What would you do???

[CapMan]

Before my accident i won a 2.0 16 Vauxhall red top engine on Ebay but obviously i wasn't able to collect it, so i sent the seller his email :

Jamie



You may or may not remember but i was the winning bidder for your 2.0 16v Courtney engine and paid you via PayPal fpr it. Soon after, was involved in a serious car accident in my Impreza where i lost a leg and can't drive at all now. I've been in hospital since the start of July and was just wondering hat happened to the engine


Cheers
Craig

I got this email back from him :

Hi Craig,

Very sorry to hear about your accident, can’t imagine what that must be like.



Re the engine: in one of my previous email’s I said that I would have to put the engine outside, which I did, for you to collect at your leisure because of the fact that I had run out of room in the garage and at that time and you had failed to pick it up on several arranged dates. The engine sat outside for a week or so and then I stopped noticing it, I just assumed you had collected.



Sorry there is nothing more I can do.



Best wishes for the future



Jamie Dickinson

 

[Gaz]

When he says he left it outside for you to 'collect' - does he live locally? Arrange for a mate to pay him a visit

Gaz

 

[Richy]

depends how much you paid for it tbh

 

[pablo]

tell him u want your money back.

then claim off ebay/paypal etc

 

[p 5ary]

did you arrange to get it several times as he said?
pay him a visit, i take it you have his address
what type of money is involved

 

[Marc]

i'd ask him for a refund, he is obviously taking the piss

 

[therock]

How can you arrange to collect it a few times if you're hospital-ridden?!

 

[CapMan]

It was over in Enghland and i intended to pick it up when i was picking up a car (which i never got either )

Can't claim from eBay/PayPal as he offered it to me when the original winner pulled out

 

[CapMan]

It was over £200 so not really small change

 

[Gaz]

He's obviously a chancer but it's one of those situations where there isn't much you can do. Just to put the wind up him a bit, you should maybe tell him that you're going to have to report it stolen to the police and they'll be round to take a statement

Gaz

 

[CapMan]

Thats a good idea Gaz! i also have another matter where i paid a gy a deposit for a car off eBay (£100) and never got to collect it.

 

[pablo]

the deposit (given the nature of deposits) will be gone mate

The engine on the other hand you are due for.

 

[Terry]

I would do as Gaz said and tell him it's to be reported stolen etc

 

[pablo]

ask for a refund and if he says no say ok then Ill report it to the cops and see if I can get my money back off the guy that stole it.

 

[CapMan]

yeah but who knows who stole it?????????

 

[ray]

ask for a refund and if he says no report it

 

[CapMan]

sending him an email mow

 

[Karlos Da Jackle]

Where abouts in england???

Yep do as above, email him saying that it wasn't u lifted it., as im sure he prob knows, and that u'd like ur dosh back!!! If not do the report it stolen, get the old bill round to his as gaz said!!

And finally u have his address?? sure mate u could come over here to vist me, by plane.,and we take a wee road trip., Might just so happen we find a redtop at his, or alternative payment if his garage is full!!!

 

[CapMan]

Its in Glouestershire if remember correctly. I also have a fully paid for car over (over £800 worth) in Birmingham tha i never got as well as a deposit of £100 another car!

 

[Lyons]

perhaps im just a bad judge of character, but to me he does seem civil enough.

as Gary said, were there exact times arranged when you were going pick it up as he suggested? if not, then he's bang out of order leaving it outside, but if there were- and these were before the accident- then i can see why he would have got pissed off. obviously leaving it outside is just a tad over the top though.

lets see what he says in reply to Gaz's idea

 

[CapMan]

I emailed him back so iswit to see what he says. The fact that someone just nicked it though soes se ui'
I tihi i=6u drrm far geydee!

 

[big cyril]

Load of crap if you ask me - left it outside then assumed you'd picked it up?
As if it was the wheelie bin waiting for the bin men?

BTW the last line of your last post doesen't make sense.

 

[VEN©M]

you dont put an engine outside and not 'notice it' anymore unless he left it totally out of sight - but to say he assumed you'd collected it total **** - would you just dander round to someones house and help yourself without knocking the door or saying hello?

put the wind up him, see what he says.
check his ebay feedback and make sure he didnt sell it on in the last few months or if hes on any online vauxhall forums etc....

peter

 

[CapMan]

Sorry Cyril, im on heavy medication (all legeal!) :

"The fact that someone just nicked it though seeems far from beliveable!"

 

[brendy]

paccers, i know a fella in cheltenham if thats any use to you