Cantoo, I know that you know a cord is 128cuft. I just did a quick google and that old thread was one of the first to pop up. The Charge was Theft by Deception. Seller claimed 7 cord, buyer received 2.5 cord. Not reading the article, I dont know if seller was selling 7 face cord, ricks, ranks or some other meaningless measure that doesnt give a true measure of quantity. Supposedly he was selling cords and didnt deliver the amount paid for. Hence the charge theft by deception. Whether he meant face cords or real cords, or whatever his intent was, there was enough evidence to support being charged. There is certainly enough evidence that there have been plenty of complaints about people passing off odd measures, such as face cord, ricks and ranks, as cords, that some States have passed laws as to what constitutes a correct measure of wood. I realize that there are lots of people that dont know what a cord of wood really is. There's enough threads about it on this forum to support that statement, as well as plenty of folks selling oddball measurements and calling them cords. I also realize the difficulties in accurately measuring the amount of wood being delivered or received. The water trick is a little bit of an extreme way to measure firewood.