And now you got me thinking down that line.
Quote Originally Posted by dsd View Post
Say I import 1000 iPods at R1000 each, so R1mil has exited the country. On the way to the warehouse my truck is hijacked and all 1000 stolen. They are smuggled north across the border. Again another R1mil exits the country. Not nice...not nice at all.
So let's speculate that story a little further. The buyers up north of the border are a little short in hard currency, so they pay the local thieves in what they've got - copper, diamonds, drugs, whatever - say R2 million worth at "retail."

That's quite a tidy return.