If you've made an internet purchase through eBay or an online website, etc., but have never received your item, you DO have consumer rights.
Ashley Turner, 28, is accused of selling stolen cameras, sat navs, MP3 players and laptops through the online auction site. Over three years police believe Turner made £178,580 from the racket.Portsmouth Crown Court heard Turner, of Warnford Crescent, Leigh Park, was a modern day Fagin, part of a UK-wide network of criminals selling high value stolen electrical goods online.Between October 2007 and March 2010 he sold 591 items online.Prosecutor Tim Moores told the court the goods were being stolen from stores by ‘professional shoplifters’.He said: ‘The thief needs a way of passing on these goods and getting money for them.‘They need what’s traditionally called a handler. You will be familiar with story of Oliver Twist and Fagin – he is a Victorian handler.‘Bill Sykes would bring back the goods and Fagin would move them on through his contacts.‘One of the modes of choice to handlers nowadays is the biggest marketplace in the world, eBay.‘It makes it very easy to pass on a large amount of stolen goods without the problem of having to meet in dingy pubs or alleyways for people to buy them.’
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