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Darren:

--- Quote from: dsquire on January 08, 2010, 10:48:02 PM ---Darren

Here is a quote of the first 2 lines of the news story the link takes one to.

"Tuesday, 8 July, 2003, 09:18 GMT 10:18 UK
Paypal cover falls short in UK"

That story is 6 and a half years old! Has anything changed since then?

Are UK customers covered? Yes or No? If No then why is Paypal taking money back in all the incidents that you and others have been reporting?

Darren, I feel sorry for you as I don't like to see you or anybody else get ripped off especially when you pay extra to get a better product or service only to get what you got. The other thing is that you can take them to court and win but it will cost you money and you can't get blood out of a stone.  :(

Cheers  :beer:

Don




--- End quote ---

Hi Don, I don't really know how things are with Paypal from day to day as the rules seem to change weekly. That is no exaggeration. The only way to know what the rules are today is to read the rules today.

I realise that report was old, but it does at least show that the problems are not new and therefore likely to continue as they are.

As for going to court, the "Small Claims Court" here in the UK for such matters, I've been there and done that before. Won, etc, taken it back to court because I was not re-imbursed, still no money and never did get any. They guy had a whole string of court claims against him.
In this country, unless it's some sort of authority then you really don't have to pay any fines or court orders.

And from the reaction these couriers know this too well.



Nope, best way these days is to use the web. Besides, I wouldn't want to see anyone here get ripped off the same way and I would hope if anyone had similar experiences with any other fraudsters then they let us all know about it.

Simple mistakes you have to accept, that's part of being human.
Plain ripping people off is another issue altogether.

The web is great for scam artists, but we can use it too ....  :thumbup:

John Stevenson:
For anyone wanting machinery moved look here.

http://www.homeworkshop.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8:landylift&catid=18:traders&Itemid=20

I have never used Steve Cox at Landylift  but we run the home workshop advert site and regularly get posts to say what a good job this guy has done, we have never had one complaint .

John S.

Darren:
I've read nothing but good things about Steve Cox on the net ...  :clap:

Unfortunately me being where I am and Steve being where he is and the lathe being where it was didn't make things particularly practical or cheap. Nobodies fault, just the way it is.

The people I used should have made much more sense due to the better logistics.

Live and learn, recommendation is everything in these situations.

No1_sonuk:
Might be worth having a word with the Office of Fair Trading.  If that company says they'll do it one way, then deliberately does it so differently, the OFT might be interested.

Darren:
Unfortunately the "contract" was agreed verbally over the phone ... so pursuing the issue would be rather difficult.

Best I can do is to warn others as I have done ... My lathe despite everything survived, but it could easily have been a very different story.
I wouldn't like to see anyone here have to deal with these people.

I was lucky in a way, I have other people I could call upon to help at the time. Many of you I guess could have been rather stuck in a similar situation.

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