He is a master Manipulator, a MASTER! My fear is that he will get away with this again!
What makes you think so? I think Italy has come a long way over the decades in terms of how efficient its institutions are, and for example the prosecution of the Costa Concordia ship debacle was relatively swift, as was Berlusconi’s ridiculous antics, if you consider the speed at which similar situations might have been handled in other countries.
During the pandemic (eg June 2020 to sept 2021) the Italian people were much more serious and rule abiding when it came
To vaccination or mask mandates than the French, the Swiss and / or the Americans. Can’t speak about other countries as I didn’t visit them during that time span.
Sorry Bill, to clarify as there seems to be confusion about my intended point:
The relevance of value is that theft laws are tied to value. Theft of a $10 item has less punishment than theft of a $10,000 item. Just the same, enforcement agencies care less about theft of a $10 item than they do $10,000 item.
Which is to say: should someone call to claim theft, the first or second question will be “what is the value of the item” and there are better or worse answers to that question.
The “involvement” of a third party member to do the shipping return can obviously be done either intelligently or stupidly, and I assumed one might infer that I suggest it’s not done stupidly.
I'm working from the premise that he no longer has the watches in his possession, and that therefore, any third-party involvement, in the form of a physical meeting, could only end badly.
As to your law firm, it's kind of you to make the offer, but do you seriously imagine that this guy might contemplate traveling to Rome or Milan, or pay a lawyer to do so, in order to return the watches? I can't imagine it in my wildest dreams.
Report him to You Tube. They have a building somewhere in the silicon valley with 200 lawyers waiting to prosecute misuse. Read above, one could argue he is (mis)using You Tube to perpetrate scams.
Bill,
As you well know, the valuation of watches in general, and especially of the ones that have provenance is not what it was 5 years ago, let alone 14 years ago.
But regardless, if the owner of a property asks for its return, then it should be returned promptly!!
And so your “let the lawyers do their work” point was what?
The point is that they will almost certainly have to take legal action, not simply arrange a meeting in Rome.
His "brand", FWIW, is being demolished in front of our eyes, and if he had the watches, he could return them immediately in an effort to mitigate the damage. Instead, he is lashing out as if he were the victim.
This will not be resolved by a meeting at a neutral place.
HI
I just checked Instagram , he deleted the post so all the comments are gone !
I guess, he will have to delete all of his posts.
wow
Bill
