Neighbour 'stole' our goods & now selling on eBay!

Hi,

Question for our contributing Police officers and those who have experienced similar.

We ordered a new Dyson from QVC and it never arrived. QVC said that it had been delivered but couldn’t identify where.

Our neighbours are eBay traders and not the best neighbours with other behaviour that we could hope for. I had suspicions that they might have taken it. I found their eBay account and have been monitoring it for the last few weeks.

Surprise surprise, an identical item was listed on their eBay account and the listing has ended (I presume sold, but eBay just says ended).

We’ve had a replacement one so we’re not out of pocket, but it now concerns us that we have people who are prepared to steal as neighbours; what are they capable of!

What’s the deal here? I understand that we need to raise the issue with QVC and present our evidence (screen shots of eBay) and that they have an internal fraud team who might follow it up and then pass it onto the police. What’s the likelihood that they’ll do this?

My initial reaction is to go around and let them know that I know so that they behave from now on but I don’t want to give them time to cover things up should it be taken seriously by the police.

Thoughts, experiences etc?

Thanks,

Stu.

go down the legal route after that has been exhausted have a frank exchange of words- I doubt you will prove it was yours though they may struggle to prove where they got it from

However if they are the sort of neighbour who would steal your things do you want to antagonise them? how will they react? I doubt its with sorry and anything positive – they will go apeashit and deny it and call you a liar most likely

Personally I would drop it into conversation that you saw the hoover for sale on ebay watch their reaction then walk off
The put a sign on your door saying please dont deliver to my neighbour they will take the time and then sell it on ebay – perhaps warn the rest of the street as well

Ordered stuff from QVC 😆

I didn’t realise anyone actually bought from them, or watched in the first place!

Sorry, not helpful 😕

sorry I meant own them with bombers then wee in their shoes

Surely you could ask QVC what the serial number was of the unit they sent out and compare it to the serial on the one that was sold on ebay? Or the police could if you reported it to them.

Move house.

I would leave it and avoid the neighbours.

I doubt that either the Police or QVC would be interested to chase it up.

You could try something like this app https://www.witnessconfident.org/%5B/url%5D or call 101 and see what their response is.

I’d contact QVC, tell them your suspicions, send them the ebay shots, leave them to consider action. You aren’t out of pocket so I’d leave it there. Or more likely I’d do nothing in case of neighbour retribution…

If the Dyson is still in its original packaging and in their house, then that’s the evidence. However if the rozzers turn up at the door, they’ll just say it’s gone.

I think it’s unlikely that the police with bother with a search warrant, especially since the evidence is probably gone.

As someome else has pointed out, if you call them out on it, they’ll call you a liar and present themselves as victims. This is what dishonest, immature people always do.

Annoying as it is, there’s nothing (that’s legal and moral) you can really do.

Move house.

And this. Life’s too short to live with thieving neighbours.

Fill a box with hornets, get it “delivered” when you’re out, so neighbours take it in…

I spoke with 101 and they said that QVC will be able to trace serial numbers etc. 101 advised us to send QVC all the evidence and then QVC would take the decision to pass to the police of not.

I’m not worried about any sort of retribution from the neighbours – they’re all load and give it the ‘big I am’ when shouting at each other or their kids inside the house but they can’t even make eye contact when I speak to them outside and they want to scuttle back in the house as quickly as possible.

Telling the other neighbours on the street is a great idea…and then let our dodgy neighbours know that everyone knows! I just don’t want to give them advance warning should the authorities actually want to do anything.

Revenge is a dish best served cold

I have seen signs on people’s doors before saying “please do not deliver to xxx house”. Maybe put one of them up.

Flyers posted to every house on the street informing other neighbours not to let things get delivered to the dodgy neighbours as they’ll steal it and eBay it?
Won’t get you your Dyson back but it’ll piss the dodgy neighbours off 😀

You know what you could do? Screw with their eBay business.

1. I’ll bet they’re traders but operating on a personal (not business) eBay account. People do this because it’s cheaper but it’s a T&C violation. So tell eBay.

2. I’ll bet they don’t declare their eBay earnings. So tell HMRC.

3. Bid on their stuff then don’t pay.

4. Absolutely **** their feedback.

etc

Making some rather big jumps here but…

If they are traders then do they pay the appropriate tax (edit too slow)?

Are they on benefits but ‘earning’ an undeclared income.

Two ways you could **** them over.

at the time, did you knock on your neighbours doors to see if they’d taken in a delivery for you?

did QVC send you another one? if they did it’s QVC’s problem, not yours.

yes post up their account on ebay lets do an STW flashmob on them

Lets start with hundreds of questions so they cannot manage their account

Lets buy something off them and then claim it never turned up
In the e-mail we can say we think the neighbours stole it 😉

Get a a jack in the box full of dog shit delivered and make sure you are out

You know what you could do? Screw with their eBay business

I’ve done this before to someone who pissed me off. Can’t remember why, but I never paid for the quad bike 😆 I’m with Junky!

Surely the Dyson was signed for by someone? Whenever I’ve had stuff delivered to neighbours I get a card saying which door number it went to and the tracking shows the sig….

