posted on January 17, 2002 06:08:30 PM
Hello...thanks for reading this question. I have a friend who won an auction, received the computer, and has now found out that it was stolen. They have been emailing back and forth with eBay and my question is this ~ Does anyone know of a phone number that a person can call to talk to a real human being at eBay? Is my friend going to be out his $1,500? The seller's phone number has been disconnected, etc. and it looks like the seller has escaped into the night.
Thanks! Mallary
posted on January 17, 2002 07:37:24 PM
the way i see it, computers are not like cars.
has the computer been taken away from your friend? if yes, by whom?
if he still has the computer, i fail to see how he is out of $1500 dollars.
who said that its stolen?
maybe it is not, and whomever told you that it is, has some kind of interest that you are not aware of.
posted on January 18, 2002 02:51:06 AM
About 4 years ago I purchased a computer at a local flea market. When it crashed on me a year later I had to call HP to get a recovery disk. The computer was stolen. they asked me where I got it, I explained, they sent me the recovery disk, end of story.
How do you know the computer was stolen? Did you find it listed as stolen somewhere or is it because of the registration info in the computer?
We had a person who worked for the school system who stole tons of them and sold them. He even had a yard sale with them spread out all over his back yard (very brazen). When we stopped at the sale there was a deputy sheriff we knew loading one of them in his car, purchased it for his children.
posted on January 18, 2002 08:13:16 AM
so i see-your friend bot a stolen pc,not that the pc was stolen from him after he paid and received it.
how does he find out it is stolen good??
if you bot a piece of stolen good,the police can repossess it from you,but most cases it is hard to trace one piece unless it is valuable like jewelry or antique.
also there are agreements bewteen countries on what can be exported and what cannot,antiques with historical value banned from exporting are ottoman empire ,ancient egyptian and chinese artifacts.
ebay would just say it is a venue and buyer beware.
