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From a recent email a friend living near Baltimore sent me:
"It seems Jabba the Butt is finally going down. Jabba is what I call Biren Amin(sp?), the founder/owner of Pandora's Cube, formerly Pandora's Box until 1998. Imho, he's a thief, bootlegger, backstabber and just plain dishonest. There are so many stories about his illegal activities that I was always surprised no one had busted him and/or his company. Well, maybe today is the day. Just heard one of his stores got raided by the FBI. Not a bunch of people to fuck with. I went by the flagship store in College Park, to see if it was affected as well, and it was closed up with the steel door down and a simple white paper pasted upon it saying that they were closed on this day. Now, Pandora's is almost never closed (Biren needs every day to scam unsuspecting customers) so bad mojo was definitely going on. If the FBI have finally come down on him, he's looking at jailtime. With the FBI and the IRS (tax fraud is what took down Al Capone after all), he's really screwed in both directions."
Pandora's is a very notorious video game/anime chain of stores. They're well known for price gouging customers, committing mail order fraud, selling/renting bootlegs, misrepresenting import items they sell, selling stolen items, etc. I know they were routinely hawking Neo CD, AES, and Neo Pocket carts and hardware over the last six years. They managed to make a killing in the late 90's on obscenely overpriced PSX and Saturn imports. I remember they had a massive booth during an Otakon a few summers ago where I spotted a used US copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for 250 dollars. That's just one example. You had to be an unsuspecting fool to consider buying from their selection of hundred bucks-each UK Neo Pocket carts...
Anyone here frequent the store enough to know what the hell happend and if they are under scrutiny from law enforcement??
I believe it's long overdue that these retard importers got punished somehow...
"It seems Jabba the Butt is finally going down. Jabba is what I call Biren Amin(sp?), the founder/owner of Pandora's Cube, formerly Pandora's Box until 1998. Imho, he's a thief, bootlegger, backstabber and just plain dishonest. There are so many stories about his illegal activities that I was always surprised no one had busted him and/or his company. Well, maybe today is the day. Just heard one of his stores got raided by the FBI. Not a bunch of people to fuck with. I went by the flagship store in College Park, to see if it was affected as well, and it was closed up with the steel door down and a simple white paper pasted upon it saying that they were closed on this day. Now, Pandora's is almost never closed (Biren needs every day to scam unsuspecting customers) so bad mojo was definitely going on. If the FBI have finally come down on him, he's looking at jailtime. With the FBI and the IRS (tax fraud is what took down Al Capone after all), he's really screwed in both directions."
Pandora's is a very notorious video game/anime chain of stores. They're well known for price gouging customers, committing mail order fraud, selling/renting bootlegs, misrepresenting import items they sell, selling stolen items, etc. I know they were routinely hawking Neo CD, AES, and Neo Pocket carts and hardware over the last six years. They managed to make a killing in the late 90's on obscenely overpriced PSX and Saturn imports. I remember they had a massive booth during an Otakon a few summers ago where I spotted a used US copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for 250 dollars. That's just one example. You had to be an unsuspecting fool to consider buying from their selection of hundred bucks-each UK Neo Pocket carts...
Anyone here frequent the store enough to know what the hell happend and if they are under scrutiny from law enforcement??
I believe it's long overdue that these retard importers got punished somehow...
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