Would you buy stolen goods

Specialun

Heard this being debated on the radio with a very high % of yes

So would you buy a stolen phone, computer or tv if you knew it was nicked.

I dunno if i would..firstly i wouldnt know where to look to get it...

pmasterson95

Specialun wrote: »

Heard this being debated on the radio with a very high % of yes

So would you buy a stolen phone, computer or tv if you knew it was nicked.

I dunno if i would..firstly i wouldnt know where to look to get it...

What have ya got?

Sheep Lover

But would you download a car?

LDN_Irish

No, but I'd download some.

LDN_Irish

Feckin sheep lover!

Slippin Jimmy

People that knowingly buy stolen property are no better than the thieving scum themselves.

darkpagandeath

Would you steal a policeman's hat ?

Conall Cernach

It really does depend. Would I buy something stolen from an ordinary person like a phone or a TV? No way. Would I buy a bottle of vodka that had been stolen from a warehouse? Maybe.

NachoBusiness

God bless Hooky Street
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Long live Hooky Street
C'est magnifique..
Hooky Street.

Not willingly. I don't like gaining from someone else's misfortune.

NachoBusiness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYGayRLf-uY

jimgoose

Absolutely not.

endacl

We all do. Every day. Unless you're a 100% ethical shopper, and who is?

No. Absolutely not.

Samaris

endacl wrote: »

We all do. Every day. Unless you're a 100% ethical shopper, and who is?

I fear to ask in many ways, but alright, go on?

eamonnq

endacl wrote: »

We all do. Every day. Unless you're a 100% ethical shopper, and who is?

Samaris wrote: »

I fear to ask in many ways, but alright, go on?

Is it Sinead O'Connor ??

Caovyn Lineah

It all depends on the item, the risk involved and how much of a deal I was getting.

endacl

Samaris wrote: »

I fear to ask in many ways, but alright, go on?

I'd have to go full SJW. Get back to you in a few months when my dreads have grown in?

:pac:

Menas

No, definitely not for me. I woke up one night with a burglar in my room, house had been ransacked.
They are scum of the highest order...and anyone who knowingly buys stolen goods is no better in my eyes.

PizzamanIRL

No I'd rather buy the item in the shop at it's full overpriced price.

Of course I fecking would. If I don't, someone else will.

DARK-KNIGHT

how many of you would buy electronics in cex??

SEPT 23 1989

depends where it was stolen from

the_barfly1

if it fell off the back of a lorry i wouldn't be too bothered.
Stick it in the fridge to cool it down, be grand.

Pumpkinseeds

There's no way I'd buy them. You'd have to be trash to buy goods that have been stolen from someone. So long as people are willing to buy stolen goods people will continue to burgle peoples homes. If a poster on Boards told us their home had been burgled and their property stolen we'd all think the culprits were scum, imho the people who knowingly buy stolen goods are scum.

Samaris

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

There's no way I'd buy them. You'd have to be trash to buy goods that have been stolen from someone. So long as people are willing to buy stolen goods people will continue to burgle peoples homes. If a poster on Boards told us their home had been burgled and their property stolen we'd all think the culprits were scum, imho the people who knowingly buy stolen goods are scum.

I agree with this point, and I suspect most people agree with that too. But then again, in this particular example, we can most of us empathize and get the "that could be me" feeling.

I rather suspect that more people would be inclined to buy something nicked off a faceless corporation. I don't agree with that either. Somewhere up the way, somebody - or many somebodies - still suffer from that sort of crime too, just so some thugs can get some easy cash.

"Ah sure, it's not hurting anyone, XLtd will get over it" is the same sort of light-hearted (and light-minded) dishonesty as brown envelopes and the like.

RoboRat

No, I have been robbed twice and if I was approached to buy robbed goods, I would probably punch the head off them. If I found out my mates were buying robbed goods they wouldn't be mates anymore.

Unless you have been robbed you won't understand how unnerving and distressing it is, especially if you are asleep in bed when it happens. My wife still gets very nervous if I have to work overnight and she is at home alone.