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Ebayers listing comes back to bite

JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭
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Ebayers boo boo

Longtime eBay seller James Labrecque starts each of his listings with the same warning: "WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET. NOTHING MORE AND NOTHING LESS." He's half right.

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  • oneor11oneor11 Posts: 208
    Umm....WOW. Heh okay so what would you guys have done? I would like to say I would have given it all back, but somehow I think the greed would have overcame me and I would have done what the buyer did.
  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭
    I think its more what would i not have done , go to the media being top of that list.
  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,729 ✭✭✭
    Maybe its stolen money on the FBI radar.
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  • PokermandudePokermandude Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭
    Sounds like a hoax / free media attention to me.
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  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭


    << <i>Sounds like a hoax / free media attention to me. >>



    Im kinda thinking that way , any fool knows the IRS is gonna want half of it , why would anyone alert the media or the seller for that matter.
  • Wolf359Wolf359 Posts: 7,663 ✭✭✭
    The buyer is an idiot for telling people about it. Now he's a target.
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  • gummibeargummibear Posts: 786 ✭✭✭
    No I wouldn't give it back in this situation. He was clearly selling it as an unknown. It is like biding on the storage locker. Some times you win sometimes you lose.
    If it had been someone just clearing out the house and didn't know that a family member had stuffed the family savings into it then I would send at least half back.
    He is a clearing house for junked items and sold it as such. I don't think I would have bragged about though.

    Richard

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  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭
    At least the buyer left pos feedback...and stated he only found $6,000 in it....something smells, especially with the $100 and $50 bills visible at the top. I find it hard to believe there are all singles and just one $100 and one $50 on the top. What nit-wit would NOT have a locked safe opened BEFORE putting it up?
    I'll come up with something.
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,731 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would have responded to his request for half the loot with a direct quote from his own terms (one so important he says it twice):

    RETURNS: THERE ARE NO RETURNS. ALL MERCHANDISE SOLD AS IS. PLEASE DO NOT ASK US TO REFUND YOUR MONEY.


    Sean Reynolds
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  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,729 ✭✭✭
    Maybe the ebay seller sold it to someone he knew and its a hoax to get free advertising for his ebay listings.
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  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭


    << <i>No I wouldn't give it back in this situation. He was clearly selling it as an unknown. It is like biding on the storage locker. Some times you win sometimes you lose.
    If it had been someone just clearing out the house and didn't know that a family member had stuffed the family savings into it then I would send at least half back.
    He is a clearing house for junked items and sold it as such. I don't think I would have bragged about though.

    Richard >>



    And those 'storage locker' shows, when they see a safe in a storage unit, boy, they love seeing those...it's the first thing they get to and open up. Who would obtain a locked safe, no matter how they came into posession of it, and NOT have it opened, and just put it up on ebay? Methinks it's all a ruse. But, if it is legit...then he IS the 'stupidest idiot'.
    I'll come up with something.
  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,636 ✭✭✭✭✭
    that cash does not look authentic
  • garrynotgarrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The buyer is an idiot for telling people about it. Now he's a target. >>




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    Also the money could be marked, could be on the NCIC database. Who knows. the buyer might have some interesting days ahead of him.
  • fishcookerfishcooker Posts: 3,446 ✭✭
    Heh, would have been fun to respond to sellers request for 1/2. You pays you money, you takes you chances.
  • coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭
    Guys, that's clearly not the cash nor safe in question. It's merely a stock photo.




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  • coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭
    Oh, also:


    "bought locked safe opened it and found $6,000.00 dollars in bills"Buyer: captainwagner ( 401) Feb-10-12 19:54


    Reply by jameslabrecque (Feb-16-12 15:29):

    "He was playing a practical joke the safe was empty there wasnt any money in it"



    End of story.



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  • scotty1419scotty1419 Posts: 930 ✭✭✭
    So how did the seller realize there was cash in the safe afterwards and contact the buyer to request some of the money?
  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .... and why exactly would anyone ever need to know what I happened to find in a legally owned locked box?

