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<p>[QUOTE="bahabully, post: 651557, member: 17555"]ditto... </p><p>Whatever the law says I know this. Any contract or business transation that involves this dispersment of goods into the mail or parcel networks falls under mail order laws and mail fraud laws. I have intimate working knowledge of 1B per week businesses that source this channel and space to disperse thier goods..... obvious fraud takes place and is investigated and documented, and almost never pursued. Why, because the buyers potential counterclaim of mail fraud is:</p><p>1 - A federal crime</p><p>2 - A very expensive federal crime punishable by each instance of event.</p><p>3 - insainly expensive to defend</p><p> </p><p>.. so, in practice, once a case is brought against the seller, regardless of guilt. </p><p>THE SELLER LOSES, even if they win.</p><p> </p><p>AND... any claims by a seller that the buyer was offered the opportunity to insure his purchase and that ...."in my ebay listing I made it clear that not buying insurance absolved me from any lost parcel"... would, after everyone in the courtroom had a nice laugh.... net you a lost case, and most likely a very, very stiff federal fine and record.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bahabully, post: 651557, member: 17555"]ditto... Whatever the law says I know this. Any contract or business transation that involves this dispersment of goods into the mail or parcel networks falls under mail order laws and mail fraud laws. I have intimate working knowledge of 1B per week businesses that source this channel and space to disperse thier goods..... obvious fraud takes place and is investigated and documented, and almost never pursued. Why, because the buyers potential counterclaim of mail fraud is: 1 - A federal crime 2 - A very expensive federal crime punishable by each instance of event. 3 - insainly expensive to defend .. so, in practice, once a case is brought against the seller, regardless of guilt. THE SELLER LOSES, even if they win. AND... any claims by a seller that the buyer was offered the opportunity to insure his purchase and that ...."in my ebay listing I made it clear that not buying insurance absolved me from any lost parcel"... would, after everyone in the courtroom had a nice laugh.... net you a lost case, and most likely a very, very stiff federal fine and record.[/QUOTE]
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