I'm stuck with 10,000 Lance Armstrong DVDs to shift (From Bournemouth Echo)
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I'm stuck with 10,000 Lance Armstrong DVDs to shift
9:12am Monday 21st January 2013 in News By Joanna Codd
WHEELER DEALER: Karl Baxter wants ideas on how to sell 10,000 DVDs about Lance Armstrong. Picture: Jon Beal
A POOLE entrepreneur is looking for creative suggestions after becoming stuck with 10,000 DVDs featuring disgraced former US cyclist Lance Armstrong.
Karl Baxter of Wholesale Clearance UK at Willis Way bought the discs before the seven times Tour de France winner’s name was fatally tarnished in a doping scandal.
Armstrong had persistently denied rumours that he had used performance-enhancing drugs, but last August decided not to challenge the decision of the US Anti-Doping Agency to strip him of all his competitive results since 1998 – including his record-breaking run of consecutive Tour de France victories. Last week he admitted, in a two hour interview with Oprah Winfrey, that he had indeed cheated his way to all seven Tour de France victories.
A rueful Karl said: “I bought the DVDs at a good price. The idea was to sell them in small job lots so traders could go on eBay, Amazon or car boot sales and sell them on.
“There was a slight amount of risk. There was suspicion but he wasn’t admitting to it.
“I was hoping the problem would die down and I would be able to find a home for them. Now I don’t think I would get a tenth of the money back.”
Karl, who sometimes buys bankrupt stock from stores that have gone out of business, said: “This is one of the few things I’ve managed to buy that has come back to bite me. I’m paying storage on them. I’ve got a few at the warehouse to show customers.
“I could make a tower or build a big dominoes track for my three-year-old. Armstrong has had a good life for the last 20 years. I just wish he had either kept his mouth shut a bit longer or not done it in the first place.”
Armstrong, who retired in February, 2011 while facing a federal investigation into the doping allegations, was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996.
Although it had spread to his abdomen brain and lungs, he recovered after aggressive treatment and set up the Lance Armstrong Foundation – now Livestrong – for cancer support.
Comments(61)
John T
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9:25am Mon 21 Jan 13
Hessenford
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9:26am Mon 21 Jan 13
Bit risky buying that amount when an investigation was going on.
mark.s
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9:35am Mon 21 Jan 13
Tripod
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9:37am Mon 21 Jan 13
Duckorange
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9:41am Mon 21 Jan 13
canfordcherry
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9:49am Mon 21 Jan 13
sharkforsale
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9:55am Mon 21 Jan 13
Phixer
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9:57am Mon 21 Jan 13
Phixer
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10:00am Mon 21 Jan 13
Anyone with half a brain cell would have kept quiet about making such a silly mistake.
Afcbpete
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10:07am Mon 21 Jan 13
Phixer wrote:I laughed and the only reason I laughed is, that's the sort of thing that would happen to me. You have my sympathy Karl.
PS, you didn't expect to get sympathy from Echo readers did you??
Anyone with half a brain cell would have kept quiet about making such a silly mistake.
l'anglais
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10:07am Mon 21 Jan 13
Rather ironic, I suppose.
John T
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10:16am Mon 21 Jan 13
l'anglais wrote:I think you will find that arms stretched is the Echo photographer's variation to arms folded for those with Armstrong enough to take the pain!
Karl, is that your downhill pose?
Rather ironic, I suppose.
In Absentia
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10:17am Mon 21 Jan 13
That's market trading, he took a punt and it failed. Never mind.
John T
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10:20am Mon 21 Jan 13
Phixer wrote:Why keep quiet, when the Echo will give Wholesale Clearance for free advertising to any dope?!?
PS, you didn't expect to get sympathy from Echo readers did you??
Anyone with half a brain cell would have kept quiet about making such a silly mistake.
madras
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10:51am Mon 21 Jan 13
ian_the_bute
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11:04am Mon 21 Jan 13
large_cheese
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11:12am Mon 21 Jan 13
The Renegade Master
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11:15am Mon 21 Jan 13
Ex-pat, thankfully
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11:18am Mon 21 Jan 13
sharkforsale wrote:haha, my favourite comment of the day :-)
Poor Karl. Shame on Armstrong. However, Im not sure why the photographers made him crawl across the floor like Gollum? :) I am a regular, happy customer of Wholesale Clearance, but I don't think I could shift these at the local car boot! Good luck Karl :)
Couchy125
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11:22am Mon 21 Jan 13
mattbo
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11:37am Mon 21 Jan 13
Frank28
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11:56am Mon 21 Jan 13
BarrHumbug
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12:00pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Good price, I wonder why that was?
"There was a slight amount of risk"
I would say a big risk, unless you were going to shift the lot straight away?
