Comments on: Spare Parts Collections Lawsuit! http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/ news about Vintage Microcars! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:13:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrick Bulmer, Court Appointed Receiver http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-20642 Patrick Bulmer, Court Appointed Receiver Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:07:41 +0000 http://www.microcar.org/blog/?p=491#comment-20642 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA THE BRUCE WEINER MICROCAR MUSEUM, INC., Plaintiff, v. MARTIN CORBO; FABIAN SCAVONE; AND PLINIO GANI, each individually and d/b/a SPARE PARTS COLLECTIONS; and DOES 1 through 5, inclusive, Defendants. Case No.: 11-MC-0279 Domain Name For Sale sparepartscollections.com By order of the Court in the above-entitled action, the domain name sparepartscollections.com titled to defendant FABIAN SCAVONE has been ordered sold with the proceeds of the sale to be applied toward satisfaction of the judgment entered in this action. Please contact Patrick Bulmer, Court Appointed Receiver at pbulmer@calreceiver.com for bidding information or check back for details to be added in the near future. The auction on this domain name is scheduled to commence on or about August 31, 2011. Contact Information Patrick Bulmer California Receivership Services P.O. Box 5128 Oroville, CA 95966 Phone: (530) 370-6651 Fax: (800) 543-3303 Email: pbulmer@calreceiver.com Web: http://www.calreceiver.com UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THE BRUCE WEINER MICROCAR MUSEUM, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

MARTIN CORBO; FABIAN SCAVONE; AND PLINIO GANI, each individually and d/b/a SPARE PARTS COLLECTIONS; and DOES 1 through 5, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No.: 11-MC-0279

Domain Name For Sale
sparepartscollections.com

By order of the Court in the above-entitled action, the domain name sparepartscollections.com titled to defendant FABIAN SCAVONE has been ordered sold with the proceeds of the sale to be applied toward satisfaction of the judgment entered in this action.

Please contact Patrick Bulmer, Court Appointed Receiver at pbulmer@calreceiver.com for bidding information or check back for details to be added in the near future. The auction on this domain name is scheduled to commence on or about August 31, 2011.

Contact Information

Patrick Bulmer
California Receivership Services
P.O. Box 5128
Oroville, CA 95966

Phone: (530) 370-6651
Fax: (800) 543-3303
Email: pbulmer@calreceiver.com
Web: http://www.calreceiver.com

]]> By: yorugua http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-11193 yorugua Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:29:14 +0000 http://www.microcar.org/blog/?p=491#comment-11193 Dears I need to contact Mr Corbo, my father was one of its victims and i would like to honour the memory of my father. unfortunately I have read yours comments at 2010. If any of you wants to ask for justice against this person please let me know. Dears I need to contact Mr Corbo, my father was one of its victims and i would like to honour the memory of my father. unfortunately I have read yours comments at 2010. If any of you wants to ask for justice against this person please let me know.

]]> By: lil http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-2995 lil Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:39:37 +0000 http://www.microcar.org/blog/?p=491#comment-2995 I just found an article published in the newspaper "La Republica" of Uruguay. The article says that The AUF, Uruguayan Football Association , is seeking administrative/legal actions against Martin Corbo and Fabian Scavone for illegally using images from the archives of the Association when they published a book under another company they ran called WorldCup Collections. Article is here in spanish: http://www.larepublica.com.uy/deportes/51201-auf-reclama-derechos-sobre-una-publicacion-que-presentaria-batlle Extract from article: La Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol y la Comisión Administradora de Field Oficial (CAFO), emitieron un comunicado en la víspera, reservándose los derechos de tomar medidas administrativas y/o judiciales, por la explotación de imágenes de su acervo, que aparecerán en una publicación que será lanzada al mercado el próximo viernes, en una ceremonia en la cual se anunció la presencia del presidente de la República Dr. Jorge Batlle. Fabián Schavone, Raúl Hodara Hazán y Martín Corbo Sentubery, fueron autorizados por CAFO para realizar un inventario del Museo del Fútbol de la AUF, pero nunca entregaron el mismo al órgano competente. Sorprendidos en su buena fe, las autoridades de la AUF y CAFO se enteraron, por Internet, del lanzamiento de la reedición del Catálogo del Primer Campeonato Mundial de Fútbol y publicación de un libro que fue confeccionado con abundante material fotográfico de elementos que componen el acervo del Museo del Fútbol, también vinculados al torneo disputado en nuestro país en 1930. Tanto la AUF como CAFO no autorizaron la utilización comercial de bienes que si bien podrían haber ingresado al dominio público, por imperio de la Ley 9.379 del 17 de diciembre de 1937 y la Convención de Berna -- según acta de París, los mismos son de propiedad de la Asociación que los ha conservado, custodiado y exhibido, en cumplimiento de sus fines estatutarios de difusión del fútbol. I just found an article published in the newspaper “La Republica” of Uruguay. The article says that The AUF, Uruguayan Football Association , is seeking administrative/legal actions against Martin Corbo and Fabian Scavone for illegally using images from the archives of the Association when they published a book under another company they ran called WorldCup Collections.

