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Fostoria man convicted in 2005 OSU ticket scam

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Fostoria man convicted in OSU ticket scam
Friday, September 29, 2006

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A jury convicted a Fostoria, Ohio, man yesterday of theft and fraud for failing to deliver Ohio State-Michigan football tickets that he sold in an online auction.

Mark West, 54, testified in Bowling Green that he priced the tickets too low and did not have enough money to buy tickets to fulfill his orders.

West had pleaded not guilty to the charges and could be sentenced to six to 18 months in prison and fined $5,000 on each charge. Sentencing was set for Dec. 1 in Wood County Common Pleas Court.

West, the only witness called by the defense, said what he was doing was allowed on the online auction site eBay Inc. as long as the seller acknowledges a specific date when the tickets will be available. "It?s what they call a pre-sale," West said.

West said he couldn?t deliver tickets to about 250 of the 400 customers who bought tickets. In many cases, buyers paid up to $300 or more per ticket to the game. At least 200 people filed complaints against him, and eBay reported customer losses of $260,000.
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Seems like fuzzy math to me. If 250 people lost out on $300 each, that's $75,000.

How were losses of $260,000 accumulated in this case? That's over a grand per ticket.

Regardless, glad the bastard is being put away.
 
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Sounds like the charges are "theft & fraud" (not sure how many degrees of each are being 'charged') and the fines will be based per charge, not per complaint.
 
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BB73;620914; said:
Seems like fuzzy math to me. If 250 people lost out on $300 each, that's $75,000.

How were losses of $260,000 accumulated in this case? That's over a grand per ticket.

Regardless, glad the bastard is being put away.
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If 250 people lost $300 per ticket, and each ordered an average of 3 and one half tickets (OK half ordered 3, half ordered 4) then you have your customer loss of $260,000. :biggrin:

You do realize we probably now know the true identity of Barney Rubble :tongue2:
 
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10 years later ... the full story of Mark West, who lost $85,000 misjudging the insane valuation of 2005 Texas @ OSU tickets, and quickly found himself in the hole on OSU @ Michigan tickets.

http://www.maizenbrew.com/football/...me-with-mark-ohio-state-ticket-scam-mark-west

Story Time with Mark: The Ohio State Ticket Scam of 2005
One man’s wacky story of a trip to The Game and how it changed many lives in the process.
by MarkLennox Nov 22, 2016, 7:00am CST

Welcome to the first edition of #StoryTimeWithMark. Have I ever told you about the time I was involved in a massive ticket scam for the 2005 Michigan Ohio State game? This story is about the kindness of strangers, the strength of faith as the world comes crumbling down around those involved, and the putting of the pieces back together. The backdrop for this story is the best rivalry in all of sports. The Game. Michigan vs Ohio State.

My wife Rebecca and I found out she was pregnant with our son in October of that year. We’d been married just over a year and a half. Out of the kindness of her heart, my wife went on eBay and purchased two tickets to The Game. She purchased the tickets to The Game in late October and had intended on surprising me. The plan was to present the tickets to me in an envelope with the words written on the card “Let’s take our baby to their first Michigan game.” I had never been to a Michigan game before and attending The Game was high on my list.

Weeks went by as my wife waited patiently for the tickets. One week turned to three and suddenly, The Game was two weeks away and we didn’t have our tickets. She had purchased them off of eBay from a vendor with a near 100 percent satisfaction rate who’d been rated over 1000 times by satisfied customers who’d bought tickets to The Game, the Daytona 500 and various other NFL games.

The vendor was located in Fostoria, Ohio. She tried sending messages to the seller and to PayPal regarding the lack of tickets. As The Game drew near, she was forced to tell me her plan to surprise me. She was upset and rightfully so. The gift was ruined, but also it looked like we were going to be out about $600. The closer The Game drew, the more it deteriorated. Suddenly, the seller’s eBay feed was flooded with complaints.

We weren’t the only ones suffering from this. More than 200 people had purchased tickets to The Game ranging from Alabama, California and New York. All of them were suddenly flooding the seller, who I later learned was named Mark West, with messages and emails demanding their money back or the tickets. Things took a turn for the bizarre on Tuesday, November 15.

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http://www.maizenbrew.com/football/...me-with-mark-ohio-state-ticket-scam-mark-west
 
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Steve19 said:
Got a picture of this guy?
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Or.....

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