I was going to buy a bike from a subscriber on here. I drove just over 120 miles to view it when the seller told me that 'kids at the school' he worked at broke the steering lock - no mention beforehand. Anyhow, after the viewing and agreeing a price, he decided he was unhappy with the offer he made me (true), so I decided to check his posts on here.
It turns out that his bike was stolen (hence broken steering lock) and the bike dumped just around the corner - with the seats missing, after the thieves searched for the tracker.
Result was that the bike was recovered a short while later, after being stolen and the only loss was the seats missing (hence the wanted post on here for seats) and the broken steering lock - probably not much more than £1,000 to repair.
I'd suck that up after my bike was stolen.