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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: LightingElectricDream on June 26, 2013, 09:07:09 AM
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Hello all,
I talked to a collector friend of mine that had these ponies for me. Yesterday they got stolen out of his Big Rig, He truck Drives. He has Transformers prototypes that where never produced and MIB transformers. He has My Little Pony Rapunzel still in the white envelope from Hasbro. And other Mail orders and Prototypes and MOC Ponies. All stolen.
It was reported. They are not likely tracked. Unless these end up on ebay..and there is not any real proof still.
So I'm asking for you guys to keep your eyes out for someone fishy on ebay or wherever a Rapunzel MlP prototypes, and transformer prototypes may be being sold.
Please Please Help if you can keep a look out.
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:UPDATED:
To Give more detail.
This Guy Was helping this lady move, her husband was working for hasbro. She didn't want the toys because she did not know thair value And her husbend passes away," Rest In Peace" and so My Friend paied her money for them. I don't know how much none of my concern.
I was trading with Him.
I don't know where they they where stolen from He is a truck driver and is gone days at a time. His Mp3 was stolen CDs. I am asking him.. waiting for a response.
No I I do not know this is for real 100%
But I am giving him the benefit of the doubt. I did get my hopes up, this is true. And I do know its fishy. But I am not out to scam people. I do not take people for a ride when I say this.
But again I am not asking to be believed,
I am asking that "IF" something grand comes up.
That you may take this happening into consideration.
That the person will be caught for theft. Or that the person that may be selling will know they "May" Have stolen goods. I do not what them to get in troble, beacuse it was reported stolen goods.
Now.. I do know that most of you are being sportive and I thank you for that.
I did not intend Pity if it came off that way. I know this community is mostly wham and was looking for a glimpse of comfort. I did wright this being Diderot. And Yes I coul have been more detailed. I'm sorry..
I am not asking for my words to be taken so seriously..as I have seem to come off possible lieing, and that my possessions being more important then people in my life. I wish for you all to know that
This portioning to the fact that I haven't the time to return replies and I do not what to cause the MODS the trouble and I do not intend to fight about it.. as I have no Ill will entenchouns twords the community.
My wish is that people will go though life knowing that, All our lives It was never about the ponies. Its about the memories.
And This was my childhood Dream come true.
I am going through A lot of tough things as of now The ponies being stolen where the cheery on top as they put it..
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Can you list out the MOC ponies? This is tough to read sweetie:(. I'm so sorry!
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Wow... that is truly incredible. :( That's such a crazy thing to happen. So sorry.
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Can you list out the MOC ponies? This is tough to read sweetie:(. I'm so sorry!
No I can't Because he said he had to many and I said I'll just see them when he brings them to me.
So i am more interested in finding the mail orders as of now. and I can only list 1 of them.
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Awww :hug: sorry your ponies got taken, that must be awful :cry: i hope you manage to get them back somehow that really sucks and makes me so sad for you
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Its Difficult not to spend the entire day in tears again.
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Sorry if I sound mean, but how well do you know this guy? Are you sure he had all these items?
It sounds like a real treasury, what he had, and it's awfully convenient that they got stolen.
Ok, again, sorry, I know I suck and am being overly suspicious, and I appolpgize to your friend if he's a nice and honest guy, but I just had to at least mention it :blush:
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That's very sad, but at least it wasn't precious irreplaceable items of yours. At the end of the day, they're plastic, and can be replaced, so please don't be sad.
I hope someone good enough comes forward and finds them!
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Sorry if I sound mean, but how well do you know this guy? Are you sure he had all these items?
It sounds like a real treasury, what he had, and it's awfully convenient that they got stolen.
Ok, again, sorry, I know I suck and am being overly suspicious, and I appolpgize to your friend if he's a nice and honest guy, but I just had to at least mention it :blush:
This is kind of how I felt when I read this, too. Of course I know nothing about you or your collector friend, but it does sound awfully convenient for them to have been stolen out of his truck. Maybe he found out how much they are worth and decided to sell them instead?
