https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26263
It seems like every time this email gets brought up it is quickly hidden or dismissed. Am I the only one that thinks this is highly unusual or relevant? I own a business handling personal property liquidations and can say for certain that it would not be possible to sell a beanie babie for $20 each...
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bolus ago
there are several beanie babies which are worth hundreds to collectors, and a handful worth thousands. if his collection has a few 'rare' beanie babies, it wouldn't be a stretch to expect the collection to be worth several grand. he's just looking to sell the whole thing at once, instead of just making money by parting it out.
if this email were the only weird email in the whole group, i would completely discount it.
as it sits, it's still suspicious, and it may be code for something, but we can't ignore the fact that it's not unheard of.
NotAnIdiot ago
It's not his collection though. He put a random picture from the internet in the email. He literally just searched beanie baby collection on google and put the first image result in the email.
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bolus ago
ok - i did a quick count, and there are about 480 bbs in that pic.
so either he had 480 of something else, and this matched up, so he used it, or he just needed 9600 and found a way to get there mathematically using this pseudo-random picture he found.
the stupid, most simple answer is that he really did have 480 bbs to get rid of, and the stupid most devious answer is that he needed $9600 to support something nefarious...and further, he needed someone to understand what he was really asking for.
if he needed someone to understand then either everyone he sent it to also knew the code (unlikely since we never see it anywhere else) or he had pre-discussed it with someone, and was just throwing up a smoke screen.
in any case, it's still just a ridiculous email...have we looked into the guy and what he was doing around the time he sent it?
Orange_Circle ago
That photo was one they sending stole off the web.
bolus ago
do we have the original, from the web? curious if it's the same size.