’17-year-old shoe dealer’ sold $140,000 in fake shoes, acquitted! No compensation!
How can a minor selling fake shoes not be liable for refunds and compensation? There really is such a strange case that happened in reality!
Recently, an Australian real estate agent spent more than $20,000 (about $140,000) on several pairs of ‘premium sneakers’ from a 17-year-old underage kid, which turned out to be fakes. …… The story begins…
This intermediary brother, purchased basically every model is a ruthless goods.
One of the pairs includes the limited 2020 release of the king of shoes “Dior x AJ1” co-branded, the kid claimed that his buddy won the lottery, so you can buy and sell with confidence!
After being the first to pick up a pair for $2,575 (roughly Rs. 18,442), the buyer went on to buy three more pairs for $3,252, $4,540 and $6,776.
Don’t ask, asking is picking up a bargain!
However, a little bit of know-how also know, “Dior × AJ1” from the sale so far, the market price is basically very stable, the premium is in the 8,000 U.S. dollars up and down.
And buy from the hands of this child, all is far far below the market price.
The agency then went on to buy the AJ1 Banned, Chicago and Royal Blue colorways for $1,822 (about Rs. 13,000) per pair.
I did not expect to consume so many pairs of after, the agency brother suddenly realized that he may buy like fake shoes. And suddenly can not contact the seller child.
As a result, it took a lot of effort to finally find the seller’s father, and asked to go to a specialized shoe store to identify. As a result, the father directly put forward a request for compensation of 6773 U.S. dollars, was not agreed to by the agency brother.
They went to a shoe store in Melbourne and found that all the shoes were fake! The seller couldn’t stand the results, claiming that it wasn’t a “professional appraisal organization” and backed out of his promise to pay compensation.
And, when the clerk heard the seller’s kid’s name, he immediately said that the kid had long been a blacklisted shoe scammer, known far and wide in the community…
The buyer’s brother then took the small-time crook to VCAT (Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal), and to his surprise, the court eventually ruled in favor of the seller:
The court ruled in favor of the seller, stating that the seller was underage at the time of the transaction, and that at the time of signing the agreement, the 17 year old seller “did not have full capacity to enter into the contract”, which exempted the seller from liability under Victorian law…
Finally the VCAT member added that the buyer had been aware of the seller’s underage status all along, and that if the agreement had been signed at age 18, the outcome would have been completely different. (Translation, deserved.
It is understood that under Australian criminal law, the sale of high-fashion products could result in a sentence of one to five years in prison and a fine ranging from AUD 1w to AUD 10w +, which is still quite a sentence.
But unfortunately, except for minors ……
Well well well, in the end the seller was found not guilty because of the 17 year old limit, this kid is going to get stuck with bugs.
Before the report of underage shoe vendors is really not much, the reference case before only a 22-year-old big network of shoe vendors, because of the fights and assaults were sent to the Bureau of things…
In response, the netizens were very consistent in their comments, and instead of sympathizing with the old brother, they all trolled him…
And then there’s the hot take: “Anyone who spends that kind of money on sneakers from a 17-year-old they don’t know is an idiot who needs to learn a lesson.”
I did not expect this lawsuit, hundreds of thousands of dollars did not come back, the litigation fee is also a lot of money. Eventually only left 7 pairs of fake shoes, real estate agent old brother is really unlucky …..
The 17-year-old shoe seller was found not guilty and did not have to pay any compensation, but the publicity was completely ruined.
According to the seller’s father, this minor in the mall shopping will be driven away, the child’s mother’s workplace was also threatened, or a certain impact on life. Finally, you must be careful when buying shoes ah ….
