Recognizing stolen equipment ???

[JimR]

Not necessarily. Some people don't want other people to know where they live so they don't come back and steal their stuff later on.

I can understand that but who is going to bring an item somewhere for someone to look at, not me. I take plate numbers when someone comes to my house to look at something. It is called CYA just in case.

 

[CobyRupert]

I can understand that but who is going to bring an item somewhere for someone to look at, not me. I take plate numbers when someone comes to my house to look at something. It is called CYA just in case.

Depends on the item.
I live in a rural area that people from nearby urban/suburban areas think is the hinterlands ("too far to drive!"), yet they think of me driving "to town" as no big deal. (Somehow they figure it's shorter in one direction than the other?)
Sometimes it's just easier to meet them when I'm out to town. (Or as people in other parts of the country say: "when I'm in town".)

 

[JimR]

Depends on the item.
I live in a rural area that people from nearby urban/suburban areas think is the hinterlands ("too far to drive!"), yet they think of me driving "to town" as no big deal. (Somehow they figure it's shorter in one direction than the other?)
Sometimes it's just easier to meet them when I'm out to town. (Or as people in other parts of the country say: "when I'm in town".)

I work in the nearby city. I also bring smaller items like lawn mower tires and wheels or car parts to work and meet them at lunchtime nearby at Burger King.

 

[mred2]

lawyers may help on this. My understanding on checks, if someone writes a check to purchase something knowing it is bad, that is fraud. If however, he writes a check to cover a debt, it is not. When you agree to let them charge it to an account, it changes things. It becomes a civil case as people can not be put in jail for debt.

 

[K5lwq]

lawyers may help on this. My understanding on checks, if someone writes a check to purchase something knowing it is bad, that is fraud. If however, he writes a check to cover a debt, it is not. When you agree to let them charge it to an account, it changes things. It becomes a civil case as people can not be put in jail for debt.

It is illegal in most states if not all to right a check that does not have the funds to cover. You can not be put in jail for bad debts but you can for hot checks. I turn 3 or 4 over to the prosecutors in my county per month. They normally can collect the funds for me when they give the person the option of pay or jail.

 

[hosspuller]

A timely topic... I had a seller back away when I offered to pay a portion of sale price. Balance when He produced a canceled note from lender. I wonder if I missed a good deal or dodged a bad deal.

 

[CobyRupert]

A timely topic... I had a seller back away when I offered to pay a portion of sale price. Balance when He produced a canceled note from lender. I wonder if I missed a good deal or dodged a bad deal.

What am I missing or misinterpreting? :
"...seller back away when I offered to pay a portion of sale price." - You wanted to pay less than asking price. Seller didn't accept offer. Seems simple.
"Balance when He produced a canceled note from lender." - Not sure, but I gather the seller had a canceled note from lender. So he owned it free and clear? Ok....?

Where or what was the "balance"? Wasn't it zero if he had a canceled note?

 

[PILOON]

I was once offered a Kubota B21 c/w FEL and backhoe for $7000. It had about 400 hrs on the meter.
Many said I should have grabbed it, but I did not.
The seller was an honest crook, LOL.
(He had declared it stolen and claimed from insurance.)

AS the saying goes, If it is too good to be true----.

On follow up, I did happen know the person that actually bought it and one day the fuel police took samples of his fuel to discover he was using heating oil and not diesel fuel as prescribed in this Province. (we don't have 'off road' here ,only stationary engins can use 'off road')

Well there was a whole lot of panic for quite some time over that. The only thing that saved him was fact that the fuel police could not find the SN on that Kubota.
He did have to pay fines on his 3 tractors however that had heating oil in the tanks.

From time to time they do road blocks and stop all the trucks as well.

 

[PILOON]

Pawn shops are an interesting case. Like where do they think much of the stuff comes from?

Around here the pawn shops are required to list ID (driver permit) for items they purchase.

Same goes for scrap yards.
LOL, for a while manhole covers were a big item as were catalytic converters*

*with battery powered grinders many a car at shopping malls left with rather noisy exhausts.

 

[Shaneard]

Around here the pawn shops are required to list ID (driver permit) for items they purchase.
Same goes for scrap yards.
LOL, for a while manhole covers were a big item as were catalytic converters.

It's awful to sell something at the scrap yard here. I carried a load of metal from my work (machine shop). Lady made me come back and get a written letter on company letter head saying I had permission to sell said scrap. They have pictures of stuff you can't sell, drugs have made things awful on everyone.