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..
That's a strawman. Ford doesn't keep track of their cars when they send them out to dealers and most times they don't know they're gone. I wouldn't buy an unregistered car in the first place, can't register them in my province and I need legitimate traceable paperwork at the time of sale to do so. So, the government takes care of that for me. I also have to physically take possession of a car from someone and I can check the VIN against the one they sent to me that I can check during the physical pickup. If they refused to send it before hand, no purchase because it's probably stolen. So this strawman is completely pointless, as I guess they all are. You can race to the bottom and be a car dealer or you can help your customers when you know a batch of serial numbers are out there waiting to rip off potential customers.
At any rate, EVGA clearly knows the batch of serial numbers that was stolen, so instead of being the morality police and warning us about the scary FBI if we traffic in stolen goods, list the serial numbers so some customers have half a chance of avoiding this in the first place. As I said, no one is going to get these cards at a discount. They're going to be sold at inflated price and people are going to think they are legit.
I wouldn't expect EVGA to warranty a stolen product but even if we do the right thing, we're eating the loss one way or another. EVGA can mitigate that and it would be good customer service, that's all.