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The vast majority of cyclists are so dead set against bike theft and thievery in general, that I'm relying on his customers not wanting to be complicit in theft and the handling of stolen goods within the cycling community.
That is, I'm relying on those who started transactions to grass him up based on the strength of feeling that pervades the cycling community about those touching stolen goods. Hell, we collectively forgive anything, except theft of bike stuff.
I think it's a pretty good bet actually. The anger about stolen bike stuff is such that even if he ships 2 items I'm fairly sure 1 of those will grass him up.
And if you were Hunterlar, knowing this... would you risk the severity of reaction from the police getting involved given that we have proof of the sales, as well as proof of the provenance of more than half of the items.
It would be very very unlikely for Hunterlar to come out of that without a criminal record.
So that equation: Risk selling the last items to keep the odd £50 or so, when the very real chance of a visit from the police and a criminal record is so high? Hell, you'd have to be really stupid to do that.
And compare that to what Hunterlar could do. Which is act with honour, refund money for any items not shipped, and apologise to those for passing on stolen goods, and returning the last items back to Rapha.
He could gain a great deal of respect for handling it with grace.
Those are two possible outcomes, and which he chooses would speak volumes about whether he truly knew the provenance of the items that were sold.