HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoHow do you verify that a used bike that you're buying isn't stolen?message-squaremessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up134
arrow-up134message-squareHow do you verify that a used bike that you're buying isn't stolen?HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square16linkfedilink
minus-squareAskewLord@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 month agoI don’t. Not my job. Sold/Bought dozens of used bikes over the years, very low chance any of them was stolen. Flipped quite a few of them too. Just don’t be an idiot. It’s obvious if someone is weird and sketchy, and don’t buy the bike if they act that way.
minus-squareJohnnyEnzyme@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month ago very low chance any of them was stolen. What makes you so confident? The person selling the bike might have little or no knowledge or connection to the theft.
minus-squareAskewLord@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-229 days agohow do people know the bikes I sell aren’t stolen? they don’t.
I don’t. Not my job.
Sold/Bought dozens of used bikes over the years, very low chance any of them was stolen. Flipped quite a few of them too.
Just don’t be an idiot. It’s obvious if someone is weird and sketchy, and don’t buy the bike if they act that way.
What makes you so confident? The person selling the bike might have little or no knowledge or connection to the theft.
how do people know the bikes I sell aren’t stolen?
they don’t.