posted on March 13, 2006 07:49:59 AM new
I just watched an ebay case on the People's Court and the seller got busted big time.
Seller sells child's pageant dress, used, in March 2005..for $350.00. Her photos showed the dress modeled by her daughter.
Buyer asks to return dress for reasons I missed.
Seller agrees, says to ship it back to her at buyers expense and she will then issue buyer a refund in full for cost of dress.
Buyer ships dress back to seller Priority mail with Delivery confirmation, and waits for refund. No refund appears, so begins the back and forth contact with seller. Seller says she never received the dress back, even though the Post Office says it was delivered. Seller says it must have been stolen or delivered to incorrect address, since no signature was required.
After contacting Post office officials in both cities, the buyer is told that the package was delivered. Buyer hits stone wall while trying to get any co-operation from seller. Sellers husband verbally abuses the buyer when she calls their home and so the buyer decides to eat the loss and use it as a learning experience..
Seven months pass, it's now October, buyer is still upset and checks sellers auctions, and LO AND BEHOLD..there is the same dress that the seller said she never received back from the buyer, on sale again, same photos same everything..
Now she's already made 350.00 on the sale of this dress and is now selling it for $178.00.
BUSTED
SELLER tells the judge, that she whipped up an exact same pageant dress as the original, since the first one had so many bids and was so popular.. same photos of the dress on her daughter..duh..told the judge it was brand new, she made it herself.
Judge reads her description of the dress where it says no stains, a few smudges that should come out etc...HA brand new eh.
Buyer wins the judgment and Seller is called a liar and a thief.. She says, the judge didn't listen to her side, she said she advertised the new dress as in good condition with a few smudges, get this.. because buyers don't like to buy NEW Pageant dresses, since they don't know how they will show..
SHAME ON HER AND I WISH THE BUYER HAD SUED HER FOR 5000.00 INSTEAD OF JUST THE PRICE SHE PAID FOR THE DRESS.
posted on March 13, 2006 09:26:00 AM new
maggie-you should post this in the R.T. I bet a few savy people would tell you that the buyer
could have recieved her money back-especially with deliverly confirmation.
posted on March 13, 2006 10:00:35 AM new
She is very lucky that she received anything.
Ross published an interesting thread here...with many examples of dishonest sellers and crime related Ebay deals.
One unusual case was a fellow who allegedly impersonated a firefighter to gain entry and after chloroforming a woman engaged in a series of sexual attacks for 12 hours. He had purchased firefighting gear, a law enforcement badge and potassium nitrate and chloroform that he allegedly used during the crime from Ebay.
posted on March 13, 2006 10:13:59 AM new
Thanks for the link, Helen.
Crooks, Crooks and more Crooks.
I've been lucky, I've only had one bad experience in all the years I've sold and bought on Ebay.
posted on March 13, 2006 12:31:26 PM new
And then the buyer should've been jailed for child abuse....entering her daughter, like a prize cow, in those obscene pageants.
posted on March 13, 2006 04:44:54 PM new"...entering her daughter, like a prize cow, in those obscene pageants."
Hey! What's wrong with pagents?
RALPHIE enters them all the time:
Wearing a pair of specs perched on his stub (tail), he pontificates out his butt on a wide range of subjects he knows NOTHING about!
Tis the cutest imitation of DUMBO you ever saw -- he always attracts at least a peck of tomahtoes thrown at him...
"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself—not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch."
—After visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
posted on March 13, 2006 05:40:13 PM new
bebeboom (is that you maggie? I have no idea)
I watched that one!! And I never watch court tv, but my daughter does sometimes! it was so obvious that the seller was SO Wrong and glad she did get busted!
Pagents? I have no comment. Didn't even think of putting either of my girls in one, besides, they probably wouldn't have wanted to, they grew up on a farm
posted on March 13, 2006 06:29:36 PM new
Near, yes it's me maggie. That is so funny, because I don't watch that program either, but for some reason, I walked by and heard Ebay, so I stopped and watched.
Wasn't she just a blatant liar.!
Pageants are a way of life in the South. As a matter of fact the cutest baby award on Regis and kelly was awarded to a little guy in Picayune Mississippi! LOL
I didn't put my kids into pageants.
Test
[ edited by bebeboom on Mar 13, 2006 09:03 PM ]
posted on March 13, 2006 07:15:16 PM new
oh yeah, the 'eBay' word got me into it too!
Yes, the seller was so, so wrong, and the judge (I cannot remember her name, but NOT Judy)
was so good in this one!
I'll bet a lot of the court tv shows have ebay cases.
I thought it was you, but wasn't sure, why is everyone changing their names? first replay, now you, and probably others, I don't come here enough I guess!
Oh yeah I've heard pagents are the thing down south.. the one that I really remember is the 6 year old? in Boulder Colorado, who was murdered, the cutest! thing, but when you see 6 year olds with all the makeup and 'grown up' clothes, I don't know, it just doesn't seem right for some reason.
I think my girls were tomboys, but now that they are grown, have become the opposite, well, one has anyway
posted on March 13, 2006 07:47:32 PM new
Why weren't charges of "Mail Fraud" lodged with the USPS Postal Inspectors? It's a Federal Felony and those convicted often do serious prison time with no parole. Also under the "three-strikes" rule if they have two earlier felony convictions they get thrown away for a very, very long time.
One less bad seller means more eBay pie for the rest of us good sellers to share
posted on March 14, 2006 01:53:53 AM new
And the wheels of justice turn. Slowly, but they turn. I filed a complaint against a notorious feeBay thief about two years ago.
I was surprised that 'Usama'(what's with that spelling?) doesn't have the pole position in the current Most Wanted postings. What type of degenerate low-life bumps that raghead POS from the pole position?
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The raghead fig-puckers are fighting to spread their culture and religion, and to destroy ours
"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself—not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch."
