Cab using ebay to sell proceeds of crime

vickers209

The Criminal Assets Bureau is auctioning a watch on eBay.

The Ladies Rolex was seized last year from a Limerick crime figure - who bought it for his partner as a gift.

CAB said that it is treating the sale as an experiment - and if its successful it could be the first of many such auctions.

Bidding for the watch starts at €6,000 - and all proceeds will go to the Department of Finance.

The seller's name is 'Proceedsofcrimeact1996' and it currently has no feedback.

news link

Ebay link

So Whats next for sale on ebay?? ESB, BORD GAIS

Banjo String

Cab? Surely you mean the cab driver???

Btw, we call them taxis around here buddy, you're in Ireland now . :cool:

Royal Irish

Shame they didn't put it on adverts......Offer €1 can collect tomorrow.

MadsL

Anyone feel it would be patriotic to run the bidding as high as possible

vickers209

vickers209 wrote: »

The Criminal Assets Bureau is auctioning a watch on eBay.

The Ladies Rolex was seized last year from a Limerick crime figure - who bought it for his partner as a gift.

CAB said that it is treating the sale as an experiment - and if its successful it could be the first of many such auctions.

Bidding for the watch starts at €6,000 - and all proceeds will go to the Department of Finance.

The seller's name is 'Proceedsofcrimeact1996' and it currently has no feedback.


Wouldnt it be nice if a Homeless Charity, or A Victim Support group got some money from these type of sale's.

ShaneMc2012

If it works I have to say its a good idea!

NuckingFacker

Typical govt rip-off. It's worth 2k, max.

mfceiling

Has to go on adverts...

Swap for anything in my ads.

Offer €25 can collect tomorrow.

How much to post to gorey.

o1s1n

Royal Irish wrote: »

Shame they didn't put it on adverts......Offer €1 can collect tomorrow.

I offer a packet of Tayto and can collect today!

HeidiHeidi

Nice watch!

Banjo String

mfceiling wrote: »

Has to go on adverts...

Swap for anything in my ads.

Offer €25 can collect tomorrow.

How much to post to gorey.

Pretty much sums up why I gave up attempting to sell anything on it.

PizzamanIRL

If they raise any money it goes to the DoF? Give it to someone who feckin needs and will values the money

PizzamanIRL

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

If they raise any money it goes to the DoF? Give it to someone who feckin needs and will values the money

homeless shelters could provide a lot of extra meals with 6grand

Johro

Overpriced piece of shite. We have traveller neighbours who fixed up an old farmhouse and turned it into.. well... you'd have to see it.
They got f#ckin massive waterford crystal chandeliers hanging from the (low) ceiling, (with price tags still attached) big crystal vases on the mantelpiece, nine 46" tv screens throughout the place, massive kitchen tiled with marble floor tiles, (and piles of clothes everywhere), two life sized bronze statues, and they have a f#ckin CANNON on the lawn, (heaps of scrap in the yard also).
I bet they would love a ladies Rolex watch, because people who want a Rolex watch have more money than sense, or taste.

hansfrei

Taking the piss? €6k watch on e-bay? Whos idea was that?


Jayzus wept.

wazky

Will be great when they start selling cars on Donedeal.

"Bit of blood staining in the boot but otherwise mint".

NuckingFacker

hansfrei wrote: »

Taking the piss? €6k watch on e-bay? Whos idea was that?


Jayzus wept.

You'd be amazed, people sell 20k watches on ebay. Just in this case, it's overpriced. It's not worth that, my missus told me, and she is a bit of a gen on stuff like that. It's what she deals in.

Johro

Johro wrote: »

Overpriced piece of shite. We have traveller neighbours who fixed up an old farmhouse and turned it into.. well... you'd have to see it.
They got f#ckin massive waterford crystal chandeliers hanging from the (low) ceiling, (with price tags still attached)

Price tags still attached Hilarious

wazky

wazky wrote: »

Will be great when they start selling cars on Donedeal.

"Bit of blood staining in the boot but otherwise mint".

and in my head as i read that, your name was wakzy.

anncoates

Royal Irish wrote: »

Shame they didn't put it on adverts......Offer €1 can collect tomorrow.

That's optimistic. The ad would actually be infested with illiterate c×nts offering to swap a clapped out Gakaxy S3 for it.

NuckingFacker

anncoates wrote: »

That's optimistic. The ad would actually be infested with illiterate c×nts offering to swap a clapped out Gakaxy S3 for it.

And then the cab would forget they listed it and never reply..

michael999999

Surely the next item auctioned by CAB should be Fianna Fail. I mean how many times throughout there history have they soldout themselves?

In Exile

6k starting price for a watch. And the cheap f*ckers still add on a 30 quid postage charge

NuckingFacker

In Exile wrote: »

6k starting price for a watch. And the cheap f*ckers still add on a 30 quid postage charge

It's at 6100.00. My efforts to talk it down aren't working... shyte...

dxhound2005

In Exile wrote: »

6k starting price for a watch. And the cheap f*ckers still add on a 30 quid postage charge

Here's one at over a million and they want €15 postage.

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/President-FRANKLIN-DELANO-ROOSEVELTs-Personal-18K-Gold-Repeater-Pocket-Watch-/281119447763?pt=Pocket_Watches&hash=item4174065ad3

Sulla Felix

Going up, 6800...

kupus

7100 now

I hear there is free penalty points with every purchase.

WeHaveToGoBack

Is it safe to assume this is mainly all people taking the piss?

Cee-Jay-Cee

It's a trick. Say someone buys it for 10k they will then have Revenue chasing after them to find out where the 10k came from. They're all a shower of cu nts.

kowloon

I thought ebay had died a bit at this stage, just large shops and the likes selling on it.

