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Cab using ebay to sell proceeds of crime

  • 08-10-2013 10:47PM
    #1
    vickers209
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,504 ✭✭✭


    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


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  • #2
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Cab? Surely you mean the cab driver???

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


  • #3
    Royal Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,401 ✭✭✭Royal Irish


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


  • #4
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


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


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #6
    ShaneMc2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭ShaneMc2012


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


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  • #7
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


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


  • #8
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Has to go on adverts...

    Swap for anything in my ads.

    Offer €25 can collect tomorrow.

    How much to post to gorey.


  • #9
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,923 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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!


  • #10
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,615 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Nice watch!


  • #11
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


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


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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


  • #14
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    hansfrei
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭hansfrei


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


    Jayzus wept.


  • #16
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Will be great when they start selling cars on Donedeal.

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


  • #17
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭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. :)


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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. :D


  • #20
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭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..


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  • #22
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


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


  • #23
    In Exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 544 ✭✭✭In Exile


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


  • #24
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭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...


  • #25
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #26
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    Going up, 6800...


  • #27
    kupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    7100 now

    I hear there is free penalty points with every purchase.


  • #28
    WeHaveToGoBack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭WeHaveToGoBack


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


  • #29
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,186 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


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


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  • #31
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭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.


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