Tina Schimke and her husband, Dwayne, began having trouble with eBay when they placed a bid on a bike from what looked to be a legitimate seller. “He had quite an ad on the site — it had lots of bikes. I admit, I didn’t completely read the ad,” Tina Schimke said.
When the Schimkes e-mailed back with a question about the shipping cost, the seller allegedly blasted them with a nasty e-mail.
“As soon as he got my e-mail, he was pounding the keyboard and venting,” Tina Schimke said. The anger didn’t stop there, she said.
The seller allegedly left her a message that said, “Hey there, schmuck boy — not answering the phone now?”
“I know exactly where you f—ing live. E-mail me again and see what happens to your little b—- a–,” the accused bully said in the message.
“I was afraid this person was a maniac and was going to show up on our front door,” Tina Schimke told the station.
He allegedly called the Burleson household 37 times.
Cindy Burleson and her daughter, both from Dallas, were also hammered over their questions about comic books the man was selling.
Cindy Burleson said the accused bully threatened her life.
“(He said,) ‘I’m going to kill you. Scumbags like you shouldn’t be allowed to live.’ (He said) stuff like that,” Burleson said.
These women and the Schimkes filed police reports but got no results.
Frank Esquitin, the name of the alleged eBay bully, also goes by the following eBay aliases: Old School Riderz, Cool Cat Cycles and Cool Cat Biker, the station reported.
He’s been arrested on charges related to drugs, weapons violations and harassment, police records show.
Esquitin later told KGTV by phone that his accusers are deadbeats and sociopaths. Despite complaints, Esquitin is still on eBay.
“We were terrorized. He terrorized us. If he wanted to terrorize us, it worked,” Burleson said.
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