pifko-
alas no. 'Nigel'. He's caught me though; I need to be careful with messaging his wife (?), and I won't get away with my 'vile tactics' anymore. Absolute fucking loon.
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It IS Martyn Parkes!! He's changed his MO slightly (now ex army, as an ex police officer threatening members of the public is a criminal offence), I had a gobshite of abuse from him over a chain ring that was gash. Threatened me with coming round and giving me a good seeing to. He sometimes pretends it's his 'wife' in eBay messages.
AS IF.
He's going by the name of 'Nigel' now, and sells a lot of postcards and belt buckles. I just bought a postcard off him, so now I know where HE lives. Hull, mostly.
I've also sent him a series of legal letters (I'm in the profession myself) which kinda drop from your letterbox like a lead hammer. They cost me nothing.
Two can play his game, but I like to think I can play it a little better ;)
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Here's my story:
I sold some 'antique tripod stands' to a buyer (in Essex, should have set alarm bells ringing) on the 16th, he send an email the day after asking when they would be posted. I sent them on the 19th but stupidly didn't send them recorded - I was posting a few things and because of the shape of the parcel (a tube), it didn't occur to me that the price was wrong when I asked for recorded delivery.
Anyway, he raised an issue with ebay yesterday because he claims they haven't been delivered, and me only having proof of postage, I can't say anything other than that I did send them. It was a stupid mistake, and I admitted as much, and have said that they should turn up in the next day or so, and if not then I will raise it with Royal Mail (after 15 working days).
However... he has sent me 10 messages now, starting off being a bit rude, and escalating through accusations that I haven't sent the package (he said he would ring RM and check for evidence that something had been sent, despite me sending him a photo of proof of postage), to the most recent one, where he has said that he'll be contacting the police as I am committing fraud.
Now, he is quite clearly a crank and I've stopped responding to him as I'm getting bored of it all. On the listing the postage service offered was 'Second Class Parcel', no mention of tracked. However, because it was £8 (postage was actually £5, and I have offered to refund the difference), he wrongly assumed that it was tracked and is now accusing me of falsely advertising that it would be tracked.
So what should I do? I've reported him to eBay for harrassing me, but are they likely to do anything? I know that because I didn't send it recorded, I'll end up having to refund him and claim off Royal Mail myself, but I really would rather not go through the whole process.
I have repeatedly told him that I will contact Royal Mail if it comes to that, but for the time being I can't do anything. Meanwhile, my paypal is locked (I think), and he is working himself up into a rage.
Should I just ignore him? I'm not going to refund him until the three weeks are up and I can safely say that the parcel was 'lost' (according to RM terms).
Edit: He's closed the request (presumably the package arrived), and is now accusing me of threatening his wife! This guy is a champ.
Oh, also North Yorks police will be contacting me about my 'intimidation' of him.