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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2454884, member: 76863"]Using emotion from a single personal experience is how the worst laws end up on the books.</p><p><br /></p><p>But like mentioned there is no law against you speaking up and warning the widow if you actually did witness this. The law also would not have prevented this from happening nor is it even clear anything illegal took place without more details. If the dealer lied about their value that is fraud which is already illegal. If all the dealer said was I will pay you this or I will give you half of spot price the law does not dictate what percentage of value someone has to offer for items (nor should it) without lying you are dealing in a gray area at best that is generally on the legal side of the line. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then there is the fact that registration wouldn't even change anything anyway. People being ripped off don't know they were ripped off. They were happy with the sale price which is why the accepted it in the first place. So now the system is banking on people that don't have a clue what happened making reports. Most people can see that the most likely motivation for this law was a new tax on businesses and taxes from out of state ones as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2454884, member: 76863"]Using emotion from a single personal experience is how the worst laws end up on the books. But like mentioned there is no law against you speaking up and warning the widow if you actually did witness this. The law also would not have prevented this from happening nor is it even clear anything illegal took place without more details. If the dealer lied about their value that is fraud which is already illegal. If all the dealer said was I will pay you this or I will give you half of spot price the law does not dictate what percentage of value someone has to offer for items (nor should it) without lying you are dealing in a gray area at best that is generally on the legal side of the line. Then there is the fact that registration wouldn't even change anything anyway. People being ripped off don't know they were ripped off. They were happy with the sale price which is why the accepted it in the first place. So now the system is banking on people that don't have a clue what happened making reports. Most people can see that the most likely motivation for this law was a new tax on businesses and taxes from out of state ones as well.[/QUOTE]
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