Moral problem ...

[vixpy1]

Sell em

[zcacogp]

Recently (in the last 6 months) I have had a car radio stolen from my car, and a car stolen with a radio fitted.

Both radios had face-off security devices, which I still have.

I could flog these faces (without radios to go behind them) for about £5 each on Ebay. Which would be cash for me to spend on jungle-juice, brake pads, track days or whatever. Or, more accurately, to put towards the cost of replacing the car and radio.

BUT, if I sell them, I know that I may well enable someone who has a stolen radio without a front to make that radio work (be it my radio or someone else's.)

Therefore, I have a moral dilemma. Do I sell the fronts for the £10 it gains me, or decide that I don't want to even slightly encourage the stolen car radio trade and destroy the fronts?

Opinions please ...



Oli.

[alexkp]

vixpy1 said:

Sell em

Spoken like a true businessman.

[pzero64]

I would keep them. You never know, one day the stolen goods might be returned to you.

[EmmaP]

Is it really worth the hassle? Best not encourage thieves any more than they need, if your action will indeed do just that.

[J_S_G]

I would sink even lower...

Search EBay/local breakers/local dodgy bloke for a matching stereo that's been nabbed. Buy it (without fascia) for a tenner. Then flog the stereo WITH fascia on EBay for whatever the going rate is (£100+?)

[paolow]

J_S_G said:

I would sink even lower... Search EBay/local breakers/local dodgy bloke for a matching stereo that's been nabbed. Buy it (without fascia) for a tenner. Then flog the stereo WITH fascia on EBay for whatever the going rate is (£100+?)

yep - exactly what i would do.

[JonRB]

The way I see it is that the stolen stereos are useless without the front panels, therefore if you sell them on eBay then you making the theft worthwhile - encouraging it even.

Is £10 really worth that?

[J_S_G]

JonRB said:

The way I see it is that the stolen stereos are useless without the front panels, therefore if you sell them on eBay then you making the theft worthwhile - encouraging it even. Is £10 really worth that?

£10 might not be... but the £200+ or so you could make off a pair of functioning stereos with fascias might be...

Morally wrong, I know; just a suggestion...

[raceboy]

Stereo fronts aren't just bought by crooks
Has no one ever sat on one?
Lost one?
Bought a second hand car that the last owner lost the faceplate for?

[J_S_G]

anonymous said:

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Ah... Gecko.

I work for a bank, what can I say...

[BliarOut]

If it's Pioneer, post the model number and I'll buy it off you if it's the right model. Some scrote nicked just the front from one of mine from a swimming pool locker.

I mean, what effin use is that to them

[PatHeald]

raceboy said:

Stereo fronts aren't just bought by crooks Has no one ever sat on one? Lost one?

Yep.

I dropped mine.

It cost £25 to have it fixed. I'd have happily bought yours for £10 and you could have kept your clear conscience.

[Mustard]

I bought one off e-bay to REPLACE my existing one because the display illumination had broken for £1.99 I was well chuffed, not all e-bayers are scrots

[king arthur]

BliarOut said:

If it's Pioneer, post the model number and I'll buy it off you if it's the right model. Some scrote nicked just the front from one of mine from a swimming pool locker. I mean, what effin use is that to them

Well, they apparently can sell it on Ebay for a fiver...

[simpo two]

Sell 'em.