$10,000 reward posted on eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-000-REWA...724219?hash=item4d5633e87b:g:LJgAAOSwuLZYziRo

Big collection stolen. Crazy!

 

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It SAYS STOLEN OVER LAST 2 1/2 ????? years? months? Seems like investigators should be able to do more?

 

Might be a sad case of an evil ex and a bunch of co-conspirators.

Might be a sad case of an evil seller trying to go after an innocent ex.

Might untreated paranoid schizophrenia.

Definitely IS NOT in compliance with the eBay Terms of Service. eBay is not your personal bulletin board/billboard. But, no, I'm not going to bother reporting it.

 

If true, what a very sad story. I would love to read about it in full if the story were ever published.

 

Kind of hard to follow. Rambling. Seems to be more issues than just theft.

 

That is crazy. It sounds like the guy is not exactly sure of what in missing. It looks like he is fishing for someone to roll on the others involved.

 

Yep. I remember one of the first times I came across a screed like that online (in Usenet group sci.research). It was also the first time I remember an Internet nutcase surfacing in real-world news -- it didn't end well.

 

For that reward he could hire a private investigator and get better results.

 

Sell a copy of the police report? He'd stand getting better results if he gave away as many copies as he could.

Something is way off here. I mean way off.

 

It's just an attempt to get around the eBay rule that says you must actually be offering something for sale.

 

I can understand his sense of loss, although my case pales in monetary value in comparison. When I went away to college, my brother and his best friend stole all the silver coins in my collection from my safe (he made a copy of my key when I came to the house and took a nap; he used the $$$ to buy pot). He left me with pennies and nickels, so I figured it was a sign to focus on those coins. Throughout my life, I've never been able to replace the silver dollars, halves, quarters, and dimes that I got as birthday presents, graduation gifts, etc. The sense of betrayal dims but the lack of trust perseveres. Integrity is a rare quality. I hope this fellow is able to find and prosecute the thieves.

 

I wonder how someone exists in such lack of control of their personal environment that they can be steadily victimized over 2-1/2 years to the tune of seven digits, and never realize it. Not once in that time did he, knowing others had potential access to whatever was stolen, actually look at his inventory? And he doesn't have any way of creating an accurate accounting of what was stolen? Really?

It's terrible that he's been victimized, and I'm not one for victim-blaming, but at what point do you become a willing participant in the process due to refusal to maintain control of your own possessions?

 

If he'd been my brother and his best friend, they would have both been hoeing cotton for the state with a shotgun guard nearby. My own extended family was demolished by thieves who stole from relatives. Turning the other cheek is useless in these cases.

 

At a shop near me a girl was finally caught stealing silver from her boss. The boss thought of her as a daughter. Turned out she'd been doing it for a while to the tune of a couple hundred grand worth.

 

Ha ha

 

"This listing is an offer to sell a photocopy of a police report about this crime."

Just another load of horse pucky..........

 

I once had a client in what sounds like a very similar situation. He is deceased now so I can talk about it guiltlessly.

He was a subject of mind-control tests back in the early 1970's when he was a member of the military. MK-ULTRA or a similar program. During the tests he flung himself out a fourth story window and was left a paraplegic. With a $4,000,000.00 settlement and no family he had only caretakers. He spent his time collecting muscle cars, firearms and coins. Toward the end, he was buying tons of mint commems from late night TV shows.

Before he passed, I was asked to do an inventory. Every time I would open up a commemorative box, I would find the gold piece missing. The care takers would pop the best out and easily smuggle it out and sell them at a local coin shop. All the good items were long gone.

It may be the case that this person is also disabled in some way.

 

Scum of the Earth, right there. Yet they still sleep like babies at night.

 

And what's the angle of the guy posting the auction?

 

Perhaps frustration.