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by dustcoin 4631 days ago

    The complaint notes that these amounts don’t count sales
    going back more than five months prior to the investigation
The volume estimated is only for a 5 month period, not the defendants' entire careers. Drug dealers have much higher margins than eBay sellers, according to one source earning a 200% markup (66% profit margin) splitting up kilos of cocaine [1]

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-08-13/soon-be-disr...