Article is here in spanish:

http://www.larepublica.com.uy/deportes/51201-auf-reclama-derechos-sobre-una-publicacion-que-presentaria-batlle

Extract from article:

La Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol y la Comisión Administradora de Field Oficial (CAFO), emitieron un comunicado en la víspera, reservándose los derechos de tomar medidas administrativas y/o judiciales, por la explotación de imágenes de su acervo, que aparecerán en una publicación que será lanzada al mercado el próximo viernes, en una ceremonia en la cual se anunció la presencia del presidente de la República Dr. Jorge Batlle.

Fabián Schavone, Raúl Hodara Hazán y Martín Corbo Sentubery, fueron autorizados por CAFO para realizar un inventario del Museo del Fútbol de la AUF, pero nunca entregaron el mismo al órgano competente.

Sorprendidos en su buena fe, las autoridades de la AUF y CAFO se enteraron, por Internet, del lanzamiento de la reedición del Catálogo del Primer Campeonato Mundial de Fútbol y publicación de un libro que fue confeccionado con abundante material fotográfico de elementos que componen el acervo del Museo del Fútbol, también vinculados al torneo disputado en nuestro país en 1930.

Tanto la AUF como CAFO no autorizaron la utilización comercial de bienes que si bien podrían haber ingresado al dominio público, por imperio de la Ley 9.379 del 17 de diciembre de 1937 y la Convención de Berna — según acta de París, los mismos son de propiedad de la Asociación que los ha conservado, custodiado y exhibido, en cumplimiento de sus fines estatutarios de difusión del fútbol.

]]> By: Rick http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-2822 Rick Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:41:08 +0000 http://www.microcar.org/blog/?p=491#comment-2822 I just received some of many parts I have purchased from Spare Parts Collections since July. There have been problems along the way such as damage during shipment, but they have always acted in my best interest. I have dealt only with Mr. Gani but he has always followed through on his promises. The quality of the products I've received have been as advertised as well. Sometimes the prices are high but it's not like heading to the local parts store, these are things I can't get anywhere else. I just received some of many parts I have purchased from Spare Parts Collections since July. There have been problems along the way such as damage during shipment, but they have always acted in my best interest. I have dealt only with Mr. Gani but he has always followed through on his promises. The quality of the products I’ve received have been as advertised as well. Sometimes the prices are high but it’s not like heading to the local parts store, these are things I can’t get anywhere else.

]]> By: corbostolefromme http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-2106 corbostolefromme Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:50:01 +0000 http://www.microcar.org/blog/?p=491#comment-2106 Back in the late 90's early 2000 I started buying football memorabilia from Martin Corbo on Ebay. He then contacted me offering me goods outside Ebay. I would send the money, get the goods, no probs. I was also doing business with other dealers so decided to visit Montevideo. Every single dealer I met warned me about him. I asked Corbo why people hated him so much and he convinced me it had to do with dealers being so competitive in such a small city. I should've listened! He had taken me to places, posh restaurants, to the father's auction house where I even met his family. I visited his home in the old part of town. Since he had always complied I decided not to listen to what I considered were gossips. About 6 months later we met in France and he offered me some items I was very interested in. He only has pics of the goods. He said he didn't have them with him because they had been offered to him the day before he was leaving to visit Europe. He asked me for a couple of grands in advance so he could purchase the goods. Because "I was his friend now" he was only going to charge me a 5% comission over the transaction. I gave him the money cash in hand. Why was I going to have problems? He was a well educated guy who had an auction house to back him up. He gave me a receipt and he was going to contact me as soon as he was back in Montevideo. Weeks passed by....I emailed him and got no replies. I phoned him and only got an answering machine. After a month of freaking out, I called the father's auction house and I was told not to call there again. After 2 months of emails and phone calls I got a very threatening email from him saying that he had powerful connections in Uruguay and was I ever to turn up there I would end up with broken legs. A uruguayan friend offered to intervene and went to vist him in the house he rented and where he lived when we met. No one lived there. My friend found the property's owner who was suing Corbo for unpaid rent and property damage. The owner had a new address for Corbo in an area called Pocitos. He went there and no one answered. It was a building so he managed to find the administrator who told him Corbo had lived there and that the flat was owned by a French guy who lived in Paris. Same old story: He had left without paying the rent for months, damaged the property and had left thousands of dollars worth of unpaid phone bills. The changing properties and leaving them damaged and with unpaid bills seemed to be another pattern. I decided to leave it there. There wasn't much I could do living abroad. It had been my mistake to trust him but if someone is spending thousands in lawsuits I would add a few bucks to the bill and have him investigated in Uruguay. I am sure it will be dead easy to come up with a huge list of witnesses that will be willing to testify that this guy is a professional crook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Back in the late 90′s early 2000 I started buying football memorabilia from Martin Corbo on Ebay. He then contacted me offering me goods outside Ebay. I would send the money, get the goods, no probs. I was also doing business with other dealers so decided to visit Montevideo. Every single dealer I met warned me about him. I asked Corbo why people hated him so much and he convinced me it had to do with dealers being so competitive in such a small city. I should’ve listened! He had taken me to places, posh restaurants, to the father’s auction house where I even met his family. I visited his home in the old part of town.
Since he had always complied I decided not to listen to what I considered were gossips.
About 6 months later we met in France and he offered me some items I was very interested in. He only has pics of the goods. He said he didn’t have them with him because they had been offered to him the day before he was leaving to visit Europe. He asked me for a couple of grands in advance so he could purchase the goods. Because “I was his friend now” he was only going to charge me a 5% comission over the transaction.
I gave him the money cash in hand. Why was I going to have problems? He was a well educated guy who had an auction house to back him up. He gave me a receipt and he was going to contact me as soon as he was back in Montevideo. Weeks passed by….I emailed him and got no replies. I phoned him and only got an answering machine. After a month of freaking out, I called the father’s auction house and I was told not to call there again. After 2 months of emails and phone calls I got a very threatening email from him saying that he had powerful connections in Uruguay and was I ever to turn up there I would end up with broken legs.
A uruguayan friend offered to intervene and went to vist him in the house he rented and where he lived when we met. No one lived there. My friend found the property’s owner who was suing Corbo for unpaid rent and property damage. The owner had a new address for Corbo in an area called Pocitos. He went there and no one answered. It was a building so he managed to find the administrator who told him Corbo had lived there and that the flat was owned by a French guy who lived in Paris. Same old story: He had left without paying the rent for months, damaged the property and had left thousands of dollars worth of unpaid phone bills. The changing properties and leaving them damaged and with unpaid bills seemed to be another pattern.
I decided to leave it there. There wasn’t much I could do living abroad. It had been my mistake to trust him but if someone is spending thousands in lawsuits I would add a few bucks to the bill and have him investigated in Uruguay. I am sure it will be dead easy to come up with a huge list of witnesses that will be willing to testify that this guy is a professional crook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Jim http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-2104 Jim Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:52:57 +0000 http://www.microcar.org/blog/?p=491#comment-2104 uh, that Twitter thing just links back here. uh, that Twitter thing just links back here.

