If a thief is selling your stolen car, would that not be very easy to locate by showing interest in buying it? Am I missing something?

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potato3732842 2 days ago | parent [-]

A lot of people lack the ability to do or credibly threaten sufficient violence for that to be actionable. Serving all the details up to the cops, who have nearly infinite ability to threaten violence, on a silver platter "here's your open and shut auto theft case, now go pad your stats" is the more tractable solution.

	▲	mercora 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		that is not that either though or is it? i mean say i found my vehicle on some platform for sale and then located it with their service, now what? i call the cops i suppose, i dont see how this is much different to calling them once they agreed to meet somewhere.