My new crack head ghetto saw

[spacemule]

So who is the ahole, the guy that stole it or bought it?

They're both a form of theft, and both are crimes.

 

[spacemule]

Has anyone on this board been missing a 660?

 

[dragrcr]

WOW, you have no way of saying it is stolen, just as possible that someone traded it to him for an 8ball, or he was into saws before the grip of meth took hold, there are hundreds of senarios where that saw could have been legit.

 

[spacemule]

WOW, you have no way of saying it is stolen, just as possible that someone traded it to him for an 8ball, or he was into saws before the grip of meth took hold, there are hundreds of senarios where that saw could have been legit.

There are plenty of red flags in that description to get him in major trouble.

 

[angelo c]

Has anyone on this board been missing a 660?

I "miss" a 660 everytime I look at a 390-395 ya never forgit yer first girlfriend....:angel::hmm3grin2orange:

 

[sawbones]

WOW, you have no way of saying it is stolen, just as possible that someone traded it to him for an 8ball, or he was into saws before the grip of meth took hold, there are hundreds of senarios where that saw could have been legit.

sure a lota cr@p hitting the fan in this thread...

my lumber jack-equipment operating -4x4 monster truck building buddy
bought a new 046 mag for 900 bucks about 8-10 years ago..

he got into smoking cokecane and it fried his brain. he hocked lots of stuff to support his habit..

he hocked the 46mag and I bought it back out of the pawn shop for 200 bucks..

crack, coke, meth....it all fries your brain and makes once good people do crazy things..

RIP jeffery troy boggs. he died of a cocain overdose 5 years ago

 

[Justsaws]

gregz, did you get the crack head you bought the saw from to give you any form of receipt? These days with the serious increase in theft I suggest that any craigslist deal be finalized by the seller signing,dating and detailing a printed copy of the ad. If they will not then walk away and report suspected theft.

Keep some sort of record with details so that if it turns out to be stolen you can prove that you were not the original and possibly violent thief with a long list of crimes.

 

[Gypo Logger]

For 300 $, that's the best score east of the rocky mountains! Good on ya.
But are you gonna cut any wood with it, or you just gonna flip it for 800$?
Gypo

 

[Gypo Logger]

I'll trade ya for a 100 Ft. roll of 33RS, they say a roll is going for 5 big ones?
Gypo

 

[Gologit]

I think there is just alot of sour grapes. I'd bet anyone on his site would buy a mint o la 660 for $300 bucks if givin the op
I won't lose any sleep buyin a hot saw.And pretty sure every time somebody post a great CL saw deal 50/50 it 's hot who knows I don't care

I wouldn't buy a saw that I was sure was stolen. I doubt most of the people on AS would, either, and to imply that they would is insulting.

You're as much of a crook as the guy that sold you the saw.

 

[SkippyKtm]

I wouldn't buy a saw that I was sure was stolen. I doubt most of the people on AS would, either, and to imply that they would is insulting.

You're as much of a crook as the guy that sold you the saw.

Man, this thread is getting almost as Hot as that BarkBuster Thread...opcorn:

 

[AUSSIE1]

Man, this thread is getting almost as Hot as that BarkBuster Thread...opcorn:

Yeah tommorow it'l be about ego's.

Here if you receive stolen goods innocently, you loose the item and any monies paid.
Be a bugger if you loose the saw and the bucks.

 

[junkyarddoggie]

Let's see a $1000 pro saw for 300, enough said. I have to agree I would'nt want to share any details of the purchase. I bought my 660 for 600 bucks and I thought it was a deal. I know for a fact that one was ligit.

 

[MAKEITOUTOFWOOD]

Man, this thread is getting almost as Hot as that BarkBuster Thread...opcorn:

You would really really have to try very herd to surpass the entertainment factor of the BarkBuster thread.

Something about young know it all kids spouting of at the mouth that just "cracks" me up.

