The World's Angriest eBay Seller
from the A+++++-INSULTS-WITH-EVERY-ORDER!!!! dept
Plenty of eBay users have stories about situations when they clashed with someone at the other end of a transaction, whether it was over the terms, something misleading in the description or some other point. However, it appears that some eBay buyers have come across an amazingly angry eBay seller -- who seemed to turn nasty with no provocation at all. When potential buyers emailed him with questions, he turned around and sent them incredibly angry and threatening emails, and then started calling and harassing the buyers (who apparently left their phone numbers). The threatened buyers complained to the police, who did nothing, but a news organization tracked down the guy who claimed that if he got upset at potential buyers, it was only because they threatened him first. While it may not reach the level of showing up at an eBay seller's house with a gun, it's worth remembering that you never quite know who you're dealing with at the other end of an online transaction.
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Buyer Beware
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JUST BECAUSE SOME IDIOT ASSHOLE BIDDERS ASK ONE TOO MANY STUPID QUESTIONS AND I GET A little FED UP
SUDDENLY I'M TO BLAME?? I'M THE BAD GUY??
GIMMIE YOUR PHONE NUMBER! I NEED IT!
WATCH YOUR FUCKING BACK!
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very funny, A.C. - almost laughed out loud there!
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ebay if fraud, charges money for nothing
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you were told about the fee when you submitted the item for sale. pay up and quit complaining.
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After that, he did not email me anymore and I did not email him or call him anymore. I thought this was the end of it. Then a few months later Bret Shipp from WFAA shows up at my home and starts asking questions about the confrontation and about Cindy
Burleson.
Once I heard the name Cindy Burleson, it became clear why the reporter was there.
Cindy Burleson and Lisa Taylor have been harassing me and my family for almost two years now. She goes by eBay user IDs : lavinder17@hotmail.com , fireyredhead1960, cindysilver2004, curtain_climbers, officerfredfw
They have done everything they can think of to ruin my business, my reputation, and basically my life. They have accused me of anything they could think of, and have reported me to anyone they could come up with in an attempt to reek some sort of revenge against me and have me kicked off of eBay.
I was first contacted by Cindy Burleson in Feb. 2004. She had won one of my auctions for $1.50. She told me she was going to my house and pick up the item. I told her I do not let anyone from the internet come to my house. She insisted that she knew where I lived, and she was going to come over. She got really mad that I refused to allow her in my home. She began accusing me of bidding on my own auctions. The auction had started for $1, so she was accusing me of committing fraud to gain 50 cents ! She reported this to eBay, and emailed my customers with this ridiculous claim.
She then started calling me, and emailing obsessively, then she got her daughter, her boyfriend, and her friends to email me. I have received well over 1,000 emails from her and her friends/family. I got over 500 from them in one day alone. I did call her quite a few times to try to get her to stop, I threatened legal action, she just kept emailing and calling. I gave up, and stopped responding to her harassment in February 2004 and changed my phone number to stop her calls. That is when the real horror began. She is on a mission to do everything she can to effect my life, my business, and my family.
She took one of my emails to her and changed it to say that I was coming to kill her. She sent it to eBay so that they would cancel my account. I had a copy of the original email with the time, date, and ID numbers. I was able to prove to eBay that I did not do this, and they eventually reinstated my account. Meanwhile I was suspended for 30 days with no income because of this lie.
After all of these false allegations from Cindy and her daughter I began to suspect they were the ones up to no good on eBay, so I started to research her accounts and I found out Cindy would list items (such as Tiffany jewelry) and Lisa would bid against other bidders on the items to drive the price up! She had accused me of this when her and her daughter were the ones really doing it ! I showed eBay and eBay suspended the accounts. Neither Cindy Burleson or Lisa Taylor have been allowed on eBay since that time.
Cindy and Lisa both knew it was me who reported them and it only fueled their hatred towards me. Needless to say the story did not end there.
She handed out my home address and phone number to everyone she knows. They then started calling and driving by my house (then would call and/or email to say they had driven by) I filed a police report with the Johnson County Sheriff after they came by late one night in May 2004. I thought it would end after that but the worst was yet to come.
The 10news story states I was arrested for "harassment" and shows the mug shot from that ‘most recent’ arrest. The only reason I was arrested for harassment was because on 3-15-2004 Cindy Burleson filed a false police report against me with the Grand Prairie Texas police department. Apparently her story did not hold water, so action was not taken by the police. The following week 3-22-2004, Lisa goes back to Grand Prairie Texas police department and tells them a different story (someone must have told them their first report did not do it and what they would have to say in order for the Grand Prairie police to take action). A warrant was issued for me after the second report. I obtained copies of the 2 conflicting police reports and there is absolutely no mention of any ‘death threat’ in either of the 2 reports. In fact the reports say I had called 5 times, not the 30-40 she is claiming now. The strangest part of the 2 conflicting reports is that they were both taken by the same police officer. This is a matter of public record and can be verified by anyone through the Grand Prairie Police Department.
Now I ask you, if you were the police officer who took the initial report and knew full well it was false, why would you accept a second report with a different story from the same 2 people and allow them to use different names and addresses, but the same phone numbers ? Not to mention the fact that neither Cindy, her daughter, nor I resided in or around Grand Prairie at all.
Bret Shipp of WFAA was advised of all of this, but he made absolutely no mention of these facts I provided him with in the story they did on me. I guess the truth did not make for a ‘juicy’ story in Bret’s eyes.
I had no idea I even had a warrant for this until the night I was pulled over in my hometown of Cleburne a couple days after Christmas. I spent 5 days (including New Years Eve!) in jail before I could come up with the $5,000 bond they put on me ! Once the DA looked into the matter my bond was refunded in full and no charges were filed. I still spent 5 days in jail because of this woman's lies !
She has continued to harass me and my family. She said that she has been ‘terrorized’ but I have not emailed, called or initiated any contact with her since Feb. 2004. She and her daughter have continued this for almost 2 years now. Every so often I get some kind of strange email message from her. She tells me she likes my house, my car, my truck, and my wife. She has sent emails to my wife stating she has had sex with me in an effort to have my wife think I cheated on her. Both her and her daughter send me emails asking if I am having a nice day and that they love me, stuff like hugs and kisses and such. She even ran a criminal background check on me, got all of my personal information, then emailed to tell me she had this information. She emailed me in July 2005 saying she had driven by my house and saw me smoking in the front yard. She told me how ‘white trash’ she thought that was.
Now I ask you, if someone is harassing and ‘terrorizing’ you, why on earth would you be emailing them to antagonize them and drive by their home which is more than an hour away?
Cindy was frustrated that I was not responding to her emails and phone calls and proceeded to involve the Media and tell them the same bogus story she told eBay about me threatening her life. In fact, I found out about this whole ‘Ebay Bully’ story from HER!! She emailed me to show me what she had done.
