I was hoping to handle the situation more delicately (ha, here I'm talking about it in the past tense as if it's long since over). By that I mean, buy the player now and find out if it's stolen later. Then, at least I'd have the empeg in my hands and be able to get it back to its rightful owner. Yes yes, I know, "if I ever got it" etc. And if there's no theft involved, then I have another empeg, which can only be a good thing.

Let's not jump down their throats until they pull a qbasic309 on us.