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Re: US Mre
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 7:36 am
by housil
blanchman wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:37 am
Hopefully nothing happened, right? There are no legal grounds for that... MREs are not contraband and if they want to treat them as stolen goods someone would have to report them stolen in the first place.
It was about allegedly "Hehlerei"
and there is no legal way to buy them over here
Re: US Mre
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 3:34 pm
by vespa
Same in the UK, we have British rations sold here and no one has ever been prosecuted as far as I'm aware, the boxes do have the usual "not for resale" disclaimer on it.
Re: US Mre
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 7:55 pm
by mikeoverhere
I remember a time when I believe US declared it was illegal to resell surplused MRE's, that is to say leftover MRE's after a disaster kind of deal. They went after some eBay sellers but there were soooo many more, and more kept popping up that they gave up trying to regulate it. I could be wrong about it all though.
Re: US Mre
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:05 am
by housil
mikeoverhere wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2019 7:55 pm
I remember a time when I believe US declared it was illegal to resell surplused MRE's, that is to say leftover MRE's after a disaster kind of deal. They went after some eBay sellers but there were soooo many more, and more kept popping up that they gave up trying to regulate it. I could be wrong about it all though.
Right, we had that topic over here too. Authorities where "scanning" Ebay (US) for MRE sales.
Re: US Mre
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 7:02 am
by carlosflar
I also saw a warning regarding US NRBQ equipment of modern generations being sold on ebay and sellers/buyer being tracked