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@earthlink.net>
To: <bugeye@yahoogroups.com>;
Cc: <Spridgets@autox.team.net>; <midgetsprite@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
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