Anyone used Sell Student Stuff.com

Charlie_E

Hi I have used Sell student stuff to sell 3 books and payment took ages for all 3. Every time I had to email them to ask where my money was and only then did I get paid.

But now I am really annoyed because they have owed me £22 for a book since before Christmas and every time I tried to get in contact to ask them for my money it said their service desk was down and to try again another time, I finally managed to message them and the next thing I know is the Website is closed!!!!!!! What a complete joke. Has anyone got any advice or know if we are going to be able to get our money back?

symphoniefantastique

Wow, quite a large group growing here :S, you can add me to the list of unsatisfied customers. I'm still owed over £60 from last year, was actually going onto the site to send them an email threatening legal action only to find that they've removed it! I called the Insolvency Service this morning and they have no record of them having gone into liquidation, I wonder what's going on.

andwan0

Someone who knows the legality and procedures about unfair business should write us a good guideline (or webpage)... so that many others can google and find help.

The reason why many people won't do anything is because of the court fees of small claims (£30). If one is owed around £30 or under then it does not seem worth the hassle to file a small claim.

But if everyone teamed up with an accumulative sum... then we have a bigger case which will likely go to crown court.. with us paying a smaller court fee in total.

kez_angel_2k2

Its beyond a joke, i am waiting for £30 which i probably will never see, but i am a student i was expecting that money - its made me really angry, a few days before they shut down they messaged me saying they will pay me shortly - yeah right!?! i have no idea how i can claim this money back that is mine!!!

andwan0

kez_angel_2k2 wrote: »

Its beyond a joke, i am waiting for £30 which i probably will never see, but i am a student i was expecting that money - its made me really angry, a few days before they shut down they messaged me saying they will pay me shortly - yeah right!?! i have no idea how i can claim this money back that is mine!!!

Am really fed up with SellStudentBooks and hearing lots of others woes I decided am going to file a small claims against them at my local county court. Sure it costs me £30 fee, but I get the court fee back if I win the case... (unless SellStudentbooks really did go bankrupt... but others say there's no news about them bankrupt).

To get more information:

web.archive.org/ and type in sellstudentstuff.com

lol, their HQ is in Manchester and I am heading to Manchester in July. Going to knock on their doors.

Clairebear2009

Hey everyone, this was posted on the site this morning, say bye bye to your money

Sell Student Books.com Limited

We are sorry to inform you that the website SellStudentStuff.com is no longer operating. The Company which owns the site, Sell Student Books.com Limited, has ceased trading and is being placed into Liquidation.

The Insolvency Practitioners dealing with the matter are:

Tomlinsons
72 Gartside Street
Manchester
M3 3EL
Tel 0161 834 9797


A notice of the meeting of creditors along with a claim form can be found on their website under the Bulletins section and a report to creditors will be subsequently made available after the company has been wound up.

Due to the Company’s financial situation, we very much regret that it is unable to pay its’ debts. We sincerely apologise for this and assure all our customers that everything possible has been done to try to avoid this situation arising.

Should anyone be interested in acquiring the website and/or domain name, please contact Messrs Tomlinsons as above.

M Fraser and D Katiff
Directors

sam_h786

omg!...i cant believe it...theres going to be one angry mob of students after these lot...x

dawyldthing

Crap_with_money.com wrote: »

jammy sod! I actually found that I didn't make very much money on the ones I did sell - because they were so heavy they cost a fortune to post - one book which cost me £60, I only made a profit of about 50p! I guess that's my lesson not to price them so cheaply in future though! - whoops!!

don't post them through royal mail, post them through parcel 2 go they come and pick them up and it costs just under 8 pounds

anotherusername_3

Sell Student Stuff are back up and running after going bust and paying none of their debtors. A company called Capital Ideas Retail On Line Ltd are now up and running with all of the old e-mail addresses and previous book lists and previous sold data, so clearly someone made a buck selling the company assets.

I have had no feedback from the new company as to whether the two sharks running it last time are still involved. I will be taking my books off the list that is for sure. Once bitten and all that.

ls19

I got their email too :rolleyes: If you still want to sell books, there is a new site run by two Durham students, which we were told about via our uni department - iswapbooks.co.uk.