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dancing james
I recently had a bad experience when attempting a transaction with this user. He had promised to sell me 4 pairs of continental olympic tubulars which I needed urgently to take up to Manchester for the national squad, as they had run out and the distributor had none in the country.
Once I had deposited £850 in the sellers bank account he stopped answering my PMs and emails, and only after a month of constant pestering he eventually forwarded me "his address" so I could arrange collection. On arriving at the given address, a flat above a kebab shop on the Uxbridge road, I rang the buzzer several times and tried the seller's mobile, all to no avail. I noticed the front door was quite flimsy, and looked to have recently been forced open, in fact it was slightly ajar so I pushed it open and wandered into the hall.
I called out a couple of times but got no reply so decided to go up the stairs to see if there was another door, when I got to the next floor I could see the door to the flat was open so I went and knocked , no answer. I was getting a bit pissed off by now, so just walked straight into the flat and to be honest I was rather surprised at what I found.
The whole flat appeared to be entirely empty, bare floorboards, no curtains, fixtures or furniture, and certainly no sign of the Continental Olympic tubs! Wandering into what I assumed to be the bedroom I found a similarly bare room, except there was a pile of what looked like women's wigs in the corner (of varying colours and styles) and a trestle table (the kind that decorators use for wallpapering) which had on it a frozen chicken (medium) from "Iceland", a rusty 17mm open ended spanner and a cassette tape, which on closer inspection was a blank, C90 with "The Osmonds" written crudely on the label in green felt tip.
At this point I was starting to get suspicious that this may not be the correct address but then I heard some movement in the building, it sounded like someone was dragging something heavy around in the room above, maybe a bag of laundry or something. I called out "hello!" and the noise stopped. Nothing...
After a minute the noise began again so I again called out "hello!" again silence..
This happened three or four time before I realised I was late for work and make a hasty exit, none the wiser and still £850 down and no tubs for the squad to race on. I did however notice a swarthy man wearing a dirty looking fedora and denim suit standing outside the kebab shop watching me as I left, I thought nothing of it at the time as my bike was still locked and unmolested.
It's been several months now and the seller will still not answer my emails, I think he should be banned!