Newboy Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 From time to time I flick thru the stolen page on Boatandoutboards just to see what's been nicked. I can't help but seem to remeber having seen the very same picture sometime before. Sometime it might be the boat, the distintive decal or once I even remembered the house in the background. I wonder can it be that thieves are targeting people selling boat thru the web or on boat mags? I'm trying to sell my outboard thru them and have this guy expressing interest, but he ignored my 3 attempts to get him to ring me on the phone. All he seems to want is my address so that he can come down and veiw it next week. His email is on hotmail which has absolutely no credential. He can be who he say he is or he can just be a thief. Not that I mind him stealing the outboard (I can claim on the insurance) but he might choose to chainsaw thru the transome or worse nicking the whole bloody trailer with Sweet Honey on it. I might be paranoid but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Kam, Quite right being paranoid. I too am always wary and if you were going to steal a boat / outboard then what better way than getting the address details from the internet. Obviously, if you tried hard enough you could work out where people live / keep their boats but you certainly don't want to make the job easy for any potential thief. Having a hotmail address and no reponse to phone calls certainly sounds suspicious. BTW: Have you noticed the stolenboats.org link at the bottom of the front page of the web site. Worth keeping an eye on. Finally, I have started taking notes of boats I see being towed when I am coming home from / going to work - this is after I found out I had probably driven past two which were in the process of being stolen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swainiac Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Kam...dead right to be sus of this character. Tell him no personal details, no sale. He will either agree to give you some form of I.D. or disapear to rob some other less suspicious vendor. Youve done right. Far too many folk are too open, expecting others to be just as honest...cynical old me knows that unfortunately, they aint!!! Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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