Royal Mail And Internet Fraud

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Presumably you have their address. How far away from you are they?

kazzah

GTE_Boy wrote: »

Why wouldn't the police deal with it?

ha ha ha - the police are not remotely interested in this type of fraud
on 1st december I was called by someone purporting to be from my bank - they had accessed my online account somehow ( and NOT via my computer) moved over £10,000 of savings from a variety of accounts into my flexaccount and were trying to get me to authorise the payment via my card reader by claiming I had been hacked and my online account blocked and this was the way to "unblock it"

I reported it immediately and had my online account de-registered etc by the fraud team - who told me that the Police are never interested in "petty" frauds like this..............so if they wouldn't investigate for £10 k - they won't for an iphone - the staff at the bank told me that their customers lose hundreds of thousands of pounds per week to these scams.

Sicard

Hermione_Granger wrote: »

So, in breach of eBay's terms and conditions, you decided that in order to save a few £'s in fees you would cut them out of the loop again after their website had already found you a buyer and by doing so you made sure that any possibility of ebay seller protection would be lost.

Was it really worth it in the end?

I'll hold him down if you want to kick his head in.

steampowered

Unfortunately you've had a true "MSE welcome" - lots of very patronising know-it-alls looking down on you because you made a mistake. Sorry about that.

Unfortunately I don't think there is much you can do other than reporting the phone stolen to the police and your network provider.

You could also investigate the address you sent it to, see if that gives you any leads. Although I guess it is probably some sort of PO Box.

Hermione_Granger

Sicard wrote: »

I'll hold him down if you want to kick his head in.

Just telling it as I see it.
The OP used ebay to advertise their phone and this found a buyer then once it came to paying for the service they had used, greed got the better of them so to save a few pounds, they dealt outside of ebay and thus invalidated any seller protection that may have been provided and as a result, lost their money.

It's not as if this was the first time either as the OP admits doing the same to avoid ebay fees on previous occasions.

jakesaunders

No it's fair enough guys, my mistakes that I defiantly won't make again. eBay protection is there for a reason and I was stupid to avoid it. End of!

Hermione_Granger

jakesaunders wrote: »

No it's fair enough guys, my mistakes that I defiantly won't make again. eBay protection is there for a reason and I was stupid to avoid it. End of!

That's something that doesn't get said very often on these forums.
Good on you for admitting that you made an error or judgement.

It would still be worth considering legal action against the "buyer" provided that you have a confirmed address for them and the value of the phone makes it worthwhile.