Even if JKP's warehouse inventory was worth $1.75 per unit, you'd never pay anywhere near that much. There's way too much risk. You'd have to "discount" your offer a lot.

Remember that the company is either dead, or you have to assume that. Whatever money you hand over will be *gone* instantly, never to be seen again - like handing a cokehead a $100 bill - and can never be recovered if there's a problem.

For example, when you drop by JKP's warehouse some dude points at a cardboard box and says "there's a hundred pieces of Blown-Out Butts #37". Sounds good - you can sell that. But what if it's really got "Pamela Peaks explains Porn Makeup"?

Or a couple of bricks in packing peanuts? Maybe with real units on top to make it look legit?

Or maybe there's no DVDs in the shells and Joe figured someone would be dumb enough to buy anyway.

And what if Friedland reappears a few weeks later and claims what you bought is stolen property?

There's a lot of risk for vultures feeding off a carcass. There are companies that specialize in doing just this, and they have to substantially discount their offers just to keep up with the fraud and garbage.