Xray 009 stolen from The Plex...on ebay right now please don't buy!
01-19-2009, 08:01 AM
#16
If you are 100% it is your stolen car, you should bid high on it i.e. $420 or something you know he'd "accept" ....then you got time before he ships it i.e. has to "wait" for you to pay. If it somehow ends up not beeing your car, you could always back out of the deal ...buyer's can't be neg'd anymore on Ebay anyways.
The problem with me offering anything for it or even doing the buy it now for the purpose of holding it up, is then the guy will have my home address. All he has to do is click on "view order details."
Law enforcement is on it, I've contacted ebay.
01-19-2009, 08:20 AM
#17
i threw in another report, hopefully an abundance of them will help. post his pic in ur store with a theft notice. see if some1 else knows him and thus put more heat on.
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01-19-2009, 08:24 AM
#18
i'm guessing not, but if there were any cameras catching this thief red handed, you are onto a winner with evidence 
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Hope you get the kit back.
....Hope you get the kit back.
01-19-2009, 08:38 AM
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01-19-2009, 08:47 AM
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01-19-2009, 08:55 AM
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Sellers can't leave negative feedback on eBay unless they changed their policy in the few months. I sold some stuff and the guy didn't pay for it and the only thing i could do was file a non paying bidder complaint and get a get a unpaid item strike put against him and the only feedback I could have left would have to be positive. So as a buyer you are protected by eBay from getting negative feedback.
01-19-2009, 09:48 AM
#27
i doubt it, hobby shops don't really expect this sort of thing to happen and copying down serial numbers is just time consuming. I feel wicked bad about this, i know how it feels. At the grandslam at 360 someone walked off with my calipers, not a car but still sucks.
01-19-2009, 10:13 AM
#28
Things like this are exactly why I love my job. I work Loss Prevention for a retailer and catching shoplifters is 100% of what I do. I've seen it all from the lowly purse suffers, the grab and goes, and even a guy who swallowed a 3K diamond bracelet. Between two of us, we caught 78 shoplifters in 2008 recovering about $15,000 in merchandise.
One big thing law enforcement is looking for in theft cases is selection. Did you witness him pick up the car off the shelf? Are you 100% sure it was not paid for? Did you see him leave with the car?
If you can answer all those questions as yes, that's a 100% open shut case.
If not then choose your words carefully. "I saw him looking at the car." If you were working that day, "I thought I saw him watching me." Then say, "I had to help another customer at the register and when I was done he was gone, and so was the car. I never saw anyone else looking at the car."
Best of luck to you.
One big thing law enforcement is looking for in theft cases is selection. Did you witness him pick up the car off the shelf? Are you 100% sure it was not paid for? Did you see him leave with the car?
If you can answer all those questions as yes, that's a 100% open shut case.
If not then choose your words carefully. "I saw him looking at the car." If you were working that day, "I thought I saw him watching me." Then say, "I had to help another customer at the register and when I was done he was gone, and so was the car. I never saw anyone else looking at the car."
Best of luck to you.
01-19-2009, 10:48 AM
#29
Things like this are exactly why I love my job. I work Loss Prevention for a retailer and catching shoplifters is 100% of what I do. I've seen it all from the lowly purse suffers, the grab and goes, and even a guy who swallowed a 3K diamond bracelet. Between two of us, we caught 78 shoplifters in 2008 recovering about $15,000 in merchandise.
One big thing law enforcement is looking for in theft cases is selection. Did you witness him pick up the car off the shelf? Are you 100% sure it was not paid for? Did you see him leave with the car?
If you can answer all those questions as yes, that's a 100% open shut case.
If not then choose your words carefully. "I saw him looking at the car." If you were working that day, "I thought I saw him watching me." Then say, "I had to help another customer at the register and when I was done he was gone, and so was the car. I never saw anyone else looking at the car."
Best of luck to you.
One big thing law enforcement is looking for in theft cases is selection. Did you witness him pick up the car off the shelf? Are you 100% sure it was not paid for? Did you see him leave with the car?
If you can answer all those questions as yes, that's a 100% open shut case.
If not then choose your words carefully. "I saw him looking at the car." If you were working that day, "I thought I saw him watching me." Then say, "I had to help another customer at the register and when I was done he was gone, and so was the car. I never saw anyone else looking at the car."
Best of luck to you.
I know the law is not absolute and has tons of loopholes from here to kingdom come, but seriously, all logic considered, that ad alone could be damn this guy.
BTW, I also launched a complaint about this guy to Ebay. Is there any way you can post a picture of this guy? I want to see what this person looks like.
01-19-2009, 11:16 AM
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Damn, it appears as if it was allready purchased?
(unless that was you froboy)
Hopefully the law won't work slowly on this one..
Oh yeah, and another detail about the kit, when sombody buys something at a hobby shop, especially a 500 dollar kit, it tends to stir up conversation between hobbyshop employees and the buyer, wheather it be in the isle, or at the cash register, this attracts attention, and obviously a 500 dollar kit isn't something to go in and get out of a hobby shop for. If nobody talked to the buyer about a newer '09, well, he probably swipped it. Also, hobbyshops do keep track of their merchendise, if something was recorded to be there, is not there anymore, and has no record of it being paid for, it was stolen.
Froboy, if that was you who purchased it, let's hope that you can get to the theif and open up a can of-
If you weren't, well,
All the best of luck to you.
(unless that was you froboy)
Hopefully the law won't work slowly on this one..
Oh yeah, and another detail about the kit, when sombody buys something at a hobby shop, especially a 500 dollar kit, it tends to stir up conversation between hobbyshop employees and the buyer, wheather it be in the isle, or at the cash register, this attracts attention, and obviously a 500 dollar kit isn't something to go in and get out of a hobby shop for. If nobody talked to the buyer about a newer '09, well, he probably swipped it. Also, hobbyshops do keep track of their merchendise, if something was recorded to be there, is not there anymore, and has no record of it being paid for, it was stolen.
Froboy, if that was you who purchased it, let's hope that you can get to the theif and open up a can of-
If you weren't, well,
All the best of luck to you.