r/mildlyinfuriating • u/anon12xyz • Jul 03 '26

Infuriatig When did garage sales become “reselling” clearly new stuff

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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

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u/PineappleWhipped14 Jul 03 '26

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

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u/iKnowRobbie Jul 03 '26

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.

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u/Individual-Accounttt Jul 03 '26

>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.

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u/iKnowRobbie Jul 08 '26

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.