Boinktard forgets to remove shop tags before selling stolen specs on eBay...

[mandy]

...and a few dozen other tales of stolen goods on eBay--many,many articles this morning on stolen goods being fenced on eBay and other eBay related fraud. 

Plea deal off for woman charged with using eBay for fraud

The case of a Lehigh Valley woman charged with stealing $51,000 using Web auction scams will go to trial after a plea deal was withdrawn by federal prosecutors, her attorney said.

Julie C. Miller, who lived in Lehigh and Northampton counties, was charged March 30 with three counts of mail fraud for allegedly accepting payments for eBay auctions of Pittsburgh Steelers tickets, jewelry and rare coins, but never sending the merchandise...

full article: http://www.mcall.com/sports/football/all...otball-hed

Counterfeit CD haul is valued at £900,000

A COUNTERFEIT CD ring discovered in Bolton is estimated to have cost the music industry almost £900,000.

A husband and wife team alleged to be at the heart of a counterfeiting empire were questioned after their home was raided by officers in an anti-piracy operation last month.

The couple, aged in their late 30s, are said to have been selling the CDs for £5 each on auction website eBay...

full article: http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/l...00_000.php

Fargo-Moorhead authorities investigate shoplifting ring

Bill Bergquist, sheriff in Minnesota's Clay County, said authorities believe employees of a local janitorial business were recruited to steal items and sell them to the ringleader for 50 cents on the dollar.

Bergquist said the items were then sold on eBay. The stolen merchandise is valued at about $430,000, he said...

full article: http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks...548155.htm

Serial Burglar Sentenced

A confessed serial burglar who ripped off more than 300 Utah businesses could spend 30 years behind bars...

Freed targeted strip malls, stealing cash and postage stamps, then sold them on eBay...

full article: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=256660

Official: Items sold on eBay

The maintenance supervisor for the town of Kernersville, who is accused of stealing from the town, sold items he bought with town money on eBay, the online auction site, according to an application for a search warrant in the case....

full article: http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satell...sicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137835979010&path=!localnews!localgov!&s=

Ebay specs 'still had shop tags'

A County Down man accused of selling stolen goods on auction website eBay may have his bank accounts frozen, the High Court has heard...

A prosecution lawyer said 40 pairs of designer spectacle frames stolen in Newry in April ended up being sold on eBay later that month by Mr Fegan...

full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/north...758843.stm