Totally not meaning to offend you or your friend, but that's just how I see the situation. But maybe I'm too skeptical of people?
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Sorry if I sound mean, but how well do you know this guy? Are you sure he had all these items?
It sounds like a real treasury, what he had, and it's awfully convenient that they got stolen.
Ok, again, sorry, I know I suck and am being overly suspicious, and I appolpgize to your friend if he's a nice and honest guy, but I just had to at least mention it :blush:
This is kind of how I felt when I read this, too. Of course I know nothing about you or your collector friend, but it does sound awfully convenient for them to have been stolen out of his truck. Maybe he found out how much they are worth and decided to sell them instead?
Totally not meaning to offend you or your friend, but that's just how I see the situation. But maybe I'm too skeptical of people?
I considered this too, But knowing him and I even told him to keep them he insisted on me having them as he has collections of his own that are worth more than MLP. And He dos not care to sell as much as he cares to enjoy collections.
I think its all truth..and He is a good guy. So i am giving him the benefit of the doubt.
I feel in my gut he was right and was telling the truth about it all.
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OH NO! T-T What they hay... I really hope he didnt sell them and lie to you! :hug: Im sorry.... =(
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That's vile! For someone to steal toys! Rrgh. If I see anything fishy I'll let you know!
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Wow- that's really odd and terrible! Although I would never never leave prototypes in the car...
It seems really odd that someone would break into the car to steal toys- there seems to be a very very low chance that your average thief would recognize a prototype.
Even if he grabbed the transformers for fun- why a My Little Pony? Only hard core pony fans put value in vintage ponies honestly- maybe someone was stalking him ? So odd.
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oh wow people steal MLPs? whats next? O__o
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Who would steal prototype toys out of someone's truck? How would they know they were in there? How would they know they were valuable? I assume they stole his stereo and navigation system, too? Was there much damage to the truck? Your friend needs to call the cops and report it. Also, contact the place where he was parked so they can pull the surveillance tapes and catch this person who is stealing toys out of trucks to sell on eBay. Tell him to do it quick, most places don't keep their security footage for very long.
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I wonder who the heck would steal some toys out of a truck! And it would be someone that knows that they can bring some money. I am sorry to hear that this happened!!!!
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I'm sure you are feeling enormously disappointed to miss out on what sounds like thousands of dollars of rare MLP stuff for free. Is this "friend" someone you know in your day to day life or just through the Internet? I wonder if, well intentioned though he might have been, he got caught up in lies trying to impress you and had to fake a theft to explain why his gift hasn't come through?
It just sounds massively off, the definition of "Too good to be true".
I'm sorry for how bummed you must feel to not get free (awesomely high priced) stuff. :/
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It occurs to me- IF in fact this all really happened- that your friend can file an insurance claim for the lost items. He should definitely do that if in fact he really did lose thousands of dollars worth of prototypes and toys...
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One thing that baffles me, assuming now that what your friend says is true, is, who would be dumb enough to do this?
Anyone who knows what those ponies are worth, has to know that there will be no way for them to sell them within such a tight-knit community?
The thief can't put in on ebay, etsy, amazon, taobao, etc. They can't come to forums. So where are they going to sell them?
No collector will go ahead and buy stolen ponies, at least as far as I can imagine.
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And it would really help if you had told us WHERE the ponies were stolen.
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I've seen threads like this before. Each time they have unraveled quickly. As you have no proof of ownership and few details, what are we supposed to do? It would be very convenient to post something like this and then claim every prototype or MOC on ebay was supposed to be yours and was stolen from your friend. I'm sorry but, I don't consider anything that isn't in my possession 'mine'
To clarify: I'm not saying you are lying, or calling you out. But I am saying that in order for anything to actually be done about this, details are needed. This community has been scammed before.
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Just putting in a friendly reminder to please keep this civil
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Sorry if I sound mean, but how well do you know this guy? Are you sure he had all these items?
It sounds like a real treasury, what he had, and it's awfully convenient that they got stolen.
This.
