[R-390] auction scams

[Thomas W Leiper]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:37:18 -0500 (CDT) "Jim Shorney"
<jshorney@inebraska.com> writes:
> Under the Fraud Protection Program,
> you are eligible for reimbursement for up to $200,
> minus $25 of  the item price, if it is determined that
> you have been a victim of fraud.

BFD. I only got ripped off once...a couple years ago
for a Sun monitor. Some guy named Rialdi Monsour
out in LA. Made the mistake of sending Pay Pal, and
he never shipped. All Ebay ever did was try to send
him e-mail (useful as balls on a skeleton) and after
ten days of no response said there was nothing they
could do. But they refused to give me his address info
so I could send somebody out there to bash his brains.

I always either insist on cash-n-carry myself or through
an intermediary, or they have to give me a street address,
and if they say don't have one I ask them to send me
a picture of their driver's license...otherwise I tell them
they can go pound sand. A couple balked on the license,
but they never gave me bad feedback because they were
probably crooks anyway.

Respectfully submitted by the board of engineers, 8/27/30:

Joseph B. Strauss
Leon S. Moisseiff
Othmar Ammann
Charles Derleth, Jr.