<VV> Money Recovered on Ebay Rip Off

[J R Read_HML]

By local police - I meant local to the (alleged) offending party.  If they
won't take a phone report, I suspect they could mail (or FAX) you the paper
work to complete and return to them.

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Later, JR
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: John Sconiers
  To: RKAT
  Cc: 'J R Read_HML' ; virtualvairs@corvair.org
  Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:37 AM
  Subject: Re: <VV> Money Recovered on Ebay Rip Off


  What you are forgetting is that the police report would have to be filed in
ME in order for the police to get involved at all.  Been there done that.  If
your not willing to do that your only hope would be to contact a a federal
(the name escapes me) agency and hope they take the case (mail fraud /
interstate?).  I was told they only took cases where some one was flagged
three times or more.  I ended up getting my money back but it was only because
pay pal gave it back to me.   Some computer crime is hard to prosecute as well
because of the "he said / she said" factor.

  JOHN

  RKAT wrote:
I was told this by a perilegal (my cousin), only issue I have that I was
told is that I have already collected money through Ebay. She mentioned
filing small claims court, he'd never fly from WI to ME to show up. It
would cost him more to fly/drive here than to refund my $$. And than
call local police after a warrant has been issued. I wish I would have
contacted her before hand.....

Ron Tinkham
http://www.ronsjeepjunk.4t.com/
Pine Tree Corvairs (in the works)
66 Corsa Convertible, 140, 4sp
Maine

-----Original Message-----
From: J R Read_HML [mailto:hmlinc@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:54 PM
To: RKAT; virtualvairs@corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Money Recovered on Ebay Rip Off

I wonder if you could get any help by calling the local police?  Send
them
to his house.  At least that might let him know you are serious.

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Later, JR
  I got ripped off a couple years ago on a Honda 5.5 hp motor. I went to
Pay Pal, they said there was nothing they could do because the person
denied it and didn't have sufficient funds in his account. Tried go
through Square Trade, they didn't get a response, told me there was
nothing they could do. I went through Ebay, they could only refund
    HALF
  of my money and non of the shipping costs, which isn't cheap for a
    small
  motor. I emailed the person several times with no response. I had even
did a search, and found the persons phone number and address. First
    time
  I called, I got his (I'm assuming) wife, I could hear her talking to
him, than she said he wasn't home. I told her what had happened and
    left
  my number. He never called me, big surprise. I sent a letter certified
mail. I kept calling, I was always told he wasn't home or would get no
answer.

You never know.....





Ron Tinkham
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