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Hi forum folks.
Does anyone know if a verbal agreement means anything regarding Gumtree Freebies?
I was given first refusal on a freebie, well, a large old garden building to be precise, which I accepted and set about organising the logistics of having it lifted and transported to me 100 miles away.
For a number of unavoidable reasons, it's taken a lot longer than initially anticipated to organise collection with an appropriate haulage company who's able to tackle suchsl a delicate specialist load with all its restricted accesses etc.
Being totally inexperienced in haulage matters, trying to juggle all the different information, restrictions, costs and contacts whilst battling s disability made worse by my stress, it has taken me 3 weeks to get to this point of actually booking the collection for next week.
I've been absolutely committed to honouring my word, working flat out to ensure collection would be as soon as possible and have kept the 'seller' informed of my progress, primarily by email/messaging as i have difficulties speaking on the telephone due to my condition, which I informed him about early on.
Anyway long story short, this week he did not respond to my messaging since wednesday, though i continued to send him updates. Today I sent him confirmation of the company i was booking with and to inform him that collection would definitely be next week, however he has replied to say he has offered the item to somone else now who's collecting it tonight. This made me throw up :-(
I'm guessing there's nothing I can really do about this as i cannot find any consumer act advice or gumtree terms relating to free/£0 items, I just thought - hoped - there might at least be something around verbal contracts or virtual agreements in writing?
My last hope would be to send him a final personal appeal but I haven't a clue how best to approach this or find the right tone and wording... so any advice or suggestions would be gratefully received.
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Thank you.
Originally posted by Hzl
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Three weeks?
It's no wonder the seller got fed up.
All the seller wants is to get rid of something quickly, I'd suggest therefore you weren't the right customer for this transaction