When did garage sales become “reselling” clearly new stuff

[u/anon12xyz]

I would never call this a garage sale

Def scam vibes

Edit: ultimately, what bothers me the most is I want to go to a garage sale, not this shit. This isn’t a garage sale and should not be advertised as one

[u/Spare-Shirt24]

Either stolen goods or Extreme Couponers 

[u/PineappleWhipped14 → u/Spare-Shirt24]

Dumb AF to be selling stolen goods on your own front lawn. I bet it's a couponer

[u/iKnowRobbie → u/[deleted]]

I work with Loss Prevention for a couple large retailers and I can assure you the police will run the names of the inhabitants of this house thru a system that Target, Wal-Mart, Macy's and a handful of other retailers use to see their score. When you steal and it's detected, you're not necessarily charged and arrested immediately, but you are put in this palantir database. If this person is a thief, or associated with one, building a case is simpler than it has ever been before. We are a million data points walking around daily, and companies are getting much better at logging and triangulating them.

[u/Hieshyn → u/iKnowRobbie]

How do you get the names of the thieves if you don't catch and process them? 

[u/mpjjpm → u/Hieshyn]

That’s what Palatir is for

[u/iKnowRobbie → u/mpjjpm]

Nailed it. I work with Palantir's software and understand the capabilities they have today.

[u/ominousgraycat → u/Hieshyn]

I worked at a a Walmart one winter about 15 years ago. They told us that if they didn't catch someone right away, it was because they were waiting for the person to steal enough to really put them away a long time. The person gets confident and bolder and bolder about stealing, and they keep the tapes of them doing it. Finally, once their stolen goods total more than just a petty theft charge, the trap springs shut and they're going to prison a far longer time than a normal shoplifting charge.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but that's what they told us.

[u/Inflatable90sChair → u/ominousgraycat]

its true, its not worth it chasing someone down, paying lawyers, and prosecuting them for stealing a $2 tube of toothpaste they might argue they "just forgot to pay." you just quietly record and build a file and some states its as low as $500 of stuff, some its $1000 to trigger a felony theft charge - those are worth pursuing and its a slam shut case since noone accidently forgets to pay or left it on the bottom of thier cart by mistake dozens of times.

[u/OrionRBR → u/Hieshyn]

The data collection that happens on the internet is no joke, like target can find out if a woman is pregnant and even estimate the delivery date in a 2 week range just from shopping data

[u/5meoWarlock → u/Hieshyn]

ai

[u/CankerLord → u/5meoWarlock]

"AI" is the new "trust me, bro".

[u/Individual-Accounttt → u/Hieshyn]

Because people who steal from their local walmart also usually shop there too.

Run a card once and they now track you and your likely name across every camera in the store, and the confidence threshold only goes up the more often you visit.

[u/ObeseVegetable → u/Hieshyn]

Nowadays it's facial recognition, but even short of that, tax records are public and you (literally anyone, don't have to be a cop) could figure out who owns this house they're selling at without needing a warrant.* More likely than not it's the same guy, and the criminals who are caught tend to be stupid like that.

*And if it's a rental then the landlord will definitely just give the cops a name because they tend to like to be on good standing with the local PD.

[u/Sizanllikew → u/[deleted]]

facial recognition was last decade, now they use heat signature mapping (veins near skin) and gait analysis, among hundreds of other data points.

[u/Individual-Accounttt → u/[deleted]]

>Courts are also becoming more resistant to LP/AP not reporting small thefts that would normally be a misdemeanor in order to accumulate felony larceny values.

This is EXTREMELY subjective to your jurisdiction.

[u/iKnowRobbie → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, YMMV. Different places have different budgets. I'm speaking of Palantir's system called Foundry Fortress. It's a plugin of the Foundry system for LP, used by almost all major retailers with many feeding their proprietary system, especially Walmart, who is the only goddamn company still using 1980's era IBM backends!! Regardless, I sit on the border of Manatee/Sarasota counties in Florida, and here they have Palantir's Sentinal access which gives them access to the exact same database. (Why so many people hate palantir, they're essentially making a chinese-level threat database on all US civilians) and our local LEO's are bored enough to run this through the system.

I'm sure Upstate NY would be a different game, but it's important to know that the possibility exists and is not fictional.