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Former WotC employee steals $45k in Magic cards


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Lady_Satine
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PostPosted: Dec 24 2010 10:25 am Reply with quote Back to top

Jeebus, you may have heard about this.

from kotaku

A former Wizards of the Coast employee from Burien, Washington stands to lose a lot more than his job as King County prosecutors file felony theft charges over the theft of $45,000 worth of rare Magic: The Gathering cards.

Twenty-six-year-old Donald J. Henry has been accused of the massive theft after a fellow employee observed a vendor trying to sell the rare cards at a Magic tournament in Portland, Oregon this past September. The employee determined that the vendor and Henry were acquainted and reported the incident to the company.

Henry was hired on at Wizards of the Coast's Renton headquarters in December of 2009, fired in September when an investigation into the incident was launched. The investigation found that during his brief employment Henry had made 70 trips to a storage locker the company uses to hold rare promotional cards - far more than his job description warranted.

A meeting with members of the Wizards of the Coast staff led to Henry's store owner acquaintance returning some 1,753 remarkable cards with an estimated market value of $44,828.

Henry has been charged with first-degree theft, having admitted to stealing more than 200 of the rare cards returned to the company. Prosecutors seek to prove that he stole the whole lot.

The moral of this story? There is no good reason to dual-class as both a Wizard and a Rogue.


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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: Dec 24 2010 10:36 am Reply with quote Back to top

Actually, the moral of the story is don't steal unless you're good at it.
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UsaSatsui
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PostPosted: Dec 24 2010 10:59 am Reply with quote Back to top

lordsathien wrote:
The moral of this story? There is no good reason to dual-class as both a Wizard and a Rogue.

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Coasterama
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PostPosted: Dec 25 2010 03:49 am Reply with quote Back to top

I live in the city (Portland) where this went down. Fuckin' FBI everywhere.


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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: Dec 25 2010 08:26 am Reply with quote Back to top

No need to make a federal case out of this!
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UsaSatsui
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PostPosted: Dec 25 2010 10:36 am Reply with quote Back to top

Syd Lexia wrote:
No need to make a federal case out of this!

Since he crossed state lines and the value of the cards is high enough, I think they can make a federal case out of it.

The moral: Fence your goods in-state.
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Black Zarak
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PostPosted: Dec 25 2010 01:56 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Or don't be greedy, steal still valuable but more common cards. Or don't sell all your haul to one guy. Or don't sell all your haul to one guy you personally know...


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PostPosted: Dec 25 2010 02:13 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Well it was over 1700 cards, which means average value is like 25 bucks per card. That's not that bad in terms of value, considering the cards that WotC is known to have in their vault (And considering that the copies in their vault are NOT the ones used for the priceless treasure in Zendikar).


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Black Zarak
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PostPosted: Dec 26 2010 02:47 am Reply with quote Back to top

Alright, so sell maybe ten cards or so to every store within range personally (but not the one you know a guy at), then eBay the rest?

Also, Wizards has no sort of inventory of their vault that they check periodically?


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PostPosted: Dec 26 2010 03:34 am Reply with quote Back to top

WotC foolishly thought they could trust their employees. What a retard, though. He had to know he'd get caught.


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PostPosted: Jan 16 2011 01:12 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Coasterama wrote:
I live in the city (Portland) where this went down. Fuckin' FBI everywhere.


In general, or just because of this theft?
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