 

[wigglesworth]

Let's see a $1000 pro saw for 300, enough said. I have to agree I would'nt want to share any details of the purchase. I bought my 660 for 600 bucks and I thought it was a deal. I know for a fact that one was ligit.

I bought a 1 year old MS 460 for $300 from a pulp wood logger who buys new every year. He called me a while after that and offered me a 660 for $400. Good deals do happen. But the guy didnt live in a crack house in the ghetto. I think if the OP didnt state were he got the saw, just said I got it on CL, we would had all suspected it was stolen, but not said much about it. Why, because we all want a deal like that.

 

[Lurch2]

The OP also said "it cleaned up real well". We didn't get to see the before pics. If it was covered in chips/oil etc. it might not have looked like such an obvious "steal".

Just an observation.

 

[roncoinc]

AH,,,the moral delima of it all..
many,many,many, MANY,,,years ago when i was still very young and foolish and thought the world owed me everything i knowingly bought something that was stolen..the thing HAUNTED me afterwards so i gave it away to somebody that really needed it ( poor ) trying to vindicate myself.. that didnt work,still haunts me to this day..40 yrs later i still freely help andbody i can however i can and preach moral responsability..
Karma is a b**ch,,since then i have had tools stolen,computers stolen,guns stolen and two harleys stolen..
" it aint wuth nuthin less you earn it"
.........

 

[edisto]

Lets just say the dude I bought if from never ran a saw, cut a tree etc. I was at the ghetto dope house maybe 10 minutes and nice steady foot traffic of americas most wanted were in an out.

I think there is just alot of sour grapes. I'd bet anyone on his site would buy a mint o la 660 for $300 bucks if givin the op
I won't lose any sleep buyin a hot saw.

Clearly your statement about not losing sleep is the truth given your description of the purchase. More importantly, you had no qualms about posting these details to the forum, where there have been a number of threads posted by people who have had equipment stolen from them.

Your first post left the suggestion that you didn't care if your gain was someone's total loss. The followups, for the most part, gave you a chance to explain your reasoning, even to the point of offering several alternative suggestions to the idea that the saw was stolen. Your most recent post confirms that you simply don't give a crap.

The concerns voiced here aren't the result of jealousy, they are either designed to inform you that you risk getting yourself into trouble, or to relay how much it sucks to have something stolen. Someone paid full price for that saw at one point, the question is whether they lost the whole thing, or willingly gave up most of it.

What I HOPE I would do under similar circumstances would be to <i> gamble</i> on a deal like that. Buy the saw, then check the SN with the local PD or whomever to make certain it has not been reported stolen. Post that here and you'll get congratulated on 2 counts...but post that you don't care how you get a good deal on a saw, as long as you get a deal, and you're not likely to make a whole lot of friends.

 

[Saw Dr.]

This thread is kinda like teaching your kid to ride a bike. I knew as soon as it started that there were going to be at least a few skinned knees, and probably worse.

Fact is, any of us who have a collection of saws gathered through private-party transactions runs the risk of having stolen goods. I was discussing this with a cop friend of mine a few weeks back. He told me to just use some common sense when buying stuff, and not to worry about it. Apparently it is very rare for a person to even report a stolen saw, let alone have the serial number and/or bill of purchase on hand to prove it. I was worried that somehow one of my saws would turn up to be ill-gotten, and they'd come and run the #'s on all of my stuff (not a small job ) and find more. I have only gotten a bad feeling about one purchase, and that was after the fact on a vintage one. I doubt anybody is missing it, but hopefully it is legit.

It has been said that integrity is what you do when nobody is watching. I'm not saying if I would have passed on that $300 660 or not. I certainly would not have advertised it to the world either way. I SERIOUSLY doubt many on here would have passed on that one if they had the cash. So what is worse, METH, or CAD???

 

[RandyMac]

Meth is clearly the worst, OCD chainsaw hoarding is ok.

Meth destroys all who use it, it makes herion look like candy.