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Happened to run into a female neighbor last night while having a beer at a bar near my house. I asked her what she did for a living and she said she had sold items on Ebay (made $4000.00 in sales last month). I offered to walk her home and when we got to her house, I couldn't help but notice some power tools that had obviously been stolen from construction sites, all kinds of other Ebay junk that people collect, and a couple of low level pieces of audio gear. As I live in a state where there is alot of meth use/abuse, her "black market" explanation needs no explanation as to where the stuff is coming from. Just say no to ebay.
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My shooting buddy is a cop that worked "commercial crime" for a short while. Half of his case load were retailers whose employees were stealing them blind and selling the goods on Ebay. At that time, a couple of years ago, Ebay did not want to cooperate very much.
I would ask her where she gets this stuff before assuming it's stolen. If it is stolen, I'd turn her a$$ in...right after takin' care of bidness! Who knows, maybe she got all those tools in trade from construction workers! If she's hot, anything is possible.J
flood revaged house and he was telling me of an acquaintance who makes enough money selling things on eBay to finance his equestrian business! My friend was told that the income from eBay pays for all the feed and other supplies for the 12 horses he boards, plus his own horses! I asked my friend what this other man was selling and he didn't know. But I now have a good idea!
You are obviously a fine upstanding member of the community so just %&@# her and then bust her to the Police! :o)
SmileSox
Having just come back from her house from another visit, I am now at a loss for words. Sorry but I am a single MALE long out to sea in a single male's female-less row boat and she is an attractive single FEMALE. Maybe I'm making too many assumptions here...
Or maybe your little head is doing your thinking now - or is it that you've realized you had a bad case of gawking neighbor syndrome and she's not really a financer of crack heads?
Give me rhythm or give me death!
Where do "black market" brand name used expensive power tools come from anyway? Or new never been used mega-buck hammers from the "black market" come from? Some kind of Afro-American weekly Saturday afternoon market? Doubt it. I'm certainly not going to turn this woman in as I don't know for sure where she is getting all her stuff, but I've worked in the construction trades long enough with enough of the tweaked out workers that some trades attract to know that there's something a little fishy about a $1000.00 concrete cutting saw being sold by someone who got it on the "black market" for a "Buy It Now" price of $500.00. Call me ignorant, but...
Ahhh spring love! LMAO
Julien
"There's someone in my head, but it's not me"
Sir Walter Scott
I mean...c'mon...
There are two types of music- good and bad. Life is too short to bother much with one and hopefully long enough to fully appreciate the other...
It's a no brainer - you don't need that kind of crap in your neighborhood especially if you got kids. If you know for a fact that what you claim is true you need to report it to the authorities. Lots of really bad shit follows that kind of activity. On the other hand there's few worse life forms than a gawking nosy neighbor who sets the cops on those who live nearby based on groundless suspicions or for victimless crimes.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
Before I'd boycott EBay for failing to prevent the channeling of a small portion of stolen merchendise, I'd boycott all companies that knowingly deal in (and profit from) products made by child or sweatshop labor and products made with gross environmental and ecological abuse.
I try to do that asmuch as possible!
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"obviously stolen" power tools look like?I was in a couple of pawn shops over the weekend and the number of pawned hand and power tools is amazing. I swear that everyone with an 10th grade education (or less) in this area has been in the construction industry at one time or another - there must be a million $11/hour semi-skilled framers and roofers running around these parts. Having met many of them in bars, and seeing how they scrape between jobs it's little wonder they're selling tools to get by.
One neighbor selling hot goods on E-Bay is not an indictment of E-Bay, but an indictment of the moral and ethical base of the seller. Your injunction to avoid all of E-Bay because of your neighbor is logically flawed.
is buyer beware when you're dealing with Ebay sellers.