I had a woman do this to me once, telling me she had all kinds of MLP's, even some MOC, in her basement. She had me come over and dig through tons of stuff in her basement for at least 2 or 3 hours....only to admit she made the whole thing up months after I never found anything in her basement. Why? No clue. Some people just like to see people's hopes get raised and then laugh as they watch them come crashing down.
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That does sound awfully.. odd. Hopefully they get found..
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Why were your ponies in the back of his truck? Was he moving them for you?
Had to go back and read through for it to make sense....I get it now....he was bringing them to you in hopes of selling them too you. Strange story.
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So he was keeping all these valuables for you, and he thought the safest place for them was his truck? And I'm a little confused as to how your friend knows Mlp well enough to know these ponies are rare and valuable prototypes etc, and yet can't tell you which ponies it was?
I think someone is being taken for a ride.
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I'm confused about the details...
Was this someone you were going to buy off of? Did you already pay for them?
Or was this someone you had temporarily storing your items (in his truck?)
If he was storing them... did you buy them any time recently, to look through feedback to figure out who you had? (If you can't remember).
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I can understand why he would have the ponies in the truck if he was going to deliver them to you, but why did he have his Transformers in the truck as well? :blink: I would be keeping prototypes under lock and key in the house!
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Did he buy a lot of stuff for the Transformers from a collector or former employer of Hasbro and there were MLP in there? I'm confused as to how he got these.
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Why were your ponies in the back of his truck? Was he moving them for you?
I was wondering this too.
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She says her friend is a truck driver. Truckers can live out of their trucks for 6 weeks at a time.
Sounds from her first couple of posts that he was just going to give them to her. No money has left hands, no trades made.
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I feel the same way about the Amber room.
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I'm going to be really nice about this, but the whole story stinks to high heaven. Either your friend hit the lotto in toys and decided to sell them on Ebay and lied to you about them being stolen, OR these toys never existed, and I'm willing to believe the latter. The fact that he had SO many rare, never produced Ponies and Transformers and COULDN'T TELL YOU WHICH ONES THEY WERE, makes me very, very leery.
I'd like to know where your friend's truck was when it was broken into, what the number of the police report was (even if the police can't recover the items, there SHOULD be a copy of the report for him).
The story doesn't add up, even from what scant details you gave us. The fact that you place this as priority over your husband leaving you worries me further.
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I'm sorry to here you are going through such a tough time right now. :( :hug:
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:hug: I'm sorry that you're going through such a rough time. I'll keep an eye out.
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I'm going to be really nice about this, but the whole story stinks to high heaven. Either your friend hit the lotto in toys and decided to sell them on Ebay and lied to you about them being stolen, OR these toys never existed, and I'm willing to believe the latter. The fact that he had SO many rare, never produced Ponies and Transformers and COULDN'T TELL YOU WHICH ONES THEY WERE, makes me very, very leery.
I'd like to know where your friend's truck was when it was broken into, what the number of the police report was (even if the police can't recover the items, there SHOULD be a copy of the report for him).
The story doesn't add up, even from what scant details you gave us. The fact that you place this as priority over your husband leaving you worries me further.
I believe this should be removed because it is aggressive and is not conducive to this conversation? This holds no water. And is accusing. "Ouch"
Any MODS around?
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I'm agreeing with babylofty. You know that saying, "If it's too good to be true, it probably isn't?" I'm really getting that feeling.
If he can't provide a police report on the break-in, I'd say you've been had.
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I'm agreeing with babylofty. You know that saying, "If it's too good to be true, it probably isn't?" I'm really getting that feeling.
If he can't provide a police report on the break-in, I'd say you've been had.
He did said he did made a police report. Not that it matters any longer that I update or convince other wise.
And I'm am quite finished with this community as of now. The is the most hurtful and hate fulled responses I have gotten.
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I'm going to be really nice about this, but the whole story stinks to high heaven. Either your friend hit the lotto in toys and decided to sell them on Ebay and lied to you about them being stolen, OR these toys never existed, and I'm willing to believe the latter. The fact that he had SO many rare, never produced Ponies and Transformers and COULDN'T TELL YOU WHICH ONES THEY WERE, makes me very, very leery.
