06-30-2006, 01:51 PM
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Originally Posted by MissKat
Yes/No? And this is after them claiming it working 100%, nothing wrong. But clearly defective.
According to websters.
1 )any deception, lie, or dishonest statement make with the intent to cheat someone.
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Are you talking about an actual store/reputable dealer of some product or are you talking about swapping cell phones with a soon to be ex-friend?
Cowperson
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06-30-2006, 01:54 PM
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Watcher of Hockey
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Originally Posted by Cowperson
Are you talking about an actual store/reputable dealer of some product or are you talking about swapping cell phones with a soon to be ex-friend?
Cowperson
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Buying something off someone through an online marketplace, locally.
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06-30-2006, 01:55 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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New Cell phone not working out so well ??
Are you talking about a licensed phone dealer or some guy/girl you know that sold you a phone?
Either way its wrong and I guess could be considered fraud but if you didn't buy it from an real company I don't think you have a leg to stand on.
Edit... I guess CP beat me to it
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06-30-2006, 01:57 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by MissKat
Buying something off someone through an online marketplace, locally.
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You mean like craigslist.com sort of thing?? or Ebay??
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06-30-2006, 02:00 PM
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Originally Posted by MissKat
Buying something off someone through an online marketplace, locally.
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You're like a walking accident . . . . 
Cowperson
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06-30-2006, 02:02 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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If you really wanted to, you may be able to go through Small Claims court. If you can prove they misrepresented the item you may get your money back. But unless they make a practice of this, I'm guessing there wouldn't be any criminal charges.
When it comes to dealing online - Caveat Emptor!
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06-30-2006, 02:30 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Probably playing Xbox, or...you know...
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extenze
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06-30-2006, 02:56 PM
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Retired
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Originally Posted by MissKat
Buying something off someone through an online marketplace, locally.
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Fotze could have told you Penis growth pills don't work.
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06-30-2006, 03:12 PM
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Watcher of Hockey
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Originally Posted by @theCBE
You mean like craigslist.com sort of thing?? or Ebay??
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ya but locally
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06-30-2006, 03:13 PM
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Watcher of Hockey
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
If you really wanted to, you may be able to go through Small Claims court. If you can prove they misrepresented the item you may get your money back. But unless they make a practice of this, I'm guessing there wouldn't be any criminal charges.
When it comes to dealing online - Caveat Emptor!
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Well i dont wanna go through all that trouble, but i just want to know if this would be considered fraud? or more like a scam? arent they the same thing?
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06-30-2006, 03:16 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Originally Posted by MissKat
ya but locally
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So you know where he lives? Maybe you need a heavy or two to ask nicely for your money back.
Not suggesting causing any trouble but sometimes a woman can be more easily ignored than a man.
Last edited by Vulcan; 06-30-2006 at 03:21 PM.
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06-30-2006, 04:54 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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I guess it all depends on what the item is, what was said, and how far it was misrepresented. A guy in the elevator at my work delivering a pizza told me it was "the best pizza downtown." While I was familliar with their pizza and it is very good; I knew of one place downtown with better pizza.
If it was a cell phone battery and the person said it had a 8 day life, and you found it only lasts 6 days, that might fall into "your mileage may vary."
If it was something illegal; like say a satellite box designed to get you all the PPV's for free and it doesn't work; a contract for something illegal has zero recourse.
Or is it something that was supposed to help, but not in a way that can be measured? Let me use an example- I bought one of those cell phone boosters once off eBay; thinking there was no way it could work. To my suprise, my dropped calls went from one or two per day, to one per month. I even found I could use the phone in the C-train tunnels. So I went and bought a whack of them, and sold them at my work. I ran out, and it took 3 weeks to get my next supply in.
When the next batch came in, almost everybody (about 80%) who had bought one from me before bought at least 2 more for friends and familly. One person from the first batch emailed me and said I shouldn't be selling them; they don't work. I offered to give her money back to her if she wasn't happy, but she insisted that I stop selling them. I refused, she posted something nasty on the bulliten board about me and my product, and everybody who bought them from me replied back. Everybody got in trouble, but I was able to keep selling the boosters.
Sorry for the long example, but that is a case where somebody doesn't think it was working; but may not have been using it properly, may not have noticed that it was working; or it may be only working a bit; not so much that she would notice. And without knowing what it is you bought, and what it isn't doing, it's had for us to determine if something is a scam or not.
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06-30-2006, 05:11 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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We're forgetting something fellas, don't women just want to vent when we think they want a solution.
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06-30-2006, 06:45 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: I'm right behind you
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
We're forgetting something fellas, don't women just want to vent when we think they want a solution.
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EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
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06-30-2006, 06:52 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by Reaper
EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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