Cash converters selling stolen goods

[John_A]

I know a local cash convertes that certainly don't do enough to verify that the person selling them something is the owner of the goods. My local guitar shop is just over the road and they had a few pedals knicked out of a cabinet, they were sold to cash converters over the road in new condition with the shops price tags still on there for 15% of their value.

[digitalkettle]

Back in 2010, a similar store sold my Analogman KOT on ebay just after it was lifted from the customs-in section at the international mail hub in Coventry...tried my bestest but there was nothing that could be done

[PhantomRouge]

Does anyone know how the stores determine the value of an item? Do they have a cursory glance at eBay for second-hand prices, or is there some sort of general database?

[Dulcetjones]

Have a chat with plod. A mate runs a 2nd hand shop and has to record the name, address and see ID of every seller. As with all such establishments, the cops do pop in from time to time to browse his purchases book....

That's the law here in Ontario, Canada, and a shop owner can not only lose the item he pawned and the cash he got for it but also gets a fine, if caught with stolen goods and no record of ID of the person that pawned it. This helped police catch the thieves that broke into my house and stole my 1967 Fender Mustang a few years ago, along with the store owner having a video camera trained on the the front door. This not only showed their faces clearly as they entered the store and approached the counter with my guitar in hand, but also got their van including license plate(they parked right in front of the door). I got the guitar back the same day and the shop owner got his money back several months later through a victims claim prigram.