TheOtherAirForce
This feels like victim blaming on behalf of EVGA. If I buy a stolen car and I don't know it's stolen, that makes me a victim too! Buying second hand or even 'new' from any individual these days is not unheard of given the short supply of these cards. I've been trying since May to buy any Shelby GT350. The closest I've gotten is walking into a store only to have the car sold 10 minutes before I got there (no phone holds!). If I pay regular price or more online for a car, how am I suppose to know it's stolen? Now that Ford/Shelby knows these cars have been stolen, they should either publish the serial numbers or make a page available where serial numbers can be entered to see if they are valid. That way I can ask an eBay seller to send me a picture of the VIN and I can check to see if it is stolen. Problem solved. With the low supply, these cars could also end up on the shelf of a local dealership, they aren't always the most reputable.
Possession of a stolen good is only illegal (at least in Canada) if I am in possession of it KNOWINGLY. A reasonable person would have to have reason to believe the car is stolen. No one is paying below market value for these cars. No one is going to know these cars are stolen. The scalpers are making sure of that with there inflated prices. Even sites like Shelby.com are allowing scalpers to sell at inflated prices.
Ford is certainly alienating me as a customer, just reading through these forums have made me think twice. I guess that's my fault, too?
What a crappy post to read this morning, being scolded and warned that possession of stolen property is illegal. Thanks for the legal advice, not like anyone here would know they purchased a stolen card anyway.
I have gone through and changed every reference to a GPU into a reference for a Shelby GT350. WHY would I do that, because if a car is stolen, you would have access to the VIN, once you got the car, and wouldn’t be able to register it because it was stolen.
You may be able to find someone that sends you the VIN, but it is incredibly unlikely that the seller would give you any information prior to sale if they know it is stolen.
If you know the vehicle is stolen, or find out when you go to register it, you would contact the police and the agency you used to purchase the vehicle to first report the stolen vehicle, and then provide proof to your banking institute that you were scammed.
Think of the big picture. Ford doesn’t send out a memo that the vin was stolen to every perspective buyer, even though people would want to know. This is exactly the same. You can change any part of this post I to any other product, and the result is the same. Refrigerator you bought from someone and you try to warranty it, but find it was stolen from a lowes shipping truck, the manufacturer won’t warranty a stolen product and you would need to contact police once you found out so that you can try to recover your funds and buy a legitimate product from an authorized retailer. It all applies.
You aren’t being shamed for being scammed, but if you find that you were scammed, you have to do the right thing or silently eat the loss..