Unfortunately Ebay doesn't care. They will assist the police in a legitimate
investigation, but anything else is 'buyer beware'. They aren't in the
business of policing millions of transaction. I think in the beginning they
used to take things like this more seriously, but not now. And yes, I had
some bad moments about this - afterall, he could easily tell where I lived.
But in the end you have to make a judgement call, and my call was to let it
lie. So in the future, if anyone finds me dead with a piece of Chantilly
lace around my neck, please look about 2 years ago in Arachne, and you will
find all the evidence.
Laurie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Zammit Manduca" <kaza...@melita.com>
To: "'Laurie Waters'" <lswaters...@comcast.net>; <lace@arachne.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 6:07 AM
Subject: RE: [lace] Correspondence on some bobbins on eBay
Couldn't you have made a formal report to eBay about this person Laurie.
After all trying to sell machine made stuff and pass it off as handmade
probably amounts to fraud if it is done repeatedly. If it is a one-off
thing
it could be called a 'mistake' but not if it is done all the time. There
are
also consumer protection laws that would put the person out of business as
well.
Karen in Malta
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Laurie Waters
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:22 PM
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Correspondence on some bobbins on eBay
Don't take it too bad Brian. I once dared to suggest privately to an Ebay
seller that a 'handmade white Chantilly shawl' was actually machine made.
After formally banning me from his site, and after his wife repeatedly
told
me to do something more productive with my life like trying prostitution,
and then explaining how he had handled 500 such shawls in his life, he
finally ended up threatening to strangle me with a pice of Chantilly lace.
All I could say was that I hoped it would be handmade.
Laurie
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