Would you buy a stolen bike?

Dietsquirt · 20-03-2013 10:50PM #1

Hi,

Just to preface this post, i own a decent enough racer bike which i spent €800 on.

I'm looking for a 2nd hand/cheap bike that i can use to cycle in to the City Centre (Dublin) and not be afraid to leave locked up. I have a very good lock (kryptonite) but i still wouldn't leave my racer bike in town.

Blah blah blah...

I sent an email around my job last week and inquiring if anyone had a bike lying around their sheds that they'd want to offload (for a cheap enough price)

1 guy, who i don't really know said he can get me one for €100, that was really the maximum i was willing to pay. I asked him the make/model etc.. He showed me a few pictures and they look like fairly newish bikes (all Treks). I asked him where he gets them and he said he knows a guy who gets a few in every week.

They must be stolen.

Am i a scumbag for paying €100 for one of these bikes? They are a great bargain and lets face it, if they are stolen, the person isn't getting it back.

What would you do?

winston82 · 20-03-2013 10:51PM

Bargain. Buy it.

DazMarz · 20-03-2013 10:52PM

I wouldn't buy a bike, period...

Chucken · 20-03-2013 10:52PM

They're probably reported as stolen. I'd be telling the Gardai.

HondaSami · 20-03-2013 10:53PM

Would you like if your bike was stolen and sold on ?

donvito99 · 20-03-2013 10:53PM

Isn't possessing stolen goods an offence?

frozenfrozen · 20-03-2013 10:54PM

Tough call morally, but the bikes are already stolen, and your decision to buy or not buy won't effect this guy continuing to steal bikes... hmmmmmmmmm, you're saving the environment too.......

Judgement Day · 20-03-2013 10:54PM

Tip-off the gardai. What else is his friend stealing to order?

Gatling · 20-03-2013 10:55PM

Scum .in this day and age when people struggle to keep a roof over there heads,a bike could be a persons only way to afford to get to work, your as much a theif as the friends friends if you choose to buy it that is

o1s1n · 20-03-2013 10:56PM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Tough call morally, but the bikes are already stolen, and your decision to buy or not buy won't effect this guy continuing to steal bikes... hmmmmmmmmm, you're saving the environment too.......

You are though as youre creating a demand.

No demand, no bike stealing.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 20-03-2013 10:56PM

Arrange to buy the bike, tip off AGS.....get your head kicked in.

mattjack · 20-03-2013 10:56PM

Why not sell your own bike for 800 euros then buy 8 bikes from the dodgy bloke , when he produces a pic of your own bike when it eventually gets stolen , buy it back for a 100 euros, ... and voila ......now you have nine bikes.

HondaSami · 20-03-2013 10:57PM

Buying goods you know is stolen is as bad as stealing them yourself imo.

Kat1170 · 20-03-2013 10:59PM

You think he won't steal the bike back off you to sell on to someone else :rolleyes:

Vizzy · 20-03-2013 11:01PM

I have one that I'll sell to you for €75.
A guy on the internet told me that it is worth about €800 new.

Ihatecuddles-old · 20-03-2013 11:01PM

Some poor sod probably saved up to get a nice bike

Dont buy it, you'll end up getting hit by a bus or something!

LizT · 20-03-2013 11:01PM

Dietsquirt wrote: »

Hi,

Just to preface this post, i own a decent enough racer bike which i spent €800 on.

I'm looking for a 2nd hand/cheap bike that i can use to cycle in to the City Centre (Dublin) and not be afraid to leave locked up. I have a very good lock (kryptonite) but i still wouldn't leave my racer bike in town.

Blah blah blah...

I sent an email around my job last week and inquiring if anyone had a bike lying around their sheds that they'd want to offload (for a cheap enough price)

1 guy, who i don't really know said he can get me one for €100, that was really the maximum i was willing to pay. I asked him the make/model etc.. He showed me a few pictures and they look like fairly newish bikes (all Treks). I asked him where he gets them and he said he knows a guy who gets a few in every week.

They must be stolen.

Am i a scumbag for paying €100 for one of these bikes? They are a great bargain and lets face it, if they are stolen, the person isn't getting it back.

What would you do?

Because people are creating a demand for stolen bikes by buying them.

No demand = no supply.

Dwork · 20-03-2013 11:01PM

Buy the bike, but glue a thumbtack to the seat. That way you still get to go riding it, but every time, you do your penance. Consider it a "balance".

mattjack · 20-03-2013 11:05PM

DazMarz wrote: »

I wouldn't buy a bike, period...

Round here , we say full stop .

Dubba · 20-03-2013 11:06PM

What if the owner of the stolen bike actually spots you on their bike one day. Chances might be slim, but the repercussions would be bad.

NegativeCreep · 20-03-2013 11:06PM

No. Effort of cycling. I'd buy a stolen car if it was up for grabs though.

BidillyBo · 20-03-2013 11:07PM

LizT wrote: »

Because people are creating a demand for stolen bikes by buying them.

No demand = no supply.

they'd just ship them off to england or somehwhere where people do want stolen bikes, properly happens at the minute anyway

Gatling · 20-03-2013 11:08PM

Then again karma might play a part in the end ,buy the bargain bike cycle around the corner get hit by a stolen car or bus,
karma

Dwork · 20-03-2013 11:11PM

I think I know your "friend". Offer him €50, he's ridin you.

Bipolar Joe · 20-03-2013 11:12PM

Look on Broadsheet to see if any of the bikes look like the ones on there. They don't usually do that sort of thing, but there's some on there.

irish bloke · 20-03-2013 11:13PM

Buy it, you didn't steel it and you only suspect it was stolen.
Bet lots of the high moral folk on here would buy it too, but wouldn't admit it.

Merl1n · 20-03-2013 11:14PM

If you buy it your fueling crime

mattjack · 20-03-2013 11:15PM

Gatling wrote: »

Then again karma might play a part in the end ,buy the bargain bike cycle around the corner get hit by a stolen car or bus,
karma

Karmas a load of bollix , my GP told me years ago I'd have a heart attack if I didn't stop eating junk food ,drinking to much and smoking , I laughed at the fat cunt last week, when I heard he had a banger and I'm still going stro______________

20-03-2013 11:20PM

Dietsquirt wrote: »

I have a very good lock (kryptonite) but i still wouldn't leave my racer bike in town.

I don't think Superman steals bikes. He can fly like.

Carlos Orange · 20-03-2013 11:21PM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Tough call morally, but the bikes are already stolen, and your decision to buy or not buy won't effect this guy continuing to steal bikes... hmmmmmmmmm, you're saving the environment too.......

There are tough moral questions. This aint one of them.

Artful_Badger · 20-03-2013 11:28PM

So you're afraid your nice bike is gonna get stolen so you're thinking about buying a stolen bike ?

If you do buy it you will be putting money into a scumbags pocket and encouraging him to go and steal more stuff from hard working people who pay their own way though life. Basically funding the reason you're afraid to leave your bike in town.

You would be both a scumbag and an idiot as far as I can see.

Would you buy a stolen bike?

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