Airwolf 3D robbed, 13 printers gone.

[curious aardvark]

well it kind of boils down to how much money you have, how much money the company who was robbed has and whether or not anybody actualy offers you something you really want for a ridiculous amount of money.

Given the printers were insured and the compnay would also have been insured against theft - they haven't actually lost any money.

So, yeah, while I'm against theft of any kind, given the right circumstances, I would not rule out buying stolen goods.

Case in point: a friend of ours has a son who has a friend who was selling gtech k9 airram vacumn cleaners for £150 last year. Think they sold 8 to family members.
They should retail at around the £230 mark and are just about the best cordless vacumn cleaner on the planet.
So my mum said she'd have one, 'cos, you know he must have got a really good deal on a bulk purchase'
I said: they've clearly fallen off the back of a warehouse.
Anyway it never turned up, also clearly because the person who'd been nicking them had been caught or the warehouse had figured out what was going on and closed the breach.

So last week costco had a deal on gtech arirams for £167 - I paid the difference and my mum got an unstolen one for £150.
But had the 'nicked' one ever shown up - yes we'd have bought it. And most likely so would you :-)

Hell anyone who's ever bought anything at a car boot sale, or something really cheap from ebay has a 50% chance (at the very least) of being guilty of buying stolen goods.

Yes the right thing is to go: 'buy stolen goods ? Never !'
But realistically, the vast majority of people when faced with a very very cheap thing they want and the moral decision to pay full price, would most likely buy the cheap thing and pretend they didn't know it was most likely nicked.

Sad, but it is fundamental human nature.