After the 10news story aired I started receiving many emails from irate eBay users cussing me out left and right. I was lead into numerous chat forums and discussion boards which were discussing this ‘Ebay Bully’ story and even going as far as posting satellite images of my neighborhood and specifically pointing out my house on the image! Then eBay canceled my accounts telling me I had become a "legal liability” to them, and they could not allow me to conduct business on their site. This entire ordeal has become an ongoing nightmare from which I cannot seem to wake up.
I am an honest small business owner, just trying to make a living and take care of my home and family. I have been selling on eBay for 7 years. I have 1000’s of happy customers. It is unfortunate that I have lost my sole source of income due to a couple of persistent people with nothing better to do than to come up with ways to destroy my life. I now have been put out of business, and have no way to support myself or my family.
I have suffered loss of wages, false imprisonment, harassment, defamation of character, and now public humiliation at the hands of Cindy and her clan. I honestly cannot believe something like this could happen over a $1.50 auction. If it had not happened to me I still would not believe it.
The scariest part of this whole ordeal is that I have come to realize that Cindy Burleson is not going to stop. She is obsessed with me, and has made it her life’s mission to harass me and my family. If it happened to me, it could happen to anyone out there.
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Re: sensational story
On July 16th, 2005 Dwayne Schimke, ebay user ‘Turnedtwo’ contacted me about a bike I was selling on eBay. He emailed saying that he wanted to come to my home and pick up the bike. I have clearly stated in all of my auctions that I do not allow people to pick up items. He admits himself that he ‘didn’t read the whole auction’ After a few emails were exchanged I told him I had blocked him from bidding, and asked him not to email me anymore. He was offended that I forbid him to bid on my auction, and continued to email me several more times after I had asked him to stop emailing me. Then I called his home, I used some choice words and told him to stop emailing me.
After that, he did not email me anymore and I did not email him or call him anymore. I thought this was the end of it. Then a few months later Bret Shipp from WFAA shows up at my home and starts asking questions about the confrontation and about Cindy
Burleson.
Once I heard the name Cindy Burleson, it became clear why the reporter was there.
Cindy Burleson and Lisa Taylor have been harassing me and my family for almost two years now. She goes by eBay user IDs : lavinder17@hotmail.com , fireyredhead1960, cindysilver2004, curtain_climbers, officerfredfw
They have done everything they can think of to ruin my business, my reputation, and basically my life. They have accused me of anything they could think of, and have reported me to anyone they could come up with in an attempt to reek some sort of revenge against me and have me kicked off of eBay.
I was first contacted by Cindy Burleson in Feb. 2004. She had won one of my auctions for $1.50. She told me she was going to my house and pick up the item. I told her I do not let anyone from the internet come to my house. She insisted that she knew where I lived, and she was going to come over. She got really mad that I refused to allow her in my home. She began accusing me of bidding on my own auctions. The auction had started for $1, so she was accusing me of committing fraud to gain 50 cents ! She reported this to eBay, and emailed my customers with this ridiculous claim.
She then started calling me, and emailing obsessively, then she got her daughter, her boyfriend, and her friends to email me. I have received well over 1,000 emails from her and her friends/family. I got over 500 from them in one day alone. I did call her quite a few times to try to get her to stop, I threatened legal action, she just kept emailing and calling. I gave up, and stopped responding to her harassment in February 2004 and changed my phone number to stop her calls. That is when the real horror began. She is on a mission to do everything she can to effect my life, my business, and my family.
She took one of my emails to her and changed it to say that I was coming to kill her. She sent it to eBay so that they would cancel my account. I had a copy of the original email with the time, date, and ID numbers. I was able to prove to eBay that I did not do this, and they eventually reinstated my account. Meanwhile I was suspended for 30 days with no income because of this lie.
After all of these false allegations from Cindy and her daughter I began to suspect they were the ones up to no good on eBay, so I started to research her accounts and I found out Cindy would list items (such as Tiffany jewelry) and Lisa would bid against other bidders on the items to drive the price up! She had accused me of this when her and her daughter were the ones really doing it ! I showed eBay and eBay suspended the accounts. Neither Cindy Burleson or Lisa Taylor have been allowed on eBay since that time.
Cindy and Lisa both knew it was me who reported them and it only fueled their hatred towards me. Needless to say the story did not end there.
She handed out my home address and phone number to everyone she knows. They then started calling and driving by my house (then would call and/or email to say they had driven by) I filed a police report with the Johnson County Sheriff after they came by late one night in May 2004. I thought it would end after that but the worst was yet to come.
The 10news story states I was arrested for "harassment" and shows the mug shot from that ‘most recent’ arrest. The only reason I was arrested for harassment was because on 3-15-2004 Cindy Burleson filed a false police report against me with the Grand Prairie Texas police department. Apparently her story did not hold water, so action was not taken by the police. The following week 3-22-2004, Lisa goes back to Grand Prairie Texas police department and tells them a different story (someone must have told them their first report did not do it and what they would have to say in order for the Grand Prairie police to take action). A warrant was issued for me after the second report. I obtained copies of the 2 conflicting police reports and there is absolutely no mention of any ‘death threat’ in either of the 2 reports. In fact the reports say I had called 5 times, not the 30-40 she is claiming now. The strangest part of the 2 conflicting reports is that they were both taken by the same police officer. This is a matter of public record and can be verified by anyone through the Grand Prairie Police Department.
Now I ask you, if you were the police officer who took the initial report and knew full well it was false, why would you accept a second report with a different story from the same 2 people and allow them to use different names and addresses, but the same phone numbers ? Not to mention the fact that neither Cindy, her daughter, nor I resided in or around Grand Prairie at all.
Bret Shipp of WFAA was advised of all of this, but he made absolutely no mention of these facts I provided him with in the story they did on me. I guess the truth did not make for a ‘juicy’ story in Bret’s eyes.
I had no idea I even had a warrant for this until the night I was pulled over in my hometown of Cleburne a couple days after Christmas. I spent 5 days (including New Years Eve!) in jail before I could come up with the $5,000 bond they put on me ! Once the DA looked into the matter my bond was refunded in full and no charges were filed. I still spent 5 days in jail because of this woman's lies !
She has continued to harass me and my family. She said that she has been ‘terrorized’ but I have not emailed, called or initiated any contact with her since Feb. 2004. She and her daughter have continued this for almost 2 years now. Every so often I get some kind of strange email message from her. She tells me she likes my house, my car, my truck, and my wife. She has sent emails to my wife stating she has had sex with me in an effort to have my wife think I cheated on her. Both her and her daughter send me emails asking if I am having a nice day and that they love me, stuff like hugs and kisses and such. She even ran a criminal background check on me, got all of my personal information, then emailed to tell me she had this information. She emailed me in July 2005 saying she had driven by my house and saw me smoking in the front yard. She told me how ‘white trash’ she thought that was.
