From: "Lelia Loban"
Subject: [CB] Scam Ebayer
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:53:45 -0500
John Kilpatrick wrote,
>Re my earlier message about 477 items, I see
>that beteherc is "no longer a registered user".
Good, and thanks very much for the warnings. Is there any
realistic chance that eBay will get this guy arrested? Do any of
these obvious scamsters ever get arrested? Aside from the
occasional newspaper item about eBay removing an auction for a baby or
for miscellaneous body parts, I can't remember seeing much about folks
getting busted for plain old fraud.
Lelia Loban
51 percent of the vote is not a mandate.
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From: Michael Grogg
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:45:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [CB] Scam Ebayer
Most likely not. In most states the amount of the theft
has to be over $300.00, sometimes more before it becomes a
felony. Unless the scammer is making a lot of felony offenses,
the chances of getting a prosecutor interested in pursuing the person,
particularly the investigative costs, plus the costs of extraditing the
person from whoknowswhere, then the court procedings, and perhaps the
costs of warehousing the individual for a few years, it just wouldn't
make fiscal sense. These guys are perhaps getting away with
enough little $10 thefts to make a few bucks, and not getting caught
through pure apathy of the officials.
My Saturday .02
Michael Grogg
Regime change begins at home.
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From: sande
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:59:08 EST
Subject: Re: [CB] String bass solo tuning
The list helped me before, I thought I would try again. I
am slowly coming to understand the string bass solo tuning
process. One uses a different set of strings of a lighter
gauge. Does one usually use these strings on the standard 3/4
bass? I recall someone mentioned the 5/8 size instrument as
the one usually used for the solo tuning. Does the
performer always have two basses, one for the orchestra work and one
for the solo work? How does this affect the performers intonation?
sande
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From: sande
Date: Sat, 5
Feb 2005 12:00:28 EST
Subject: Re:
[CB] Scam Ebayer
if the scammer
has 477 listings, would not he be running out on a bill over $300 due
ebay ?
sande
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From: Michael Grogg
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:28:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [CB] Scam Ebayer
I don't think the bill due ebay has anything to do with
it. Ebay collects its fees or the seller gets the boot.
Crminal charges would have to eminate from a prosecutors
office/court upon complaint of a person who sent money and did not
receive a product. Since we don't know what continet he/she is
even on, the chances of getting a successful prosecution for a few low
dollar scams is very low. When I was in the law enforcement
field, I saw cases go no where just because the prosecutor didn't want
to spend the money to extradite a person from another state because the
transportation costs alone were more than the value of the original
theft.
The best protection is what we seeing being practiced right now,
vigilance, and reliance on the old axiom if it seems too good to be
true, it probably is.
Michael
4 more years? Hell, give 'em 20 years in the Hauge!
>>if the scammer has 477 listings, would not he be running
out on a bill over $300 due ebay ?
sande
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