Idiot Of The Week: Ebay Seller Sells Safe With $26,000 Inside! (Buyer Not Giving Any Money Back)

"he seller has added a new comment to his feedback
page claiming that the buyer never found any
money:

"He was playing a practical joke the safe was
empty there wasnt any money in it."

A Bartlett man found thousands of dollars inside
an item he bought on eBay.

James Labrecque sold an old safe on eBay for
$122.93.

"I made a mistake, you know, that's what it boils
down to," said Labrecque. "And it cost me
dearly."

Labrecque, an eBay user for more than 15 years,
said he did not have the combination to the safe
and believed it to be just another item to turn
around.

"I thought it was empty," he said. "I shook it
and I didn't feel anything inside of it, so I
figured, well, maybe it's just a locked safe, you
know. So I put it on eBay."

Labrecque lives in California. The person who
bought the safe lives in Bartlett. Upon receipt,
the buyer brought the safe to a welder, who cut it
open.

Inside the safe was $26,000 in cash.

The buyer gave Labrecque a positive review and
shared the news.

"I feel like the stupidest idiot in the world,"
said Labrecque. "I told my friend, I won the
stupidest idiot in the world award the other day,
you know. I gave away a safe with $26,000 in
it."" - 5 News