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Disallow selling bikes. If you can't figure out a way to only allow legal resales, you shouldn't be in the business

• novok 5y ago
  And hurt everyone who is legit selling their own bike too.
• Calvin02 5y ago
  If the question is: how do we prevent sale of stolen bikes, I’m not sure how that solves the problem. Is there a possible way for FB and other similar places (offerup, pawn shops, etc.) to verify without some central registry?
  • bhance 5y ago
    bike index has an open API
  • jcrawfordor 5y ago
    Traditional retailers of used goods like pawn shops are usually subject to pretty stringent regulation - not necessarily to determine if goods are stolen, but to record identification of the seller to enable an investigation later. In some places this does include proactively sending a report of items to the police for checking against stolen reports. So there's a pretty clear precedent for regulation of this kind directed towards online marketplaces, but you can no doubt predict the questions around the difference between a pawn shop (being the seller) and Facebook (being not the seller but just a provider of listings).