that store anymore unless there is a contract in place creating additional penalties.

The police can come for stolen goods with a warrant but private goons don't have any legal right to do searches or seizures on company claims. The guy can sue both for coercing his wife and stealing his property. It's  his until proven that its stolen and only the courts can determine this. I would sue both companies…

I don’t know what kinda town you live in, but stores typically don’t steal their inventory. Like, that’s not how the retail distribution model works. Even if the retailer knowingly broke the street date, that doesn’t magically make it stolen property. It just means Hasbro gets to string them up like a piñata and beat…

why is “play stupid games win stupid prizes” the de facto phrase of every braindead bootlicker

What charges? The retailer had a legal right to the property, so no conversion, and the YouTuber received the property as part of a good-faith order with the retailer. I don’t see a tort here, as the only issue is that the retailer violated the terms of their contract with the manufacturer. WotC is entitled to…

You should probably look that up, try the FTC website, particularly under what to do if you get unordered products. I’ll spoil it a little bit and quote it directly for you;

“By law, companies can’t send unordered merchandise to you, then demand payment. That means you never have to pay for things you get but didn’t…

They hired private investigators because they had no legal standing and the police would have told them to pound sand.

Then they should call the cops, not send their own goon squad.

The guy did nothing illegal. It is not his job to do WOTC’s work for it. If you get something you didn’t order in the mail, which is what happened, you legally own it and it doesn’t matter if the company meant to send it or not and it matters even less if the product has a street date on it. The person had every legal …

Then they can talk to the police and have ACTUAL law enforcement come get it. The fact they went this route means there was something legally off about the whole thing and they knew it. If its stolen by law they should have had zero problems accomplishing that.

Google is your friend when it comes to finding out information.

There’s no such thing a “stolen” property when it comes to the law. If somebody mails you something by accident you didn’t order, you most assuredly did not steal or “steal” it. In fact, the law says you can keep that item you didn’t order that was mailed to you by mistake because it’s not your job to do work for a…

This may be a good time for you to do the whole “Choose your battles” thing

Probably not armed thugs appearing at his door.

I wouldn’t.

WotC has had so man leaks lately, some people don’t actually believe they’re leaks anymore and think WotC is staging it.

I haven’t head about them hiring a private “law enforcement” firm with a penchant for intimidation and violence to deal with it until now.

I used to work in trade journalism and good fucking luck explaining that to any PR firm. I’m sure Kotaku’s writers have plenty of stories of some chucklefuck breaking date weeks or months ahead and having to clean up that shitshow, only for that self-same chucklefuck to angrily demand where that exclusive you didn’t…

Sending Pinkertons is a wild overreaction IMO... but the poster should’ve just not posted the video of him opening something he knew wasn’t released yet.