Re: [MV] ebay..Mail Fraud

From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Sat Dec 11 2004 - 17:22:17 PST


Was the rip-off artist's town close by? Anything interesting to do there?
Any attractions..fishing, HUNTING, museums? Any good restaurants? Any
SHOOTING ranges to check out? Any historic inns or hotels? Any BATTLEFIELDS?

apb

----- Original Message -----
From: <Ziptar.mil-veh-list@ziptar.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] ebay..Mail Fraud

> Myself and two friends were all ripped off for $200 each from an ebay
seller
> we paid with USPS money orders two years ago. USPS never did anything, all
> three of us contacted our postmaster, the postmaster of the town the rip
off
> artist lived in, filled out the forms, left voicemails for the Postal
> Inspectors. Nothing ever happened. We pursued it for 4 months.
>
> We finally all called and spoke with the local sherriff in the rip off
> artists town. They busted him, for another outstanding warrant he had,
they
> wouldn't tell us what the warrant was for. The sherrif told us that he
> submitted everything we sent him to the district attorney. District
attorney
> decided it was not a case for them but for the USPS. He said he would
turn
> everything over to them. Once again, nothing... He never got arrested or
> tried for ripping us off.... We never got our money back.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Forster [mailto:jfor@quik.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 5:58 PM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] ebay..Mail Fraud
>
> Joe Shannon wrote:
>
> > This is one of the reasons that they push PayPal. If you pay with a
> > Postal Money Order it will also be mail fraud if there is a problem
> > with the trading process.
>
> BUT, if you file a complaint with the USPS, they DO SOMETHING. eBay does
not
> in my experience,
>
> -John
>
>
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