Re: Warning: Bunk Cooper 106 Ebay Listing

It would be pretty easy to have a web site that maintains a depository of
stolen serial numbers and periodically checks against the ebay listings.

Be real easy for ebay to maintain the depository but they probably have
better things to do. But someone with some spare time could write the
ebay "sniffer" in a few hours. Keeping the depository and setting up a web
site for people to post stolen SNs to would be a bit of work.

Ideally, ebay would work with some law enforcement unit. When someone posts
a stolen SN the enforcers go after them. Probably too expensive to do
for small stuff.

"John Coffey" <coffeyman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2256-43153259-1521@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I could write a book about all the stolen gear from break-ins and
> internal theft that has happened to me, as my business was growing over
> the years, before we instituted better controls. It happened more to me
> because I was an absentee owner/mixer and I had to put my trust in
> people. Sadly, a large percentage of those I trusted were rotten
> apples. I had employees caught in stings and some even arrested. (In
> fact, my last bookkeeper spent a year in jail).
>
> However, at least I used to recover a lot of stolen equipment back from
> pawn shops and other dealers who were approached to buy the hot stuff.
> I have been involved in plenty of scenarios with cops. It sometimes
> seemed like a tv script. One time, with the help of Hare Krishnas, who
> were approached to buy an entire stolen channel for their media
> department, we hid in the next room as the transaction was "going down",
> and the cops nailed the bad guys cold. I've recovered thousands of
> dollars from pawn shops, swap meets and other means.
>
> But now, in the new internet age, E-Bay is the safe haven pawn shop for
> criminals. The trail is easier to cover. If we don't check serial
> numbers, we are aiding and abetting crimes against us.
>
> What happened to the thief selling the 744T? I'll bet nothing at all.
> Somehow selling on the internet is not prosecuted like a normal theft
> situation used to be handled, often just because it's long distance
> transactions.
>
> Congrats on stopping this false sale, but it will go and on and on
> anyway until the bad guys get controlled on the internet.
>
> Until the police catch up o these crimes, please keep trying to ruin the
> bad guys sales on E-Bay, because the next item they sell might be yours.
>
> John Coffey C.A.S.
> http://www.coffeysound.com
>


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