Threw an expecting card away...

[Pat R]

Hope you get your card and he is charged with the crime.
Great job by JeremyW and Jim M

[CobbSpikedMe]

Wow. What a great development to the story here. I hope you get your card back too.

[7nohitter]

This is getting interesting.....

I bought a '57 Frank Robinson and waited for 7,8,9 days for it to arrive in the mail....never showed.....One day a neighbor comes over to me asking if I've been 'missing' any mail....turns out he, and a few others on the street were not getting USPS items they had been expecting either.....mail thief!.
Sooooo annoying as I bought that Robinson for a great price (psa 7) and have not had the opportunity to purchase one since.

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Yeah was a surprise, but it was so easy to figure out. Who can be dumb enough to make a new eBay user id with your actual name? rsbrown2020. Went to management office, said search the last name "brown" and see if the "r" matches his first name initial and the "s" matches his middle name initial. And voila, it does. Called authorities last night, and hopefully that bastard still has the card.

Would love to find him and pummel him, but don't want to get in trouble either lol. Most likely h'd have no chance, as I'm 6'4" 220 of pretty solid muscle from when I was training to play ball but got injured.

Just want the card, if not, going to court for restitution.

Thank you to everyone who found this link, surprised it didn't sell. But it didn't have autograph in the title, and they didn't know the issue of the card. The officer even commented on how they are pretty unsophisticated lol.

[sylbry]

If you threw the card away how is someone else finding it in the trash and selling it on ebay a crime or "unethical"?

Quite frankly if I found something that had been disposed of and may have value I would put it on ebay to try and get something for it.

No offense to the OP but from reading this thread I can only see one "dumbass" and it isn't the current seller.

Granted, if it was stolen that would be a different story. But that will be hard to prove, especially since there is a thread on the internet on how the card was thrown away.

Edited to add - But I do hope you get your card back. And if you do, starting this thread will certainly have served you well.

[cwazzy]

Originally Posted by sylbry

If you threw the card away how is someone else finding it in the trash and selling it on ebay a crime or "unethical"?

Quite frankly if I found something that had been disposed of and may have value I would put it on ebay to try and get something for it.

No offense to the OP but from reading this thread I can only see one "dumbass" and it isn't the current seller.

Granted, if it was stolen that would be a different story. But that will be hard to prove, especially since there is a thread on the internet on how the card was thrown away.

Edited to add - But I do hope you get your card back. And if you do, starting this thread will certainly have served you well.

I think that since the DC showed it had been delivered that he thought he must have thrown it away. I might have thought the same thing. But it seems fairly obvious that it was either stolen or just delivered to the wrong apartment.

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Originally Posted by cwazzy

I think that since the DC showed it had been delivered that he thought he must have thrown it away. I might have thought the same thing. But it seems fairly obvious that it was either stolen or just delivered to the wrong apartment.

Exactly what I assumed, but with the trash in my building, there is no possible way someone would go through it. It has every trash from 100+ different apartments/town homes/ and condo's. 4+ large garbage/recycling dumpsters, with hundreds and hundres of trash bags. Then the garbage truck brings those right to the truck and pretty much crunches the trash. So would be destroyed.

In the previous post above yours, I don't expect him to have known that, so he is correct in his assumptions. But based off how this played out, which I thought was fairly obvious, to conclude I didn't toss it.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by cwazzy

I think that since the DC showed it had been delivered that he thought he must have thrown it away. I might have thought the same thing. But it seems fairly obvious that it was either stolen or just delivered to the wrong apartment.

+1

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Originally Posted by sylbry

If you threw the card away how is someone else finding it in the trash and selling it on ebay a crime or "unethical"?

Quite frankly if I found something that had been disposed of and may have value I would put it on ebay to try and get something for it.

No offense to the OP but from reading this thread I can only see one "dumbass" and it isn't the current seller.

Granted, if it was stolen that would be a different story. But that will be hard to prove, especially since there is a thread on the internet on how the card was thrown away.

Edited to add - But I do hope you get your card back. And if you do, starting this thread will certainly have served you well.

Respect your thoughts, but I "assumed" I threw it away, so I thought. You cannot prove that I threw it away either, but when the authorities come knocking on his door, we will then know the truth. I don't get any mail whatsoever, other than eBay purchases or BST purchases, and I know EXACTLY when my cards come. There was no possible way did I think I threw it away, but I chalked it up as that.

I realize I could be a complete dumbass in doing so, but I have never come close to throwing a card away, I just figured I may have, it is pretty difficult to throw away a buddle mailer when that is the only thing I receive in regards to mail other than bills. I would rather throw those away :P

But, I do hope I get it back.

[sylbry]

Originally Posted by HOF Auto Rookies

Respect your thoughts, but I "assumed" I threw it away, so I thought. You cannot prove that I threw it away either, but when the authorities come knocking on his door, we will then know the truth. I don't get any mail whatsoever, other than eBay purchases or BST purchases, and I know EXACTLY when my cards come. There was no possible way did I think I threw it away, but I chalked it up as that.

I realize I could be a complete dumbass in doing so, but I have never come close to throwing a card away, I just figured I may have, it is pretty difficult to throw away a buddle mailer when that is the only thing I receive in regards to mail other than bills. I would rather throw those away :P

But, I do hope I get it back.

By all means take my comments for what they are worth, nothing. Just giving the new seller then benefit of the doubt. Maybe it was really found in the trash? Maybe it exchanged hands more than once before it ended up on ebay?

Then again maybe the card was delivered to the seller's residence and instead of doing the decent thing by finding it's owner or at least the sender, the seller committed mail fraud and opened and kept something not meant for him or her.

But whatever the real story may be it looks like this will have a happy ending. Kudos to the forum.

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by sylbry

If you threw the card away how is someone else finding it in the trash and selling it on ebay a crime or "unethical"?

Quite frankly if I found something that had been disposed of and may have value I would put it on ebay to try and get something for it.

No offense to the OP but from reading this thread I can only see one "dumbass" and it isn't the current seller.

Granted, if it was stolen that would be a different story. But that will be hard to prove, especially since there is a thread on the internet on how the card was thrown away.

Edited to add - But I do hope you get your card back. And if you do, starting this thread will certainly have served you well.

If your neighbor found a piece of mail with your name on it in the trash, found something valuable inside, then listed it on eBay, that would be ok with you? If it were me, I'd have taken the package to him unopened... Actually it wouldn't have been me because I don't rifle through the trash that often. (and i don't think it was ever in the trash)

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Originally Posted by Matthew H

If your neighbor found a piece of mail with your name on it in the trash, found something valuable inside, then listed it on eBay, that would be ok with you? If it were me, I'd have taken the package to him unopened... Actually it wouldn't have been me because I don't rifle through the trash that often. (and i don't think it was ever in the trash)

+1

[sylbry]

Originally Posted by Matthew H

If your neighbor found a piece of mail with your name on it in the trash, found something valuable inside, then listed it on eBay, that would be ok with you? If it were me, I'd have taken the package to him unopened... Actually it wouldn't have been me because I don't rifle through the trash that often. (and i don't think it was ever in the trash)

If something is discarded it is fair game for whomever finds it. Never done it, never intend to do it, but won't complain if someone finds treasure in my trash. I had my chance. Can't expect someone to ask me if I meant to throw it away.

The board was ready to convict the new seller. Almost two months past between the expected delivery and the listing. Who knows where the card was or who had it during that time. All I am saying is there is no reason to jump to a conclusion.

But I do owe the OP an apology as based on his description of the trash, it is more likely than not this is the result of no fault of his own.

And I certainly hope the OP will update this thread as to the conclusion.