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If the fraud goes into 8 or 9 figures, they're interested. Otherwise it's just a paper exercise to reassure people that the Gov are 'tough on crime'.

Facebook & PayPal are very very slow, perhaps resistant, to reply to police DPA requests unless it's a very serious crime. Requests for details of bank accounts/transactions have to be done through the submission of a production order to a Crown Court judge. It's simply not a line of enquiry that the police will bother with.

I used to play jazz guitar to a pretty reasonable standard in the 70's & 80's but once I saw this guy he turned me.........................

A zillions videos of Mr Sheehan out there - I like this one a lot.

The car park is the same - sometimes there is a kids football tournament at the sports centre next door whose parents use the school car park. If parking becomes an issue I can open up another car park at the rear.

Sparkle - what's not to like!! 😍

The 14th South East Bass Bash will be on Sunday 23 October 2022 - 0900 - 1700 At Jubilee High School, Surrey, School Lane, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 1TE Get the date in your diaries!

I quite like the look of the Spector NS Pulse 5 - they come in at around 8lb 8oz. EMG pickups and a tone pump preamp

'Action Fraud' are pretty useless. They're only interested if the fraud gets well into 7 figures. Anything much less than that and they pass it to the local force. It's not so much the police force as the Crown Prosecution Service. The CPS will only authorise charges that are in the public interest or which are more or less a certainty for conviction at court. Not the cops - it's the system.

That's really very bad as the case for simple theft - and indeed fraud, is easily made out. I understand if it's about 1 pedal on 1 occasion as that would effectively be one word against another, but this appears to be a serial thief/fraudster. First you have to make the allegation of the crime. Use your local police force online reporting facility. In your report you need describe what happened: The date and location (the location is where the offence happened - (don't say Facebook or eBay or whatever - someone here must have the guys home address?) That he was dishonest - "Whether, according to the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people, what was done was dishonest." That he intended to make a gain for himself - According to section 8 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967, “a court or jury, in determining whether a person has committed an offence… shall decide whether he did intend or foresee that result by reference to all the evidence, drawing such inferences from the evidence as appear proper in the circumstances”. He appropriated 'property' - 'Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation, and this includes, where he has come by the property (innocently or not) without stealing it, any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner.' Property - 'Property includes money and all other property, real or personal, including things in action and other intangible property.' Belonging to another - 'Where a person receives property from another, and is under an obligation to the other to deal with that property or its proceeds in a particular way, the property or proceeds shall be regarded (as against him) as belonging to the other.' With the intention of permanently depriving the other - The important test is whether the person appropriating the property 'treats it as his own to dispose of regardless of the others rights'. In simple terms: I paid for the item and he failed to send me the goods, and that you know (and point to) several other victims of the same theft/fraud; His intention to make a profit/gain for himself is clear as he has done the same thing to several other victims (as above); Despite repeated requests for your money he has kept it; It was a £xxxx including postage He received the money and was under an obligation to send you the goods. Point them to this thread. They may NFA it straight away but you can take it further: Make a complaint about the police using the IOPC website - https://iopc-complaints.egressforms.com/ The local Professional Standards Department will inform you about the rationale why it wasn't investigated in an attempt to 'service recover' the complaint. Don't accept service recovery and tell them you want the complaint recorded. Then they have to write out their rationale as a response to your complaint. You can appeal their decision to the local Police & Crime Commissioner. If you get no result - write to your MP informing them of the multiple scams and that your police force is doing nothing about it. If we can just get one police force charging him, then you can tell them about all the other 'unsolved crimes' and get permission from the court to consider them all in the same court. I don't know about Scottish law - sorry.

As individuals yes, but we can't do it in the name of Basschat as that would leave us open to possible litigation. Thanks.

Well. I think that there isn't a bass dealer/seller/shop on the planet which hasn't at one time had a dissatisfied customer. Instead of a continuing excoriation of any particular dealer/seller/shop why don't we take our dissatisfaction to the dealer/seller/shop? It's not as though this hasn't been discussed before? Take it to the source of discontent. Thanks Colin

The problem was then, and is now, is in regard to exposing or facilitating the sale of a copyrighted product. If we were producing and selling fake Rics I think the general opinion would be against lifting the ban, unfortunately its the same piece of legislation that prohibits facilitating the sale. It's all in regard to the copyrighted trademarks. We know how fast lawyers are to take action if we use the phrase, "Basschat - the Rolls Royce of bass websites" or "McBasschat - Bass food for thought" I'm not against lifting the ban, just cautious, and besides, who the hell wants to buy a Ric? 😉

If these are now for sale please post in the appropriate forum. Thanks.