Product recovery is very similar at this point to the repo man; their job is to get the product back. Intimidation is at their own discretion and that is more or less the beauty of the system. If you think about it, we tend to glorify the repo man and the bounty hunter, heck we even make TV shows about these jobs and put them on legitimate well thought of networks. When a bounty hunter brings in a man or woman, it doesn’t seem to matter if someone fell down and got a little banged up. It’s part of the job, but not the focus.
The whole idea is to deter crime because there is now some accountability, something this country is sorely lacking. I am not talking about a bunch of vigilantes running around chopping peoples fingers off, but there is value in persuasion. By the way some product recovery groups specialize in international operations. Jurisdiction and international affairs are heeded but not endorsed. In other words, everyone who thinks they can rip you off from a foreign country is fair game. How sick are you of the Nigerian email scams?
Contrary to popular belief Product Recovery is considered a “good guy operation” A while back there was a TV commercial that talked about how great it would be if you could tell who the good guys were. They cemented the idea in your head by showing normal everyday vendors that were “good people” by having them wear capes. This way you could easily identify who the good guys were. Pretty cool idea, I wish it were that easy. If it was Product Recovery would definitely be cape wearing contenders.
Creating jobs?
So how does this create jobs you ask? Well their certainly is enough work out there for everyone, in fact it’s rampant. Crime is out of control, and there are plenty of opportunities for new businesses to begin. This creates jobs. Every product recovery needs a good accounting department, a killer computer system a bunch of geeks (virus creation optional), large scary looking guys like Vinnie and Lou, (I can say that cause I am Italian) and a good customer service team.
When you think about the amount of crime that occurs in one city alone (think NY) and then consider all the hotbeds of activity, you have some very real potential. So if you think this sounds stupid, look at the current and known drug cartels that are operating in the world today, they are doing the very same thing on a much higher scale. We could go hog wild in some other examples but that would not serve this particular example well.
Summary
Funny or serious, what the world needs to do is step up. We are so wrapped up in being civil that we are letting evil take over the world. Self defense is part of the deal, stealing gets your hand cut off in certain countries. We need to be civil and the owner of Product Recovery certainly needs to train his people that way, but enough is enough. Accountability and consequences are what keep us from putting our fingers in light sockets when were children. If you steal something, you need to know, someone is coming to get it back.
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