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11 October 2012, 00:00
The TER Check service continues to be the most comprehensive plant machinery check available to buyers, traders, dealers, auction houses, insurers and finance companies.
Furthermore, as the TER Check certificate becomes increasingly sought after within the used equipment market, the number of parties attempting to use the system for their sinister gain also appears to be rising!
You might recall from our July 2012 eNewsletter that equipment thieves have started to clone the certificates as a means to facilitate the sale of their stolen (and usually cloned) items.
In addition to this, we suspect that certain parties are now searching serial numbers which may have been cloned from legitimate items - knowing that a report of theft will not be found - in order to obtain a genuine TER Check certificate with a Match Not Found result and then potentially clone a similar item which has been stolen.
We are monitoring these users very closely in conjunction with our police contacts!
As always, when buying used equipment, our advice is to physically check the identification numbers on the machinery - and call TER for verification of any TER Check certificate.
And if a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is!