Possibly but if he was paid out is it fair that the OP then loses all his money and was innocent in all the affair?
That is generally what happens if you, even unknowingly, buy stolen goods. Would the OP have had additional protection from this if he’d not used PP gift?
Course it’s relevant. Heroic OP gets bike. New poster says he had same bike stolen and asks for serial number check. We could get pitchforks back out if the recycling Mr Jantzen is indeed flogging dodgy bikes.
I was asking if an insurance payout was relevant to… OF course it;s relevant if it’s hooky.
Back to original point though, bereavement, working up north, poorly cat, nervous breakdown etc. All a load of bollx. If someone has paid you £750 you can do them the courtesy of sending a text message to let them know what is going on.. No excuse for that type of delay without contact.
Back to original point though, bereavement, working up north, poorly cat, nervous breakdown etc. All a load of bollx. If someone has paid you £750 you can do them the courtesy of sending a text message to let them know what is going on.. No excuse for that type of delay without contact.
Disagree completely, if one of my parents died when I was supposed to be sending a frame to someone I would not even consider the frame for a good while, and I don’t believe many people would prioritise it over family. Also not everyone has smartphones and internet, I don’t have a smartphone and if I were at my parent’s place in the country I wouldn’t have internet either.
You don’t need Internet or smartphone to send a text. You don’t even need much time. Whatever the crisis, I’m sure he could manage to senda text within 18 days.
Disagree completely, if one of my parents died when I was supposed to be sending a frame to someone I would not even consider the frame for a good while, and I don’t believe many people would prioritise it over family. Also not everyone has smartphones and internet, I don’t have a smartphone and if I were at my parent’s place in the country I wouldn’t have internet either.
Agree. I wouldn’t be near a forum and if I got calls/texts I’d stare at them and think just **** off and leave me alone, deal with you later. In general when I’ve had a stressful day or week and someones asking for something I’ll avoid/turn the phone off.
(Hopefully) people who know me would defend me on forums etc as not like that in the meantime.
Disagree completely, if one of my parents died when I was supposed to be sending a frame to someone I would not even consider the frame for a good while, and I don’t believe many people would prioritise it over family
Whilst this is bound to happen on occasion, family/personal trouble does seem to come up quite often when pp gift issues occur, didn’t someone say JB had deleted social media accounts and generally tried to disappear from the web after he received the ppgift? If so “I have been up north for a while for personal reasons” sounds a convenient excuse.
Whilst this is bound to happen on occasion, family/personal trouble does seem to come up quite often when pp gift issues occur, … ….”I have been up north for a while for personal reasons” sounds a convenient excuse.
Totally agree.
Where do people from ‘up north’ say they have to go when they need an excuse for not being able to send a text….
Some people are just chronically disorganised and have little concept of the passing of time.
Mrb has it – some members derided my post mentioning Lancashire hill farmers and mental breakdown but there are people who simply aren’t functioning in the same way as you and me and you see the detritus of their failed lives and half-baked projects all over the place. Did it occur to you that the seller may be suffering depression and may even have been in hospital? Quite often these people lose all sense of reality or perspective and drift into trouble with the law, often through no fault of their own. This has been a great thread and I’m relieved that the bike turned up but I do think the forum ought to treat the seller with a little more balance.
If you suffer a loss lots of people will contact you to offer their condolences and you will have the same conversation over and over again. That’s death, I’m afraid.
If during this traumatic time you are sitting on someone else’s 750 quid,you should at least send them a text explaining the situation. That’s common decency.
If you are trusting enough to use PPG for £750, you will probably get shafted. That’s life.