There was a story circulating a few years back, supposedly true, about a fellow who made the hamfest circuit selling late model, new Motorola HTs. Seems this fellow had a buddy that worked in Motorola's shipping department. When large entities order radios by the hundreds or thousands even, it seems that big "M" makes a couple of dozen extra to account for early failures replaced under warranty. The story says that after a couple of years, there were lots of radios left over, just sitting in the warehouse. This buddy would ship them on the sly to this other gentleman who sold them at good prices at hamfests and, unfortunately, to public safety agencies. Seems that one of these agencies took some of these radios to a local Motorola shop and somehow, the serial numbers got back to Motorola whose records showed that those radios were never shipped out of the warehouse. A little investigation and the culprit was identified. The fellow selling radios at hamfests managed to avoid jail, but it was costly, to say the least. There was one model of Motorola portable that could be assembled from parts for about half of what it could be bought for. I personally know a fellow with a Motorola parts account who says he sold quite a few parts radios. He bought trashed, damaged ones to use for legit serial numbers. Of course, the radios had no tags. Or, seems like he printed his own.