Have you tried emailing [email protected]? Although it sounds stupid I know of it yielding some decent results.
Out of interest, do they request the crime reference number so that they can claim on some sort of insurance?
For expensive items, perhaps they want the assurance they will get the money back before issuing a refund.
Probably and I can see the logic but in awkward cases like mine it should have just been handled regardless.
One of those cases where you keep dealing with different morons until you stumble upon one that has 1 more braincell than the others and does the right thing. I had a Jigsaw (tool not old persons' hobby) go missing and I had 3 days of the guy on amazon chat assuring me that he spoke to the courier and it was on the van yet it still never showed. I had to try 5 different live chats before I got to one who had the sense to realise it was long gone and never arriving.
Thing is. At some level this is a crime.
Theft or fraud or misrepresentation, it should be investigated, the person responsible caught, and the crime prevented from occurring again.
So you do not hit this brick wall again.
It isn't your fault, but it is someone's and they deserve caught and punished for it.
Daily mail time?