I'd like to know where your friend's truck was when it was broken into, what the number of the police report was (even if the police can't recover the items, there SHOULD be a copy of the report for him).
The story doesn't add up, even from what scant details you gave us. The fact that you place this as priority over your husband leaving you worries me further.
I believe this should be removed because it is aggressive and is not conducive to this conversation? This holds no water. And is accusing. "Ouch"
Any MODS around?
I'm an admin, will that do? This comment is an opinion, respectfully stated, and babylofty is entitled to it, whether or not you agree.
Edited: just saw your response about being done here posted as I was typing. If you like, I can lock this up and suspend your account. Let me know. It's not a problem.
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This escalated quickly.
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I'm going to be really nice about this, but the whole story stinks to high heaven. Either your friend hit the lotto in toys and decided to sell them on Ebay and lied to you about them being stolen, OR these toys never existed, and I'm willing to believe the latter. The fact that he had SO many rare, never produced Ponies and Transformers and COULDN'T TELL YOU WHICH ONES THEY WERE, makes me very, very leery.
I'd like to know where your friend's truck was when it was broken into, what the number of the police report was (even if the police can't recover the items, there SHOULD be a copy of the report for him).
The story doesn't add up, even from what scant details you gave us. The fact that you place this as priority over your husband leaving you worries me further.
I believe this should be removed because it is aggressive and is not conducive to this conversation? This holds no water. And is accusing. "Ouch"
Any MODS around?
I'm an admin, will that do? This comment is an opinion, respectfully stated, and babylofty is entitled to it, whether or not you agree.
Edited: just saw your response about being done here posted as I was typing. If you like, I can lock this up an suspend your account. Let me know.
Thank you for clarifying that for me. As I do not know the rules In and Out.
Post Merge: June 26, 2013, 09:25:58 PM
This escalated quickly.
Yeah I know it Lol!
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Oh dear.... I'm sorry you are upset NamineEveningLight. :( I don't think I can help much so I'm just going to give you some more hugs and say its a real shame if you leave arena. :(
Here are your hugs.... :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
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This escalated quickly.
Yeah I know it Lol!
Err, I think it escalated quickly because you decided to leave the community based on this thread :blush:
I can understand their skepticism, if you look at it from an outsider's perspective maybe you can as well? Threads like this come up from time to time and I think they're usually false. Now I'm not claiming yours is but the lack of information is questionable. Besides that, as others have said we can't help you if you don't give any information at all.
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Sometimes things do seem to good to be true, but if it's happening to you at that time, you really want to believe in it because it is that good. I'm sorry this has happened to you and maybe perhaps this guy friend was just trying to impress you and go along with what he knows you like (MLPs) and made up this story but then needed a cop out since he couldn't actually deliver anything to you.
Maybe ask him nicely what area he was in when this happened. Then you could contact the police in that area to find out if he's actually made a police report. This might help you know if he was ever telling you the truth. :hug:
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This escalated quickly.
Yeah I know it Lol!
Err, I think it escalated quickly because you decided to leave the community based on this thread :blush:
I can understand their skepticism, if you look at it from an outsider's perspective maybe you can as well? Threads like this come up from time to time and I think they're usually false. Now I'm not claiming yours is but the lack of information is questionable. Besides that, as others have said we can't help you if you don't give any information at all.
Ughh I hate to get in on this but the arena should be full of love not hurtful opinions. I would be really offended myself if I started this thread and read some 'opinions' that just sound like 'personal attacks' it would make me want to consider leaving specially when writing at in the heat of the moment.
I am sure the information will come in time, at the moment she can only tell us what she knows
Sorry to hear about your rough time namineeveninglight.
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Ughh I hate to get in on this but the arena should be full of love not hurtful opinions. I would be really offended myself if I started this thread and read some 'opinions' that just sound like 'personal attacks' it would make me want to consider leaving specially when writing at in the heat of the moment.
I am sure the information will come in time, at the moment she can only tell us what she knows
Sorry to hear about your rough time namineeveninglight.
