Stolen lens alert - Dan Zvereff's Canon 50mm .95 is on eBay

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Fellow photographer Daniel Zvereff had his Canon .95 dream lens stolen in Mexico recently. It popped up on eBay earlier and is being sold by someone in Mexico known for peddling stolen camera equipment. Just wanting to make this aware to anyone on the forum who might have bid on this lens. I don't know if there is any way to get this back to him as eBay can't do anything at this point but flag the seller. If you know of a way, email Dan at zvereff@gmail.com.

The auction ends tonight and has plenty of bids, it's going to sell. The question is whether or not we can do anything to help get it back to him.

Admins, if this is in the wrong forum, feel free to move it. Cheers.
 
Fairly easy to buy it. Open an item not described properly case after receiving it. Send back a brick and easy peasy you have your lens back and they get no money.
 
Chuffed Cheese said:
Fairly easy to buy it. Open an item not described properly case after receiving it. Send back a brick and easy peasy you have your lens back and they get no money.
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But if you have a card on file with eBay, how do you even begin to avoid the ****storm of the seller arguing that they sent back a brick? Unless you say "they sent me a brick, I want my money back". I imagine they'd just charge you the balance.
 
From what I see, people is bidding too high and wont pay, to slow down the sale.

(price is currently $20,100.00)

Marcelo
 
If the original owner has the serial # and police report showing it stolen all he has to do
is buy it then show ebay it was stolen and get them to refund him. if they don't they can be charged w willfully trafficking stolen items.
 
Or he can contact the police dept in Cupertino where eBay is based and show them the report and that eBay is aiding in selling his stolen property if they don't do anything.
 
I'm getting angry just reading about this. There must be something the rightful owner can do!
 
I tried to post something on the ebay "community" board, but I was told that I did not have such privileges.
 
Well odd. $65,100 USD is very odd.

Does anyone know why such a crazy number? Could we suspect money laundering?
 
It's quite simple, this story inspired a lot of people to shill bid up to a ridiculous number. They won't be paying for it obviously. Therefore it won't get "sold" on to someone else, further entangling the problem (a.k.a. who is left holding the bag).

My question here is whether the original owner had it insured and if he's already gotten compensation for the lens through their insurance. If so, probably best to just let it go.
 
rubercoober said:
But if you have a card on file with eBay, how do you even begin to avoid the ****storm of the seller arguing that they sent back a brick? Unless you say "they sent me a brick, I want my money back". I imagine they'd just charge you the balance.
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there is no mechanism in place for that. eBay refunds no matter what as long as the package is delivered back to the seller.
 
Well, somebody kept covering the bid, except for a short period when it was at $668. I'm of the opinion that the "winner" is a shill for the fencer, and they had someone on the bait who just had to have that lens, thus the $100 winning margin.

It might go back up for bidding pretty soon, would be something to look out for.

PF
 
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