Remember that Motorola Aura post? Stolen handsets turning up on eBay...

Remember a few days ago I posted about a bunch of luxury phones being sold on the streets of Basingstoke after being half-inched from a warehouse outside of the town a couple of months previous?  Well it appears these are being flogged on eBay.  Not only that, it would appear they're not making much of an effort to conceal what they're doing from Hampshire's finest.

I can't say I'm 100% sure these are the stolen handsets but, check the following out and I'm sure you'll agree there's some fishiness here, is there not?

Priced at £1,200 new, these aren't your common garden variety mobile handsets.  Seems just a little suspect that someone based in Basingstoke should be selling one on eBay for such a considerable discount on the RRP (especially as it's listed brand new in box) not long after 118 were stolen from a warehouse near Basingstoke...

'Direct from Motorola UK' indeed!

Of course this could be genuine, in which case I apologise to 'Tanya' for thinking otherwise - and offer these words of advice for her: In future, tell the gift-giver how much you appreciate what they've given you but ask them to take it back to the store for a full refund.  They'll appreciate that more than you flogging the £1,200 gift they gave you for a third of the price.  Hey, you could split the difference and both be quids in!

Just up the road from Basingstoke, in Fleet, we have two more lucky people who received an Aura as an unwanted gift...

On the off chance that these were stolen and you naughty people get charged with handling stolen goods or whatnot - DON'T blame me!  FFS, what do you expect if you put the items on eBay?  Do you not realise that the boys in blue check eBay for such booty and a quick Google search brings up the Basingstoke seller?