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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 3621580, member: 12007&quot;]Back at the beginning of the WWW, sometime in the mid 90&#039;s, I sold a Loetz Art Nouveau silver-mounted vase to a person in San Francisco - and took payment via personal cheque.</p><p>In those heady days of the early adopters, internet-savvy people were <i><b>very</b></i> reliable and even though I never took personal cheques from new customers I made an exception as this fellow <i>seemed</i> on the up and up.</p><p>I think he told me at the time that he was a California State employee and the cheque was drawn on the State Employees Credit union account -so I said OK.</p><p>The payment arrived and I shipped the vase. As the cheque was in US funds, it took about 2 weeks to clear in Canada and eventually it was returned to me with a big red stamp across the face &quot;Account Closed&quot;.</p><p>I had his email but my requests for an explanation went nowhere - he never replied. I think he first made contact with me through the eBay forums and a few months later he started posting again so I called him out in front of the forum community.</p><p><br /></p><p>He had some very creative ways of explaining why he hadn&#039;t called me, e.g. his jaw was wired closed and he couldn&#039;t speak, he fell of his bike and couldn&#039;t type and a few other BS stories. He promised to sort it out but he never did and eventually I gave up. Last I heard though, he was still dealing in art glass in the bay area. I wonder what he ever did with my beautiful Loetz vase he stole from me all those years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe I&#039;ll google him and see if he&#039;s still around?</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have that dud cheque from almost 25 years ago. It sits in the hall of shame clipboard along with some other bad deals I experienced over the years.</p><p><br /></p><p>&lt;edit&gt; I just found an old pic of the vase I was ripped off for and my google search just now found he is indeed still in the antique business in California. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/mad.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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