As you can imagine, Jason Shelton failed to deliver the car and after numerous times of being unreachable, the successful bidder lodged a police report on 29th January, 2008. It took the police a month to locate the said car, at Shelton's parking space.

I think that this guy is not a real fraudster in the sense that he at least had the item on hand, and not selling something bogus out of thin air, or something that does not belong to him. This guy was at least selling his OWN car. I think what happened was that when he received the money, he found that he could not buy another better car with that amount and because he needed a car to move around, he felt that he could not "let go" his car, and conveniently spent the windfall. Now, this does not make him any better than a scam 419 eBayer because not delivering an item after payment is received is simply wrong.

However, it would be pretty interesting to see the kind of punishment that would be meted out for a "crime" like this. Having said this, I hope that the local police would be more proactive in curbing internet fraud. I was told that most do not even know what, or who, is eBay.

Source: AZ Central