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So, I take it this means that Eugene did not take Donnie up on his public
offer to provide $500 worth of shipping costs so Eugene could immediately return
the posters he is holding hostage? That's a shame. If he had, he might have
salvaged something of his reputation and over time built back his business in
this field. But who are we kidding here? Eugene has stolen these posters, and
the money people sent his for the backing and restoration. If at some point he
returns some of what he has taken, it will only be because he has been forced
to, just as any thief whom the authorities or courts manage to get hold off is
forced to return all or part of the money they have stolen.
I was going to suggest everyone go to eBay and file complaints against him
en masse, but Eugene has resigned from eBay, apparently sometime at the end of
October (at least under his old user name of "linenback").
If anyone sees any auctions for the type of services Eugene claimed to
provide in the past on eBay under a new name, please let us know. Just like Joe
DePrenda, I expect Eugene Hughes to pop back up on eBay at some point when
he feels the heat has died down.
What is shocking is that his website is STILL operational at http://www.linenback.com -- if someone
who knows how can find out the name of the hosting service that is hosting
is website and publish it to this list, people could start emailing his
hosting company with a bunch of complaint. Many hosting companies do not want to
be involved with someone committing fraud and theft.
Obviously, all the good-hearted people who waited so patiently would
have been better off to be not quite so forgiving and generous as they were
during the last 6 to 9 months. If a community complaint campaign to eBay by not
only those directly involved, but those concerned with the fraud he was
perpetrating had been launched way back then -- all the negative feedback, and
the outside possibility that eBay might have shut him down back then in the face
of a barrage of complaints, might have saved the people who continued
to purchase his eBay come-ons. As it was, as far as Ebay was concerned,
Eugene received only 1 negative feedback during the last 6 months!
And I'm not trying to exploit the situation -- but I would like to remind
people than when one of the sellers on www.MoviePosterBid.com had failed to
deliver posters that were paid for and the 30-day mark was approaching, we urged
the victims to file PayPal complaints, suspended the seller from our auction
site, and went public on MOPO and Style B with details of the situation. Stuff
like this has to be done, folks, as painful as it is sometimes. There are
probably some sellers who decided they would never list on MoviePosterBid
because I took such public action. That's their decision and I'll just
have to live with it, but MPB is not going to contribute to this growing fraud
situation by sitting back quietly and letting a problem on our auction site
continue for months or years before doing anything about it.
This is why places like MOPO and Style B are so important -- and why it is
kind of self-defeating for people like Ed Flood to unsubscribe -- because where
else are you going to be alerted when something like this is happening? And we
all know by now that it happens too often. You can't rely on the feedback system
of eBay to warn you, that's for sure.
MOST IMPORTANT: There are still a lot of people who are having a problem
(one approaching 30 days old), that they have earnestly tried to resolve and
cannot. Most of these folks still seem to be shy about posting the details
of such problems to MOPO and Style B. I hope this will convince them to
step forward just before 30 days are up and let people know what is
going on. And I hope those few members of MOPO who on occasion chastise a member
for doing so will STOP IT immediately. At 30 days, if there is no attempt by the
offender to fix the problem, then the sacrosanct dealer-customer relationship
has been violated the offender is no longer entitled to keep the dispute private
and it is time to go public. And MOPO and Style B are the appropriate
places for such alerts. Like I said, where else can you go? What else can you
do?
-- JR
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- Re: [MOPO] The Sad Story continues J R
- Re: [MOPO] The Sad Story continues Saul H. Chapman PhD
- Re: [MOPO] The Sad Story continues MJ & AK
- Re: [MOPO] The Sad Story continues Kainbach