Maybe you could try suing him like the papers and sponsors are attempting?
Oh well you have always got 10,000 black DVD cases you could always flog? Be quick though burning DVDs is on the way out now in preference of cloud and nas storage.
speedy231278
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12:02pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Bliggo
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12:04pm Mon 21 Jan 13
uvox44
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12:06pm Mon 21 Jan 13
cherrygood
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12:07pm Mon 21 Jan 13
But with all the controversy and Armstong getting all this media attention right now I would have thoughts his chances of selling them would have increased.
Suggest he moves them out of the factual section and into the fiction section first!
boyerboy
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12:27pm Mon 21 Jan 13
The Liberal
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12:31pm Mon 21 Jan 13
No kidding!
Huey
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1:18pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Just for fun.
Molecatcher
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1:20pm Mon 21 Jan 13
http://www.hintsandt
hings.co.uk/musichal
l/cdroms.htm
poolepaul
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2:10pm Mon 21 Jan 13
RageAgainstTheMachine
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2:43pm Mon 21 Jan 13
The Liberal
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2:56pm Mon 21 Jan 13
RageAgainstTheMachinWith a 'potential profit' of £174,900! LOL
e wrote:
He has them on his website for sale at 25 grand lol I nearly choked.....and wet my self!
manyogie
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2:57pm Mon 21 Jan 13
all my old cd`s do that
hung from a tree
John T
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3:01pm Mon 21 Jan 13
RageAgainstTheMachinYou forgot too add, (or were to p.issed to add!) that his website offers them for sale at the bargain job lot price of £25000....with a potential profit of £1,74,900 (sic).
e wrote:
He has them on his website for sale at 25 grand lol I nearly choked.....and wet my self!
EGHH
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4:53pm Mon 21 Jan 13
John T
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5:02pm Mon 21 Jan 13
EGHH wrote:It's still being done, but it won't stop his potential for a banker's bonus, will it?
He has future that boy in banking. Tell you what, give mortgages to those who can't afford to repay them. Oh its been done already, never mind.
CoogarUK.com
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6:04pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Philip.J
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6:23pm Mon 21 Jan 13
alasdair1967
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6:41pm Mon 21 Jan 13
large_cheese wrote:Now what part feb does that run out lol seeing as I'm off on my hols at start feb for a fortnight maybe I could sell it on to the egyptians
Lucky he didn't buy that job lot of suntan lotion that expires Feb 2013!
BIGTONE
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7:16pm Mon 21 Jan 13
High Treason
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8:52pm Mon 21 Jan 13
The person who sold them to him is an entrepreneur and saw him coming..
Wageslave
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9:27pm Mon 21 Jan 13
madras wrote:Tried that , it only fools the pidgeons for about a week.Even they are brighter than poor Karl.
I read that if you string them up in the garden they make good bird scarers - try touting the local allotments :-)
The Timelord
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9:29pm Mon 21 Jan 13
manyogie wrote:Keeps the birds away cos they don't like the music!
Bird scarer`s
all my old cd`s do that
hung from a tree
Football banning order yob
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9:38pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Mikeyunibournemouth
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10:05pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Ferndown Steve
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10:25pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Yankee1
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10:46pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Such is business. You take a risk. Don't expect anyone to clean up your mistake.
But the free publicity here from the ever dutiful Echo might make up for your loss.
Tom 'Boscombe' Jones
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4:19am Tue 22 Jan 13
Tom 'Boscombe' Jones
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4:19am Tue 22 Jan 13
mikeba
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8:07am Tue 22 Jan 13
JackJohnson
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8:13am Tue 22 Jan 13
JackJohnson
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8:27am Tue 22 Jan 13
This is for Karl. I have a job lot of Jim'll Fix It medals you might be interested in...
MrPitiful
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8:34am Tue 22 Jan 13
http://www.musicmagp
ie.co.uk/
The Liberal
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9:19am Tue 22 Jan 13
UZZY
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12:10pm Tue 22 Jan 13
cycletourer
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1:16pm Tue 22 Jan 13
UZZY wrote:Went to Boscombe the other day,first time in over a year.Didnt take to long to realise why i never visit more often.
Give one each to the druggies in Boscombe if theres not enough to go round some could share !
Rich1978
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12:01pm Wed 23 Jan 13
I hope he manages to shift them.
The advertising from the Echo and various other sources around the UK will of course help.
bmthlad69
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7:33pm Wed 23 Jan 13
Rich1978 wrote:£25k though lol
What a bunch of jokers you all are. I know other peoples misfortune can be amusing, but in a time when dozens of business are going out of business every week I feel for Karl.
I hope he manages to shift them.
The advertising from the Echo and various other sources around the UK will of course help.
Controversial But True says...
9:18am Mon 21 Jan 13