Bad traders

tt991 - bought the Gazelle Team De Ijsselstreek from him, it turned up with a bent rear mech and hanger due to poor packing, but was also had a completely worn out drivetrain and deep scoring to the bars and seatpost, none of which he mentioned even though I asked questions about the bike's condition.

He then tried to tell me that the damage in transit was my responsibility, and when I created a PayPal dispute he tried everything he could to stop it, including claiming that I didn't return the complete bike.

Okay, here goes.

Hi! I am Romet from Tallinn, Estonia and my problem is pretty old, but I haven't lost all hope yet.
About 2 years ago I found out that there is a Polish bike company bearing my name. Even cooler than that, is that they made track frames back in the day.
Obviously I started looking for a frame for myself. Here I stumbled upon someones project of the perfect frame. It had a detail that I haven't seen on any Romet frames. The ends of the seat stays had 'romet' pantographed on them. Anyway I immediately contacted the owner Marcin Amon Rokicki aka 1000archangels.
Link to the thread: http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/209888/
The owner was actually very willing to sell it so I payed him and he posted the package and I was very excited. Unfortunately there wasn't a tracking number, so I just had to wait. After a month or so still without my frame I started to investigate. Somehow I found out that the frame was here in Estonia, but the shipping company couldn't get a hold of me or smth so it was sent back to London. Well as absurd as it sounds these things happen I guess and mr. Marcin was very willing to send the stuff to me again. I also found a stem and handlebars from this forum and had the seller and Marcin meet up in London, so Marcin could add the stuff to the frame to save some shipping costs. Class A lad in my book. Well, that all happened a long time ago and Marcin hasn't still answered any of my messages.
I contacted a friend of him (LFGSS user: tom15xw) and they spoke and Marcin was going to contact me, but still nothing.
tom15xw suggested I write here, so that's what I'm doing.
Is there anyone who could talk some sense into him?
I'd love to get my stuff or at least get my money back.

Thank you in advance,
Romet

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@1000archangels & @tom15xw?

Tom is a silly person to ask, speak to his housemate @Eamesy

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But you already have your dream bike :-/

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Hmmm... Qube, you have PM.

Has this been resolved yet?

what happened to 1000archangels anyway? fxieflounce?

1kaa is aware of this problem as I told him that Qube was looking for a way to contact him. He said he would sort it and I had assumed that he would. this was back around Xmas

Awesome community you have here.
Thanks guys.
Still no word from Marcin though.

wait till they bring out the torches and pitchforks!

What happened with the continental tubs?

It was decided to set a crook to catch a thief, so @hippy was elevated to moderator status.

@RPM admitted to most of the bad cycling in London, and has subsequently flounced the city as he wanted to become a provincial fixie skidder.

be wary of this timewasting fucking lord

agrees to price, sale and pickup and sells to someone else for more dorrah / convenience.

bleh. more annoyed by the fact that i stood in a queue in the bank on payday for over an hour to get the readies.

tit.

@BenWales. Avoid this seller. Sold me a bent stem. Tried to get my money back but has avoided my calls completely. Not to be trusted. Hopefully this will be my first and last bad experience with a lfgss member.

He's only just joined and has only been active in Classifieds.

Quite.

No point asking if payment was made via Paypal "goods & services".

#caveatemptor

Hi again.
Has anyone heard about Marcin?

Via his Instagram, is this yours?

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What is going on with Marcin?

I have no idea what I'm looking at.

Check out post #3077

@Qube Yeah I've seen it, @Eamesy without dragging you in it, can you shed any light on the matter?