Royally messed around by seasoned boards user!

cormie

Delacent wrote: »

Ps, I know you from years back when you played poker. Time to fold.

Haha

Folks, I've ended it already, my last communication before this with the seller was 2 weeks ago wishing him good luck after he had returned my €670.

I'm simply posting to highlight that even with someone who you've seen on a site for several years and comes across as trustworthy and you'd have no worries doing such a deal with, they can still mess you around.

I know it comes across that I was pushing for him to send it and most people probably would have taken their money back yonks ago, but he had my money, I wanted the laptop, I wasn't happy we agreed a deal and he was making up so many stories and it was the only time of the year that I don't really need to be responsive to enquiries so have the time to set up a new laptop without too much pressure to reply to emails etc.

Anyway, this is all I was planning to do, post it here and let others make up their own mind whether they would deal with him or not if they are interested in something he's selling.

I got a reply from my PM to him last night:

Please remove my first name from the post.

So again, people can make their own opinions based on this.




EDIT: Users first name removed from all previous posts

Pawwed Rig

Disappointing that a boards user would do that to another. Generally when dealing with boardsies I treat it like dealing with a friend of a friend.
Hopefully the other poster will give his side of the story.

Seems to be little knowledge of what a contract is by the seller here.

nava

MOD: Removed initials to seller

guil

I thought posting contents of a pm was a big no no on boards?

nava

MOD: Closing thread, will have a chat with Category Mods about it, we will decide if we should leave open, close or delete.

Nody

Mod:
After review and discussion with HQ we've decided to reopen the thread as there's a good discussion here in general. However any speculation of who the seller is will be met with a forum ban as that's a no go area.

cormie

Glad to see the thread reopened, although surprised all the conversations were removed. I respect boards has to be careful with what information is published, especially from third party sources. I'd be more than happy to assist with any verification necessary, but again, understand there may still be complications in publishing anything, even if verified.

The reason I posted the thread was to warn others about this user and the risks of dealing with someone who you might think you can trust. I had seen the user posting around forums I frequent for years and had a completely different view of, until this scenario. I don't like to see people getting away with dishonesty and treating people with disrespect and felt a thread was warranted.

I of course feel posting the username would be justified and perhaps many of the mods do too, but understand it's not as simple as that and happy the thread can be kept open on the conditions above

Hopefully the thread will at least reduce the chances of other users being messed around in a similar way with the info that has remained!

MilesMorales1

If someone random messaged me that, I'd assume it was a scam personally. Specially just in a private messaging each other context, I'd want at least the basic protection you get on adverts or through paypal.

I've bought things off boards users before, and sold a couple of things, only through person via meet ups, as of yet haven't had any problems *touch wood*

Killergreene

I'm personally going to <SNIP> for any further dealings with this seller on adverts or any other sellers on adverts. They are doing an awful job too with the nes classic scalpers on that site.

MilesMorales1

I'm personally going to <SNIP> for any further dealings with this seller on adverts or any other sellers on adverts. They are doing an awful job too with the nes classic scalpers on that site.

Adverts currently has no rule on profiteering though, except with tickets to events.