A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves

Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by caf on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:42AM (#12434015)

  But do you know 5miles? Or Letgo?  Or OfferUp or Neerbuy
  or Saily or VarageSale? These sites are a visual
  marketplace, showing pictures of an item but often 
  including few words to describe it. They offer the seller
  anonymity while making it hard for police or others to
  search the web for keywords. Lost a bike? You could spend
  hours scrolling through pictures across more than a
  half-dozen sites trying to track it down. Then do it
  again the next day. These sites may sell legit
  merchandise. But they’re also the 21st-century way to
  fence stolen goods.

This makes it sound an awful lot like these sites are knowingly - or at least with a Lucille Bluth wink - catering to people fencing stolen goods.

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Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by bfuller on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:46AM (#12434029)

I seriously doubt their business model is based on fencing stolen goods but I would be interested to hear the customer service directors excuse for why this is not the case.

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Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by j28xfc5qsc on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @07:32PM (#12440013)

I don't work for one of those apps, but have used one. I like it because it is a lower-friction way to buy and sell items. I can take pictures of items in my garage with my phone and quickly list them without going to my desktop and writing up a Craigslist post. It's the same old story of Uber/Tinder/etc making something easy to do on your phone.

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