Board voting ends today, but...

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Jaya Kumar wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:

>> $US24k for travel sponsorship (no joke), and something like $US5k lost
>> to PayPal (they decided we were scammers and took our money) as well as
>> around $US5k that vanished into the Brazilian banking system, which
>
> That is scary, USD$10k gone! I'm surprised that no one raised this
> issue into a big public complaint, or maybe someone already did and I
> just didn't notice. I'm not familiar with the US legal system, but
> surely there is a small claims court where one can quickly assert a
> claim and put the burden of an honest response on Paypal?

X.org against Ebay - amusing.
I bet it would need not any lawyer, and it even could bring new 
sponsorship if this case would get published. ;-))


Viele Gruesse
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)

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