    If you did happen to let it slip to the seller, it would only be good form to give him a little something. You certainly wouldn't be obligated to, but it's always good to pass along a little good karma. There is a very funny quality about people that they can't just accept unexpected good fortune without blabbing it all over the neighborhood.
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting, no Dave Hester, Barry, Darryl,
    Jarrod or Brandy in sight !!!!
    Timbuk3
  • mrpotatoheaddmrpotatoheadd Posts: 7,576 ✭✭✭


    << <i>If you did happen to let it slip to the seller, it would only be good form to give him a little something. >>

    Do powerball winners typically give money to the store that sold them the winning ticket?

    As the seller almost certainly wouldn't agree to helping out with a medical bill for the buyer should he have accidentally dropped the safe on his foot, I see no particular reason to think the seller should get any benefit from an "As-is" auction over and above the final bid total in that auction.

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,566 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I vote a planted story.


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  • JCB1983JCB1983 Posts: 143
    typical 2012 crap marketing scheme, which must have worked because now everyone will research his name thinking he wants to give away cash. Distasteful marketing style in my opinion. I put it on par with Alec Baldwin and words with friends cat. For all we know, the "buyer" could be his hunting buddy.
  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭
    If it is a marketing ploy it's an expensive one , Uncle Sam is going to be looking for his slice and that's going to be a tidy sum,as much as 13k maybe.
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    The comments were better than the story.
    It sounds kinda fake anyway.
    How did they get $26,000 out of $6000 anyway... To improve the article?
    Ed
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,785 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I vote a planted story. >>



    Agree. I can't believe how gullible some people are.image

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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,426 ✭✭✭
    in the..."spam-scam" crowd too
    nothing like boosting sales
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  • kevinstangkevinstang Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The comments were better than the story.
    It sounds kinda fake anyway.
    How did they get $26,000 out of $6000 anyway... To improve the article? >>



    I can't believe the number of "honest abe's" who think the buyer should give the money back in the comments! - or I must be really bad for thinking that the buyer got himself one heck of a good deal on a safe.
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>If you did happen to let it slip to the seller, it would only be good form to give him a little something. >>

    Do powerball winners typically give money to the store that sold them the winning ticket?

    As the seller almost certainly wouldn't agree to helping out with a medical bill for the buyer should he have accidentally dropped the safe on his foot, I see no particular reason to think the seller should get any benefit from an "As-is" auction over and above the final bid total in that auction. >>



    It was sold "as is". If it was found to have the acid leaked inside and be totally useless scrap metal would the seller be expected to give the buyer some money back? It works both ways. When you gamble on a lot, you win some and you lose some. Same with searchible lots. If you buy and "unsearched lot" and find something, do you send more money to the seller? --Jerry
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,785 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>If you did happen to let it slip to the seller, it would only be good form to give him a little something. >>

    Do powerball winners typically give money to the store that sold them the winning ticket?

    As the seller almost certainly wouldn't agree to helping out with a medical bill for the buyer should he have accidentally dropped the safe on his foot, I see no particular reason to think the seller should get any benefit from an "As-is" auction over and above the final bid total in that auction. >>



    It was sold "as is". If it was found to have the acid leaked inside and be totally useless scrap metal would the seller be expected to give the buyer some money back? It works both ways. When you gamble on a lot, you win some and you lose some. Same with searchible lots. If you buy and "unsearched lot" and find something, do you send more money to the seller? --Jerry >>



    Good point. Another analogy---if you won the jackpot at a casino, should you share the winnings with the owner of the casino?


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    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • IHC08IHC08 Posts: 100
    No I wouldn't share the winnings. From the listing: "ALL MERCHANDISE SOLD AS IS"

  • jmdm1194jmdm1194 Posts: 379 ✭
    Who sells a safe without opening it first!!!
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