A Tucson couple has been sentenced for stealing more than $73,000 from 100 eBay customers who trusted them to sell their items on consignment, but never saw the proceeds or the items again.
Pima County Superior Court Judge Jane Eikleberry sentenced Wendy Cathleen Wren to 3 1/2 years in prison and seven years probation and placed Wren’s husband, Thomas Anthony Collier, on five years’ probation.
According to court documents, Wren and Collier owned Arizona on eBay between July 2007 and June 2008 and encouraged their clients to bring in property so it could be sold on consignment. However, Assistant Arizona Attorney General Renee Bennett said the couple never paid the clients for their property and never returned it either. When the clients would come to get their money, the couple would tell them the item hadn’t sold, the purchaser never paid, the purchaser was unhappy and wanted a refund or the check was in the process of being issued.
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“If any client demanded satisfaction, Collier would become verbally abusive, and on occasion, physically remove him from the store,” Bennett wrote in court documents.
Read more of this story Thursday in the Arizona Daily Star and on StarNet.