" According to police reports, approximately $1.7 million worth of BlackBerry PlayBooks were stolen from a semi truck that was shipping them from the Bright Point Distribution center in Plainfield to Ontario, Canada.
According to the report, the driver of the semi truck carrying 22 pallets of PlayBooks stopped to get something to eat and take a shower, upon return to where he had parked, an hour later, he found his truck was missing."
Hmmm.
$1.7M on 22 pallets. $77,273 per pallet.
Figure each layer on the pallet is 12 boxed Playbooks, three by four.
Each layer looks like this from above:
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Twelve Playbooks per layer.
I'm assuming a Playbook box is 4" thick?
Three layers per vertical foot. 36 Playbooks per vertical foot on a pallet.
Figure a four foot high pallet. 36 x 4 = 144 Playbooks per pallet.
$77,273/144 = $536 per stolen Playbook.
I think RIMM just found a buyer at full retail. Their insurance company.
lmao that is funny math. Probably pretty close to the real numbers though
Well, without a truck, a pallet, or a playbook box, it was the best I could do but I think it's representative. At $199 each the pallets would have to be stacked 10' high and I don't think that's reasonable.
Good catch by the cameras though, those rascals will be found.
Damn, now we had better look out for stolen **** on ebay/kijiji/craigslist! Be very skeptical from now on until the bastards are found, caught and fed crackberries up the arse for what they did! :P
Figure each layer on the pallet is 12 boxed Playbooks, three by four.
Each layer looks like this from above:
OOOO
OOOO
OOOO
Twelve Playbooks per layer.
I'm assuming a Playbook box is 4" thick?
Three layers per vertical foot. 36 Playbooks per vertical foot on a pallet.
Figure a four foot high pallet. 36 x 4 = 144 Playbooks per pallet.
$77,273/144 = $536 per stolen Playbook.
I think RIMM just found a buyer at full retail. Their insurance company.
N4BB reporting its 5200 PlayBooks, which would give an average unit price of $326, which is probably about right, depending on the mix of sizes, although at that price it would seem the $1.7m is either cost or sale price, and not RRP based price
Love the Math, but I the PlayBook box is appox 9" x 9" x 2" so on a standard 40" x 48" pallet we'd see 5 x 4 formation giving us 20 Playbooks per layer,
assume a 3.5' or 42" stack due to the height of the wooden pallet, meaning we could fit approximately 20 layers, or 400 PlayBooks per pallet,
400 X 22 = 8800 PlayBooks
Though we have heard that there are 5200 PlayBooks so lets say they probably only stacked 12 PlayBooks high being 5280 Lost Playbooks at a retail value average of $326 each to be assumed,
Love the Math, but I the PlayBook box is appox 9" x 9" x 2" so on a standard 40" x 48" pallet we'd see 5 x 4 formation giving us 20 Playbooks per layer,
assume a 3.5' or 42" stack due to the height of the wooden pallet, meaning we could fit approximately 20 layers, or 400 PlayBooks per pallet,
400 X 22 = 8800 PlayBooks
Though we have heard that there are 5200 PlayBooks so lets say they probably only stacked 12 PlayBooks high being 5280 Lost Playbooks at a retail value average of $326 each to be assumed,
Not necessarily a bad thing, RIMM may get more $ from insurance companies than selling them.
They could actually already be sold hence the delivery into Ontario, RIM's Christmas shipment for their employee sale, 5000 is a good assumption as to the number they would have sold with their sale,
