Tattoo
Member
Just giving everyone a heads up about buying a trailer. Bought trailer 4 weeks ago a 14x7 enclosed trailer. Ran serial number through registries, came back clear. So I purchased it. Next day I registered the trailer all good. 3 weeks later rcmp come to my door to look at the trailer, when I'm not home and look it over. Next door neighbor tells me so we call the local Rcmp office to find out whats going on. They tell me its possible that the trailer is stolen.
Give the Officer the names, personal id, phone numbers, address and even license plate numbers of all vehicles there. Don't hear anything more for a week so go down to rcmp detachment, give all info so they can photo copy everything. Find out that looks like they are going to come take trailer this Friday, and no I'm not a suspect lol. They tell me im out the money and the trailer. Ask how it came up clean on Registries, they couldn't answer. They tell me I did everything right but am gonna lose it.
So off to Registries office to find out what going on. They say its clean. So now I'm really confused. Go to the city and stop off at ama where I used to work. They run number it comes back clean. There confused then they run it through Edmonton Police and it flags. AH ha comes up as possibly stolen. I'm how can something be possibly stolen. Heres what we figure happened.
Someone claimed the trailer missing from edmonton in Aug. They don't run it through insurance so it will not come up through registries cause no money or payout has been givin out. So odds are it wasn't registered or insured. So the number is in a police report, and thats how they showed up on my doorstep. Now I'm out my money and theres nothing I can do.
So when you are buying something Registries is only running that number through there system not Police system. So if you don't want to get burned like me for your piece of mind its up to you to run the number through the police too. I had no idea that if you run something through registries that it could still be stolen. I learned this the hard way and don't want anyone else to be out there purchase.
Give the Officer the names, personal id, phone numbers, address and even license plate numbers of all vehicles there. Don't hear anything more for a week so go down to rcmp detachment, give all info so they can photo copy everything. Find out that looks like they are going to come take trailer this Friday, and no I'm not a suspect lol. They tell me im out the money and the trailer. Ask how it came up clean on Registries, they couldn't answer. They tell me I did everything right but am gonna lose it.
So off to Registries office to find out what going on. They say its clean. So now I'm really confused. Go to the city and stop off at ama where I used to work. They run number it comes back clean. There confused then they run it through Edmonton Police and it flags. AH ha comes up as possibly stolen. I'm how can something be possibly stolen. Heres what we figure happened.
Someone claimed the trailer missing from edmonton in Aug. They don't run it through insurance so it will not come up through registries cause no money or payout has been givin out. So odds are it wasn't registered or insured. So the number is in a police report, and thats how they showed up on my doorstep. Now I'm out my money and theres nothing I can do.
So when you are buying something Registries is only running that number through there system not Police system. So if you don't want to get burned like me for your piece of mind its up to you to run the number through the police too. I had no idea that if you run something through registries that it could still be stolen. I learned this the hard way and don't want anyone else to be out there purchase.
