EBay fraudster gets ass kicked on Judge Judy

EBay's bad reputation just gets worse and worse, if today's episode of
Judge Judy is any indication.

The plaintiffs in the case were a mother and daughter who had thought
they'd purchased two Motorola RAZR cell phones on two different eBay
auctions. The respondent was a fat blonde self-righteous bimboid by
the name of Kelly Filkins, who along with her brain dead dry waller
husband, was out to make a fast buck through fraud. The husband, an
obvious coward, didn't show at the hearing, claiming he had to
"babysit," leaving her similarly brain dead wife to take the drubbing
in front of ten million viewers.

Here's the fraud: The auction, as was shown on the program, showed an
ad for the cell phone, complete with specifications and a couple of
pictures of the item. The fraudster put "what you see here is what
you get." OK, so far, so good. Then, after closing, the fraudster
printed out the picture and specs, shoved them into an envelope and
sent them to the winner bidder! The bidder said she tried eBay at
first, which as we all know is useless in trying to reign in
fraudsters (unless you build a fire under them), to no avail. A phone
call placed to the fraudster's husband was revealing. He said he
wouldn't do anything, and told the bidder "thanks for the shoping
spree!" before hanging up.

Once the fed up bidder decided to take the case to national TV on
Judith Schiendlin's show, however, eBay got off their ass and
immediately banned the fraudster's account. The attitute of the
fraudster was amazing, however...she didn't feel that she needed to
explain anything to anyone, including the judge, and felt that sending
pictures of the phone satisifed the auction! $470 for two piece of
paper with pictures of a cell phone isn't fraud? What the hell's the
matter with criminals like this...bad upbringing, mental disease, drug
abuse...what?? More importantly, what the hell's wrong with eBay,
allowing such scammers to continue perpetrating these felonies without
even as much as cancelling the fraudster's account? Once the threat
of even more bad press surfaced though, they were quite quick to
cancel the fraudster's account...and only then.

And, as illustrated by their flimsy defense in the Tiffany case, eBay
doesn't feel they're responsible at all for fraud and other crimes
taking place on their site! I think it's time to start spreading the
word...eBay is a front for probably millions of petty thieves, selling
every kind of counterfeit, bogus merchandise imaginable.

More on the Judge Judy show at:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.a...f25b9949541836

[Default] DeserTBoB went like:

The plaintiffs in the case were a mother and daughter who had thought
they'd purchased two Motorola RAZR cell phones on two different eBay
auctions.

They had better be careful that they don't get their account
suspended for being "potential troublemakers".

Ombudsman Superiour
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DeserTBoB wrote:
....

And, as illustrated by their flimsy defense in the Tiffany case, eBay
doesn't feel they're responsible at all for fraud and other crimes
taking place on their site!

They claim they are no more responsible that the highway department is
for providing roads used by robbers in the night!

I think that gradually the laws will come to define some levels of
responsibility for ebay, craig's list and the like.

On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:17:04 -0800, DeserTBoB wrote:

leaving her similarly brain dead wife to take the drubbing
in front of ten million viewers.

Maybe more like 600,000 viewers would be more truthful

Remember the iron rule: every eBay decision is based on what makes
more money for them.

Simple here. If they banned someone making $450 a pop, the FVF fees
for that seller would evaporate. They were probably substantial.
So....eBay decides to do nothing based on the complaint of a single
buyer.

Once the scum's scam became public, though, eBay would lose customers
and goodwill if they let them keep their account, thus losing many
other potential sales and the income from those sales. It was a net
profit to ban that single seller. So....eBay decides to shut down a
scammer when it becomes general public knowledge.

eBay may have a lot of thieves, and has lost its vision as a person-to-
person environment, but it is still viable, still the auction site of
choice, and still provides perfectly good selling/buying experiences
for almost everyone.

On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:33:12 -0500, RodKneeDYoung
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:17:04 -0800, DeserTBoB wrote:

leaving her similarly brain dead wife to take the drubbing
in front of ten million viewers.

Maybe more like 600,000 viewers would be more truthful snip

Ever seen an Arbitron survey? Know how to interpret it?

DeserTBoB wrote:

EBay's bad reputation just gets worse and worse, if today's episode of
Judge Judy is any indication.

The plaintiffs in the case were a mother and daughter who had thought
they'd purchased two Motorola RAZR cell phones on two different eBay
auctions. The respondent was a fat blonde self-righteous bimboid by
the name of Kelly Filkins, who along with her brain dead dry waller
husband, was out to make a fast buck through fraud. The husband, an
obvious coward, didn't show at the hearing, claiming he had to
"babysit," leaving her similarly brain dead wife to take the drubbing
in front of ten million viewers.

Here's the fraud: The auction, as was shown on the program, showed an
ad for the cell phone, complete with specifications and a couple of
pictures of the item. The fraudster put "what you see here is what
you get." OK, so far, so good. Then, after closing, the fraudster
printed out the picture and specs, shoved them into an envelope and
sent them to the winner bidder! The bidder said she tried eBay at
first, which as we all know is useless in trying to reign in
fraudsters (unless you build a fire under them), to no avail. A phone
call placed to the fraudster's husband was revealing. He said he
wouldn't do anything, and told the bidder "thanks for the shoping
spree!" before hanging up.

Once the fed up bidder decided to take the case to national TV on
Judith Schiendlin's show, however, eBay got off their ass and
immediately banned the fraudster's account. The attitute of the
fraudster was amazing, however...she didn't feel that she needed to
explain anything to anyone, including the judge, and felt that sending
pictures of the phone satisifed the auction! $470 for two piece of
paper with pictures of a cell phone isn't fraud? What the hell's the
matter with criminals like this...bad upbringing, mental disease, drug
abuse...what?? More importantly, what the hell's wrong with eBay,
allowing such scammers to continue perpetrating these felonies without
even as much as cancelling the fraudster's account? Once the threat
of even more bad press surfaced though, they were quite quick to
cancel the fraudster's account...and only then.

And, as illustrated by their flimsy defense in the Tiffany case, eBay
doesn't feel they're responsible at all for fraud and other crimes
taking place on their site! I think it's time to start spreading the
word...eBay is a front for probably millions of petty thieves, selling
every kind of counterfeit, bogus merchandise imaginable.

More on the Judge Judy show at:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.a...f25b9949541836

Whaty REALLY! ****es me off about this is eBay does nothing
until FORCED TO! Thus stealing further from the buyer. The
whole damned eBay scheme is to fleece buyers. And if buyers
dont cooperate in being fleeced and pay, then eBay sets strikes against the buyer. UN****ING BELIEVABLE!

eBay is nothing more than legalised extortion.

klm

Maybe more like 600,000 viewers would be more truthful

If that's all the viewers there are it's a wonder the old whore is
still on the air.

On Feb 10, 1:54 am, wrote:
Maybe more like 600,000 viewers would be more truthful

If that's all the viewers there are it's a wonder the old whore is
still on the air.



great post...

and it must really suck to be the OP, and have a life that entirely
consists of sitting home and watching Judge Judy- as if that's real
world....

On 13 Feb 2007 05:53:22 -0800, "duty-honor-country"
wrote:

On Feb 10, 1:54 am, wrote:
Maybe more like 600,000 viewers would be more truthful

If that's all the viewers there are it's a wonder the old whore is
still on the air.



great post...

and it must really suck to be the OP, and have a life that entirely
consists of sitting home and watching Judge Judy- as if that's real
world.... snip

duty- honor-country = Charles M. Nudo. Jr. of Drums,
PA...fraudster/spammer extraordinaire.

See more at:

http://nudowatch.blogspot.com