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"Dr. Phil" Shoplifters -- eBay Entreprenuers

Posted Mar 31st 2009 1:29PM by TMZ Staff

It looks like eBay could also stand for electronic black market -- because the couple who confessed to being professional shoplifters on "Dr. Phil" just happen to have sold a TON of stuff on the website.

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An eBay account connected to the address of Matthew Eaton -- whose house was raided after he and his wife appeared on "Dr. Phil" -- shows an unbelievable 628 positive feedbacks (and only 1 negative) on items sold in the last year.

During Matt's filmed shoplifting trip on "Phil," he guessed he had stolen around $700 of "mostly Lego stuff" -- and there just happens to be, coincidentally, a ton of Lego stuff sold on this eBay account... over $5,000 worth in March alone.

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1. Why is 628 unbelievable? If they're getting the stuff to their customers, there's no reason to leave negative feedback. I hate ebay newbies.

Posted at 2:45PM on Mar 31st 2009 by Anakin

2. Whoop do doodoo

Posted at 2:45PM on Mar 31st 2009 by doodododoo

3. Possession of stolen property x 628

not even a drop in the bucket for the electronic pawn shop that is ebay

Posted at 2:56PM on Mar 31st 2009 by FlushU

4. How dumb can you be going on a tv show and confessing to shoplifting. Don't you think the police watch TV too?

Posted at 3:17PM on Mar 31st 2009 by Sapphyre

5. yeah TMZ... everthing on Ebay is legit

Posted at 3:32PM on Mar 31st 2009 by tony

6. The eBay account in question does not show a negative as is being claimed. It's actually a "neutral" rating -- not the same thing.

Posted at 4:12PM on Mar 31st 2009 by MsWinoPowdersHerNose

7. I gotta see that episode. How the hell do you "shoplift" boxes that large. The must do them one at a time. Guess Toys-r-us is so stupid they don't think its weird they see these people 5 times a week and they never buy anything.

Posted at 4:10PM on Mar 31st 2009 by What the???

8. I just checked this guys sales on goofbay.com and these are his stats for the last 90 days
-Items Sold: 38.95%
Total Value Sold: $8627.44
Total Value Shipping: $0.00
Total Value Not Sold: $13145.27

Not bad money.

Posted at 4:34PM on Mar 31st 2009 by Wayne Reardon

9. Many people steal items and sell them on ebay as their full time job. A lot of make up and perfume there is stolen products.

I know a guy that was averaging 10 to 12 thousand dollars a month selling on ebay and of course like most sellers there never claimed it on his taxes. These sellers were making good money all tax free as the rest of us pay our taxes or go to jail.

P!sses me off!!

Posted at 4:46PM on Mar 31st 2009 by v

10. It's payback time.

Posted at 5:00PM on Mar 31st 2009 by Kay

11. Yeah I think due to the economy folks have lost their mind. How dumb could you be and go on a public show talking about your shopping addictions..LOL..This is America..fools are born every minute..Now imagine those folks who bought the goods off of ebay..Im sure that they are shaking in their drawers now..LOL

Posted at 5:06PM on Mar 31st 2009 by AtlantaManLuvsJanetJackson

12. I emailed this jerk from my eBay account.
I also said "Good Job" to the cops reading my email.

These people are dumber than a bag of rocks.

Posted at 5:45PM on Mar 31st 2009 by John

13. Is there a website where I can watch that Dr Phill show that they were on? Thanks.

Posted at 5:46PM on Mar 31st 2009 by aleahh

14. As stated above:

Neutral is NOT negative!

Posted at 7:21PM on Mar 31st 2009 by Marshall Smith

15. Dude's got excellent feedback and detailed seller ratings - one of ebay's finest sellers!


Posted at 7:42PM on Mar 31st 2009 by ct

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