Hi Jr- No i paid 500.00 attorney fees to review the agreement that the
academy made and so they paid 3000.00
so i netted 2500.00 after attornety fees I think thats very fair legal
fees. and Martin made me feel very comforted.
That atty fee is fair as he reviewed aggreement and he made returning
it safe as the liabiliy falls on academy as to the shipping.
also theres witnesess that it was returned,
as far as was it the right thing to do.. well the Academy members want
the awrds to stay out of public hands. so hopefully
I have shown to all that I have honored the wishes..
Am i happy to take a 10K loss????? nope... but at the same time.. It
was a great excercise...And i did get some compensation
from the Academy.... so hopefully this will all pass.. And just maybe
they will let me know what year it was from and that I was right
on my details.
If not at least some people know I tryed todo the right thing...thats
all I can say..
I jsut didnt feel right selling things with so much negative
possibilitys surrounding it.
best, Tom
JR wrote:
Tom,
You paid an attorney $2000 bucks just to ship your own Oscar back to
the Academy? Man, that's easily the worst shipping-charge story I've
ever heard!
I still don't see how giving it back to Academy to stick away in a box
somewhere instead of selling it to a fan who would have treasured it
as you have is anything like "doing the right thing", but what's done
is done. But listen, since you have the email address of the Academy's
attorney, will you please forward the following information to him
regarding fraudulent auction of the same Oscar over and over again
that keeps happening on eBay? The Academy should know about this (as
it is something that really is damaging the prestige of the Oscar) and
pressure eBay to stop it:
Besides the fact that this seller has auctioned the *same* Oscar three
separate times in the past two months, there's plenty of additional
weird stuff going on:
1) The first time the Oscar went for $3,500 with only two bidders. My
guess is both bids either shills or non-serious bidders. The "winner"
of this first auction, mame79, has left no feedback on the
transaction, although it's been almost 2 months. The seller has left
no feedback on mame79 either.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7591982096
2) The second time it had 4 bidders, some with real feedback so maybe
not all shills, popping the final selling price to over $6,500. But,
again, the "winner" of this auction, imfuming18he, has left no
feedback on the transaction, although it's been 6 weeks. And again,
the seller has left no feed back on imfuming18he either.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7594764769
3) Then we have this latest time around, where only two people bid
again, both of them with only (1) feedback, and the price is now
driven up to over $7,000. This auction ended Apr 15... but just two
days later, on Apr 17, the supposed "winner" is already leaving
negative feedback saying he never received the item? (and it was a
pretty mild comment, considering he had just been ripped off for over
$7,000).
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7609514585
Finally, the seller, allieOo, has only (23) feedbacks and ALL of them
were where from where he bought stuff from others. This appears to be
the first time he has acted as a seller.
-- JR
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