Now I ask you, if someone is harassing and ‘terrorizing’ you, why on earth would you be emailing them to antagonize them and drive by their home which is more than an hour away?
Cindy was frustrated that I was not responding to her emails and phone calls and proceeded to involve the Media and tell them the same bogus story she told eBay about me threatening her life. In fact, I found out about this whole ‘Ebay Bully’ story from HER!! She emailed me to show me what she had done.
After the 10news story aired I started receiving many emails from irate eBay users cussing me out left and right. I was lead into numerous chat forums and discussion boards which were discussing this ‘Ebay Bully’ story and even going as far as posting satellite images of my neighborhood and specifically pointing out my house on the image! Then eBay canceled my accounts telling me I had become a "legal liability” to them, and they could not allow me to conduct business on their site. This entire ordeal has become an ongoing nightmare from which I cannot seem to wake up.
I am an honest small business owner, just trying to make a living and take care of my home and family. I have been selling on eBay for 7 years. I have 1000’s of happy customers. It is unfortunate that I have lost my sole source of income due to a couple of persistent people with nothing better to do than to come up with ways to destroy my life. I now have been put out of business, and have no way to support myself or my family.
I have suffered loss of wages, false imprisonment, harassment, defamation of character, and now public humiliation at the hands of Cindy and her clan. I honestly cannot believe something like this could happen over a $1.50 auction. If it had not happened to me I still would not believe it.
The scariest part of this whole ordeal is that I have come to realize that Cindy Burleson is not going to stop. She is obsessed with me, and has made it her life’s mission to harass me and my family. If it happened to me, it could happen to anyone out there.
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Re: sensational story
On July 16th, 2005 Dwayne Schimke, ebay user ‘Turnedtwo’ contacted me about a bike I was selling on eBay. He emailed saying that he wanted to come to my home and pick up the bike. I have clearly stated in all of my auctions that I do not allow people to pick up items. He admits himself that he ‘didn’t read the whole auction’ After a few emails were exchanged I told him I had blocked him from bidding, and asked him not to email me anymore. He was offended that I forbid him to bid on my auction, and continued to email me several more times after I had asked him to stop emailing me. Then I called his home, I used some choice words and told him to stop emailing me.
After that, he did not email me anymore and I did not email him or call him anymore. I thought this was the end of it. Then a few months later Bret Shipp from WFAA shows up at my home and starts asking questions about the confrontation and about Cindy
Burleson.
Once I heard the name Cindy Burleson, it became clear why the reporter was there.
Cindy Burleson and Lisa Taylor have been harassing me and my family for almost two years now. She goes by eBay user IDs : lavinder17@hotmail.com , fireyredhead1960, cindysilver2004, curtain_climbers, officerfredfw
They have done everything they can think of to ruin my business, my reputation, and basically my life. They have accused me of anything they could think of, and have reported me to anyone they could come up with in an attempt to reek some sort of revenge against me and have me kicked off of eBay.
I was first contacted by Cindy Burleson in Feb. 2004. She had won one of my auctions for $1.50. She told me she was going to my house and pick up the item. I told her I do not let anyone from the internet come to my house. She insisted that she knew where I lived, and she was going to come over. She got really mad that I refused to allow her in my home. She began accusing me of bidding on my own auctions. The auction had started for $1, so she was accusing me of committing fraud to gain 50 cents ! She reported this to eBay, and emailed my customers with this ridiculous claim.
She then started calling me, and emailing obsessively, then she got her daughter, her boyfriend, and her friends to email me. I have received well over 1,000 emails from her and her friends/family. I got over 500 from them in one day alone. I did call her quite a few times to try to get her to stop, I threatened legal action, she just kept emailing and calling. I gave up, and stopped responding to her harassment in February 2004 and changed my phone number to stop her calls. That is when the real horror began. She is on a mission to do everything she can to effect my life, my business, and my family.
She took one of my emails to her and changed it to say that I was coming to kill her. She sent it to eBay so that they would cancel my account. I had a copy of the original email with the time, date, and ID numbers. I was able to prove to eBay that I did not do this, and they eventually reinstated my account. Meanwhile I was suspended for 30 days with no income because of this lie.
After all of these false allegations from Cindy and her daughter I began to suspect they were the ones up to no good on eBay, so I started to research her accounts and I found out Cindy would list items (such as Tiffany jewelry) and Lisa would bid against other bidders on the items to drive the price up! She had accused me of this when her and her daughter were the ones really doing it ! I showed eBay and eBay suspended the accounts. Neither Cindy Burleson or Lisa Taylor have been allowed on eBay since that time.
Cindy and Lisa both knew it was me who reported them and it only fueled their hatred towards me. Needless to say the story did not end there.
She handed out my home address and phone number to everyone she knows. They then started calling and driving by my house (then would call and/or email to say they had driven by) I filed a police report with the Johnson County Sheriff after they came by late one night in May 2004. I thought it would end after that but the worst was yet to come.
The 10news story states I was arrested for "harassment" and shows the mug shot from that ‘most recent’ arrest. The only reason I was arrested for harassment was because on 3-15-2004 Cindy Burleson filed a false police report against me with the Grand Prairie Texas police department. Apparently her story did not hold water, so action was not taken by the police. The following week 3-22-2004, Lisa goes back to Grand Prairie Texas police department and tells them a different story (someone must have told them their first report did not do it and what they would have to say in order for the Grand Prairie police to take action). A warrant was issued for me after the second report. I obtained copies of the 2 conflicting police reports and there is absolutely no mention of any ‘death threat’ in either of the 2 reports. In fact the reports say I had called 5 times, not the 30-40 she is claiming now. The strangest part of the 2 conflicting reports is that they were both taken by the same police officer. This is a matter of public record and can be verified by anyone through the Grand Prairie Police Department.
Now I ask you, if you were the police officer who took the initial report and knew full well it was false, why would you accept a second report with a different story from the same 2 people and allow them to use different names and addresses, but the same phone numbers ? Not to mention the fact that neither Cindy, her daughter, nor I resided in or around Grand Prairie at all.
Bret Shipp of WFAA was advised of all of this, but he made absolutely no mention of these facts I provided him with in the story they did on me. I guess the truth did not make for a ‘juicy’ story in Bret’s eyes.
I had no idea I even had a warrant for this until the night I was pulled over in my hometown of Cleburne a couple days after Christmas. I spent 5 days (including New Years Eve!) in jail before I could come up with the $5,000 bond they put on me ! Once the DA looked into the matter my bond was refunded in full and no charges were filed. I still spent 5 days in jail because of this woman's lies !
