some one selling old ship wreck stuff on craigs list

[BallastBoy]

Looking over the posts associated with that number and what he's selling, I don't think he's from Willernie or outstate.  I think he's a liquidator or business closer that is getting rid of various items from foreclosed or sold storage or shops. 

I am deducing this from some items he's sold plus space he's renting out... eg. he's selling surplus tile and he wants to rent a tile warehouse, he's selling items all over the place but he's not living there or working there himself.... he looks like he's selling items at various locations to get rid of them and get the properties ready for use again.

If this is the case it's likely he didn't know selling items like this would be frowned upon (not necessarily illegal depending on how/where they were collected).

If anyone's contacted him, it would be good to find out more on what he's got for purposes of possibly buying items back (or getting them donated) and re-sinking them, depending on where they came from.

Note that any contact with him should be polite... despite the ethics most of us were taught or the laws in place since 1988, we don't know that he's actually doing anything illegal and even if he's selling illegally collected items he may not know the legality.... it'd be a shame if he got a half dozen phone calls vilifying him as an evil man that caused him to quietly dump whatever he has in a landfill.

For those of you not current on salvage and wreck laws, two examples where what he's doing is perfectly legal would be A) Artifacts taken before 1988 or B) Artifacts taken from a non abandoned wreck that whomever took them owned.

BB