The neighbours never actually stole from the OP. They stole from QVC. I guess they saw it as a “victim less” crime.

It seems very harsh to “shop” them to the DSS and HMRC.

The Police have advised on the correct course of action, so I would suggest the OP does that.

at the time, did you knock on your neighbours doors to see if they’d taken in a delivery for you?

If you didn’t they probably just waited a few weeks and thought that you didn’t want it. Why should they go knocking on your door?

yes post up their account on ebay lets do an STW flashmob on them

FFS. There’s some nasty feckers on here.

It seems very harsh to “shop” them to the DSS and HMRC.

Why, its tax avoidance and fraud. Both of which are costing those who pay tax correctly!

Do they have a door, round the back, that is perhaps not as secure as it could be, that a good kick would allow entry through.

I guess they saw it as a “victim less” crime.

I’ll just have a sift through your post, then, to see if there’s anything I fancy.

It seems very harsh to “shop” them to the DSS and HMRC

I’d say it’s your civic duty, but then I’m old fashioned and think everyone should pay their dues…

It seems very harsh to “shop” them to the DSS and HMRC.

Not harsh at all. That’s as bad as nicking a hoover.

I’ll just have a sift through your post, then, to see if there’s anything I fancy.

Not the same at all.

I’m not saying what they did was right but I think the pitchfork reaction on here is a bit over the top.

sorry I meant own them with bombers then wee in their shoes

Or just order a pair of shoes full of wee and wait for them to be nicked.

I’m not saying what they did was right but I think the pitchfork reaction on here is a bit over the top.

Fight bastard with bastard, I say.

at the time, did you knock on your neighbours doors to see if they’d taken in a delivery for you?

Do it now? “Hi, I’m missing a delivery, I’ve chased it with the suppliers who’ve confirmed that it was definitely delivered here. Can I have it please?” That’ll piss on their chips if they’ve sold it, and might make them think twice about doing it again (though probably not).

Or just order a pair of shoes full of wee and wait for them to be nicked.

Get them from that poster whose neighbour leaves them outside his door.

It seems very harsh to “shop” them to the DSS and HMRC

I genuinely cannot tell if your posts are your real views or just done to get a reaction as that seems a very odd reaction to thieving neighbours

I’m not saying what they did was right but I think the pitchfork reaction on here is a bit over the top.

what is the non OT reaction to your neighbours stealing goods that you just paid for?

Most folk will see it as karma in action and if you do this to folk they will do shitty things back
Oh and the shitty thing back is still legal and arguably the actions of a good citizen. their action is just common theft

FFS. There’s some nasty feckers on here.

You should see what they are like on thievingscumbagstrackworld.com/forums

I’ll just have a sift through your post, then, to see if there’s anything I fancy.

Not the same at all.[/quote]

It is. It’s exactly the same. They stole their neighbour’s post.

You seem to think that, because the post was sent by a company and not an individual, it’s fair game to steal.

Most folk will see it as karma in action and if you do this to folk they will do shitty things back
Oh and the shitty thing back is still legal and arguably the actions of a good citizen. their action is just common theft

It’s the petty, nasty, passive aggressive nature of it.

The OP should of MTFU and went and knocked on their door asked for his parcel.

If he did this and they said they didn’t have it, when they put it up for sale he should went around and knocked on their door again. Or he could of bid on it and won it, then went to collect and not payed.

Gobuchul, I’m not sure you’ve understood the situation.

It’s only within the last 2 hours that I discovered it on eBay. There was no card left, QVC couldn’t tell us where specifically it had been delivered to and my initial post is that my first reaction is to go around but I don’t want to give them time to remove evidence or give them a heads up that we’re on to them.

Generally in our civilised society (and on our pretty normal street with most neighbours having decent moral standing) we tend not to go knocking on every house in the street in an accusatory fashion just incase something was delivered – the usual route is that the delivery company lets you know that the item has been left at ‘x’!

Even though e haven’t lost out and this is a ‘victim-less crime’, a theft has occurred and it needs dealing with so that they don’t think that they can smugly get away with it.

“Hi, I’m missing a delivery, I’ve chased it with the suppliers who’ve confirmed that it was definitely delivered here. Can I have it please?”

This seems to be the sensible option. If nothing else, it will hopefully make their heart drop into their stomach.

Some friends of mine had a case of wine delivered to them a while ago. It was left in their porch – right address on the label but they’d never heard of the addressee. So they kept it. Tut, tut. A month later, the second case arrived and this time they phoned the sender (Naked Wine’s sort of a setup) and told them.

The company told them they’d send a courier to pick it up but never did. A month later, another case turned up – so far as I know, they’ve been drinking free wine for over a year now.

“Hi, I’m missing a delivery, I’ve chased it with the suppliers who’ve confirmed that it was definitely delivered here. Can I have it please?”

I really like this approach as they’ll know that I have suspicions and that if anything goes missing again I’ll be on to them!

QVC have said that they consider the matter closed and that they don’t want to take further action.

They’ll just say “No it wasn’t, my wife signed a fake name!” 😆

Haha Dez, that would be brilliant!