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Originally Posted by Apache
In the US you can be charged with buying stolen merchandise if the authorities decide that you paid to low a price and should have known that something was wrong with the sale.
Apache
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Yes, there was a great case of this in my jurisdiction where a woman bought a brand new tractor worth $7,000 off of Craigslist (which is sort of a shady ebay type site) for $1,000. The court ruled that she should have known something had to be fishy and should not have made the purchase. She was charged and convicted of Receipt of Stolen Goods.
The case later appeared as a question on the bar examination.