Re: eBay Ipod Scammer Makes Off With Over $200,000

TyMeDwn1st <TyMeDwn1st@xxxxxxx> wrote in
news:mphmr1ptghcp9luco3nea2dl1mgg7ui81p@xxxxxxx:

> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 06:23:28 GMT, Jesse <org@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>TyMeDwn1st <TyMeDwn1st@xxxxxxx> wrote in
>>news:olmer19g4p8tfo0josp0epg3ao7ejmq74a@xxxxxxx:
>>
>>> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:11:03 -0700, "Lumpy"
>>> <lumpy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Jesse wrote:
>>>>> Fine, but many folks will not and
>>>>> can not get access to a credit
>>>>> card, and there you have it.
>>>>
>>>>"Will not" is their problem.
>>>>"Can Not" is bull***.
>>>
>>> For some, the only recourse will be an extremely high-interest card,
>>> but it's still a reasonable option if the card's full balance is going
>>> to be paid each month. If folks can afford to send dip*** their
>>> $415.25 money order, they can damn well manage to pay the same amount
>>> on a high-interest card at the end of the month.
>>>
>>> A lot of the folks who lost money to this thief paid more than the
>>> items are being advertised for on Amazon at this moment, and not all
>>> the buyers involved are newbies. The auctions were all three-day
>>> jobs, the feedback was taking by the end of November, and people were
>>> still bidding on the stuff in mid-December. This sounds like one of
>>> the situations in which it's damned near impossible to protect people
>>> from their own naivete and/or stupidity.
>>>
>>>
>>Which may be all true - Nonetheless, being gullibly stupid is not a
>>crime. Bilking people out of money, selling non existant items, is.
>>And to any extent that ebay faciltates this cyber robbery with their
>>service, they should be held liable.
>
> That's a matter of opinion, and thus far yours is not the view taken by
> the legal system.

Well, yeah.
Obviously, pretty much anything anyone says here is a matter of opinion.
Even that was a matter of opinion .. and that... and that .. and that ...

>
> Which is not to say the situation can't change in the future, but I
> don't see how eBay can in any way be held responsible for fraud
> committed by a seller.
>
I see your point about people being largely responsible for their own
plights.
Kinda like the hot coffee in the crotch suing craze at mcdonalds some time
back.
I do think that ebay in general makes it too easy for scammers to flourish,
and yes, they are bound to run out of legalistic loopholes at some point,
and then they will have to pay the piper.

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