She has continued to harass me and my family. She said that she has been ‘terrorized’ but I have not emailed, called or initiated any contact with her since Feb. 2004. She and her daughter have continued this for almost 2 years now. Every so often I get some kind of strange email message from her. She tells me she likes my house, my car, my truck, and my wife. She has sent emails to my wife stating she has had sex with me in an effort to have my wife think I cheated on her. Both her and her daughter send me emails asking if I am having a nice day and that they love me, stuff like hugs and kisses and such. She even ran a criminal background check on me, got all of my personal information, then emailed to tell me she had this information. She emailed me in July 2005 saying she had driven by my house and saw me smoking in the front yard. She told me how ‘white trash’ she thought that was.
Now I ask you, if someone is harassing and ‘terrorizing’ you, why on earth would you be emailing them to antagonize them and drive by their home which is more than an hour away?
Cindy was frustrated that I was not responding to her emails and phone calls and proceeded to involve the Media and tell them the same bogus story she told eBay about me threatening her life. In fact, I found out about this whole ‘Ebay Bully’ story from HER!! She emailed me to show me what she had done.
After the 10news story aired I started receiving many emails from irate eBay users cussing me out left and right. I was lead into numerous chat forums and discussion boards which were discussing this ‘Ebay Bully’ story and even going as far as posting satellite images of my neighborhood and specifically pointing out my house on the image! Then eBay canceled my accounts telling me I had become a "legal liability” to them, and they could not allow me to conduct business on their site. This entire ordeal has become an ongoing nightmare from which I cannot seem to wake up.
I am an honest small business owner, just trying to make a living and take care of my home and family. I have been selling on eBay for 7 years. I have 1000’s of happy customers. It is unfortunate that I have lost my sole source of income due to a couple of persistent people with nothing better to do than to come up with ways to destroy my life. I now have been put out of business, and have no way to support myself or my family.
I have suffered loss of wages, false imprisonment, harassment, defamation of character, and now public humiliation at the hands of Cindy and her clan. I honestly cannot believe something like this could happen over a $1.50 auction. If it had not happened to me I still would not believe it.
The scariest part of this whole ordeal is that I have come to realize that Cindy Burleson is not going to stop. She is obsessed with me, and has made it her life’s mission to harass me and my family. If it happened to me, it could happen to anyone out there.
[ link to this | view in thread ]
Re: Buyer Beware
On July 16th, 2005 Dwayne Schimke, ebay user ‘Turnedtwo’ contacted me about a bike I was selling on eBay. He emailed saying that he wanted to come to my home and pick up the bike. I have clearly stated in all of my auctions that I do not allow people to pick up items. He admits himself that he ‘didn’t read the whole auction’ After a few emails were exchanged I told him I had blocked him from bidding, and asked him not to email me anymore. He was offended that I forbid him to bid on my auction, and continued to email me several more times after I had asked him to stop emailing me. Then I called his home, I used some choice words and told him to stop emailing me.
After that, he did not email me anymore and I did not email him or call him anymore. I thought this was the end of it. Then a few months later Bret Shipp from WFAA shows up at my home and starts asking questions about the confrontation and about Cindy
Burleson.
Once I heard the name Cindy Burleson, it became clear why the reporter was there.
Cindy Burleson and Lisa Taylor have been harassing me and my family for almost two years now. She goes by eBay user IDs : lavinder17@hotmail.com , fireyredhead1960, cindysilver2004, curtain_climbers, officerfredfw
They have done everything they can think of to ruin my business, my reputation, and basically my life. They have accused me of anything they could think of, and have reported me to anyone they could come up with in an attempt to reek some sort of revenge against me and have me kicked off of eBay.
I was first contacted by Cindy Burleson in Feb. 2004. She had won one of my auctions for $1.50. She told me she was going to my house and pick up the item. I told her I do not let anyone from the internet come to my house. She insisted that she knew where I lived, and she was going to come over. She got really mad that I refused to allow her in my home. She began accusing me of bidding on my own auctions. The auction had started for $1, so she was accusing me of committing fraud to gain 50 cents ! She reported this to eBay, and emailed my customers with this ridiculous claim.
She then started calling me, and emailing obsessively, then she got her daughter, her boyfriend, and her friends to email me. I have received well over 1,000 emails from her and her friends/family. I got over 500 from them in one day alone. I did call her quite a few times to try to get her to stop, I threatened legal action, she just kept emailing and calling. I gave up, and stopped responding to her harassment in February 2004 and changed my phone number to stop her calls. That is when the real horror began. She is on a mission to do everything she can to effect my life, my business, and my family.
She took one of my emails to her and changed it to say that I was coming to kill her. She sent it to eBay so that they would cancel my account. I had a copy of the original email with the time, date, and ID numbers. I was able to prove to eBay that I did not do this, and they eventually reinstated my account. Meanwhile I was suspended for 30 days with no income because of this lie.
After all of these false allegations from Cindy and her daughter I began to suspect they were the ones up to no good on eBay, so I started to research her accounts and I found out Cindy would list items (such as Tiffany jewelry) and Lisa would bid against other bidders on the items to drive the price up! She had accused me of this when her and her daughter were the ones really doing it ! I showed eBay and eBay suspended the accounts. Neither Cindy Burleson or Lisa Taylor have been allowed on eBay since that time.
Cindy and Lisa both knew it was me who reported them and it only fueled their hatred towards me. Needless to say the story did not end there.
She handed out my home address and phone number to everyone she knows. They then started calling and driving by my house (then would call and/or email to say they had driven by) I filed a police report with the Johnson County Sheriff after they came by late one night in May 2004. I thought it would end after that but the worst was yet to come.
The 10news story states I was arrested for "harassment" and shows the mug shot from that ‘most recent’ arrest. The only reason I was arrested for harassment was because on 3-15-2004 Cindy Burleson filed a false police report against me with the Grand Prairie Texas police department. Apparently her story did not hold water, so action was not taken by the police. The following week 3-22-2004, Lisa goes back to Grand Prairie Texas police department and tells them a different story (someone must have told them their first report did not do it and what they would have to say in order for the Grand Prairie police to take action). A warrant was issued for me after the second report. I obtained copies of the 2 conflicting police reports and there is absolutely no mention of any ‘death threat’ in either of the 2 reports. In fact the reports say I had called 5 times, not the 30-40 she is claiming now. The strangest part of the 2 conflicting reports is that they were both taken by the same police officer. This is a matter of public record and can be verified by anyone through the Grand Prairie Police Department.
Now I ask you, if you were the police officer who took the initial report and knew full well it was false, why would you accept a second report with a different story from the same 2 people and allow them to use different names and addresses, but the same phone numbers ? Not to mention the fact that neither Cindy, her daughter, nor I resided in or around Grand Prairie at all.
Bret Shipp of WFAA was advised of all of this, but he made absolutely no mention of these facts I provided him with in the story they did on me. I guess the truth did not make for a ‘juicy’ story in Bret’s eyes.
I had no idea I even had a warrant for this until the night I was pulled over in my hometown of Cleburne a couple days after Christmas. I spent 5 days (including New Years Eve!) in jail before I could come up with the $5,000 bond they put on me ! Once the DA looked into the matter my bond was refunded in full and no charges were filed. I still spent 5 days in jail because of this woman's lies !
