Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc and Buzz, I don't know about the legal aspects of posting serial numbers. However, I like the ideal of posting becasue it makes disposal of stolen goods slightly more difficult. As a buyer I want to be quite sure that I am buying from a person who has the right to sell, ie, the ower, or legitimate agent. It's a small thing we can all do to protect ourselves--to a limited degree--from crooks. Joe Stephenson - -----Original Message----- From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 7:32 AM Subject: [Leica] COMPLETE Serial Numbers, Please! >At 07:50 AM 1998-09-16 -0400, Jeffrey "Buzz" Hausner wrote: >>Hunt; do not post the entire >>serial number, replace the last two digits with Xs so that nobody can claim >>it as stolen from her or his collection. Thus, camera #1765432 would be >>posted as 17654XX.. > >This is complete, unadulterate, bosh. There is no way, under US law, at >any rate, that such a claim would hold up unless the cameras were, indeed, >stolen. Folks who believe that posting the entire number puts them at risk >are of the same lack of, er, sophistication as those folks who believe that >street hoods are able to distinguish between a Leica and a Kodak point 'n >shoot. > >I will not assist those who fail to post or to send me privately the >complete s/n, simply as a matter of principle -- I will not feed another's >abject paranoia. > >Marc > > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >