I just wanted to make sure no one has the unfortunate ordeal of dealing with this urchin
I sent the money by bank transfer as he said he didn’t have a PayPal account as it was only £40 I proceeded (alarm bells should of gone off now) he said he’d send the rear shock.
After a fee days I asked for a tracking number which he said he’d email me when he got home but I heard nothing.
Then his wife was in labour so he hadn’t sent it after leaving it a few days he said his mum was now in hospital and he’d not had chance to send it.
He then said he’d sent it but not tracked (yeah right) then after no shock we arranged a refund which didn’t happen.
Please please avoid this seller

Was it a boy or a girl – hope the mums are doing OK

Some of these pinkbike guys have kerazy lives, have a bit of sympathy! 😉

Poor chap, I’m worn out reading about his life.

Didn’t he go on holiday, or have some IT problems?

“Can you lend me £1 for the bus cos me mum’s uncle’s auntie’s dog’s in hospital and I need to get to Birmingham to get my house keys cos I locked myself in the car going to see my daughter give birth to my long lost brother.”

The number of these people who have sudden family medical emergencies is staggering. Both me and my wife have been fed similar lines before.

He might just be genuinely hopeless

You got a refund, which I doubt you’d have got if he was out to rip you off.

As it was only £40 I took a punt and got kicked in the fruits lesson learned but I can’t help wonder why he kept answering my emails ??

Maybe he has a smartphone, but is not clever?

Can someone decipher his last message please ?

‘Whatever else daft c*nt do wat ye want ye little divvy’

I’m guessing by the ‘ye’ he is a Shakespeare follower but can’t make the rest out

I’m lost. Did you get a refund OP?

Nope got nothing

Ah, I misread, I thought you got the refund. BURN HIM

pinkbike buysell profile

Either he’s ripped off alot of people or he eats through bikes…..
Id be tempted to small claims court him – it should cost anything when it’s only for £40 iirc and it may scare the proverbial out of him when he gets a court summons through the post.

Also may not have the brains to use his twitter profile name as his pinkbike name?
https://mobile.twitter.com/callumj10

Of course it may not be him….

‘Whatever else daft c*nt do wat ye want ye little divvy’

hah, not heard the word divvy in years, was the standard insult at school

That Pinkbike account stinks of stolen bikes. Lots of high end kit for sale, offers accepted for quick sales, etc. Mmmm, fishy!

I used to work in a record shop. I am not exaggerating here when I say I used to get 2 people a week saying they needed a refund without a receipt as the person they bought the item for had died. 2 a week – honestl!!

I didn’t do hundreds of refunds either.

Definitely fishy. I was offered the same Merida one forty in his sales history as a swap for a bike I was selling last year. The photo was identical but it was from a different account in a similar location IIRC.

monkeyboyjc – Of course it may not be him….

With detective work like that, you may not want to look at his tumblr account (NSFW)

Report him on pb. They take this kind of stuff quite seriously.

Yeah – thought I’d better not post a link to that! Oh course they could be three unrelated people?
Pinkbike says Cheshire, twitter says Newbury.
Pinkbike account stinks of stolen bikes though, that many bikes forsale at the same time. Only thing that indicates real bikes is that most of them are photographs in the same garden.

Report him to pinkbike, the. Post the story on their scammers thread here:

http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/listcomments/?threadid=17388&pagenum=655

Yes, report him on pinkbike for sure.

I have quite often paid by gift as I tend to think the best of people. I know,I know….

You only have to deal with one rotten apple though and it really throws your moral compass off.

As a rule though I have bought tonnes of second hand stuff from eBay and forums and it’s always been ok. Lucky I guess.

Anyway OP, thanks for the heads up and sorry to hear of your bad experience. 🙁

LoL at his tumblr account!!! 😯

I’d report him to pink bike for certain.

His photo meta data has him here

You’re welcome 🙂

^^^ how did you do that?! Ha ha that’s awesome

classy neighbourhood.

Widnes… Nice… typical Woolyback.

You’ve found where he lives!?! Oh I want to see how this ends!! 😆

His photo meta data has him here

You’re welcome

Looks like he’s got his next couple of bikes lined up outside ready to sell.

I quite like his bike though 🙂

Does Google Streetview from June 2012 show the urchin himself, I wonder?

That must be him, all guilty people have blurry faces.

His new ‘fence’ looks a lot better

If only you’d been suspicious in the first place 🙂

^ oops.

I work less than 5 minutes walk from that address if you wanted to save money on a stamps 😈

oooh – suddenly time to break out the hob-nobs

Report him to the police for fraud. You have account details, and the bank will have contact details so they should have no problem tracking him down. At the very least the bank can freeze the account even if the contact info is false.