[Spridgets] eBay officials may face arrest?

[Guy R Day]

Different Countries, different laws.
Remember in some Countries you can go to jail for calling a teddy bear 
Muhammed.


Guy R Day


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Bruce Evans" <b-evans at earthlink.net>
To: <bugeye at yahoogroups.com>;
Cc: <Spridgets at autox.team.net>; <midgetsprite at yahoogroups.com>;
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] eBay officials may face arrest?


> Rick Williston wrote: Not sure what it being in France has to do with it, 
> but it is a bit farfetched. As long as e-Bay provides seller's 
> information when fraud is present I don't see how they can be held 
> accountable for anything>
> My aunt fanny they should not be held accountable. Since its very 
> inception, eBay has refused to accept any and all responsibility for those 
> who perpetrate fraud on their site. And I have the documentation to prove 
> it.
> I have had some experience in authenticating some early 20th century 
> western/cowboy art of the Taos Society of Artists, including for 
> Sothebys. (My wifes uncle was one of the founders of the Society, we 
> collect his work, and we are involved with other descendants and his 
> biographer.)
> I have found numerous fakes and frauds asserting they were by Buck Dunton 
> or other of the six founders. I have notified eBay *in detail*, and I have 
> had other family members and experts contact eBay. Each time, eBay 
> responded that their hands were clean because they only provided a forum 
> for buyers and sellers to meet. They insisted it was not the role to 
> ensure the legitimacy of anything, OR TO TAKE ANY ACTION in the case of 
> fraud. In all of the complaints I was involved with, eBay refused to 
> remove, investigate, or take any kind of action against the those involved 
> in fraud involving significant thousands of dollars.
> Fortunately, better luck was found by going to some States Attorneys 
> General. New York was particularly cooperative, taking evidence and 
> indicting one ring that stretched from New York to Florida.
> In my view, when eBay is notified of suspected (or known) fraud, it simply 
> becomes a co-conspirator in the fraud being perpetrated when it claims no 
> responsibility.
> (I will say that there are bargains. For a couple of hundred dollars, one 
> train buff purchased a painting of a locomotive engineer in a train crash. 
> Although, it was completely out of Uncle Bucks genre, it bore his 
> signature. I was initially skeptical, but we were later able to 
> authenticate it by finding the original illustration in, as I recall, a 
> Colliers magazine! Its value? About $50,000 (a paltry sum because it was 
> not in his specialty of cowboys and the west, about which he was an 
> expert.)
> Buster Evans