A Blenheim man who sold cellphones on two popular auction sites but never sent them to buyers was sentenced to community detention and supervision with a condition not to possess any device capable of using the internet.
Shane Bryce Parker, 23, admitted eight charges of obtaining by deception, accessing a website dishonestly, causing loss and unlawful taking of a motor vehicle.
Judge Richard Russell said Parker was a registered user on auction site Trade Me with a good history of trading until March last year when he sold mobile phones but did not send them to the buyers.
Parker was contacted by the site and said he would reimburse the buyers, but when he did not was deregistered.
Parker also sold two phones on auction website Sella, including an i-Phone. Each phone sold between $200 and $800.
Earlier this year Parker hired a trailer from a Blenheim petrol station and took it to Auckland but had no intention to return it.
Defence counsel John Holdaway said Parker was offered a job in Auckland and wanted to use the money from the auctions to move his family there.
Parker planned to reimburse the buyers once he started his employment, but the job offer fell through so the family needed to move back to Blenheim. Parker was unemployed, but actively looking for work, he said.
Parker was sentenced to four months' community detention, 250 hours' community work, 12 months' intensive supervision and ordered to pay $5664.57 in reparation for the trailer and for the auctions.
The Marlborough Express
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