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Buying my stolen goods on ebay????

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  • Andy_Ches
    Andy_Ches Posts: 420 Forumite
    sunnysea83 wrote: »
    dont think anyone has been criticising have they??

    Just reading through previous pages of this thread.
  • lewt
    lewt Posts: 9,158 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Awec wrote: »
    I think that's a bit far fetched to be fair.

    The Police are not stupid.
    I dont think that is far fecthed at all. most criminals are idiots and i would bet my wallet and its contents that it has happened a fair few times before now.
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  • bluejake
    bluejake Posts: 268 Forumite
    One persons experience of trying to stop ebay selling their stolen goods. As usual crap customer service:

    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article6074448.ece
  • Money_Saving_Mandy_2
    Money_Saving_Mandy_2 Posts: 38 Forumite
    The seller only sells a handful of mobile phones, but only mobile phones. Just enough for him to regularly acquire or "find".

    I am well aware it may all be coincidential, but there are a numer of reasons why I think it is in fact my phone. If he was a genuine seller why ignore 2 of my emails? Maybe I was too eager in asking a Q on Monday lunchtime, after he had only listed it Sunday at 10pm - he could of thought this phone is a bit hot at the mo, best ignore her in case its the owner.

    Also if the seller bought the phone at the carboot.... it would have been a single phone (with no other accessories, not even a charger, box etc), sold for cheap as chips and as it was blocked within 15 mins of it going missing, no doubt if switched on (which I'm sure someone buying it would want to see) would have displayed something saying it was blocked. Now if you bought a phone like that, surely alarm bells would be ringing!!!??

    Here is another example of someone having to do what I will probably do, buying my own goods on ebay... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/6573363.stm
  • FloFlo
    FloFlo Posts: 32,720 Forumite
    How can they sell it on if it is blocked?
  • Bowling_4_Gold
    Bowling_4_Gold Posts: 1,771 Forumite
    FloFlo wrote: »
    How can they sell it on if it is blocked?

    By describing it as Faulty...
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  • FloFlo
    FloFlo Posts: 32,720 Forumite
    Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »
    By describing it as Faulty...

    It doesnt say they have described it as faulty though.:confused:
  • Bowling_4_Gold
    Bowling_4_Gold Posts: 1,771 Forumite
    FloFlo wrote: »
    It doesnt say they have described it as faulty though.:confused:

    Hmmm... Do you have a link to the auction? I would like to look at it...
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  • FloFlo
    FloFlo Posts: 32,720 Forumite
    Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »
    Hmmm... Do you have a link to the auction? I would like to look at it...

    Why would I have a link to the auction? I just asked how someone can sell on a phone thats blocked? Perhaps they can unblock it, I have no idea.
    You replied it was listed as faulty but the OP never said that it was listed as faulty not that I can see anyhow.
  • pianeet
    pianeet Posts: 518 Forumite
    i reckon it is item no 260389022835 not far from nuneaton listed for a week and seller deals in mobiles,appologies if i am wrong
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