In the case of one apparent ebay dead-beat--I say 'apparent' because the
lens eventually showed up on my door step after many unanswered email
messages and weeks of waiting--I was contacted by the New York (if memory
serves) police, by a member of their fraud squad asking about my experience
w/ the seller. Because I did get the item nothing came of it, not that I
expect that the NY police would have been able to do much of anything to
help a poor little left coast Canadian comme je suis.
My point is that ebay and the authorities do seem to be in touch. How much
enforcement power either have is I expect neglible.
Glen
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Butler <abutler@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Mailing List <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: January 22, 2000 8:45 PM
Subject: [OM] ebay loser
>Hello all,
> I'm sure that many others wrote to ebay as I did regarding our friend
>GABRIEL MALOUL. Many reported a 5-7 day backlog. Well today I received
>a reply, not very encouraging I'm afraid. Here is the pertinent
>paragraph:
>
><snip>
>Bay is unable to force a seller to honor his or her auctions, but
>considering the feedback and this current situation showing that the
>seller has perhaps relisted the item under their alternate account, I've
>made a note to their file so that in case this is reported again, we'll
>know the history.
><snip>
>
> I'm wondering how many "notes" are already in this guy's account and
>whether any of this is really doing any good. I am proud to see the way
>this group comes to the aid of a fellow member.
>
>--
>Mike (Proud Zuikoholic) Butler
>Chief Mechanic / Engineer
>Team FCAR
>http://home.earthlink.net/~teamfcar/
>Dublin, California
>
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