I used to work at a music shop buying and selling used CD's, vinyl music and DVD's. It was pretty common for us to deal with stuff that was obviously stolen. W

I used to work at a music shop buying and selling used CD's, vinyl music and DVD's. It was pretty common for us to deal with stuff that was obviously stolen. We had a couple (man and woman) who would come in the day of releases with like a dozen DVD's of high selling releases. It was so obvious so if we thought or knew stuff was stolen, we'd completely low ball them in effort to dissuade them from coming back. After a while, my manager said he wouldn't take this couples stuff any more - which lead to a heated conversation before my manager told them he wasn't an idiot, he knew they were stealing shit for their drug habit and they should stop coming here to sell their stuff. Anyways. . . One day some teenagers come in with two huge CD carriers of CD's. All very eclectic stuff. My manager was spotted some really rare stuff like Pearl Jam bootlegs, and some other stuff. He was looking through it and it was clear we were both seeing the same thing. He told me to tell these kids we'll go through it and come back in like 20 minutes because it will take a bit to go through it all. My manager pulls me into the back and is like, "Clearly this shit is stolen. This isn't just a random box of CD's either man, this is someone's collection. Some of the stuff in there is ultra rare, some of the stuff I would love to have in my collection. We have to do the right thing here man." Kids come back and he he gives them like $30 for the collection, it was like pennies on the dollar for everything. These kids, they don't care, they got $30 to blow on whatever. My boss tells me he's going to put an ad in the local alternative paper about the collection to see if he can get it back to the rightful owner and to set aside in the meantime, its not even going into our inventory. Two days later, gets a call. My manager tells him to come in. Says if he can identify the case and five of the CD's in the collection, he'll give it back. Dude not only told him the five, he listed the entirety of one of the cases. It was pretty obvious it was his. We did this a few other times and were successful, so it kind of made up for some of the other stuff we were expected to do. So many stories working there, it was as close to working at a pawn shop as you can probably imagine.