Why the truth is not in them ??

that’s why I leave the selling to the dealers

Times change and people have to adapt.
Unfortunately criminals also adapt.

20 years ago I regularly used to see broken glass as car theft was common and car stereos were easily interchangeable.

Nowadays, not so much. Car security has improved and stereos are no longer so easily interchangeable. The criminals have evolved and moved on to easier, possibly more fruitful pastures.

Nowadays, in the age of the Coronavirus we might see an increase in online crime, in telephone scams and no doubt in fraudulent buyers and sellers.

We know banks and financial institutions need to offset considerable sums to protect against fraud. The amounts written off annually are said to be easily in the millions.

Buyers and sellers usually don’t have those kind of safety margins, so both need to beware, and both need to adapt in order to avoid getting hurt or maybe even survive.

Things like PayPal and credit card protection are becoming increasingly necessary, but so is the need for extra vigilance.

The sharing of such knowledge may well be our best defence.

@clearthinker You don't know what you are writing about.  Corrupt business practices were standard at the turn of the 1900s.  Food manufacturing was very dangerous to consumers (I don't mean preserving food, I'm talking about knowingly producing food in unsanitary ways e.g. the pickle industry).  If it weren't for presidential and congressional legislation, many people would be dying from contaminated food.   That's just the tip of the iceberg of dishonest business practices.  

"...again a well understood fact."

Not around here. Around here, socialism and communism are the same thing.

" millercarbon...that’s the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a long time. "

Funny, because I have thought for a while now that the greatest threat to the Great American Experiment would come from within.
The Great American Experiment was founded upon the teachings and merits of Christianity, where standards were set by the founding fathers.
I currently attend no church, however I do agree that without standards, expectations of conduct from ourselves as individuals we will as a society become more corrupt.

I interacted in a course held by Landmark Forum, and one of the most striking things I learnt, and I’ll say it as I understand it; Our self esteem, our opinions of ourselves are based upon our integrity to our word. Integrity to the truths that are universal.

’We make others wrong so we can be right and you just love to be right, don’t you?’

I am no " student of sociology or political theory ", but from what I have read, that countries that have embraced Marxist ideals were in a situation where there was great disparity between the ruling class and working class, and corruption and tyranny were rife.

I myself believe that if societies continue to raise children with no accountability or integrity of their words and actions, then the same society will produce leadership with the same degree of integrity that is expected of them.

The current elected official for the United States is apparently not trusted, and it’s pretty evident. It may have been that he managed to get in to the position of authority (out of the millions of other members of his society), because his direct opponent was even less trusted!

Corrupt societies open themselves up for change, funnily enough we do have history of mighty empires to consider. Including the War of Independence.