Advice on bad sale.

Greebo · 8 Jun 2011 at 18:42

Morba said:
Tell him to **** off, stupid neighbour story.
I'd add him to your ignore list also.

Round here lots of our post goes missing. A courier company managed to deliver my new phone to the wrong house and the only name and signature they got was "Ivan".

I got a replacement phone sent from the seller and a week later Dr Evans called round with my first phone and said it had been delivered to him. It does happen and happens a lot in the coutryside.

I also got a digital SLR delivered to my address once. It had the right address but not my name. Took two days to get it to the right owner.

Morba · 8 Jun 2011 at 19:30

I know stuff happens, but he was too quick to want a refund and go on about getting it.
He was trying it on

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 8 Jun 2011 at 19:33

Safe to say he was trying it on - he asked for a refund before it had a chance to get to him - when you didn't bend over for him the item appears via his neighbour..... yeah right.

Energize · 8 Jun 2011 at 19:35

First class can take up to 2 weeks to be delivered so he can't expect a refund so soon. Though you were mad not to use recorded delivery.

Nikias · 8 Jun 2011 at 20:26

Let him sue you for the return. Burden of proof and the chasing are all on him. If he's a fraudster he won't bother and if he is genuine you can settle and take Royal Mail to task for losing your item.

Sounds like the mods on the forum are not against you either.

GreatAuk · 8 Jun 2011 at 22:47

Scammer only after easy money - Once it became apparent you weren't a pushover he gave up imo from the info given.

Greebo said:
Round here lots of our post goes missing.

We quite often (well, probably once or twice a year) get post for some neighbours a few houses up the road. I think we have only had one or two instances of our mail ending up at the wrong house and the neighbour bringing it over later. I don't think it's this common everywhere - either we just have an unreliable postman, or some computer addressing system somewhere thinks the road is shorter than it is (sometimes the incorrect mail has our address on it, sometimes the neighbours address).