BAD seller getting some payback.

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Local News

 

 

Posted: Friday, 05 May 2006 12:22PM

 

Queens Man Fails to Deliver Spiderman Comics

 

 

NEW YORK -- A Queens man is being charged with selling $10,000 worth of Spiderman comics on Ebay to a Virginia resident -- then failing to deliver the goods.

 

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says Gabriel Mitchell, 20, of East Elmhurst is charged with grand larceny.

 

The DA says Mitchell posted the Spiderman collection for sale in February and a winning bid of $19,000 from Shawn Key of Manassas, Virginia was accepted. DA Brown says Mitchell e-mailed the buyer copies of the bar codes, supposedly taken from the comics -- and asked that the buyer send $10,000 for half of them and $200 for shipping.

 

After the buyer sent the money, he received a package containing blank papers.

 

The Virginia man complained to Ebay and the online auction called New York law enforcement.

 

 

 

 

Good stuff! glad to see New York stepping up and doing something about this situation. Not sure if "copies of the bar codes" would have convinced me to send the guy 10 grand though.

[drice6900]

[slackjawcomics]

Hey that guy must live by me (manassas,va), that is nice payback to bad sellers.

Though if I spent 19 K on comics, I would go pick them up, $200 to ship, it is a 4 hour drive to NY from where I live.

[shadroch]

Im thinking that"copies of bar codes is some sort of reference to CGC serial numbers. It would take a truckload of Spideys that had UPC codes to sell for 20,000"

[Scheradon]

Was anyone here watching this auction? It would be interesting to know more details about this auction. I'd have to think he was advertising slabbed books to get this kind of price.

[BachelorOfComix]

I'd have to think he was advertising slabbed books to get this kind of price.

I don't know. Maybe he sold an uncirculated mystery box of "NM/MT" Silver Age Spideys?

[Rickdogg]

good find!