{"id":167,"date":"2005-03-09T08:32:49","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T16:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/03\/that_cant_last_long.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T14:03:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:03:34","slug":"that_cant_last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/that_cant_last.html","title":{"rendered":"That Can&#8217;t Last Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Island woman sells non-existent items on EBay, gets caught, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/42175.htm\">faces jail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Long Island co-ed was busted yesterday for working her way through college allegedly by selling items on eBay that she didn&#8217;t own.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Alexis Levine, 26, a C.W. Post student from Farmingdale, posted musical instruments, cellphones, computers and theme- park tickets on the In ternet auction site and collected more than $10,000 from buyers in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Treglia said Levine operated her scheme between last March and last August.<\/p>\n<p>In one case, he said, Levine sold a Dell Inspiron laptop computer to a couple in Marion, La., for $680. The couple never received the computer \u00e2\u20ac\u201d nor a refund.<\/p>\n<p>In another case, he said, a Canadian man bought an Armstrong Open Hole flute for $121.75 but never received it.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the flute and the computer, Levine also &#8220;sold&#8221; clarinets, violas and tickets to Disney World.<\/p>\n<p>She used several eBay user IDs to conduct business, including jennyrosemusic, italiansteakbeauty, floridababy64 and collectivepawnstuff.<\/p>\n<p>But she had customers send checks or money orders to her home in Farmingdale, enabling detectives to track her down easily.<\/p>\n<p>Levine had no comment after her arraignment except to say, &#8220;What are those TV cameras doing here? I don&#8217;t want to be on television.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would <em>you<\/em> buy something from someone who called themselves &#8220;italiansteakbeauty&#8221;?  You know, I probably would!<\/p>\n<p>Obligatory neighbor reaction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[A] neighbor said, &#8220;She just seemed like a nice, quiet college girl, but you never know what people are up to. To be honest, I&#8217;m surprised. There are other ways to get through college.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like stripping, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Island woman sells non-existent items on EBay, gets caught, faces jail: A Long Island co-ed was busted yesterday for working her way through college allegedly by selling items on eBay that she didn&#8217;t own. Investigators said Alexis Levine, 26, a C.W. Post student from Farmingdale, posted musical instruments, cellphones, computers and theme- park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}