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Post all information you have at /tg/ along with cross-posting on /b/.
I am serious here. A week ago, someone in New Zealand was able to retrieve his truck that has been loaned and not returned. People tracked the guy who stole it down, shot photos from the truck and the owner had it returned. There also are a lot of Germans active on these boards.
I am not assuring you it will work. I am not responsible for any consequences - we had bad examples in the past in regards to the evil-doer.
Best of luck!
Lovepug13 wrote: Can't somebody in Germany just go to his address? And then it can be resolved promptly and hopefully the army can be returned.
Do we have an adress yet?
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Ebay is awfully biased towards the buyer now and 999 out of 1000 cases Ebay will side with the buyer. Sorry to hear about this. I have had bad experiences myself. at least 50% of anything I've sent to Italy has gone 'missing' in the post. I now no longer will sell to anyone from Italy.
I also had the same as yourself with a buyer from Germany over 3 T-Shirts. They were sent, they complained, Ebay took the money from my PayPal account and refunded them. The items were never returned. For me though, this was an isolated case and I've send 10's of parcels to Germany for GW stuff and never had any issues.
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Sigvatr- the OP said you can PM him for the address. It cannot be posted on Dakka, as no personal information is allowed to be posted.
Guys, talking about visiting the guy is all relative- if you're seriously wanting to help resolve the issue, that's one thing, but ANY talk of real life violence will end up having this thread locked, which isn't useful for anybody but the guy who stole the army.
Imo, given the below as well, I only sell large ebay items within my own country, so that disputes are easier to resolve...
Kommisar wrote: This same sort of thing happened to me about six years ago with a buyer from Germany as well. When i was in high school and college I sold about $400-600 or so a month of painted minis on Ebay for extra cash. I had sold a few hundred dollars worth of Warmachine mini's to someone there, they opened up a dispute and I was out the mini's and the money. I just in the past 8 months started using Ebay again to just buy things.
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My advice still stands then. Try to get /tg/ or /b/ on your side. You already got the adress + his e-mail. If you do get them to help you, that guy is seriously screwed.
If you really want to get serious, have fun with him. Given that you got his address and e-mail along with his real name, you can sign him up for "newsletters", any "free surveys", free "sign-ups" etc. You know what I mean. Proxy hard and screw him over!
RiTides wrote: Sigvatr- the OP said you can PM him for the address. It cannot be posted on Dakka, as no personal information is allowed to be posted.
Guys, talking about visiting the guy is all relative- if you're seriously wanting to help resolve the issue, that's one thing, but ANY talk of real life violence will end up having this thread locked, which isn't useful for anybody but the guy who stole the army.
Imo, given the below as well, I only sell large ebay items within my own country, so that disputes are easier to resolve...
Kommisar wrote: This same sort of thing happened to me about six years ago with a buyer from Germany as well. When i was in high school and college I sold about $400-600 or so a month of painted minis on Ebay for extra cash. I had sold a few hundred dollars worth of Warmachine mini's to someone there, they opened up a dispute and I was out the mini's and the money. I just in the past 8 months started using Ebay again to just buy things.
This is just terrible. As RiTides says though I only sell in the US, and Canada, so I can resolve disputes much easier. I hope the users from Germany offer you sincere, and good, help on resolving this.
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Sigvatr wrote: Post all information you have at /tg/ along with cross-posting on /b/.
I am serious here. A week ago, someone in New Zealand was able to retrieve his truck that has been loaned and not returned. People tracked the guy who stole it down, shot photos from the truck and the owner had it returned. There also are a lot of Germans active on these boards.
I am not assuring you it will work. I am not responsible for any consequences - we had bad examples in the past in regards to the evil-doer.
Best of luck!
Lovepug13 wrote: Can't somebody in Germany just go to his address? And then it can be resolved promptly and hopefully the army can be returned.
Do we have an adress yet?
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I am sorry to hear about this bro, my friend had a bad experience with buying a Land Raider off Ebay a long time ago and every since I don't trust that place. Would rather buy and sell on these forums.
So sorry dude. I had this happen to a friend. It was not a full army but a number of models. Myself and a few big friends went to the address and got the models back. Most people will do the right thing when enough pressure is applied. I hope some of your German friends here on dakka will help you out.
That is why I refuse to buy anything on Ebay. I hate them and pay pal. I got taken for about $150 about 10 years ago using pay pal some of my bank account info got taken. I know both sites were in their infancy at the time but I won't EVER do business with either one EVER again. It was a head ache and I was a broke college student trying to pay my bills and did nothing but sour my taste. When Paypal was purchased by Ebay, I chuckled because it was fitting that they are both poorly run.
People who steal stuff deserve little "treats" like strangers turning up at a house to resolve the matter.......
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Imo, given the below as well, I only sell large ebay items within my own country, so that disputes are easier to resolve...
This. I only sell to US because shipping nationally is cheaper than overseas, because I am aware of the laws regarding mail and mail fraud in my own country much better than in another and the above. I shipped to another country once and I lost nearly half of the sale in fees and shipping. Not to mention the fact it took forever to get to the buyer and he was starting to get suspicious that the goods were not going to arrive.
I haven't shipped internationally since.
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Lovepug13 wrote: Can't somebody in Germany just go to his address? And then it can be resolved promptly and hopefully the army can be returned.
On a more serious note though, bloody sucks :-/
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Sigvatr wrote: Post all information you have at /tg/ along with cross-posting on /b/.
I am serious here. A week ago, someone in New Zealand was able to retrieve his truck that has been loaned and not returned. People tracked the guy who stole it down, shot photos from the truck and the owner had it returned. There also are a lot of Germans active on these boards.
I am not sure that, should the law get involved here, the posting of someone's address publicly in order to motivate vigilantes to take action would go down particularly well...
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This is awful to hear. I sell a lot of stuff on eBay, and because of events like this (but not to the same value) I've stopped offering International Shipping. There was a time where I would sell International but only Priority, so insurance would cover anything. I then had someone in Spain refuse to bring their 'damaged' item to the Post Office so insurance could take care of it. So I got nailed by eBay and was out a few hundred dollars.
I do hook up Dakka though, so if you buy from weneediapers on eBay send me a message with your forum handle.
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Mandatory insured delivery for overseas shipping. It's the only way.
This is the main reason why I sell stuff on Dakka and other forums more than anywhere else, it's just safer to deal with people who are part of a community.
Sigvatr wrote: Post all information you have at /tg/ along with cross-posting on /b/.
I am serious here. A week ago, someone in New Zealand was able to retrieve his truck that has been loaned and not returned. People tracked the guy who stole it down, shot photos from the truck and the owner had it returned. There also are a lot of Germans active on these boards.
I am not assuring you it will work. I am not responsible for any consequences - we had bad examples in the past in regards to the evil-doer.
Best of luck!
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