She has continued to harass me and my family. She said that she has been ‘terrorized’ but I have not emailed, called or initiated any contact with her since Feb. 2004. She and her daughter have continued this for almost 2 years now. Every so often I get some kind of strange email message from her. She tells me she likes my house, my car, my truck, and my wife. She has sent emails to my wife stating she has had sex with me in an effort to have my wife think I cheated on her. Both her and her daughter send me emails asking if I am having a nice day and that they love me, stuff like hugs and kisses and such. She even ran a criminal background check on me, got all of my personal information, then emailed to tell me she had this information. She emailed me in July 2005 saying she had driven by my house and saw me smoking in the front yard. She told me how ‘white trash’ she thought that was.
Now I ask you, if someone is harassing and ‘terrorizing’ you, why on earth would you be emailing them to antagonize them and drive by their home which is more than an hour away?
Cindy was frustrated that I was not responding to her emails and phone calls and proceeded to involve the Media and tell them the same bogus story she told eBay about me threatening her life. In fact, I found out about this whole ‘Ebay Bully’ story from HER!! She emailed me to show me what she had done.
After the 10news story aired I started receiving many emails from irate eBay users cussing me out left and right. I was lead into numerous chat forums and discussion boards which were discussing this ‘Ebay Bully’ story and even going as far as posting satellite images of my neighborhood and specifically pointing out my house on the image! Then eBay canceled my accounts telling me I had become a "legal liability” to them, and they could not allow me to conduct business on their site. This entire ordeal has become an ongoing nightmare from which I cannot seem to wake up.
I am an honest small business owner, just trying to make a living and take care of my home and family. I have been selling on eBay for 7 years. I have 1000’s of happy customers. It is unfortunate that I have lost my sole source of income due to a couple of persistent people with nothing better to do than to come up with ways to destroy my life. I now have been put out of business, and have no way to support myself or my family.
I have suffered loss of wages, false imprisonment, harassment, defamation of character, and now public humiliation at the hands of Cindy and her clan. I honestly cannot believe something like this could happen over a $1.50 auction. If it had not happened to me I still would not believe it.
The scariest part of this whole ordeal is that I have come to realize that Cindy Burleson is not going to stop. She is obsessed with me, and has made it her life’s mission to harass me and my family. If it happened to me, it could happen to anyone out there.
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On July 16th, 2005 Dwayne Schimke, ebay user ‘Turnedtwo’ contacted me about a bike I was selling on eBay. He emailed saying that he wanted to come to my home and pick up the bike. I have clearly stated in all of my auctions that I do not allow people to pick up items. He admits himself that he ‘didn’t read the whole auction’ After a few emails were exchanged I told him I had blocked him from bidding, and asked him not to email me anymore. He was offended that I forbid him to bid on my auction, and continued to email me several more times after I had asked him to stop emailing me. Then I called his home, I used some choice words and told him to stop emailing me.
After that, he did not email me anymore and I did not email him or call him anymore. I thought this was the end of it. Then a few months later Bret Shipp from WFAA shows up at my home and starts asking questions about the confrontation and about Cindy
Burleson.
Once I heard the name Cindy Burleson, it became clear why the reporter was there.
Cindy Burleson and Lisa Taylor have been harassing me and my family for almost two years now. She goes by eBay user IDs : lavinder17@hotmail.com , fireyredhead1960, cindysilver2004, curtain_climbers, officerfredfw
They have done everything they can think of to ruin my business, my reputation, and basically my life. They have accused me of anything they could think of, and have reported me to anyone they could come up with in an attempt to reek some sort of revenge against me and have me kicked off of eBay.
I was first contacted by Cindy Burleson in Feb. 2004. She had won one of my auctions for $1.50. She told me she was going to my house and pick up the item. I told her I do not let anyone from the internet come to my house. She insisted that she knew where I lived, and she was going to come over. She got really mad that I refused to allow her in my home. She began accusing me of bidding on my own auctions. The auction had started for $1, so she was accusing me of committing fraud to gain 50 cents ! She reported this to eBay, and emailed my customers with this ridiculous claim.
She then started calling me, and emailing obsessively, then she got her daughter, her boyfriend, and her friends to email me. I have received well over 1,000 emails from her and her friends/family. I got over 500 from them in one day alone. I did call her quite a few times to try to get her to stop, I threatened legal action, she just kept emailing and calling. I gave up, and stopped responding to her harassment in February 2004 and changed my phone number to stop her calls. That is when the real horror began. She is on a mission to do everything she can to effect my life, my business, and my family.
She took one of my emails to her and changed it to say that I was coming to kill her. She sent it to eBay so that they would cancel my account. I had a copy of the original email with the time, date, and ID numbers. I was able to prove to eBay that I did not do this, and they eventually reinstated my account. Meanwhile I was suspended for 30 days with no income because of this lie.
After all of these false allegations from Cindy and her daughter I began to suspect they were the ones up to no good on eBay, so I started to research her accounts and I found out Cindy would list items (such as Tiffany jewelry) and Lisa would bid against other bidders on the items to drive the price up! She had accused me of this when her and her daughter were the ones really doing it ! I showed eBay and eBay suspended the accounts. Neither Cindy Burleson or Lisa Taylor have been allowed on eBay since that time.
Cindy and Lisa both knew it was me who reported them and it only fueled their hatred towards me. Needless to say the story did not end there.
She handed out my home address and phone number to everyone she knows. They then started calling and driving by my house (then would call and/or email to say they had driven by) I filed a police report with the Johnson County Sheriff after they came by late one night in May 2004. I thought it would end after that but the worst was yet to come.
The 10news story states I was arrested for "harassment" and shows the mug shot from that ‘most recent’ arrest. The only reason I was arrested for harassment was because on 3-15-2004 Cindy Burleson filed a false police report against me with the Grand Prairie Texas police department. Apparently her story did not hold water, so action was not taken by the police. The following week 3-22-2004, Lisa goes back to Grand Prairie Texas police department and tells them a different story (someone must have told them their first report did not do it and what they would have to say in order for the Grand Prairie police to take action). A warrant was issued for me after the second report. I obtained copies of the 2 conflicting police reports and there is absolutely no mention of any ‘death threat’ in either of the 2 reports. In fact the reports say I had called 5 times, not the 30-40 she is claiming now. The strangest part of the 2 conflicting reports is that they were both taken by the same police officer. This is a matter of public record and can be verified by anyone through the Grand Prairie Police Department.
Now I ask you, if you were the police officer who took the initial report and knew full well it was false, why would you accept a second report with a different story from the same 2 people and allow them to use different names and addresses, but the same phone numbers ? Not to mention the fact that neither Cindy, her daughter, nor I resided in or around Grand Prairie at all.