]]> By: lil http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-2102 lil Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:37:29 +0000 http://www.microcar.org/blog/?p=491#comment-2102 You can see comments on Spare parts collections, Martin Corbo on Twitter http://twitter.com/sparepartscolle You can see comments on Spare parts collections, Martin Corbo on Twitter
http://twitter.com/sparepartscolle

]]> By: dan http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-2091 dan Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:27:59 +0000 http://www.microcar.org/blog/?p=491#comment-2091 Jim you are right! That's the way they operate. There are no "real companies" behind these people. How can I find out if suing them from the States will have any effect on them? I am one of Martin Corbo's victims. Trusted him and gave him a big ammount of money Never saw the money nor the goods. Only received threats. Was never able to find of his whereabouts until now. Jim you are right! That’s the way they operate. There are no “real companies” behind these people. How can I find out if suing them from the States will have any effect on them?
I am one of Martin Corbo’s victims. Trusted him and gave him a big ammount of money Never saw the money nor the goods. Only received threats. Was never able to find of his whereabouts until now.

]]> By: Jim http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-2088 Jim Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:05:02 +0000 http://www.microcar.org/blog/?p=491#comment-2088 also- I have email records showing that someone was specified to make payment NOT to Spare Parts Collections, but to an individual. (Guess who!) This would suggest and is supported by other information that I am privy to that "Spare Parts Collections" is not an actual corporation as we might know it in the USA. It is simply Martin Corbo and friends doing business as Spare Parts Collections. If that is the case, you will not ever find out who "owns" the company as there is not really a company. Otherwise that above link would show shipment FROM Spare Parts Collections and not FROM an individual. The individual is then responsible for all the actions and that is most likely why the 3 are being sued and no mention is actually made of suing "Spare Parts Collections". also- I have email records showing that someone was specified to make payment NOT to Spare Parts Collections, but to an individual. (Guess who!) This would suggest and is supported by other information that I am privy to that “Spare Parts Collections” is not an actual corporation as we might know it in the USA.
It is simply Martin Corbo and friends doing business as Spare Parts Collections.

If that is the case, you will not ever find out who “owns” the company as there is not really a company.

Otherwise that above link would show shipment FROM Spare Parts Collections and not FROM an individual.
The individual is then responsible for all the actions and that is most likely why the 3 are being sued and no mention is actually made of suing “Spare Parts Collections”.

]]> By: Jim http://www.microcar.org/blog/2009/08/spare-parts-collections-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-2087 Jim Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:47:02 +0000 http://www.microcar.org/blog/?p=491#comment-2087 here is an interesting link: http://www.importgenius.com/shipments/martin-corbo.html here is an interesting link:
http://www.importgenius.com/shipments/martin-corbo.html

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