Imtimidating seller

i_love_freestuff

I have brought a mobile phone from ebay on a buy it now and paid £6 p&p. After 8 days of waiting for it to arrive I contacted the seller who messaged back 3 days later saying he had been on holiday and would post it the next day. 21 days later I still have no phone so opened a case. The seller is sending me imtimidating messages calling me a liar and that he will travel to where I live to investigate this further ( I live in the midlands, he is in scotland ).

He told me that he had proof of postage, it cost £2.70 and sent normal post. He had stated in his listing that it would be tracked which he is denying for some reason as anybody can see what it says.

I have reported him to ebay for trying to imtimidate me and they have basically said to not read the emails????? And if i feel threatened contact the police.

This seller has 5 feedback, one of which is a negative and the other 4 off the same buyer all at different times ( I think it may be a friend ).

I don't want him turning up on my door, shall I just drop the case and take it as a loss? It wasn't alot of money but he has my address.

Strapped

He's not coming to your door. Continue with the case and ignore his empty threats. Don't communicate any further with him though.

preable

Make a claim with paypal and be done with it, Its obvious he does not intend to sell the phone to you. Probably because it went to cheap blahblah just report to paypal and get your money back and neg feedback him.

i_love_freestuff

I have been really polite to him so far also telling him that if I was scamming him it would of been for alot more money than I paid for the phone.

Looking at his feedback one day he sold a leather sofa and was left bad feedback as it was broken, the next day he had resold it with great feedback left. The buyer the second time is the same person who has left all his other feedback. Even his name is dodgey 'trickeydickey***' should of rang alarm bells really but I needed a cheap phone for my son to take to camp with him and thought I had a bargain.
Oh I forgot he had already sold the same phone 1 month previous to the same friend that brought the sofa

Takeaway_Addict

you do realise his friend is just his other account?

Just carry on with what you are doing and ignore his emails and only correspond through ebay

i_love_freestuff

Doh it never even occured to me that it was his other account. I've been ebaying for years selling and buying but I feel so foolish with this one

porto_bello

Do pursue it and get your refund. Clearly you are dealing with a chancer, whose account won't last long!

[Probably he's had a few - all short-term!]

starrybee

Ignore all his emails, raise a paypal claim and escalate it straight away.

Mandy44

Do you really believe he'll travel down from Scotland to 'investigate' such a small sum? Just ignore him and stick in your claim

i_love_freestuff

He reckons his sister lives right by me, I cant open a PP claim until tomorrow as ebay are saying its too soon.

starrybee

21 days later I still have no phone so opened a case.

i_love_freestuff wrote: »

He reckons his sister lives right by me, I cant open a PP claim until tomorrow as ebay are saying its too soon.

Just re read the first post and you say you've already opened one? So what is too soon? I'm confused.