From: mil-veh@ziptar.com
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 04:16:50 PDT
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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