Item arrived damaged in Denmark

Merlin5 · 11 Dec 2015 at 20:54

Well, well, well, well, well. Take a look at this reply.

Subbed my real name for Merlin.

"Hi Merlin,

Thanks for your reply. I don't blame you to any extent, Merlin. I really appreciate how patient you were with the whole process and agree that you did a good job packaging the thing. It's definitely bull**** from their part.
As you said, given that I have gone forward with the repair means that I'm willing to cover the cost myself. If you want to contribute to it with a symbolic 50 quid you are welcome to do so but I don't hold you responsible and don't expect anything.

Have a great weekend

Best

Xxxx "

Well now, I AM going to offer him something just because he's being so good about it. Maybe £100. What do you think? I know he's saying I can pay nothing, but well, it's xmas, and I'd feel like a real **** if I didn't pay something and it's still less than my original offer. What do you reckon I should offer guys as a nice gesture?

StriderX · 11 Dec 2015 at 21:00

Offer him a Hershey bar and ice in his whisky.

Neil King · 11 Dec 2015 at 21:03

Yes as a gesture of goodwill i would send him £100, i know lots will say give him nothing but he seems a nice guy to me and the delivery company are mainly to blame, he was just abit naive in fiddling with it.

Merlin5 · 11 Dec 2015 at 21:28

Neil King said:
Yes as a gesture of goodwill i would send him £100, i know lots will say give him nothing but he seems a nice guy to me and the delivery company are mainly to blame, he was just abit naive in fiddling with it.

This, and thank you for saying that, mate. I think it proves he wasn't trying to scam me. In fact when he first received it he asked if he could just return it to me. Ok, even if he might have dropped it himself and was hoping I'd think it was the courier service at fault so he could get his money back, it doesn't look like he was trying a scam by trying to keep it and getting his money back.

So this is a result and I've not had to close my paypal account. Also, the courier has refunded me the £63 shipping and insurance, so if I send him £100, I'm only actually giving £37 of my profit.

Tosno · 11 Dec 2015 at 21:37

Send him 1000 Danish krone ~£97

Tephnos · 11 Dec 2015 at 21:51

You got very lucky.

Be more careful in future!

Merlin5 · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:12

Tephnos said:
You got very lucky.

Be more careful in future!

I don't see how I wasn't careful. I did everything I could to make sure I was sending a parcel packaged to the best of my ability. I've been very courteous in all my correspondence with the buyer, never rude, and kept him in the loop with progress. I was careful not to jump at suggestions to close my account and my instinct has worked out good. How much more careful could I have been?

Right another question chaps. It appears my bank account attached to my paypal account needs verifying. I don't want to send money using my debit card with paypal as it seems the fees are higher.

It wants me to complete my bank account setup by setting up a direct debit. What do they do if I set up a direct debit? I only want to send a one off payment to this guy. Also, fees. They just take 0.5% of what I send, is that right?

I should send using the friends and family tab instead of the pay for goods and services tab, right?

PooKer · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:31

friends and family will be free. just the conversion rate might suck

Merlin5 · 11 Dec 2015 at 22:39

PooKer said:
friends and family will be free. just the conversion rate might suck

I think F&F is only free if sending within UK? Not sure what the conversion fee is for sending pound sterling to Denmark.

Edit: Just sent him the money, and only 50 pence fee to me. Sorted. Finally, I can put this behind me now.

koolpc · 12 Dec 2015 at 09:57

Send him nothing as he obviously knows he cannot fool you. Just send him som Haribos!

craig_t · 12 Dec 2015 at 10:35

I'd not pay him anything. The fact he said 'Yeah I went ahead' 'You don't need to pay anything' suggests to me, he realised you'd called his bluff and caught him out.

teenwolf · 12 Dec 2015 at 10:37

sent him the money, i hope this does not come back to bite you on the bum. he gets what 6 months to claim on paypal ?

Merlin5 · 12 Dec 2015 at 10:52

God you people are so bloody negative. The eternal bringers of doom

No, it's not going to come back and bite me on the bum. I have it in writing from him. Twice. All this has cost me is £37 of my profit. So instead of £385 profit I get £348 profit. Hardly a big loss for something that had been given to me for free in the 1980s and has just been sitting in my shed for years.

"As you said, given that I have gone forward with the repair means that I'm willing to cover the cost myself. If you want to contribute to it with a symbolic 50 quid you are welcome to do so but I don't hold you responsible and don't expect anything.

Have a great weekend

Best

Xxxx "

Thanks Merlin,

Payment received. I'm very happy we could end this on a positive note and look forward to finally using the reverb, hopefully some time next week.

Best
Xxxx"

koolpc · 12 Dec 2015 at 11:19

Lol, he has had the item from you and a free meal with the money you sent him!! Probably didnt cost him anything to fix it. Thats if it was the original item from your case!

Was he Nigerien

Tephnos · 12 Dec 2015 at 11:50

Did you take a million pictures of the item, or even a video, as you were packaging it?

If not, you could've been more careful.

Merlin5 · 12 Dec 2015 at 11:57

koolpc said:
Lol, he has had the item from you and a free meal with the money you sent him!! Probably didnt cost him anything to fix it. Thats if it was the original item from your case!

Was he Nigerien

So what? He still bought the item direct from me without it costing me any fees on places like ebay, he's made me almost £400 profit for something that cost me nothing and all I've surrendered is £37. He doesn't even know that I got my shipping back. He wins and I win. I've not really lost anything. You're coming across as a bit of a twit to be honest.

koolpc · 12 Dec 2015 at 12:24

Merlin5 said:
So what? He still bought the item direct from me without it costing me any fees on places like ebay, he's made me almost £400 profit for something that cost me nothing and all I've surrendered is £37. He doesn't even know that I got my shipping back. He wins and I win. I've not really lost anything. You're coming across as a bit of a twit to be honest.

Lol, says you!!

Em3bbs · 12 Dec 2015 at 12:47

And me.

Itchytrigg · 12 Dec 2015 at 13:03

Agreed, Merlin5's got a result he's happy with so what else matters? He didn't have to give they guy anything, but chose to out of the kindness of his heart. Some people are actually nice you know.

koolpc · 12 Dec 2015 at 13:14

Its not a case of being nice though. It is plainly obvious that the guy was trying it on!

Ok, nice of the OP to do what he did but we are not all that gullible!