Stole items selling in EBAY.

Tuexnovia · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:42

Hi guys I really need your help...

Like 1 month ago someone broke into my house and stole few things and now we found out that they are selling them trough ebay and... We are 90% sure that that is our "ITEMS" well the point is that the user in ebay is a shop that sells and buy items for cash, do you know what I mean?

Well my question is...

We would like to go to that shop and ask for that "ITEM" and check the serial number and then if it was "our" we would call the police, but we are not sure about what we can do, basically because they can take retaliate or whatever...

Please I really need advice because we are foreign and maybe like most of you are "ENLGISH" xDDD you'll know what to do.

Really thanks and I'll keep refreshing the page every second xDDD kidding but waiting...

Zero Pope · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:43

Phone your local police on the none emergency number and ask for some advice?

Raumarik · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:43

Contact the police, they'll handle it.

Dabbles · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:45

Phonez ve powleece, theyz'll tellz you wat to do.

Tuexnovia · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:45

Any other idea pls,,, we've called them already and we are waiting for an answer, I'll keep cheeking the thread but thanks for the ADVICE...

Tefal · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:46

arrange pick up, go round with mates and baseball bats?

Aedus · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:46

Go to the shop with your keyboard, and smack him around the head.

Ask questions later.

james.miller · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:47

It's clearly a job for the A-team.

Tuexnovia · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:47

Tefal said:
arrange pick up, go round with mates and baseball bats?

Good idea but they know where we live,
the point is that if that is OUR "ITEM" that shop is in troubles right?

Andy__C · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:57

When we got burgled we got told to go around the local cash generators and look for our goods.

The shop wouldn't get in trouble but we'd get our items back. Am not sure you'd prove the shop owner was the one that knicked your stuff, but at least you could get it back.

Not really the point I think you are getting at (ie, sorting out the people that broke into yours) but you may have a hard time with a cash sell and buy type place to prove anything.

Raumarik · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:58

Gather all the evidence you can to prove ownership of the item(s) and wait on the police who will give you further advice.

There is nothing else you need do just now, if you alert ebay before the police get a chance the listing could be taken down and the seller alerted.

That'd mean those items vanishing without trace.

Ahleckz · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:58

Are you from Latvia? If so, can you help me out with a big favour?

platinum87 · 8 Oct 2012 at 23:00

Well i believe strongly in hard work. To that end...

Track down who is selling the item, or if they are a company who acquired the item, get their CCTV.. Eventually find the source of this, break into their homes and **** them up.

Tuexnovia said:
Good idea but they know where we live,
the point is that if that is OUR "ITEM" that shop is in troubles right?

who knows where you live, the shop selling them, or the people that stole it.

Is it a business selling it or an individual? Is it professional?

stokecity_m · 8 Oct 2012 at 23:01

Telephone the shop and speak to owner.
Say the following,

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you give me my stuff back now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Strife212 · 8 Oct 2012 at 23:02

Tuexnovia said:
We would like to go to that shop and ask for that "ITEM" and check the serial number and then if it was "our" we would call the police, but we are not sure about what we can do, basically because they can take retaliate or whatever...

The store won't have any problems with you if they are your items, they won't be the one that stole them.

Twirlywoos · 8 Oct 2012 at 23:08

I have no idea what an Englishman would do, but a Scottish man would arrange a local pickup, inspect the item and if they can validate that it was their item then they'd ram a rusty screwdriver into their chest.

Aedus · 8 Oct 2012 at 23:09

majnu said:
I have no idea what an Englishman would do, but a Scottish man would arrange a local pickup, inspect the item and if they can validate that it was their item then they'd ram a rusty screwdriver into their chest.

Northerners would take a look at the item, realise it wasn't theirs, and run off with it.

Woden · 8 Oct 2012 at 23:12

stokecity_m said:
Telephone the shop and speak to owner.
Say the following,

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you give me my stuff back now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Batman Begins is an awesome film.

Ahleckz · 8 Oct 2012 at 23:12

Aedus said:
Northerners would take a look at the item, realise it wasn't theirs, and run off with it.

Southerners would pussy foot around the issue, have a bit of a strop, moan to their local WI and subsequently buy replacement products.

neil3k · 8 Oct 2012 at 23:17

Woden said:
Batman Begins is an awesome film.

joking right?