Have been so stupid (hangs head in shame)

frivolous_fay

I'd go with the probation officer thing. Plus the police.

FloFlo

Good luck, I hope you get your money back. I would pursue it down every avenue that you can. As for his parents not being very helpful, it would seem he is running this scam from their home and they SHOULD do something about it.

kevinyork

mike230652 wrote:

And there is NO POINT contacting the police....it's a civil matter and they will not ( and can not ) get involved in it.

Mike

Sorry Mike but thats wrong. Its a criminal matter as per my previous post.

kevinyork wrote:

This is obtaining money by deception. You have the proof (your emails, bank transfer etc) and the police should investigate. This is a criminal not a civil matter and therefore is within the Police's remit. Go back to them and say you wish to make an allegation of a crime. If you get the cold shoulder ask to speak to the Duty Officer (Inspector) and say you wish to make a formal complaint about the Police refusing to accept this is a criminal matter.

There is no difference between on eBay purchases, off eBay purchases, your local paper or a man in the street taking your money for some goods and not producing them. They are all deception under the Theft Act 1968 Section 15!

The police may try and convince someone reporting such a matter otherwise to avoid dealing with it but it most definately is obtaining goods by deception which is a criminal not a civil matter so the Police can and must get involved and the person making the report to them must be persistent with them. Anyone who has advised you otherwise is wrong.

Amanda65

mike230652 wrote:

Hard though it is to say it.....despite all the advice this board gives/ offers to anyone who reads it...we have another case of a buyer trying to short circuit the system and avoid paying eBay fees and getting stung. My sympathy is with the OP.....but it illustrates yet again why it's very chancey to try and pull fast ones outside of eBay...at least that way they could have pursued it with Paypal, eBay and the police if need be...........


Mike

I appreciate what you are saying Mike but he did not accept Paypal and I when offered a Buy it Now price I didn't realise that offered in the way he did put me outside Ebays' jurisdiction (I know now!). As for the money transfer, it seemed a logical way to get money to him as I had his email, address details (which I had checked on the electoral roll) and he had OK feedback. I wasn't 'trying to pull at fast one' rather trying to get a bargain, like everyone else does on Ebay. Having been stung quote so badly it will be a long time before I use it again !!!

I am going to pursue this with the Probabtion office tomorrow (his dad told me which one he attends) and see if they can try and persude him to pay my money back rather than go thourgh legal channels. If not I will go back to the police quoting the Theft Act (thanks Kevin) and let then know that I am aware of his criminal activiites.

Thanks for all the help and advice so far

Amanda

hollydays

Let us know how you get on.Good luck.

Thefunkygibbons

As the dominoes start to fall, this is when it gets fun

I would bet good money that you are now on the home straight in getting the cash back

Amanda65

Latest update - spoke to his probabtion officer today who is seeing him next Friday and said that although she obviously cannot force him to do anything is happy topoint out to him the consequences of not refunding my money and me therefore reporting it to the police - fingers crossed xx

finallydebtfree!!

we have another case of a buyer trying to short circuit the system and avoid paying eBay fees and getting stung

buyers dont pay ebay fees

FloFlo

Amanda65 wrote:

Latest update - spoke to his probabtion officer today who is seeing him next Friday and said that although she obviously cannot force him to do anything is happy topoint out to him the consequences of not refunding my money and me therefore reporting it to the police - fingers crossed xx

Good luck, this has got to be a criminal matter, don't be fobbed off.

random456

yeah just read this for the first time. i ONLY use postal orders to pay (very rarely a cheque if its expensive, never paypal) and only buy from sellers with a) 99.8 % feedback or more, and b) I always email them with a question before i buy, that way you know whether they are answering emails. once i didnt do this and the item didnt come for a month, but apart from that and 2 nigerian scammers (saw it coming) ebays been great for me and i still have my 100& fb. let us know what happens to the little scrote