Re: [MV] Canadian seller fraud resources

From: International Movie Services (ims@telus.net)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 08:42:54 PDT


Email me offline with the details:
I have several reliable contacts in Oshawa including the Ontario Regiment
that should be able to help with a resolution for you. Definitely worth a
try!
Cheers!
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: <mil-veh@ziptar.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 4:16 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Canadian seller fraud resources

> How did you pay for it?? Money order? Paypal, Credit Card, you might have
> some options there. Here in the US, Legally he has thirty days from the
date
> he receives the money to ship. If he cannot then he must give you the
option
> to wait longer or get a refund. to ship, if he cannot ship by then, not
sure
> about Canada's rules. With Paypal and Credit cards you can dispute the
> charges and recover your money possibly.
>
> There are a few things you can do. First contact eBay's fraud department.
> Contact your local police, contact the local police in the sellers area,
> contact a district attorney/prosecutor or equivalent in his area. Contact
> you Attorney General, and finally maybe the RCMP :-).
>
> There may not be enough to arrest him on but, a call from his local
> authorities might get him moving. I was once ripped off by a guy on ebay
> along with two acquaintances. We followed up every avenue but it finally
> came down to the sellers local district prosecutor deciding that while we
> had enough evidence to prove fraud, they had no laws on the books to deal
> with interstate mail fraud and put the onus on the USPS which never did
> anything. The only upshot was that the detective in the sellers town that
we
> were working with pulled his rap sheet and he had two outstanding
warrants.
>
> They picked him up on those and sent him to jail, we never got our money
> back but, at least we pointed a worthless low life out to the local
> authorities. I take some solace in the fact that the guy got some Jail
time
> at least even if it wasn't for stealing $600 from the three of us.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Forster [mailto:jfor@quik.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:45 PM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: [MV] Canadian seller fraud resources
>
> I was screwed out of about $350 on a WS 19 AC Power Supply in January by
an
> army surplus dealer in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The time for leaving FB on
> eBay has now passed, so he can't threaten me any more.
>
> Anyone have and practical ideas as to how to recover what I'm due? I've
> heard there are sited to report international fraud.
>
> Thanks very much,
> -John
>
>
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