Petition to make selling stolen bikes harder. Listing of frame numbers to be made mandatory on eBay.
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Petition - make it mandatory for eBay bike sellers to list frame numbers
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Posted 11 years ago #
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I'm not really sure it needs to be mandatory tbh. Just a education programme that suggests people who don't are up to something...
Posted 11 years ago # -
What would stop a thief from entering a made up frame number?
Posted 11 years ago # -
Is there a database of frame numbers that the public can check to see if the bike they're buying is stolen? I'm guessing the police might have one but I'm not too sure they'd be happy with lots of folk phoning up, "I've seen a bike on eBay and just want to check if it's stolen".
Mind you there's probably a lot of people don't care if a bike's stolen as long as they're getting a bargain.
Posted 11 years ago # -
What would stop a thief from entering a made up frame number?
Asking them to see a picture of the FM on the frame?
Posted 11 years ago # -
Is there a database of frame numbers that the public can check to see if the bike they're buying is stolen?
https://www.bikeregister.com/ https://www.bikeregister.com/bike-checkerPosted 11 years ago # -
"What would stop a thief from entering a made up frame number? "
They wouldn't have to - E-bay would effectively be providing a list of legitimate numbers to copy.
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