Some Poor Bastard Bought 10,000 Lance Armstrong DVDs, And They're Now Worthless

We're a few years away from Lance Armstrong being sued to destitution, and signing bike locks with "I'm sorry I injected EPO," à la Pete Rose. But there was a time when Armstrong was a conquering hero, and everything he touched turned to gold. Hell, even last summer, before he copped to rampant PED use, there was a large contingent of Lance truthers. So Englishman Karl Baxter thought he'd found quite the deal when he bought 10,000 DVD copies of Discovery's "The Science of Lance Armstrong," for a pound each. He planned to sell them for triple the profit, but then Lance fessed up. Now he can't sell them at all, and he's out more than $15,000.

Aside from Armstrong being general poison, I'm guessing any show about the "science" of his victories ignores all the actual science that went into the doping. The :

"The idea was to sell them in small job lots of 100 for about £3 each, so traders could go on eBay, Amazon, or car boot sales and sell them on.

"There was a slight amount of risk and a gamble because there was a suspicion, but he wasn't admitting to it, so I put them on the website last week.

"I was hoping the problem would die down and I would be able to find a good home for them, now I don't think I will get a tenth of the money back.

"Armstrong has had a good life for the last 20 years, I just wish he had either kept his mouth shut a bit longer or not done it in the first place."

Baxter says he'll lower the prices to 30p if that's what it takes, but for the moment he's hoping for a bump from news coverage of his bad business sense. On the wholesale site where he's selling the DVDs, he just jacked up the price to £2.50 per item—and you have to buy all 10,000 of them. Which no one ever will.

H/t Custard Tank