I agree it’s unlikely they stole the cards. I’m more interested in tracking down how they ended up there. I’ve reached out to the seller w/ some background information.
Contact them immediately and share this thread if it helps. If you can verify 100% these are your cards I would be insanely persistent.
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I can 100% verify they’re mine. I have pictures of everything the day prior to sending off the shipment… Is there a legal way to prove they’re mine that’ll hold up in court?
Hire a private investigator. Chances are the person who stole them sold to this eBay seller. They should have info on who sold to them, and make that person validate how they got them, if legitimately.
Incredible yet perhaps inevitable development. I have no advice for you but goddamn do I hope you get your cards back.
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I would have bought all of them without notice and contacted the police.
Either way, I’d get the police involved and hopefully the seller will cooperate. Sounds like someone dumped these in hopes of a quick sale.
I have no experience with this and do not know if this would work legally.
If the seller isn’t cooperative, you may want to look into speaking with a lawyer and filing a police report. Since you can pretty easily prove that you own the cards, and the package is no longer missing, you could report them as stolen. I would then assume that would make it easier for a lawyer to obtain information about them or negotiate their return.
If I recall correctly, this is a very expensive and sentimental collection for you, so a couple thousand dollars on a lawyer may be a solid investment if you can swing it.
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My thought is this. If you accepted any form of insurance payout, I believe FedEx can do what they want with the package if its ever located. They could of found it and sold it at an auction or something like that.
I filed a claim but never cashed the check. They sent me $100… Not really worth it.
They did refund me the shipping charges as the package was lost, not sure if that matters.
Yes - this is a very expensive collection… And that’s part of the problem (I think). I’m assuming the seller did nothing wrong and paid to receive these items. I don’t have the money to purchase these back & the seller will be left high & dry. I’m skeptical he’ll be willing to work w/ me 100% because his business is at risk of purchasing something & receiving nothing in return.
I am not a lawyer but I believe that’s the unfortunate aspect of purchasing what now seems like stolen goods. If they are your cards and you are legally able to prove that then the seller should return those items to you and go after whoever they purchased them from for compensation
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Buying stolen goods is the businesses problem, not the victims problem.
Rick Harrison from Pawn Stars taught me that.
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I just read this entire thread from scratch having heard about this recently. I’m sincerely sorry that you’ve gone through this. You’re doing the right thing by reaching out to the seller and showing the thread as proof. Please keep us updated, I’d love to help anyway I can.
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I believe this is their website and they have a physical location in Jacksonville, FL.
There is a phone number on the site so you could call them.
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Are they still considered “stolen” if they’re lost from FedEx though? Seems like a grey area since an entity was involved in shipping them instead of someone robbing me.
File the police report asap. They are in possession of stolen goods.
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Best of luck on this. Your story was and is heartbreaking but its great that finally some cards are turning up and you may be able to piece together what happened. Push for what is yours and unfairly taken from you.
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What a nightmare I’m incredibly sorry this happened!
Does anyone know if this person/business was at Collectacon in Orlando? If the transaction was done recently and in-person, Collectacon might make sense, especially if this eBay seller operates out of Florida. If so, you might be able to get more information about the original seller, perhaps even Payment information, if not done in cash. Probably, a long shot, but worth pursuing.
I’d get a lawyer involved and have them draft and send a more official-looking information request. A random eBay business will be more likely to fully comply and provide information if they contacted by a law-office and are “on the legal record” . . . it will also lend you some credibility so you don’t look like a random scammer trying to claim ownership of someone else’s products.
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omg I just read this thread, this is so fucking heartbreaking