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Originally Posted by HansTWN
If the store has no legal right to sell you an item you cannot legally take possession of it. It doesn't belong to you, even though you paid for it and you have to give it up. You really have no choice in the matter. The store that sold it to you must compensate you for any losses, of course.
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You are probably right, but even so, it's not the store owner that can come and take the book back. I won't give it to him, and he has no right to take it. He will have to do it through the police.
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Originally Posted by shalym
Actually, for this particular incident (the Amazon case), think of Amazon like a consignment shop. If a consignment shop sells something for a person, and that thing is later determined to be stolen, then the police absolutely have the right to come in and take the object from the buyer, with no compensation at all.
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The police, yes.
The shop owner, no.
As I said above.