Rick C Johnson

eBay listings for "Bicycle frame": 125
eBay listings for "Bicycle": 9231
eBay listings all: 14,625,671
That works out to be that bicycle frames are 1.35% of bicycle listings
and 0.0000085% of all eBay listings. I would expect it's not going to be
much of a concern to them...

You might also consider the chop shop business model. When your product
is free (because you stole it) you can still turn a profit selling the
non-serialized parts and throwing away the frame. This is done with cars
to the tune of billions of dollars a year. Vehicle registration and VIN
checks haven't made much difference.

Rick

Jay Rideout wrote:

>Suz,
>I agree, it is the weak part of this proposal, and, unfortunately the person that is racing the stolen property is probably a third party.
>
>The value of this type of property should make this a reasonable request to eBay. I'll pursue this... is there anybody out there that has some inside contacts with eBay?
>thanx,
>Jay
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Suz Weldon
>To: obra@list.obra.org
>Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 9:11:04 AM
>Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Something to consider
>
>
>Do you really think any sort of significant number of people stealing
>the bikes are actually participating in ANY events? More likely the
>bikes are going to meth addicts who turn around and sell them for a
>few hundred bucks. Or going on eBay. Here's a better idea: propose
>to eBay that they require bike sellers to list the serial number.
>
>suz
>
>Quoting Jay Rideout :
>
>
>
>>It seems we can't go very long with hearing or reading about
>>somebody's bike getting stolen. With the setup and preperation time
>> and money ($1000 to $6000 with a few higher or lower) we each it
>>is a devestating loss.
>>
>>I would like to propose that we include a make/model/serial number
>>on our event registration. I'm thinking that between OBRA, WSBA,
>>Cascade, and some of the other organizations it might create a
>>deterent. If stolen numbers are listed with the various
>>organizations and somebody registers with matching number it would
>>help lead to property recovery.
>>
>>Just a thought,
>>
>>Jay
>>
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