{"id":14367,"date":"2024-05-08T06:38:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T04:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/no-refund-after-i-was-sold-a-stolen-3300-bike-on-ebay\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T06:38:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T04:38:41","slug":"no-refund-after-i-was-sold-a-stolen-3300-bike-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/no-refund-after-i-was-sold-a-stolen-3300-bike-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"No refund after I was sold a stolen \u00a33,300 bike on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I  phoned the police and the bike was seized, but eBay and my bank won\u2019t help over reimbursement<\/p>\n<p><strong>I bought a used electric cargo bike on eBay for \u00a33,300<\/strong><strong> but, when it arrived, I discovered a cut in the frame. I put the frame number into the national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeregister.com\/\">BikeRegister database<\/a><\/strong><strong>, which confirmed it had been stolen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The seller<\/strong><strong> did not reply when I contacted them, so I phoned the police and the bike was seized. I was given crime reference and property log numbers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/no-refund-after-i-was-sold-a-stolen-3300-bike-on-ebay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/10f42677d8ca2db1c39105fad44486ee3ca3a52b\/0_138_4287_2572\/master\/4287.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ab1b476b9213a5fe3e2fbd0e2f8ca8f6\" title=\"No refund after I was sold a stolen \u00a33,300 bike on eBay\" \/>I  phoned the police and the bike was seized, but eBay and my bank won\u2019t help over reimbursement<br \/>\nI bought a used electric cargo bike on eBay for \u00a33,300 but, when it arrived, I discovered a cut in the frame. I put the frame number into the national BikeRegister database, which confirmed it had been stolen.<br \/>\nThe seller did not reply when I contacted them, so I phoned the police and the bike was seized. I was given crime reference and property log numbers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I phoned the police and the bike was seized, but eBay and my bank won\u2019t help over reimbursement I bought a used electric cargo bike on eBay for \u00a33,300 but, when it arrived, I discovered a cut in the frame. I put the frame number into the national BikeRegister database, which confirmed it had been &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/no-refund-after-i-was-sold-a-stolen-3300-bike-on-ebay\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No refund after I was sold a stolen \u00a33,300 bike on eBay<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}