No because he can sell what he wants to as we have said there are some weird and wonderful collectors and also he has advertised with parts of a chassis and has been discussed it could be rebuilt part for part new for old, until a deefinate offence has been commited and a vehicle 'rung' there is no offence being commited and they have enough actual crimes going on let alone an email to state 'there is a chance that this id could be used illegally'
let em chase the actual stolen landies n ringers or we will be seeing more posts on here slating the police as not having time to deal with your landy when its stolen..
they are a finite resource as with most government departments and they have enough actual crime to deal with I'm sure
Cheers Steve
Do you seriously think that anyone will rebuild that piece of scrap into a two door range rover using new parts?
Landrover theft is a serious problem, people openly selling vehicle ID's on ebay may only be a small part of the problem but they are part of it non the less.
TBH I'm less concerned about the selling of tax exempt ID's than i am in the selling of ID's from modern vehicles that could be used for ringing, but I have to pay road tax for the vehicles i run so why should other ****s get away without it? Even so, we've seen from this forum that older vehicles are being stolen as well so any ID could be used on a stolen vehicle.
As for the police not being interested, how difficult would it be for them to take a note of these vehicle registration numbers and flag them up on their national data bases, so if they are used for ringing or VED fraud then the relevant vehicles stand a good chance of being pulled? How much effort would that take?
Just because you can think of some prosaic reason why someone might have a legitimate reason for wanting to buy such an item, doesn't mean that we as a society should ignore the negative aspects of allowing such an item to be sold. I might want to collect rocket launchers or nuclear war heads, but for some reason namby pamby do gooders have decided that i shouldn't be allowed to.
Likewise, just because something is technically legal, doesn't mean that a private company like ebay have to allow its sale on their auction site, i can legally own an item of Nazi memorabilia, i couldn't sell it on ebay though. Ebay can have whatever rules it wants, if they wanted to stop this trade they could, but they couldn't give a monkeys. When there's an expose about it in the national press, something will be done, but it will likely be a blanket ban that will effect the majority of honest sellers as well as the few greedy ****s who are currently taking the ****. Applying a modicum of judgement and common sense isn't really in ebay's repertoire.
Guess that answers that question
