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Would you buy stolen goods

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  • 22-06-2015 3:07pm
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    Specialun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭


    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...

    Would you buy stolen goods 77 votes

    Yes
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    No
    29% 23 votes
    Mind your own business OP you bastard
    70% 54 votes


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    pmasterson95
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    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?


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    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    But would you download a car?


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    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    No, but I'd download some.


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    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    Feckin sheep lover!


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


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    darkpagandeath
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    Would you steal a policeman's hat ?


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    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,934 ✭✭✭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.


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    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


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


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    [Deleted User]
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    Not willingly. I don't like gaining from someone else's misfortune.


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


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    jimgoose
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    Absolutely not.


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    #13
    endacl
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    We all do. Every day. Unless you're a 100% ethical shopper, and who is?


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    [Deleted User]
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    No. Absolutely not.


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    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭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?


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    eamonnq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭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 ??


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


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭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:


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    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭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.


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    DARK-KNIGHT
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    how many of you would buy electronics in cex??


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    depends where it was stolen from


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    the_barfly1
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    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.


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    Pumpkinseeds
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    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.


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    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭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.


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    RoboRat
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    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.


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