Cee-Jay-Cee

kowloon wrote: »

I thought ebay had died a bit at this stage, just large shops and the likes selling on it.

There are still individual sellers but not as many as years ago but yeah it's been ruined by resellers who buy bulk rap from Asia and sell it on over here. Searching takes forever as you need to keep refining the search to whittle out the resellers.

Cookie_Monster

Jake1 wrote: »

Wouldnt it be nice if a Homeless Charity, or A Victim Support group got some money from these type of sale's.

no, it wouldn't. the CAB and/or Revenue should be doing this a lot more as a tertiatry income stream.

I hope they consider it successful and continue to do it with everything siezed that's not otherwise used.

It says you cannot return the item. Does that not contravene some consumer trading law?

hansfrei

I find eBay is useless and extra-ordinarily time consuming.

ardle1

vickers209 wrote: »

The Criminal Assets Bureau is auctioning a watch on eBay.

The Ladies Rolex was seized last year from a Limerick crime figure - who bought it for his partner as a gift.

CAB said that it is treating the sale as an experiment - and if its successful it could be the first of many such auctions.

Bidding for the watch starts at €6,000 - and all proceeds will go to the Department of Finance.

The seller's name is 'Proceedsofcrimeact1996' and it currently has no feedback.

news link

Ebay link

So Whats next for sale on ebay?? ESB, BORD GAIS

Ah wont even bother bidding, whoever they confiscated it from will be out in a couple of days, and they'll just buy it back...... And so it goes on and on and on and on blah blah blah:cool:

Nemeses

An Interesting Idea.

May reduce the debt in the country... eventually...

Either that or the watch sits in the confiscated room.

Good Idea for once. Hope it works out well.

Nemeses

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

It says you cannot return the item. Does that not contravene some consumer trading law?

Nope. This would count as a private sale.

the groutch

not a single picture of the actual watch

GorillaRising

Royal Irish wrote: »

Shame they didn't put it on adverts......Offer €1 can collect tomorrow.

*No swaps*.

Swap ya a pair of Beats headphones. Mint condition. 6 months old.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

It says you cannot return the item. Does that not contravene some consumer trading law?

No.

ButtersSuki

Nothing says romance like the thought of presenting your OH with a watch purchased on eBay which was confiscated from a murdering, drug dealing gang from Limerick.....

And nothing will say scorn like the look on her face when she finds out.

Boombastic

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Nothing says romance like the thought of presenting your OH with a watch purchased on eBay which was confiscated from a murdering, drug dealing gang from Limerick.....

And nothing will say scorn like the look on her face when she finds out.

Especially if it's already engraved.

Dangel4x4

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

It says you cannot return the item. Does that not contravene some consumer trading law?

They can put in whatever disclaimers they want - doesn't mean they're legal or enforceable.

Nemeses wrote: »

Nope. This would count as a private sale.

How so? Why is proceedsofcrimeact1996 registered as a business seller on eBay if that's the case?

proceedsofcrimeact1996 wrote:

We are unable to offer “Buy it Now” options on any of our items unless stated

This should read: "We are unable to offer “Buy it Now” options on any of our items as we do not wish buyers to be able to return items as is their right under Distance Selling Regulations."

The government should stick to selling stuff the old-fashioned way using a carbon-based life-form (an auctioneer to you and me) as it's clear once again they're at least 20 years behind the curve when it comes to the online world.

Nemeses

Didn't spot it was a business account.

Dangel4x4

Nemeses wrote: »

Didn't spot it was a business account.

So to correct your original "nope", if the item turned out to be faulty or otherwise not as described a consumer would have protection under the Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act, 1980 and possibly the Consumer Protection Act 2007. The seller's "no returns" policy wouldn't hold much water.

In any event, if I was in the market for a used Rolex from an ebay seller with no feedback history, I'd ensure I paid using a credit card (or through Paypal using credit card funding). At least then, in the event of the watch being a dud or a fake, I could get my credit card company to do a chargeback on the seller or Paypal :eek:

http://www.consumerhelp.ie/chargeback

https://www.paypal.com/ie/webapps/mpp/security/sell-chargebackfaq ----> "Please note that certain laws and credit card issuer policies provide that buyers may have chargeback rights for merchandise that is not delivered or is defective, even if your policy indicates that all sales are final and that you do not allow returns."

jester77

A bit of a back story would make it a more interesting auction.

This could be a great way for criminals to launder some money

keeponhurling

The ebay link seems to be gone now, I assume the watch was sold ?

akura

keeponhurling wrote: »

The ebay link seems to be gone now, I assume the watch was sold ?

Nope still for sale

vickers209

Just had a look at the bidding history someone put a bid in for €24000:eek: but retracted the bid then

Bid retraction and cancellation history
Bidder Action Date of bid and retraction
Member Id: y***a ( 0 ) Cancelled: EUR 7,200.00
Bid:09-Oct-13 00:36:50 BST
Cancelled: 09-Oct-13 01:37:43 BST

Member Id: n***r ( 21Feedback score is 10 to 49) Retracted: EUR 24,000.00
Bid:09-Oct-13 19:40:29 BST
Retracted: 09-Oct-13 19:42:19 BST

How much would the watch be worth new?

allthedoyles

How could you buy from that seller - They have no positive feedback .

Remember if something sounds too good to be true ......................................

HeidiHeidi

vickers209 wrote: »

Just had a look at the bidding history someone put a bid in for €24000:eek: but retracted the bid then



How much would the watch be worth new?

I'm sure I read/heard somewhere that it was bought new for €9000.