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How can I tell if a MacBook is stolen? rMBP 13" for $550
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An undamaged Oct. 2013 rMBP, 13", 128gb SSD, 4gb ram is still worth a minimum of $1000 - $1100 on ebay and at the Apple refurbished store. And a new replacement charger doesn't cost much. So who is the real robber here?
Where did I indicate anything else? I indicated that it is not ethical to provide a market for stolen goods. Things like water damage are another possibility when it comes to too good to be true pricing.
Now that was a close call, I drove 45 minutes to meet up with him at a Starbucks, I am ordering a coffee, and he said I walked right by him, and I thought I saw him but wasn't sure, and he told me what he was wearing, anyway I get my coffee, and I see him running out the door, strong wtf, i call him over and over, text him, hangs up on me, and leaves me hanging, I was like wtf? Thing must be stolen as hell, anyway, he never gets back to me, so later I use my brothers phone and told him I was the owner of it and I was notified there was a match in serial numbers from the one that got stolen from me, he apologizes this and that and what not, he said he will bring it do me, now I don't want any stolen anything around me, so I sent him on a hour and a half hike in the opposite direction to a vacant parking lot to "meet me", and I notify the police that this guy has a stolen macbook, now they are going to call me tomorrow if they find a match in the system for the serial number, meanwhile that guy still is on his way out to the vacant lot I sent him to for a nice 3 hour round trip at 1AM in the morning and I am ROFL'ing here...
EDIT: the ****** part tho is I'm out about $30 bucks in gas just screwing around, then another $10 on the MagSafe 2 adapter
EDIT: the ****** part tho is I'm out about $30 bucks in gas just screwing around, then another $10 on the MagSafe 2 adapter
I'm afraid I can't understand a head or tail of what you just wrote. What got stolen from you?
I was echoing your sentiment, not issuing a challenge
I was obviously confused by that one.
I give you props for your cleverness and hopefully he gets busted with the stolen goods.
Nothing got stolen but he did waste gas in his good Samaritan efforts to get the guy with the stolen MBP arrested by the cops.
what spoked him to make him run away?
did you have Aviator sunglasses on, a mustache and did you order a donut?
did you have Aviator sunglasses on, a mustache and did you order a donut?
Why because I turned him into the police and sent him on a 3 hour ride to a vacant parking lot? Smh.. He deserved it
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Honestly, no idea, probably saw my fire department minitor sticking out my side and was thinking holy **** this guy is a cop
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Sorry I wrote those at 1AM
How does that old cliché go? Two wrongs don't make a right.
Perhaps he deserved it, perhaps he didn't. I would have been content to watch him bail like he did, sit down and enjoy my coffee and feel good that I didn't end up with stolen goods.
I wouldn't have been, I've had too much stolen from me in the past and there's nothing I hate more than a thief. He's lucky I didn't instead send him to my house and straighten him out
How would he not have deserved it?
The only way I can imagine that is if he didnt know it was stolen, but he obviously did..
1.) ran out on sale
2.) blatantly apologized while thinking original owner found him, which also goes to show the victim was a stranger to him
I agree. Besides this guys inability to properly type the story, the story itself makes no sense.
1 - Why did the guy run out of the store?
2 - How do you know it was even him?
3 - He told you that you walked right by him. How? You made it seem like he wouldn't answer your texts or calls afterwards.
1. No idea why he ran out of the store, that is why it sounded sketchy as hell, I had one of my buddies with me, maybe he thought I was coming alone or something, or maybe it was that he got too nervous since he had a stolen laptop.
2. I know it was him because he described what he was wearing, black jacket, grey hat, and i thought it was him but wasn't sure until he said i just walked past him over text.
3. After he said I walked past him over texted me, I asked him if there was a spot to plug it in down by where he was sitting, as I was ordering a coffee, and then next thing you know, my messages stopped saying "delivered" as it was imessage and he was gone, so i called him over and over, didn't even ring, then after 10 minutes, i had it ring 2-3 times before he hung up on me and shut his phone back off, after that all my messages were "delivered" then when I sent another, they stopped being delivered so i know he turned his phone off again.
By the way, what seems fishy, as I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody or am I trying to make someone believe me...?
I can believe a dog chewing or biting the cable; but swallowing a copper and rubber clad cable whole - not so much. I mean even animals have an instinct to avoid what's not eatable - they just dont go gulping down whatever they see!