Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 2000/11

From: Sterkel Terrance-W15462 <T.Sterkel@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Bass Clarinet back on eBay
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:47:15 -0500

do not forget, he is also selling Maserati parts on eBay.
some negative feedback may be appropriate, as long as you
use the right item number "486389342" everyone may put in
negative feedback.

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Terry Sterkel, P.E.
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: -----Original Message-----
: From: LeliaLoban@-----.com]
: Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:06 AM
: To: klarinet@-----.org
: Subject: [kl] Bass Clarinet back on eBay
:
:
: David Hattner writes,
: >I am sorry to report that the bass clarinet we have
: discussed lately is back
: >on eBay.
: >
: >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=486389342
: >
: >I have writted to ebay to complain. This jerk now is having
: a 'private'
: >auction so the bidders will remail anonymous.
:
: Unbelievable! What chutzpah! His brazen nerve in putting
: the clarinet back
: up on eBay does suggest to me that perhaps he's not lying
: when he claims he
: purchased your clarinet at a police auction. If he had no
: receipt for it,
: surely he wouldn't put himself in jeopardy of arrest this
: way. (OTOH, maybe
: he belongs in the Ann Landers "Stupid Crooks" archives....)
: Have you been
: able to verify whether or not this police auction actually took place?
:
: Jay Webler wrote,
: >>I must admit that I haven't read each post on this issue. Were you
: >>reimbursed by the Insurance for the loss of this
: instrument. If you were,
: >>what is the major concern? Unless you have an emotional
: attachment to this
: >>instrument it seems as if it has been an insurance concern
: from the time
: >>that the reimbursement check was sent. Wouldn't you have
: to reimburse the
: >>Insurance company if you were able to get the instrument back?
:
: Jay, if something you care about ever gets ripped off, you'll
: understand
: what's going on here. I can't speak for David Hattner, but
: *my* major
: concern is that a thief is getting away with a crime, right
: here in the
: middle of the clarinet-playing community. It's *wrong*.
: Society sinks
: toward barbarism if people see this sort of thing happening
: and do nothing.
: Vigorous reponse by the public has a way of motivating officials and
: insurance executives to take action, even if this isn't the
: biggest case on
: their docket. Under the "broken window" theory, if we just shrug our
: shoulders and turn away from what seems to be a fairly minor
: property crime
: (though it's not minor to the person who loses the
: property!), the bad buys
: will feel emboldened to try something bigger and worse.
:
: Meanwhile, this eBay seller, Doubledge@-----.com (who, if he is
: not the thief
: or the fence, is *at best* some slimeball callously seizing a
: chance to
: profit from the theft) damages the already-dubious reputation
: of people who
: buy and sell used merchandise. The threat to destroy the
: instrument if he
: doesn't get his profit outrages me. I take his dishonorable behavior
: personally. This creep is breaking the unwritten but
: generally understood
: rules of conduct followed by honest pickers and cockroaches.
: Most of us
: engaged in this form of recycling dread that we might
: inadvertently buy
: stolen property. When a transaction smells bad, we feel a
: duty to try to
: clean it up. Moral issues aside, this seller is also hurting
: our business,
: by making us look like an unsavory, untrustworthy crowd of Ferengis.
:
: BTW, eBay sent me another computerized response asking me to
: go to the site
: and fill out a response form responding to their response to
: my response. I
: did so, leaving the message that their computer-generate
: boilerplate response
: was unresponsive. The format gave me space to explain the
: situation again.
: Maybe this time a human being will look at the communication.
: I just got
: done posting a complaint to eBay about the new auction and
: hope that others
: will chime in, too.
:
: Glad to hear the insurance company finally rolled over and
: sat up. Sic 'em!
:
: Lelia
:
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