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Interesting thread about a botched sale over on the VMF

Yeah, talk about a strange scenario! It'll be interesting to see the conclusion.
 
A number of years ago, I had a transaction involving a VMF'er who only participated in the classified section. The joker sent me the wrong parts and I returned all of them. He then claimed that I kept some of the parts and threatened to invoke the full force of the New Mexico legal system to recover his "loss". Even though he was a LEO with a track record of shady dealings (I learned of this after the fact), he either had no concept of about interstate jurisdiction or was unaware that I was an attorney. In any event, I invited him to bring a suit. Instead, he finally gave up on his scam. Lesson: Just because someone is a registered member of that community, does not mean they get a pass on business ethics. Caveat Emptor.
 
Funny part to me is accusing a worker in the processing facility of swapping it out. I know anything is possible but I have 22yrs at a USPS processing facility as a maintenance technician and we really don't keep sand around just in case. Also what is described is considered a NMO (non-machineable object) it doesn't get weighed after it is accepted and shipping is paid for.

From infinity and beyond
 
I have some smoked Salmon for sale. No Really! I can ship it after I come back from the pet store with some kitty litter.
 
I don't see why a postal worker would open the package, determine that it was an 8" Ford rear end which he desperately wanted, and replace it with a couple of bags of sand of the same weight (my assumption) to cover the theft. Not that I have an unshakable faith in the honesty of federal workers (see Lois Lerner) but that's too unlikely to believe. It has to be the shipper or the receiver. The guy who shipped it makes a good point that, if he were trying to rip the kid off, why would he have wasted his time and money to ship a bucket of anything? My money's on the guy who received the package for the kid in the military.

Jeff......I didn't know you are an attorney. I'll have to watch my sarcastic comments in the future.
 
My pennies are also on the guy who received it. I bet he's just playing a game with the kid.
 
RagTop said:
I don't see why a postal worker would open the package, determine that it was an 8" Ford rear end which he desperately wanted, and replace it with a couple of bags of sand of the same weight (my assumption) to cover the theft. Not that I have an unshakable faith in the honesty of federal workers (see Lois Lerner) but that's too unlikely to believe. It has to be the shipper or the receiver. The guy who shipped it makes a good point that, if he were trying to rip the kid off, why would he have wasted his time and money to ship a bucket of anything? My money's on the guy who received the package for the kid in the military.

Jeff......I didn't know you are an attorney. I'll have to watch my sarcastic comments in the future.
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Ken: .....watch your sarcastic comments???? That will take all the fun out of it!!!
(P.S. I'm not a practicing attorney)
Regards, Jeff
 
One of my first thoughts was an internet prank, but I could see a scammer shipping a bucket of sand to the friend. That way he can show that a package was shipped, he can blame the friend, and maybe he was thinking the package would not be opened until the buyer returned from overseas, giving him time to disappear. Whatever happened is going to be hard to prove.
 
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