The pair then sold the goods on Amazon or eBay for millions of dollars in profit. “Acting as a ‘fence’ for stolen goods helps organized retail theft flourish, and that harms our community in multiple ways,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd. Balun admits that the business purchased stolen goods from individual sellers knowing that the goods were stolen. The Amazon store was called “Medikus” and the eBay store was called “abcstore555.” A couple years later, he directed Bobak on how to respond to a retailer complaint that the Amazon store was not authorized to sell their products.