eBay “PowerSeller” Shoplifted the Goods??? LMAO!

This was just too good to pass up the chance to post it here! This is why some of the "good sellers" can not compete on eBay…Why? Maybe its because you got thieves and criminals promoted as trusted sellers on eBay. Yah think?!?

Waterbury woman faces larceny charges in connection with thefts from CVS, sales on eBay. (COURTESY OF WEST HARTFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT / September 24, 2009)

By DAVID OWENS The Hartford Courant

WEST HARTFORD; – A Waterbury woman who police say made her living selling beauty and other products on the auction website eBay had very low overhead.

That’s because the items she sold were shoplifted from CVS stores throughout the state, police said. Dana Giacobini, 41, of 28 Wesley St., Waterbury, faced arrest by West Hartford police in shoplifting incidents in June and July, but had also drawn the attention of CVS loss prevention officials.
"It started off as a fairly routine shoplifting case," said West Hartford police Det. Sgt. Frank Fallon. Then West Hartford detectives began working with CVS security officials, who developed information that Giacobini was possibly selling items stolen from CVS on eBay.

"Based on the information gained through the eBay investigation we were able to get a search warrant for the suspect’s [apartment] in Waterbury," Fallon said. When they raided Giacobini’s home, they found boxes and boxes of merchandise — everything from home blood pressure and diabetic monitoring kits to Oil of Olay and Burt’s Bees products. There also were allergy medications, fertility monitor kits, perfumes, nail polish and a variety of skin lotions, Fallon said.

Police are still taking inventory of the van-load of merchandise recovered from Giacobini’s apartment, but estimate it is worth at least $25,000, he said.

Police said eBay records show that Giacobini has sold nearly $174,000 worth of merchandise since 2007.
"This was no small operation," Fallon said. Police also found a mailing operation in Giacobini’s apartment, including about 40 FedEx mailing boxes addressed to locations all over the country.

"She has no job," Fallon said of Giacobini. "Whatever else she could have been selling, no matter what it was, she had no ability to legally obtain it."

On several websites, Giacobini listed her business at the Wesley Street address. "I buy wholesale and resell online. I am a single owner/operator and have a small business," she wrote in several online sales forums.
Giacobini was arraigned Thursday on charges of fourth-degree larceny and third-degree larceny and her bail was set at $95,000. She is due back in court Nov. 2.

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