Buying things off the "black market"

happycat · ‎09-18-2010

Just curious if anyone else has even heard of such a thing. I have led a sheltered life, I guess, boring.

DD knows someone who recently had a 2nd child. He was talking about the high cost of diapers, said he was telling someone else about it. He has 2 kids in diapers now. The "acquontance" said that he knew someone who comes to a large grocery store in that town, twice a month, selling brand new name brand diapers, for about half the cost.

The man and his wife go get these diapers, the man selling them comes in a large suv, loaded down with these diapers, and I about sells out each time.

What do ya think of that?

I seriously believe, that if I were to buy anything "black market" there would be a sting, I would be arrested and there we'd be.

Is there a way he could have them and they are not stolen?

jackthebear · ‎03-11-2010

@happycat wrote:
Just curious if anyone else has even heard of such a thing. I have led a sheltered life, I guess, boring.
DD knows someone who recently had a 2nd child. He was talking about the high cost of diapers, said he was telling someone else about it. He has 2 kids in diapers now. The "acquontance" said that he knew someone who comes to a large grocery store in that town, twice a month, selling brand new name brand diapers, for about half the cost.
The man and his wife go get these diapers, the man selling them comes in a large suv, loaded down with these diapers, and I about sells out each time.
What do ya think of that?
I seriously believe, that if I were to buy anything "black market" there would be a sting, I would be arrested and there we'd be.
Is there a way he could have them and they are not stolen?

sounds dodgy to me

makena · ‎10-29-2016

I'm not sure that would be considered a black-market purchase.

kcladyz · ‎04-30-2012

There is not going to be a Diaper sting.

Sounds like he is selling stolen merchandise. I would not do it. If it was honest it would be in a discount store and not in the back of someones car

makena · ‎10-29-2016

@kcladyz LOL "diaper sting."

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

The diapers could come from a number of places where they have been discounted, auctioned off or sold in bulk for low prices because they were possibly considered sub-standard merchandise, meaning they may have been factory-rejects, exposed to hazardous materials or from close-out sales....you get the idea.

Nuttmeg · ‎03-09-2010

@happycat wrote:
Just curious if anyone else has even heard of such a thing. I have led a sheltered life, I guess, boring.
DD knows someone who recently had a 2nd child. He was talking about the high cost of diapers, said he was telling someone else about it. He has 2 kids in diapers now. The "acquontance" said that he knew someone who comes to a large grocery store in that town, twice a month, selling brand new name brand diapers, for about half the cost.
The man and his wife go get these diapers, the man selling them comes in a large suv, loaded down with these diapers, and I about sells out each time.
What do ya think of that?
I seriously believe, that if I were to buy anything "black market" there would be a sting, I would be arrested and there we'd be.
Is there a way he could have them and they are not stolen?

This is probably stolen goods. You could be arrested.

or

They could replace the diapers with newspaper in the package. You would be buying nothing.

NickNack · ‎03-10-2010

@SilleeMee wrote:
The diapers could come from a number of places where they have been discounted, auctioned off or sold in bulk for low prices because they were possibly considered sub-standard merchandise, meaning they may have been factory-rejects, exposed to hazardous materials or from close-out sales....you get the idea.

I completely agree with @SilleeMee. I don't think they're stolen goods at all. The seller couldn't come every week if they were. I would be very afraid of buying sub-standard merchandise like this though. You have no idea why they were rejects.

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cosmic1 · ‎03-10-2010

Sounds like diapers that 'fell off the back of a truck.'

Seriously, trucks are hijacked every day and the merchandise stolen and resold. That is probably what these are.

Bri21 · ‎12-30-2016

It sounds like they're stolen.

There was an incident a few months back with some warehouse workers loading up trucks of merchandise and selling it. I don't know how they thought they wouldn't eventually get caught.