How Do I Find Out If I Bought A Stolen Book?

[incoflip]

I'm almost hesitant to ask this here because the book is not "in my hands" and I may be the target of a scam that I read about frequently here.

 

I JUST purchased a Silver Age KEY on a non-comic site. It had been up only a few hours...paid thru paypal with a 21 days return policy stated on the post. I bought it for nearly nothing and now I'm scared the book may be stolen. Is there somewhere I can go on the registry to see if someone is looking for a stolen book?

[James J]

Do you have a picture ?

[Ares]

What site did you buy on?

[James J]

Is there a thread for stole books on the forum?

[kav]

If you post a pic someone here can probly ID if stolen.....

[Wally's Comics]

you might have just bought a stolen picture of a book.

[miraclemet]

you can try to add it to your registry and see if it pops up as being in someone else's registry.

 

though thats faaaaaaaaaaaaar from anything conclusive (people sell books all the time and dont think to update their registry).

 

Your best bet is to post the listing and/or the photo/scan of the book, and the detectives here will tell you in no time if its a scam...

[miraclemet]

you might have just bought a stolen picture of a book.

 

+1 far more likely than someone actually selling a stolen book.

[Hulksdaddy1]

Pic and site, STAT.

[James J]

I'm going to grab something to eat....Kav you got this?

[kav]

Pic and site, STAT.

[kav]

I'm going to grab something to eat....Kav you got this?

Yup.

[VintageComics]

I'm almost hesitant to ask this here because the book is not "in my hands" and I may be the target of a scam that I read about frequently here.

 

I JUST purchased a Silver Age KEY on a non-comic site. It had been up only a few hours...paid thru paypal with a 21 days return policy stated on the post. I bought it for nearly nothing and now I'm scared the book may be stolen. Is there somewhere I can go on the registry to see if someone is looking for a stolen book?

 

This would be the first place to check.

 

http://www.stolencomic.com/

[kav]

Can you at least quickly tell us what book/what price?

So we know what we're dealing with?

[Spidey-fan73]

cant help without any evidence. was it an AF 15 ebay scam?

[James J]

I'm almost hesitant to ask this here because the book is not "in my hands" and I may be the target of a scam that I read about frequently here.

 

I JUST purchased a Silver Age KEY on a non-comic site. It had been up only a few hours...paid thru paypal with a 21 days return policy stated on the post. I bought it for nearly nothing and now I'm scared the book may be stolen. Is there somewhere I can go on the registry to see if someone is looking for a stolen book?

 

This would be the first place to check.

 

http://www.stolencomic.com/

 

Wow that is great....you can even search by cgc number

[kav]

And PS to future posters with similar issues: don't let the info trickle in....just give us what you got-all of it....

[miraclemet]

cant help without any evidence. was it an AF 15 ebay scam?

 

since he said non-comic, Im assuming its not craigslist or ebay...

 

maybe... OP providing some details (since s/he is looking for answers) would be nice

 

[kav]

cant help without any evidence. was it an AF 15 ebay scam?

 

since he said non-comic, Im assuming its not craigslist or ebay...

 

maybe... OP providing some details (since s/he is looking for answers) would be nice

 

+Infiity

[mschmidt]

I'm almost hesitant to ask this here because the book is not "in my hands" and I may be the target of a scam that I read about frequently here.

 

I JUST purchased a Silver Age KEY on a non-comic site. It had been up only a few hours...paid thru paypal with a 21 days return policy stated on the post. I bought it for nearly nothing and now I'm scared the book may be stolen. Is there somewhere I can go on the registry to see if someone is looking for a stolen book?

 

So basically ... the deal was too good to be true?

 

Well, you know what they say about that.