My phone (a Nokia Communicator 9100) was dying, so I thought I’d go along to Ebay to replace it. I found a nice Nokia Communicator 9500 (local mirror - removed - funny story, my local mirror of the phone’s ebay page was picked up and thought to be a phishing attack! lols, anyway, removing all links to the content (boring anyway) and killing the files. wow. fun times. heart rate subsides) and won it for STG£155. I paid the money immediately with paypal, and waited for the phone.

And waited.

And waited.

I did a little research, and it turns out the seller, 2004kares, had bought the phone on the 7th of May for STG£205 (local mirror), so I think *crap*, he’s going to stiff me rather than take the hit. So I get his contact details from ebay and start calling.

And calling.

And calling.

Eventually, after multiple phone calls he sends me the phone, and a refund of STG£10 because of the delay. Fine, I think, we’ll get the phone.

So the phone arrives in the post.

And it’s busted. Completely.

Arse!

I brought it along to the local Nokia Center to have a look at it, and basically it is completely fucked. It was dropped at some point in it’s life, and the fascia came off. All it needed to fix it was to have two little metal clips bent back, but instead of doing that, some loon had used SUPERGLUE(!) to repair the phone. Ever notice than when using superglue there is a horrible stink? Thats because of the SOLVENTS in the glue. The solvents that went through the phone and FRIED the fucking thing. Now I don’t know who superglued the phone, but I do care that the damn thing was sold to me on Ebay. Some people are just dishonest to the core.

I’ve put in a claim with paypal, because he is not answering his mobile anymore, and his work says he is no longer there.

This blows

What the hell are you supposed to do when this happens? I’m out STG£145 plus postage, and I have no bloody phone.