UPS Theft

[B1SON]

Re: UPS Theft

Cjosefy,
Seeing as in our fantasy baseball league your email address is the only one hidden i figured this place to be the best to express my disapointment about you totally bailing on the league you signed up for and said you were gonna participate in.Don't ever bother to try to play in a GUU league that i set up again.You are the type of player that i look to avoid.
Jon

OUCH!

[3arod13]

Re: UPS Theft

This happens way to often and would be nice if UPS was investigated. Difficult to do, but it would be nice.

When it happened to me, I was so lucky that I saw the UPS guy running away from my house and towards his truck. When I yelled to him that the box was empty, which was obvious, and he then came back and I could tell he was playing dumb. No way could he not tell the box was empty, especially when one end was open. Oh, the tube was in there, but not the bat. If it fell out, the entire contents including the tube would have fallen out. Yes, someone definately attempted to steal it. I called and then ran straight down to UPS. Yes, by the time I got to UPS, they found the bat. They said it slipped out somehow and they found it. Yeah, I bought that story.

I got lucky. Many don't. How people can rob and steal from others in the performance of their duties, is beyond me. We live is a greedy society. Truly sad!

Regards, Tony

Most importantly, this was the Derek Jeter Minor League Bat. It was being returned from the Yankees, so I'm sure someone at UPS definately knew what was in the box.

[3arod13]

Re: UPS Theft

It just happened to me. I recently (August 10th) sold a bat on ebay. The buyer never got it. Finally today he received an empty tube which he says was stamped multiple times in red "received without contents."

Tomorrow I will have to go to the post office to figure out how to do a claim. What a hassle.

More than that though, it makes me sick that this guy will not get this bat that he has been excited about.

This happens way to often and would be nice if UPS was investigated. Difficult to do, but it would be nice.

When it happened to me, I was so lucky that I saw the UPS guy running away from my house and towards his truck. When I yelled to him that the box was empty, which was obvious, and he then came back and I could tell he was playing dumb. No way could he not tell the box was empty, especially when one end was open. Oh, the tube was in there, but not the bat. If it fell out, the entire contents including the tube would have fallen out. Yes, someone definately attempted to steal it. I called and then ran straight down to UPS. Yes, by the time I got to UPS, they found the bat. They said it slipped out somehow and they found it. Yeah, I bought that story.

I got lucky. Many don't. How people can rob and steal from others in the performance of their duties, is beyond me. We live is a greedy society. Truly sad!

Regards, Tony

[harpt]

Re: UPS Theft

It just happened to me. I recently (August 10th) sold a bat on ebay. The buyer never got it. Finally today he received an empty tube which he says was stamped multiple times in red "received without contents."

Tomorrow I will have to go to the post office to figure out how to do a claim. What a hassle.

More than that though, it makes me sick that this guy will not get this bat that he has been excited about.

[skipcareyisfat]

Re: UPS Theft

Maybe this guy knows where it went. From today's Uni Watch blog ...

Entertaining story of possibly dubious veracity from David C. Murphy, who passed along this note that he received from a friend: “When I worked at Airborne Express (’90-’97), occasionally we would see packages go through from whoever made the MLB jerseys at that time. If someone got called up, traded, or needed a new jersey, there would be one shipped out. On more than one occasion, I would get the jersey out and try it on. I think I worked one whole shift wearing a Dwayne Henry Astros jersey. That falls under the ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time’ stories.”

http://www.uniwatchblog.com/

[jon_8_us]

Re: UPS Theft

I also once received an empty tube from UPS. One end cap was missing, so I'm inclined to believe that it fell out somewhere along the way. It was a Bill Doran bat, so I don't see a lot of value in stealing it.

The seller put in a claim with UPS and they ended up paying for the bat at which point I got my money back.

Cjosefy,
Seeing as in our fantasy baseball league your email address is the only one hidden i figured this place to be the best to express my disapointment about you totally bailing on the league you signed up for and said you were gonna participate in.Don't ever bother to try to play in a GUU league that i set up again.You are the type of player that i look to avoid.
Jon

[cjosefy]

Re: UPS Theft

I also once received an empty tube from UPS. One end cap was missing, so I'm inclined to believe that it fell out somewhere along the way. It was a Bill Doran bat, so I don't see a lot of value in stealing it.

The seller put in a claim with UPS and they ended up paying for the bat at which point I got my money back.

[3arod13]

Re: UPS Theft

I just received an empty bat tube delivered by UPS. The best I can tell, someone at UPS opened the tube, removed the Jeff Kent game used bat and replaced the bat with rolled up plastic trash bags. They left the LOA behind. This sounds like a similar situation with another collector who lost Soriano bats rcently through UPS. I hope this is not a trend but I have some concerns that this might become an issue for other collectors. I have not been able to discuss this with UPS but I dont have any real hope in finding the bat as this is not a simple case of a lost item in transit but the deliberate act of a disreputable SOB.

This happened to me also. I was luckily at home waiting for the bat to be delivered. UPS arrived and did not knock or ring the doorbell. I happened to see him running back to truck. I opened the door to find an empty box. I yelled to the UPS guy and told him the box was empty. I told him how could he leave the box there, knowing it was empty. He somewhat played it off. I immediately call my local UPS and went down there immediately. Amazingly, so they say, they found the bat in a bin and believe the bat fell out. Give me a break. I was lucky to be home when he delivered it and most importantly ran down to UPS and raised hell. No question in my mind, someone knew what is was and intended to steal it.

[B1SON]

Re: UPA Theft

Bigcat - what was the starting and ending destination for your bat? Since Andrew had one stolen by UPS, maybe there's a common location that these bats are traveling through.............

Good idea!

[Vintagedeputy]

Re: UPS Theft

BTPH - Now that's funny!

Good Work!

[both-teams-played-hard]

Re: UPA Theft

Seems that he picked up a ton of rings one day and took off with everything. It later turned up in an Ohio pawn shop where it was purchased by the owner from some crackhead off the street.

"I'm not saying she smokes crack...she's just a little crackish..."

[kingjammy24]

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http://www.gameworn.net/cgi-bin/GW/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=017075

rudy.

[Vintagedeputy]

Re: UPS Theft

Another missing Soriano?

Methinks somethings amiss here!

[imlemonysnicket]

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This recently happened to a box my dad sent back to a collector in the NY/NJ area. The box contained 2 Pujols game bats and a Soriano bat. When the customer received his bats back, the Soriano was not in the box. There was a slit cut into the box and taped back up. I guess the police have been contacted and UPS is investigating (whatever that means). Apparently, this has happened to other collectors in the area.

brett

[Sheffield11]

Re: UPS Theft

I feel that it would be much harder for someone to open a tightly and well wrapped package, this is why i use several layers of tape and always insure. If you use several layers of tape and the package is still tampered with it is much more obvious foul play is involved.