Bret Shipp of WFAA was advised of all of this, but he made absolutely no mention of these facts I provided him with in the story they did on me. I guess the truth did not make for a ‘juicy’ story in Bret’s eyes.
I had no idea I even had a warrant for this until the night I was pulled over in my hometown of Cleburne a couple days after Christmas. I spent 5 days (including New Years Eve!) in jail before I could come up with the $5,000 bond they put on me ! Once the DA looked into the matter my bond was refunded in full and no charges were filed. I still spent 5 days in jail because of this woman's lies !
She has continued to harass me and my family. She said that she has been ‘terrorized’ but I have not emailed, called or initiated any contact with her since Feb. 2004. She and her daughter have continued this for almost 2 years now. Every so often I get some kind of strange email message from her. She tells me she likes my house, my car, my truck, and my wife. She has sent emails to my wife stating she has had sex with me in an effort to have my wife think I cheated on her. Both her and her daughter send me emails asking if I am having a nice day and that they love me, stuff like hugs and kisses and such. She even ran a criminal background check on me, got all of my personal information, then emailed to tell me she had this information. She emailed me in July 2005 saying she had driven by my house and saw me smoking in the front yard. She told me how ‘white trash’ she thought that was.
Now I ask you, if someone is harassing and ‘terrorizing’ you, why on earth would you be emailing them to antagonize them and drive by their home which is more than an hour away?
Cindy was frustrated that I was not responding to her emails and phone calls and proceeded to involve the Media and tell them the same bogus story she told eBay about me threatening her life. In fact, I found out about this whole ‘Ebay Bully’ story from HER!! She emailed me to show me what she had done.
After the 10news story aired I started receiving many emails from irate eBay users cussing me out left and right. I was lead into numerous chat forums and discussion boards which were discussing this ‘Ebay Bully’ story and even going as far as posting satellite images of my neighborhood and specifically pointing out my house on the image! Then eBay canceled my accounts telling me I had become a "legal liability” to them, and they could not allow me to conduct business on their site. This entire ordeal has become an ongoing nightmare from which I cannot seem to wake up.
I am an honest small business owner, just trying to make a living and take care of my home and family. I have been selling on eBay for 7 years. I have 1000’s of happy customers. It is unfortunate that I have lost my sole source of income due to a couple of persistent people with nothing better to do than to come up with ways to destroy my life. I now have been put out of business, and have no way to support myself or my family.
I have suffered loss of wages, false imprisonment, harassment, defamation of character, and now public humiliation at the hands of Cindy and her clan. I honestly cannot believe something like this could happen over a $1.50 auction. If it had not happened to me I still would not believe it.
The scariest part of this whole ordeal is that I have come to realize that Cindy Burleson is not going to stop. She is obsessed with me, and has made it her life’s mission to harass me and my family. If it happened to me, it could happen to anyone out there.
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So on March 29th I purchased my cool vase from OpOrb.com, or I thought I did. Realizing my paypal account was still linked to my interact account, I quickly went to the seller's website and looked for some contact information. Not finding any, I used their online form and sent them an email stating that the email Paypal was linked to was no longer active, please send correspondence to my other email address.
Few days later... no response.
So I sent another email, now a week later.. Hey, I haven't heard anything from you, I never recieved any confirmation emails, please respond to me or I will be forced to report you to paypal.
Another few days passes...
So now I'm mad. I look up the domain on whois, get the email contact and phone number. On 4/13 I send yet another email to the seller through the 'kal@o-scope.com' email listed on the whois record. I also attempt to call the contact number on the whois record only to find it had been disconnected.
I wait another few days.. ok.. You had three weeks and never contacted me once.. never.. you're done.
So I report them to paypal, get my 40 back and they leave a nasty note about the fact that they had to ship to a PO Box so they don't have records to show the shipment but when they do they will be sure to send me an invoice for the merchandise.
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Note: Because this item was shipped to a P.O.Box, it is NOT on my DHL account statements. I cannot find the USPS DC slip for this item, so at this point I will issue a refund, but if a tracking number is found later I will demand payment in full at that time.
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DEMAND payment.. nice.
So I email them again, I appologized for the way things turned out, well.. here..
Dear OpOrb,
I am sorry that our transaction had to come to this. Had only you responded a single one of my emails asking for a status, I would have never requested a refund through paypal. I had no confirmation of payment, no confirmation you had recieved my order, no shipping details, no phone number, no email address, nothing. Just a form on your website which you don't seem to answer.
In my paypal transaction, I specifically stated that if you were shipping to USPS to ship to the PO box, but any other carrier to ship to 9 Tamara Dr., Roosevelt NJ. If you wanted to use DHL so it would show on your statements, you simply had to ship it to the other address. Please do not blame the fact that I have a PO box on the fact that you never responded to a single email. The lack of any response from you is why I initated a fraud complaint,not because the merchandise hadn't shown up yet.
If you package does ever show up, although I don't know when it would because I have no details on the shipment at all, I'll be sure to refuse the package so you get your merchandise back. I've already purchased a similar vase somewhere else for half the price and no longer want your merchandise.
Thank you,
April Fierro
Pretty nice and calm right? Just letting them know that they fucked up by not emailing me back and they'll get thier merchandise back if it ever shows up..
This is what I got in return..
Date: 19-04-2005 03:04
From: sales@oporb.com
To: April Fierro
Subject: CEASE AND DESIST - DO NOT EMAIL ME AGAIN !!!!!!
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April,
FIRST OF ALL, I have to ship to your CONFIRMED address on
Paypal to avoid unauthorized chargebacks from lowlives such as
yourself ! so NO I would not ship this to ANY other address you
provided because it would not have been your CONFIRMED
address on Paypal.
SECOND OF ALL, I received absolutely NO emails from you aside
from this one EVER !!!
THIRD, AND FOREMOST, I issued you a refund because I could
not find the USPS Delivery Confirmation slip, but I swear to god
that when I do find it I will send you an invoice for the full amount
($40.00) and you WILL pay it or I will file Criminal Theft By
Deception charges against you in a court of law !!!!!
DON'T YOU EVER EMAIL ME YOUR FUCKING RANTS AND
RAVES AGAIN YOU STUPID BITCH !!!!
THIS EMAIL IS LEGAL NOTICE FOR YOU TO CEASE AND
DESIST !!
IT IS BEING SENT WITH TIME/DATE STAMPED NOTIFICATION
THAT IT WAS BOTH DELIVERED TO AND DISPLAYED ON
YOUR COMPUTER, SO IF YOU DARE SEND ME ANOTHER
EMAIL AGAIN I WILL FILE CRIMINAL HARASSMENT CHARGES
AGAINST YOU !!!
I KEEP LAWYERS ON RETAINER FOR STUPID CUNTS LIKE
YOU, SO IF THINK YOU CAN FUCK WITH ME YOU STUPID
BITCH, BRING IT ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So I emailed this response to paypal, I also replied to her with this...
