Over Four Years - and No Resolution!
This is a saga with numerous twists and turns but - the bottom line is quite simply that this author feels totally shafted. Who wouldn't, having been effectively swindled out of $1,650.00! The time has arrived when waiting and hoping has about reached the limit and, hey - if someone is not going to return money owed - the inevitable conclusion right now - there is little left as an option but to tell the whole sorry tale, which is based on documented fact. Apologies in advance for probable inevitable typo's in my own text.
The story is inevitably somewhat tedious and to present it without overly boring the reader must involve some breakdown into sections. The beginnings, starting in December of 2003, will be presented as email content and this should help set the scene. Comments will be interspersed between emails when suitable, and if cynicism shows through then it will have to seen as somewhat inevitable and hopefully undertsandable. Later content is based on private messaging as well, within a guns discussions forum.
I see broadly two scenarios when a debt is not repaid. The first is when the debtor maintains communication but does little or nothing - perhaps a constant statement of "the check is in the mail" - excuse after excuse, but hope remains alive - sort of! Then the other scenario - this one - where long periods go by with no communication at all, not even the occasional "keeping the flame lit" attempt, albeit with some excuses again - but something which at least helps maintain some optimism.
So - using the "Main Menu" button option, begin your perusal of this sorry affair, beginning with Emails 1, but wait - to start you off, here is the broadest outline you should read first - sorta 'get a feel' for what's coming ............
"Friend" from guns discussion board makes contact to inform of a "stellar deal", but one which he cannot finance as fast as he wants to secure the goods. "Am I interested?" ..... to which I replied yes - for about half the items assuming we could decide who has what. I take this in good faith and proceed to send two Money Orders to total value of $1,750.00, half the value of the items and so covering 'my share' - plus being enough to place as deposit and then wait for his portion to be generated, supposedly from his W2 when he got his rebate.
Motivation for entering into the potential deal? The plan was to purchase half of the inventory and keep only one or two items for self ..... the plan being then to move the other things on and recoupe much of money laid out. No way was $1,750.00 just waiting to be spent or squandered - no - it was to have been a prudent expenditure had it gone as planned.
What follows over time is where things start to get fishy to me, progressing then to more than fishy! Well that was the impression and remains so - make up your own minds.
I'll add this too - putting this site together is time consuming to the point of probably representing three days work, unpaid. Not done for any reason other than blowing smoke and, maybe too, helping someone else avoid feeling "had" - it sure has not been done just for pure entertainment either that's for sure!
Now start off with Emails 1.