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Someone Is Trying to Sell Those Stolen Three-Screen Razer Laptops in China (geek.com) 49

Posted by msmash from the bad-money dept.
Just a few days ago, Razer's awesome Project Valerie laptops -- the one with three 4K displays -- were stolen. Now it looks like whoever stole them is trying to sell them. From a report: It turns out that the thief (or thieves) didn't just nab one Project Valerie prototype. They actually got ahold of a pair. Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan understandably wants them back, really, really badly. The company was willing to offer $25,000 to anyone who could offer information that led to the prototypes' return. So where did the laptops end up? Somewhere behind the Great Wall, apparently. Whoever has them isn't trying to quietly fence them in some dark Beijing alleyway, either. They've actually been listed on the immensely popular Chinese e-commerce site Taobao -- where they were spotted by writers at Engadget Chinese and Wccftech.
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  • Pay the guy in China the $25k you're offering.

    • Re:Solution seems obvious then (Score:5, Insightful)

      by PolygamousRanchKid ( 1290638 ) on Saturday January 14, 2017 @02:55AM (#53666223)

      Pay the guy in China the $25k you're offering.

      . . . maybe if they throw in the Brooklyn Bridge, as well, I'll make an offer. Oh, and the Ginsu and the Spiral Slicer . . .

      You don't have to actually have something, in order to sell it.

      This is looking more and more like a publicity stunt.

      • No laptop, no $25k. If it's a publicity stunt then it's all moot anyway.
      • For a Ginsu and Spiral Slicer, you bet! My family went to a flea market in the mid 80's, and there was a salesman giving a wonderful demonstration of a Gensu knife. It slices, it dices! Saws through a hammer, and still cuts cleanly through this tomato! Well, after a great demonstration like that, we bought a knife and spiral slicer.

        Best damn kitchen and utility knife we ever had. That thing was awesome. Cut through all sorts of building materials for school projects, still worked great on watermelon

    • Re:Solution seems obvious then (Score:5, Informative)

      by msauve ( 701917 ) on Saturday January 14, 2017 @05:43AM (#53666515)
      Whoever wrote the summary is wrong. Razer isn't offering $25K for the return of the prototypes - it's offering up to $25K for "information that leads to the identification, arrest and conviction of the thief." It's been reported that way by multiple sources.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Pay the guy in China the $25k you're offering.

      At this stage you don't actually need to pay them.

      As they were stolen from the US, theft greater than $10k makes it a federal crime (grand theft)
      Even though one would contact local authorities (as was reported) you wouldn't be working with them, they would put you in touch with federal investigators who you would be working with (which has not been reported)

      The feds can work with the payment processor such that the thief would see the payment in their account, marked as cleared, but frozen such that the thi

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by whoda ( 569082 )

      The 150,000 yuan is only $22K US. It's a scam or fake news.

  • Or not (Score:3)

    by tgv ( 254536 ) on Saturday January 14, 2017 @02:58AM (#53666231) Journal

    It might also be a scam, of course.

  • Taobao is ISIS (Score:3)

    by fubarrr ( 884157 ) on Saturday January 14, 2017 @03:06AM (#53666251)

    Taobao is ISIS

  • PR Stunt (Score:5, Insightful)

    by EEPROMS ( 889169 ) on Saturday January 14, 2017 @03:08AM (#53666255)
    [cough] fake news [cough]
    • Razer made more than $25k from this story im willing to bet...

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by guises ( 2423402 )
        Only if they (eventually) produce and sell these things for real. They were probably only stolen because they were concept devices which would never get produced, and were therefore valuable for their uniqueness. I would bet that all of the free publicity from this is making their eventual production somewhat more likely.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by slazzy ( 864185 )
          I bet their website traffic is up significantly and some of them will buy their other products.

    • Re:PR Stunt (Score:4, Interesting)

      by ClickOnThis ( 137803 ) on Saturday January 14, 2017 @06:17AM (#53666573) Journal

      Razer reported the theft to police:

      http://fortune.com/2017/01/10/... [fortune.com]

      If Razer orchestrated all of this for publicity, then they risk a lot by filing a false police report.

      And if Razer was behind it, why would they allow their goods to be sold on Taobao?

      No, this doesn't add up as "fake news."

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      I can't believe you're making me miss the days of [Citation needed].

  • Obvious scam sale post is obvious (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Posting only photos taken at CES before theft. Hilarious price. Totally looks legit. Not.

  • They are pretty much only offering what these would cost if manufactured regularly. That means they go through a synthetic show of outrage, but in actual reality they could not care less and may even like the additional exposure this gives them. Basically these two devices had one single purpose, namely to be shown off. In engineering circles, this is known as a "stunt". It does not mean anything and is basically a form of posturing. As CES is over, these two monsters have served their purpose and the only

  • There has also been at least one instance of the Razer laptop being listed on eBay.

    I'll take the listing on Taobao with a grain of salt.

  • Umm... Hoax Listing? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by rsmith-mac ( 639075 ) on Saturday January 14, 2017 @07:22AM (#53666699)

    I'm surprised that no one here has pointed out that this is likely a hoax listing.

    The photo in the listing is from Razor's CES suite. There's no proof, photographic or otherwise, that the seller actually has the laptops.

    This is a hoax listing; a bored nerd having a giggle. Which shouldn't surprise anyone given that even after 20 years, yahoos are still putting up listings like the Ark of the Covenant on eBay.

    • I live in vegas.. So ita a possibility. you would be surprised what happens here. Im surprised it made the news. laptops get stolen every day.. I am however enjoying the dual 1080's and 3 4k displays. The function to get them in place isnt finished yet im going to have work on a motor assembly for them.
  • I'll give you, one dollar...

    Okay, two.
  • There is something wrong with so many C level executives when it comes to giving people other than C level executives money. Not that the thieves deserve it in this case, but quite simply those laptops must be worth at least a million or more to get back.

    Even when crime isn't involved I have seen companies self destruct rather than pay engineers what they are worth. I can name specifically two companies where they had a person with 3D skills that were in the top 1% of the top 1%. They were paying him som

  • The price for razer should be less than the bounty. And thy have a target account to track. How hard can it be?

  • Move along

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