Dear Ms. Esquitin,
First of all, how can you claim to run a business and talk like that to customers? Is this how you react at every transaction that goes badly?
Secondly, SMTP provides no provision for if email is read or displayed, and emails won't hold up in a court of law because they are too easily spoofed.
Thirdly, perhaps you should check the "Contact Us" form on your website because if you never received any of my emails, then perhaps your form isn't working properly, in which case, you may have the same problem with future transactions.
Fourthly, you should update your phone number and contact email on your whois record for your domain name, because I also attempted to contact you through your kal@o-scope.com email address and tried to call you but the number had been disconnected.
Lastly, perhaps you should see a psychiatrist and get yourself on some anti-depressants, it's obvious by this email that you have serious mental problems.
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So.. In other words, don't buy anything from her. She's apparently insane. Any ideas on what to do next? I'm posting this email on Google Groups in hopes of warning people about what a physco she is.
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Check this one :
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He he he!!!
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From:
To: "Dwayne Schimke"
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: Question about shipping for item #7168789422 - Centurion Signet
Road Bike Triathlon Touring Bicycle NR
Any techs out there that can verify thie email, please do so and advise Tina that it is authentic.
Cindy, on the other hand, has some type of complex about getting the last word in and if she cannot get the last word in, she will involve her family and friends (which I find that to be an extremely obvious sign of a pre-existing mental health problem).
Like I said, the TRUTH will come out.
Cindy claims no contact right ? Here is one of her most recent emails to me (with full headers and check the date) :
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Subject: At it again
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Do you ever grow up? You need to stay off ebay your a bad bad boy. Shame on you. Still sitting on the front porch smoking at night. That is so white trash.
Texascutie
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She states, "Still sitting on the front porch smoking at night. That is so white trash.". This only further proves she has driven by my home on more than one occasion.
I have showed the police these emails from her and they realize what she is doing is against the law. It is only a matter of time before their investigation discovers who is the real 'crazy' one here.
and Bob, for what it's worth, I hope that if this ends up in a courtroom one day there can be a precedence set and put into effect to prevent this from ever happening to you or anyone else.
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Your a nut, get a grip and go on with your life.
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Contributed by Mike on Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 @ 07:17PM
from the A+++++-INSULTS-WITH-EVERY-ORDER!!!! dept.
Plenty of eBay users have stories about situations when they clashed with someone at the other end of a transaction, whether it was over the terms, something misleading in the description or some other point. However, it appears that some eBay buyers have come across an amazingly angry eBay seller -- who seemed to turn nasty with no provocation at all. When potential buyers emailed him with questions, he turned around and sent them incredibly angry and threatening emails, and then started calling and harassing the buyers (who apparently left their phone numbers). The threatened buyers complained to the police, who did nothing, but a news organization tracked down the guy who claimed that if he got upset at potential buyers, it was only because they threatened him first. While it may not reach the level of showing up at an eBay seller's house with a gun, it's worth remembering that you never quite know who you're dealing with at the other end of an online transaction.
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sensational story
by sun818 on Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 @ 09:07PM
Most sellers are polite and will answer questions - yes - even ones already answered in the description. Hey, even stupid people with stupid questions have money. Answer the question and you might get a sale.
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by Mike on Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 @ 09:15PM
http://www.techdirt.com/
Yeah, we weren't implying that *all* ebay buyers/sellers are like this. It's just an amusing story that we thought was worth posting.
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by Yo Wazzap on Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 @ 09:50PM
I love this site. you don't just give us the story and make it all boring like Cnet or other sites... you make the stories sarcastic and funny and actually enjoyable to read ..... just wanted to say how cool you all are :-D
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Buyer Beware
by Stoolio on Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 @ 10:13PM
HE'S BITTER!
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 @ 11:09PM
WHAT THE FUCK? MOTHERFUCKER!!!
JUST BECAUSE SOME IDIOT ASSHOLE BIDDERS ASK ONE TOO MANY STUPID QUESTIONS AND I GET A little FED UP
SUDDENLY I'M TO BLAME?? I'M THE BAD GUY??
GIMMIE YOUR PHONE NUMBER! I NEED IT!
WATCH YOUR FUCKING BACK!
This was your entry Frank, and you say Cindy and Tina have the problem? I dont think so.
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Me, God, and Cindy know the truth and that is all that matters for now.
Bob, you should realize that something like this can easily happen to you as well, so you should think more about what you are saying here.
I hope nothing like this ever happens to you, but in a way I sort of hope it will so you can understand what is going on here. I have been tormented and harassed for almost 2 years by these 2 nuts. I now get the feeling you are probably friends or associates of these 2 by the way you are defending their actions.
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Frank, man, its really too bad you dont live in Florida with me. We've got this law now where apparently if someone is on or near your property, and they're giving you grief or making you feel threatened, you're fully within your rights to waste their asses and let God sort things out himself.
Other then that, I'd say it's too bad you're a smoker (losing 4 people in the family within six months to complications from it helps one to feel that way about smoking), but with a mad bitch like that hot on my tail, I'd be a smoker, alcholic, and who knows what else too.
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No I'm not Frank blah blah head, just by analysing the comments, and not using anything mentioned in other sites [like you have, which means you just believe what the internet 'press' says] then it would seem that the "nut" you mention.. is the sane person here. And whats this smoke and fire crap.. I mean, seriously.. come on.
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Oh my dear GOD!!!
I have a solution. Therapy. for everyone... including me after reading through all of this!
but failing that:
Frank, if you have all this evidence compiled over two years - why dont you press charges and have injunctions set?
Tina, why are you persuing this? getting stories in the press, posting on weblogs etc. Why not just forget about frank, change your number and get on with your life?
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That is something for your money, and if you dont like the smell in the library you can just go to the book store.
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P.S. I don't mean to laugh at you Frank, don't get me wrong, i find the other peoples comments funny, that's all. Good luck with all this.
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Reading for this thankgiving
http://wiki.ehow.com/Deal-With-Impossible-People
Happy US-Turkey Day!
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Living off ebay
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Sure, someone could whip up fake e-mails (obviously without a signature) and claim they were from you. However, establishing a pattern of always signing your e-mail would tend to diminish the credibility of the fake mail.
There are a number of front-ends & plugins that are available to make this easy to apply. The Thunderbird e-mail client immediately comes to mind...
A little late for the parties involved in this dispute but maybe a bit of a precautionary tip for the rest of us...
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I think everybody's nuts. No "innocent victim" is going to put up with any amount of harrassment that was described unless they were enjoying it.
You know what else? Both of the initial circumstances are completely ridiculous.
1) Crazy woman devotes 2 years of her life to harass an eBay seller because he won't let her come over.
2) Crazy man phones eBay buyer swearing because.. Well, because he's angry.
That's crap. Both of you.
