Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Illinois

Re: on line purchase

You can contact the police in the town where the seller lives, but unless this was a lot of money or you can establish that he did this to several people, you may be out of luck here.

Re: on line purchase

Whether you can sue him in NJ is a question for NJ law. Probably you can. Once you get a judgment against him in NJ, which he might come and defend or he might just ignore the process, contact an IL lawyer who does collections work to enforce the judgment here.

Shell Bleiweiss

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Re: on line purchase

At some point, I think companies such as eBay will be hit with a sort of a class action for allowing fraud to take place as part of their services and that they even profit from it--the seller who failed to send you your item has paid eBay for the listing.

You can file a claim in NJ--in all likelihood--NJ probably has a "long arm statute" that says if you do business in NJ then you can be sued in NJ. If that is true, you must file a lawsuit, serve the defendant, and then get a default judgment if he fails to defend. So then you will have a judgment.

Collecting judgments is not easy. It costs you several hundred dollars to pursue. After having paid for the filing of the lawsuit in NJ, paid for the service of process, then paid for collection in IL--you will be about many hundred of dollars. Is it worth it? Only you can answer that question.

Or perhaps it is best to learn, flag the seller, report him as a fraud, and go about your life--of course that is based on the transaction not being a huge one. If so, then sue everybody--even the auction company because they are benefiting from fraud.

I hope this helps,

Taradji Law offices