OMG Ebay users are getting really lame, threatening me with prison

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Well decided to sell some marbles i bought at a local car boot, the marble in question is doing rather well and i get a guy messaging me and threatening me with the FBI and prison sentences for selling a marble, lol, heres the last message i received off him.

''You clearly don't understand that it is a fellony to sell a
counterfeit item, even if you didn't know it was counterfeit. The law is
set up that way so criminals can't pretend they didn't know. Your
pretending that you found this at a boot sale won't make a difference if
you are caught passing a counterfeit item for any amount of money
whatsoever. Don't take my word for it. Call your local police deparment and
find out for yourself.

Don't get any ideas that once te auction is over
this will go away. Its a matter of record, I have already copied your
listing and images. Its easy to see from the photos that the item is a fake
and the $5000 pervious sale value is enough to show montivation for
creating a counterfeit item and pretending to be naïve.

You have til the
end of the day to cancel the auction and be reminded that after the auction
closes you can and will be investigated and convicted. My emails to you-
and your replies- will make your sentence all the worse. I suggest you stp
being stubborn and back away from this. It is indeed a very serious
matter.

You have until midnight and then I will proceed to involve eBay
and the FBI as I have sucesfully in the past.

Think again.''

What do you think, ignore the guy or report him or do as he says?
 
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unfortunatly its true, i have a friend that has been into marbles for years and i have allways been on the look out for some at carboots as i know he does well in selling them, allthough he dosnt tell me everything and keeps it to himself most of the time as thats his hobby, i find some and put them on and get accussed of them being fake, its a marble for goodness sake im thinking, how can it be fake, but this guy seems to be like a dog with a bone
 
Tefal said:
ffs he has shockingly bad taste :/


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290368269470




http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230403179376
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lol, did you see the sheep


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250550790098


this is the last message i sent him.


''Dear early-halloween,

look if you feel this strongly about this i suggest you report it to ebay, and let them decide if you are right or wrong and stop harrasing me, if you send anymore messages you will not get a reply, i dont play silly keyboard games.


- ive856''
 
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Well I have just been browsing the FBI site and found this answer

''What authority do FBI Special Agents have to make arrests in the United States, its territories, or on foreign soil?
In the United States and its territories, FBI Special Agents may make arrests for any federal offense committed in their presence or when they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed, or is committing, a felony violation of U.S. laws. Concerning arrests on foreign soil, FBI Special Agents generally do not have authority outside the United States except in certain cases where, with the consent of the host country, Congress has granted the FBI extraterritorial jurisdiction.''

So would they do this for a marble ?
 
its a tad worrying though, that people out there think they can scare you into things through the net, i mean, ebay will gladly give this person my address, im thinking now of that killing spree that went on with some psycho from America
 
Greebo said:
Only problem I can see is the OP is claiming its Old, from China and made of Porcelain.

Problem is if it is a fake then it won'tbe old, or from China and maybe not even made from porcelain.

Okay the FBI won't get involved but I would expect a chargeback on the account and a report to Ebay if it turns out to be fake.

It would have been better just to advertise it as "Marble, old looking with Chinese style pictures painted on it" and then there would have been absolutely no comeback.

As it is, the OP is indeed making claims which he doesn't know for sure unless he has had an expert already examine it?
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yeah the good old charge back is a bad thing, have been through a charge back before and paypal dont care, it maybe i will take this off and look into it further as i dont fancy spending this money and then 2 months later get a charge back:mad:
 
fifiov said:
No, I mean Bargain Hunt. Find cheap stuff at car boot sale, try to sell it on at a profit, usually fail miserably. Be nice to have somebody who wasn't rubbish at it for a change.

(My girlfriend watches it, not me, honest :p)
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I was watching dickensons real deal the other day, their was a solitaire board full of old marbles, the seller accepted the dealers offer of £100, from what ive seen of my mates there worth probably 3x that or more.
 
For one im not trying to rip people off, never have as you can see from my feedback vesta man, if they want to bid i cant stop them, i have listed it what i think it is, end of, if it were you selling and it got good bids would you take it off ebay and go and get it valued and where would you go and at what cost to yourself.

Its not down as an antique as i wouldnt know if it was.

The auction was started at 99p no reserve, i havnt told them to bid, for all i care it could have sold for 99p.

I didnt start this thread to get myself called a thief from people behind a keyboard with nothing better to do than snipe at people, i started it to point out how silly people can be throwing threats of prison about.
 
freak2002 said:
I for one think you have done nothing wrong. You never said anything that could be taken as exact details apart from a description of the item.

Ignore the eejit sending you messages, just wants it for himself/herself.
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well i got about 50 minutes to decide wether to take it off or leave it on, really carnt decide
 
div0 said:
My only concern would be this:



Also if I was a buyer, my instant thoughts were that the email comments about it being worth 5k looked suspiciously like they would have been made by a friend of the seller.

I just don't understand why the OP keeps insisting in this thread that he genuinely doesn't know what it is worth. Yet he acts like he knows it is worth very little.

If I listed an item on ebay, with no reserve and obviously didn't expect to get much for it - only to have a random person tell me it might be worth 5k and then to see bids of over 1k start to come in, I think I would probably be concerned that maybe I was in possession of a very valuable item, and that I could be about to sell it for a lot less than it might be worth.

But the OP doesn't seem bothered about finding out its real value?
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Its ebay, im not bothered about real value of it at all , if it sold for 99p i wouldnt give a hoot, worldly possesions have never bothered me, im not that type of person, and im not insisting anything, and the thread wasnt not here to find its value it was simply to point out how lame people are on the other end of keyboards
 
div0 said:
People are lame, especially over the internet.

However, ebay scams do cause a lot of frustration. It may not have been your intention, but your page reads to me like you are hoping someone will mistake this for a valuable item, when you know it's not.

The person who emailed you is most likely just annoyed at the amount of people who deliberately try to mislead buyers.

The email comments referring to the possible 5k value of the item look very staged imo.

It appears that this sort of item can either be a cheap imitation, or a valuable antique - and by being 'vague' as to the value, you were always running the chance of having someone try and deliberately ruin the auction.
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I know what your saying but i have nothing to hide and the questions are not staged, i can prove it if you think im a liar, do you think i would be that stupid.

 
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