Someone come out with the truth. You look a lot more honourable when you're honest and imperfect than when you're lying.
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Second, the suspension of an eBay account doesn't cripple you to the point of selling off your truck and/or other possessions to get some income. eBay is not the only auction site out there, and there was even 1 mentioned above. If this (online sales/auctions) is your sole business, you should be fully aware of other avenues to market that business other than eBay. You may not generate the sales you do with eBay on any individual site, but you shouldn't have a problem surviving by branching your business over a few sites.
Lastly, the emails he provided as 'proof' are laughable at best. Dwayne replied with 'he he he!!', but what he replied to was not included by Frank. While this text laugh may be evil in this context, I find it hard to believe...maybe if it was a more sinister 'Mwahaha!!' The email by Cindy does not aid in backing up Frank's story. Nowhere does it indicate that she actually drives by his house. For all we know, Frank told Cindy that he was smoking on his porch in one of his messages.
I'm sure that all parties involved in this aren't the exact angels they wish to be regarded, but by far, Frank has said the most. By doing this, he has shown some gaping wholes in his claim to be the victim of this whole ordeal.
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HAVE A SAFE HOLIDAY SEASON AND GET A JOB
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#1 - I took action and made police reports, but with no name to provide the police with, the investigation was pretty much at a stand still. Once I had Cindy's real name and her daughters real name I was able to provide this proof to the police and they are now fully aware of the things Cindy has done. The police department has also seen all of the emails I got from Cindy and her clan as well.
#2 - I have thousands of dollars invested in merchandise I purchased strictly to sell on ebay. I have done online auctions for years and have tried all of them, the items I sell on ebay sell with success and simply do not sell at all on other sites. I would simply lose more money in listing fees on auctions where my items will not sell.
#3 - Dwayne's "he, he, he" reply was after I told him we would not be doing business and for him to stop emailing me. The email from Cindy is more to prove that she is in fact emailing me that far after the fact. Whether it proves she drove by or not, it does prove she is still attempting to contact me almost 2 years after the initial confrontation. I have NEVER replied to her emails after the initial confrontation, yet she has continued to randomly email me over a 2 year span. If you claimed harassment by someone, why try to attempt to continue to contact them ????
I never said I was an "exact angel". I told everyone I cussed out Cindy, but only after telling her repeatedly to leave me alone. She involved her daughter in this, not me. I lost it after so much badgering and instigating, who wouldn't ? The same for Dwayne, I told him to stop emailing me, I told him we would not be doing business together, he chose to antagonize me, yet I am the bad guy because I can only take so much badgering, instigating, and antagonizing. I am the bad guy because I did not want strangers in my home or near my family.
I am not a liar and I have enough common sense to know when I am being railroaded.
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You can say whatever you want, I can prove EVERYTHING I stated in my post and both my attorney and the authorities have seen this proof.
Like I said before, you want to bad mouth me and my family, yet if I do the same to you, you will cry like little babies, so think about what you are writing before you write it, once I have settled things with Cindy and her clan I will pursue action against ANYONE else who attempts to slander me.
Don't make up stories. I can prove what I say is factual and true.
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Laughed my ass off. Boy did you deserve this. Can dish it out but can't take it. These women got the best of you asshole.
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You should not say (or type) things to people you would not say directly to their face. That makes you a coward in my eyes.
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Have a nice day.....
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Greetz.
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Your responses are not much better than the ones you talk about. Your grammar is terrible and you say things about which you know nothing about. I would say that you need to reflect on your comments and put yourself in the position of the people who are involved. I have not heard or read any notes from those involed except one from each which were adult in nature. The ravings of Mr. Esquitin speak for themselves.
Please respect the feelings of others and look on both sides to get your information before passing judgment.
Have a wonderful day.
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Best regards
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Good grief grow up, knock it off and become a better person. You won't unfortunately....
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You should not say (or type) things to people you would not say directly to their face. That makes you a coward in my eyes."
Frank 'ol boy, you make all these claims and then go out of your way to prove your accusers right. You're the type who goes on and on forever until you have won by sheer repitition. You should log onto a few political forums, they could use a temper driven nut case like you.
Now before you accuse me of hiding behind a keyboard, what exactly are you typing on? Knock off the internet pshyco tactics, there lame.
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The guy is a wacko who sometimes has the ability to be sane. Until someone doesn't agree, in which case he lashes out, so go on backing him, as for me, I choose to hope and pray he gets help or arrested. Although getting arrested doesn't seem to stop him, which is sad.
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All these (bar one) anti-Frank characters do have very similar traits in their line of communication which makes me suspect they are sock-puppets and friends of the original offenders.
I've recently had a dispute with another user on ebay and regret that I allowed them to upset me enough that I did swear at them in one reply because they were clearly ripping me off and lying to me (can be proven). I have since received NUMEROUS threats of a violent and sexual nature (they have my home address and phone number and MY money). Wow! So I swore a couple of times through sheer frustration and deserve to have my very life threatened?
Just because Frank lost his cool with these plebeians and used a few swear words does not in any way prove that he is the villain.
Just because Frank can't afford to take these spiteful morons to court does not in any way prove that he is a villain.
Also, it wouldn't be the first time the police have been used by an angry manipulative petty harridan as a tool for her own vicious revenge!
I know people that will deliberately wind their victim up just to get them to retaliate and WOO-HOO ... the poor bugger finds they've taped the conversation and used it in evidence against him. The taped conversation proves nothing when used out of context with the entire history of phonecalls from both parties.
If Frank was the manipulator and serial abuser in this ridiculous charade - surely he'd have been experienced enough to record his own telephone conversations or at least to watch his language. Anyway - the truth will come out when the phone-call logs are made public. Everyone will be able to see who called who, how many times they called, how long the calls lasted etc.
I hope you can afford to sue these cheap trashy people asap Frank. If you are still trying to find the money - I'd be able to make a very small donation.... maybe you should set up a fund? I'm sure you'd gain many supporters.
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We are living in civilised society in which comments such as these should be taken very seriously and pursued through the proper channels.
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- I would hide my personal details in the blink of an eye! I wouldn't hang around waiting for ebay's upper echelons to solve the dispute.
For you to judge the man's guilt based upon on his rhetoric, is actually amusing to me, considering your own! Are you the clever one in the family?
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How obvious has it gotta be?
I mean come on - no-one BUT trailer-park trash bothers with this kind of petty crap unless they're either obsessing over it (which indicates mental illness) or enjoying it.
Jeeez - what happened? Did Jerry Springer turn them down? I've come across vindictive losers like this before, and it always catches up with them sooner or later! Lets hope it's sooner in this instance.
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Frank Block This Trashy Blog
All the best :)
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Immature cartoons.
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When we found out the price of shipping my mom asked if we could meet up somewhere and pick the comic books up. I don't know what Frank's deal was but he was guilty. I blame myself for all of this mess for even bidding on those shitty ass comics.
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