Oh, you might be misunderstanding my post. I don't think I was being too hurtful, but perhaps I was. And unfortunately I think people are trying to be realistic, nothing can be 100% love (no matter how much we wish it was!). I totally agree some responses were harsh, and I understand that information will come as it's received but I'm just stating what would be helpful to know.
This is off topic however and I'm fairly certain the thread will get locked with that so that's all I say, I hope you can cheer up and get more information namineeveninglight.
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hmmm does sound fishy although......
I personally know two individuals (both Tuba players) who had their very expensive instruments stolen from their cars (one was last year, the other was recently). In both situations the theives tried to sell them at music shops. Big Mistake! Being such expensive instruments they had unique production numbers. The shops got suspicious so they called the police and the tubas were returned to their owners.
It would be nice if toys had unique identifiation!
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Why all the skepticism? She's not asking you to give her the ponies that were stolen or asking members to send her their rupunzels! She just said keep an eye out. This thread is so full of negativity it makes me sad! A lot of the replies feel like personal attacks and I'm not even involved in the situation.
Yeah, so everything isn't going to be 100% love, I agree. But to full on accuse someone of something while they are down is really hurtful to read and see.
Op I hope he finds the ponies and gives them to you! :)
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Pics or it didn't happen.
Make sure you don't give ANY money at all to this guy. Just saying.
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Please dont leave the forum because of something someone said.... while sometimes there may be offensive things said, unintentional or not, most people here are loving and we are all here because we love ponies! :hug: Its terible this guy led you on telling you he had rare ponies for you, I will keep a lookout for Rapunzel and G1 prototypes on ebay if they were indeed stolen! Karma will catch up to people- whether someone lied or someone stole, what goes around comes around to them in the end! Try to keep your mind of it in the meantime, here enjoy this cute fox!
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Please dont leave the forum because of something someone said.... while sometimes there may be offensive things said, unintentional or not, most people here are loving and we are all here because we love ponies! :hug: Its terible this guy led you on telling you he had rare ponies for you, I will keep a lookout for Rapunzel and G1 prototypes on ebay if they were indeed stolen! Karma will catch up to people- whether someone lied or someone stole, what goes around comes around to them in the end! Try to keep your mind of it in the meantime, here enjoy this cute fox!
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This.
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I'm confused as to what happened in this thread? People were just pointing out that the OP was maybe getting tricked? I don't see anyone accusing her of doing anything wrong but perhaps falling for it?
Plus, we just asked for more information so we can HELP! Like, where was this stolen, who was this guy etc. I really don't see a problem.
I am getting a bit tired of people who ignore 90% of well meaning posts only to focus on 2 or 3 that they didn't like, answer them and get all angry.
We tried to help, even the ones who might have sounded a bit rough but at the end of the day we really didn't get much information at all.
Opps, sorry, didn't see the update :blush:
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Sorry but this guy was most likely lying to you - to get sympathy, money, to take advantage of you...who knows. Consider how much about yourself you have told him. You've not really told us where you know him from.
Truckers *may* own the cab they drive, but not the trailers 9 times out of 10. This means their personal space is tiny. You can barely stand up and barely stretch out. You can stash your clothes, some supplies, and that's about it.
They will go to the haulage yard in their personal vehicles, get their cab, get their trailer/drive to somewhere else and pick up a trailer/flatbed/whatever, drive elsewhere, drop it off, get another one, rinse and repeat. You can't just throw your own stuff in the back, theres paperwork and weight limits and all sorts of stuff going on.
There is just no space for personal items - the most personal items I've ever known truckers to have with them is family photos and maybe a dog to help ward off thieves/illegal immigrants.
Also - a lot of trailers now are alarmed. If a trailer is empty, and it's parked up, the back door is left open to show it's empty so it doesn't get damaged by someone breaking in.
Aside from that, if this were true, we are talking thousands of dollars worth of ponies here. The "got them from a x employee" is often trotted out to try and lend credibility when people can't produce pictures but claim to have stuff.