I don't mean to be a dissenting voice here, but my experience has told me that the venues that enable vendors to purchase items astonishingly cheaply are populated by about two dozen people in a moderately populated area. And if you travel around you will find that there is overlap, but generally the buyers remain about the same size and it is usually the same people. When you find
these venues of opportunity, often you buy things that you never would have bought normally simply to turn them over. That being said, the other half of my concern is the fact that you have no evidence that the lady is doing anything wrong. However, you could ask the police to investigate the "messy property" as a nuisance. You should call in the complaint anonymously, because as a known alcoholic the police may give your complaint proper credence. Oh, you're not an alcoholic? I'm sorry, I just heard that you were coming out of a bar, so you must be an alcoholic. Now, forgive me, but I don't really think you are an alcoholic, I just made the same assumption about you that you made about her.
Have you considered reporting your suspicions to the police? That seems to me a far more sensible response than your suggestion to "avoid ebay".
People like that are usually taken care of by Karma
I had a very similar situation on my parent's street... A tweaker's life is about only two things - gettin' high and gettin' money to get high.A family that I grew up across the street from had a son who got hooked on Meth. The father was severe alcoholic and the mother divorced then moved away.
Anyway, Scott got worse and worse until you could hear him banging around the garage all hours of the night. He'd take off in his pickup truck and return with all kinds of "crap" in the bed - old bikes, rusted metal, etc.
That wasn't so bad, but every once in a while his "friends" would come over to visit. As Scott declined, so di the quality of his friends.
We live on a cul-de-sac in a very quiet, upper middle class, neighborhood. No through traffic, no strangers, no crime, nothing over the previous 20 years.
We'll that proved to be irresistable pickings for his friends. First, the battery was stolen out of my mother's car (quick $50). The, tools started to disappear from people's backyards. Cars got rifled through if they weren't locked or had alarms.
Suddenly, people on the street started locking all their doors and windows - even when they were home. As long as we'd lived there, no one ever locked up anything. You could to the store for an hour or two and leave your house completely unlocked without the slightest worry. No was different.
Then, late one night, the neighbor right next door to Scott's house looked out his bedroom window and noticed two guys sneaking up the side stairs. He asked what the hell they were doing and the response was "Oh, sorry. We were looking for Scott." The guys backed down the stairs and it was then that our neighbor saw that they had guns.
A few months later, LAPD SWAT & Bomb Squad raided Scott's house. The entire street had to evacuated because he had built a makeshift Meth lab under his house. He ended up doing a year or two in jail for that.
But, his "friends" continued to show up for years after the father died and the house was stolen. That was at least 7-10 years ago.
I almost had my car stereo stolen one night 2 years ago. The guy returned 2 nights later to finish the job, but this time a neighbor called to wake me up. I ended up giving the skinny Methhead a free Schiatsu massage with a Louisville Slugger after he pulled a knife.
I understand that you don't want to get on the bad side of some thugs but you can't just let something illegal go on either. I would talk to the police and let them deal with it. Don't stick your head in the sand and hope that it all goes away (since you live near a beach). She could get interested in what material goods that you have and then where does that leave you? Probably a victim of her theft as well.I agree with your clarification . . . Ebay is not the bad guy here. It is some of the sellers.
The police busted a local guy here who was selling a ton of stolen construction tools on Ebay. How the police found out was that one of the Contractors who had his tools stolen started searching Ebay and saw his stuff. He contacted the police and they investigated and then arrested the thief.
Look, this will keep going on if you let it. People selling stolen goods need to be busted and others need to hear about it so that they don't think that they can get away with it too.
Karma in this case is another way of saying I'll look the other way while people get mugged; I don't wanna get involved. It makes one an accomplice of sorts. Penalizing an "America's Marketplace" and the honest sellers and buyers by avoiding eBay is compounds the evil, doesn't it? as someone famous and dead once said, all evil needs to flourish is for good men to do nothing. Now if she is real hot and you wanna date her or something, just go for it and skip the sanctimonious stuff in the meantime! ;-)
Grins
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