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    mike536 Posts: 17, Reputation: 1
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    Oct 20, 2015, 01:48 PM
    Theft by deception
    If someone goes online and collects free items with adds such as desperately looking for playpen for my 2 year old and also post other ones in the same manner but then turns around and sells the items is this Theft by deception and can there be charges pressed
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    Oct 20, 2015, 02:40 PM
    No, sorry. It's unethical but not illegal.
    I never believe such ads unless there is a community-wide knowledge of what is going on, such as a fire, or terminal illness, or a death, and donations are accepted by a third party.
    I'm sorry this happened.
    Feel free to post 'beware' ads.
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    Oct 21, 2015, 12:49 PM
    It isn't "theft" because it wasn't taken per se. Morally, well not exactly a nice thing to do. I sometimes find things in Goodwill or even discarded and out for trash pickup and then sell them on Craigslist or EBay.
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