As reported:
A San Leandro man has pleaded guilty to charges that he defrauded eBay users in online auctions for rare Mickey Mantle and Michael Jordan sports cards.
In pleading guilty Monday to one count of mail fraud, Michael Gouveia, 40, admitted that he accepted money from the winning bidders in 2002 and 2003 with no intention of delivering the cards as promised.
Gouveia admitted that he had defrauded eBay users of more than $34,000, including a Michigan resident who sent him $7,199 for a 1951 Mickey Mantle baseball card that was never delivered. U.S. District Judge James Ware will sentence Gouveia in San Jose on Dec. 19.
This surely should push eBay to be more strict with medical devices.
It was reported by Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune that Medtronic Inc., based in Minneapolis, recently discovered that one of its pacemakers was stolen from a California hospital, sold on eBay and then implanted in an Arizona man.
This surfaced when when police in Sacramento, Calif., arrested a 21-year-old woman early March on an embezzlement charge. Amber Bowen, a nurse's aide at Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, also ran an Internet medical supply business on the side called Body Fantasy Inc., according to Sacramento police.
Bowen allegedly stole two Medtronic pacemakers from the hospital in October 2004 and then posted them for sale on eBay. Typically, a pacemaker costs about $6,000, but Bowen sold them for $255 each, police said.
The report said the stolen pacemakers were bought by Greg Etts, a purchasing manager for a large cardiac practice based in the Phoenix area called Advanced Cardiac Specialists, according to a report issued by the Arizona Medical Board. Etts reportedly had admitted to board officials that he knew the pacemakers were stolen when he bought them and that he often purchased devices on eBay.
Halbe, 21, from Olpe near Cologne, bought the car from a private dealer for over £6,000 just six months before Pope Benedict took the helm in Vatican.
They would be investigating the last few hours where there were "proven bidders who wanted to offer more but whose bids for higher amounts for unknown reasons were not registered on the eBay site".
Lawyer Juergen Langer from the firm has called on eBay to explain the problems. eBay in Germany admitted the car had been the most popular item ever to have been sold on its pages.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa A Communion wafer allegedly blessed by Pope John Paul that was sold on eBay didn't violate the online auction site's policies, according to an eBay spokeswoman.
The wafer, reportedly blessed by the late pope during a Mass in 1998, was offered on Saturday by a seller in Iowa town. It was sold for two-thousand dollars to a buyer in California.The description said the seller acquired the host by going twice for Communion.The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City objected to sale of the Holy Eucharist.But an eBay spokeswoman said the sale was permissible because it wasn't illegal and didn't promote hatred toward Catholics. (AP)
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Items that qualify must be listed with promotional financing by February 28, 2005. Items must be listed with promotional financing between August 16, 2004 00:00:01 PT and February 28, 2005 23:59:59 PT, regardless of the date of the close of the listing in order to qualify for the discounted promotional financing fees.
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