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I'm going to be really nice about this, but the whole story stinks to high heaven. Either your friend hit the lotto in toys and decided to sell them on
Ebay and lied to you about them being stolen, OR these toys never existed, and I'm willing to believe the latter. The fact that he had SO many rare, never produced Ponies and Transformers and COULDN'T TELL YOU WHICH ONES THEY WERE, makes me very, very leery.
I'd like to know where your friend's truck was when it was broken into, what the number of the police report was (even if the police can't recover the items, there SHOULD be a copy of the report for him).
The story doesn't add up, even from what scant details you gave us. The fact that you place this as priority over your husband leaving you worries me further.
Baby Loft pretty much took the words right out of my mouth. Anyway, it doesn't sound aggressive to me. She's not accusing you of anything, she's pointing out that your friend may be not telling you the truth.
Did he ever send you any pictures of these ponies that he bought for you from this lady? Finding rare, MOC, MO ponies that she "doesn't know the value of" seems fishy to me. Pretty much anyone could claim that they worked for Hasbro and there would be no way to know if they were telling you the truth. Anyway, it would be too easy that this lady didn't bother looking up the value of these toys before selling them or giving them away. It sounds too good to be true to me.
Unless your friend produces pictures of said ponies, or a real police report. (Shouldn't he have a copy?) Then I am going to say, sorry but I think he got your hopes up and wasn't being honest. :huh:
It sounds like you have some personal stuff going on right now too. Probably making it worse to have this happen and to have your hopes up to get some really great ponies. Hopefully you will feel better about it soon and get it resolved.
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I'm so sorry you are going through this. It stinks getting your hopes up about something and then got getting the stuff you've been so excited about. Maybe this is legit and he just realized how much more money he could make selling to a private broker or collector. Maybe it wasn't true. I dunno. But either way you didn't get your merch and it broke your heart. *cuddles* Don't worry pony luck comes and goes. You'll be back on top again soon.
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This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. True, it's not unheard of for former employees to just give all their rare prototypes away for next to nothing at a yard sale just because they don't want to deal with having it all anymore. (This happened to someone who posted on a Care Bear forum a year or two ago.) It's a one in a million shot, but possible. However, I've never heard of anyone who has bought that entire lot of prototypes, had even the slightest inkling of what they were worth, and has offered to just give them away to a friend of theirs out of the sheer goodness of their heart. My boyfriend and I do a lot of yard saling and if we come across anything that has even the remote possibility of rare or sought after, my boyfriend insists that we look up the value on eBay to see if it is worth reselling. I mean, with an MIP Rapunzel, MOCs, prototypes, we're talking thousands of dollars. It's not in human nature to just hand stacks of cash out to random people, unless maybe you're Oprah opening an school in Africa.
I know it's frustrating if you really had your hopes up for these. I've been scammed in the past, too, especially when I was young and more naive. Basically, though, if it seems too good to be true, it usually is.
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I am getting a bit tired of people who ignore 90% of well meaning posts only to focus on 2 or 3 that they didn't like, answer them and get all angry.
::high five:: Amen, sister!
OP, calm down and take a deep breath. No one is attacking you, they're pointing out that this story - while tragic if true - most likely is all fabricated. This kind of story crops up every once in a while and all of them, every single one of them, has always always always always turned out to be someone trying to blow smoke up someone else's bum. Much of the time the innocent person relating the story is being tricked, like many of us suspect you are. No one is accusing you of lying, since YOU didn't claim these ponies were stolen, someone else did and related that to you. That isn't your fault, just as it isn't the fault of anyone else for NOT believing the story you were told. It isn't a case of not believing you, it's a case of not believing the plausibility of the story you were originally told and are now passing on to the rest of us. You can't base your continuing participation in a community on a few differing opinions, especially when those opinions have been calmly and rationally stated.
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*sigh*
Can we all agree that this thread is pretty much going no where then?
The OP has made her post, made her update - we have read, some of us have understood, some of us have made our opinions felt. For the sake of us all...and to preserve the rainbow, cupcake, fluffy goodness...we are locking this discussion right here.
Lets all move on...
Now where did I put those rose tinted glasses...