2009-01-09, 09:28 AM
@stereo
if it was reported to be stolen 2 years ago, usually a stolen vehicle report stays alive for a month at most... and that car has been through many hands... and has always been bought/sold for cheap, so the last seller decides to sell for cheap as well
there is NO WAY of knowing if it was the very one that got stolen neither. especially if it was a common vehicle not some very rare 1 out of 10 produced in the world. no one would even bother checking neither
and i don't think anyone would sell a stolen vehicle within the month it got stolen, they hold onto it till the 'case goes cold'
meso =/= money, virtual items =/= cars, and the consequences are different... sure
but the concept of real people trading an item suspected of being acquired by illegal means that has no way of knowing if it really is or not... for a good deal is the same
99% of the cases, the car you buy would not be repossessed even if it WAS fraudulent...
most of the cars reported stolen that got back are the ones stolen by idiots who only needed a random car for a short drive and just dumped off somewhere on the side of the streets. those with cars that are targeted to be stolen by the "professional" car smuggling ring would never see their owner ever again... unless it was one of the world's rarest cars ... of which you can be sure it was stolen and reported to the owner but no one in their right mind would even try to steal that... just writes "i stole this car from _____" all over the face
if it was reported to be stolen 2 years ago, usually a stolen vehicle report stays alive for a month at most... and that car has been through many hands... and has always been bought/sold for cheap, so the last seller decides to sell for cheap as well
there is NO WAY of knowing if it was the very one that got stolen neither. especially if it was a common vehicle not some very rare 1 out of 10 produced in the world. no one would even bother checking neither
and i don't think anyone would sell a stolen vehicle within the month it got stolen, they hold onto it till the 'case goes cold'
meso =/= money, virtual items =/= cars, and the consequences are different... sure
but the concept of real people trading an item suspected of being acquired by illegal means that has no way of knowing if it really is or not... for a good deal is the same
99% of the cases, the car you buy would not be repossessed even if it WAS fraudulent...
most of the cars reported stolen that got back are the ones stolen by idiots who only needed a random car for a short drive and just dumped off somewhere on the side of the streets. those with cars that are targeted to be stolen by the "professional" car smuggling ring would never see their owner ever again... unless it was one of the world's rarest cars ... of which you can be sure it was stolen and reported to the owner but no one in their right mind would even try to steal that... just writes "i stole this car from _____" all over the face