Who would buy a chainsaw off eBay?

[Arborwear UK]

Does buying second hand saws, from such avenues as eBay, fuel the demand for those who are prepared to acquire (steal)?

[eggsarascal]

What did I pay jon? Can't remember?

 

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Cheap money for a like new saw.

[Ian C]

Cheap money for a like new saw.

 

It wasn't that cheap eggs, jon is a tight arse.650 I think it was jon.

 

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[Ian C]

Does buying second hand saws, from such avenues as eBay, fuel the demand for those who are prepared to acquire (steal)?

 

Yes it does but it will never stop.

 

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[Chris Sheppard]

Have bought a few saws off ebay and have been happy enough with all of them, though some have been better than I was expecting.

 

None of them have been particularly high value saws so have usually bid what they were worth to me as parts so as to take into account how someone elses opinion of a good runner may differ to mine.

 

Usually you can get a bit of a feel from how the advert is written and/or what reply you get from the seller.

[H-A]

Does buying second hand saws, from such avenues as eBay, fuel the demand for those who are prepared to acquire (steal)?

 

An auction site, selling any thing links the seller to an address.

 

Nicked stuff will be word of mouth or boot sales.

 

Saying that there is loads of stolen stuff sold on ebay, if the serial numbers are intact, the saw should be traceable. It is a simple fact that main dealers have little interest after the saw is sold. The police have even less interest in stolen saws.

 

Perhaps there should be an Arbtalk chainsaw number database.

It would allow any owner of a chainsaw to log saw type and number into a database.

 

Then any saw sold on ebay could be subject to a simple serial number request.

 

If the seller of the saw can't give details of the serial number then don't buy it, as it may be nicked.

 

Worth a thought Steve, would that be possible to produce such a data base, that could flag up stolen gear?

 

H-A

[Steve Bullman]

An auction site, selling any thing links the seller to an address.

 

Nicked stuff will be word of mouth or boot sales.

 

Saying that there is loads of stolen stuff sold on ebay, if the serial numbers are intact, the saw should be traceable. It is a simple fact that main dealers have little interest after the saw is sold. The police have even less interest in stolen saws.

 

Perhaps there should be an Arbtalk chainsaw number database.

It would allow any owner of a chainsaw to log saw type and number into a database.

 

Then any saw sold on ebay could be subject to a simple serial number request.

 

If the seller of the saw can't give details of the serial number then don't buy it, as it may be nicked.

 

Worth a thought Steve, would that be possible to produce such a data base, that could flag up stolen gear?

 

H-A

 

Yes I have something in the pipeline

[H-A]

Yes I have something in the pipeline

 

Sounds good, hope it works out.

 

H-A

[121NetDesign]

To create an online database which allow every user to register their machine is quite easy.

 

HB are quite happy to host this within their site and we are happy to build and support.

 

The only questions are regarding privacy. What information is public, and what info is available to 'the authorities'. What about when equipment gets sold and the database isn't updated by the seller?

 

The DB would quickly become useless

Edited March 7, 2014 by 121NetDesign

[peatff]

What saw is a 540 xp, it should be a top handle shouldn't it ? It looks like they are getting it mixed up with the 560 xp they were selling under a different name with a very similar description.