I seem to attract indignant wannabe "My father/friend/whatever is a lawyer, gimme my money back, or...!" morons these days...
This time it's a guy who bought an old phone in person. It's a phone I put out a local announcement out about one and a half year ago and it was sitting in its original packaging in a shelf. I loaded the battery half full and was starting to show him the phone's functions as working and that the extras are all there, he cut it short and said "is ok, is ok, just put it in here" (his knapsack) and he hurried away.
A short while later he messages me: "You sold me a phone that gets no reception!!! I want my money back right at once, or I'll go to the police because you sold stuff with falsified facts!!! Why you not say its defect!"
Me: "It wasn't defect, when I put the advertisement out. Did you try checking the settings?"
And "looked, there is no reception you sold a broken phone and said it would work that's a crime and I'm mad I paid twice the train and cost me atop of the 25euro and that's 30 for an inkompetent phone and you can decide whether you come to my place (PLACE) and gimme back my money at once or I'll file a charge because of selling a mobile phone falsiefied facts that is not good from you to sell broken things on ebay" and "I wanna my money back phone is broken I didn't pay for a boken phone whats the big idea?" and "I save all message and made an image from your advertisement you haven't mentioned that phone is broken" and "Answer me or I come to your home!! that's just not possible you sell defect devices here!! how associal is that please"
Kind of exactly like that. No punctuation. Very impatient, the messages came in in minutes intervals.
Luna says sorry, but also informs him of what she wrote in the advertisement, which included no gurantiess, no returns, ask questions before paying and moreover I had already offered showing everything to him and he was the one who declined.
"I wanna my money back you said all works I trust you you kept the no reception secret thats a crime so gimme my money back right at once!!!" and "don't make me mad you are not allowed to sell defect stuff without mentioning it that is fact!"
Luna: "I can't keep secret, what I don't know. Did you check the settings?"
"I just wanna my money back and thats now gimme my money back and all if fine" and "yes did thats getting to dumb for me doesn't even recognize the sim card"
Luna: "Hm? So 'It's not getting reception' turns into a 'Doesn't recognize the SIM card'? That's two quite diffrennt defects you are claiming there... So is it showing "No SIM card insertet"? Or is it not finding a signal?"
"both idioting around which shows its broken" and "I just wanna my money back **** somebody else but not me" and "we meet aslso no or I file a file you did not indicate or mention the flaw you are guilty of offence"
Luna: "This may also happen when the card does not sit right in the slor. Already tried cleaning them and blowing into the slot?"
"Did tried with 3 cards" yada yada yada repeats again he wants the money back. I tried googling to help out a bit, but he doesn't seem to get it and starts blaming me for falsified facts again. And yeah, because I say, no returns and point out I did say no returns and that he himself declined checking the phone, I must be a criminal who intentionally sold defect stuff, because why would I not take the phone back and give him his money back?
And: "I will file a charge my father is lawer don't let it come that far I come geht my money and give you the phone period then there is no stress"
Then proceeds to talk about "fairness". Oh well. I point out that just the same he claims that I falsely claim that I intentionally sold a broken phone I could just as well claim he'd broke it after he took it.
"that damage looks like water damage it can be proven how old water damage is please gimme me my money back and period" and "I come not to you and give you the phone back I buy a lo of things here which furthermore speaks formyself there were similiar problems with me". there were similiar problems with me. Yes he wrote that like that.
Luna: "Even then you would have to prove that I had knowledge of it, for it to turn me into a fraudster, do you know that?"
"So you noot wanna give me my money back? Me getting that right? think about it right, if you want to go this step I'm making concessions and just want to get my money back already and you get your phone back and period" and "should I come now and give you your phone back and you my money or do you really want to pull one on me?"
I point again onto what I wrote. And that really, I see no reason why I should be accomodating, when he was reviling me as a fraudster and associal, just because he did not want a demonstration.
"So you not going to gimme my money back?" and "I did not say you are associal but that it is associal when you knew it was broken"
Then he starts pulling of a show of being oh so sorry, he's just a poor student he needs it for university contacts. Well, I did offer him the old phone of my mother (not a smartphone and without cables and probably working but not sure) for free for accomodation. He continues to plead onto my "humaness". He also needs a working phone fast this day because he needs whatsapp to organize a bowle. (He wrote bowle, but that means punchbowl. No idea what he wanted to say. My best guess he means bowling. Or is that a drinking party or what? At any rate, yeah sure, has a lot to do wih university and studiying.)
Did not answer to that immediately, cause I went to eat something.
Less than half an hour later he comes with a most indignant message:
"my father has being a lawyer for 2 years with contacts I am really making concession just gimme back my money please besides I know where you live and I don't like being jerked around. I don't wanna stress I just wanna my money back if you are not willing to gimme my money back I will think what I will do whether to file a charge or wait or drop by unexpected and get back my money no matter how I have no pity with fraudsters fun play is ends now you sell defect products and talk about goodwill? you can't be serious your're in for a high jump I surely promise you that!! stupid of you that you told a total stranger where you live and **** him... you will refret that I promise. you made a mistake which you must take resposibility and I will make sure personally and perhaps I come today perhaps tommorow and perhabts in a week fact is I will definetly come and get what is mine whethe with or without violence I don't care people like you belong behind bars you **** me willingly and such people belong hinter bars and beat up no pride and dignity. I will come!!! you can call the police if you want they can't me nothing they can't stay before your door at all time and I will get MY MONEY back period full stop!!! my money I give you was for a phone you claimed to be working and you transacted a sell with falsified facts that alone speaks against you so just you wait it's comme for you and faster than you lieven so then until right away or until tommorow let yourself get surprised we will se us that I promise you here and now!!!"
I actually even doubt this guy is in university. How can you study and not use commas even once? I'm actually surprised he had managed caps in the first messages, but those got ditched complete in the last message, too. (Doesn't translate into English, as English has no caps.)
I wrote him back "So back to treats, this time treating with violence and clear implications of assaults? That's more than obviously coercion via treats. You, the alleged son of a lawyer, should probably get it explained by him."
No answer to that since.
Well, I don't think I should be scared. I never leave out the door without my bycicle, which I could still just ram into him if push comes to shove, but really, how dumb must such people be to treat filing a charge while doing something plain worthy of being filed at themselves? I'm rather curious whether this guy actually has the balls to indeed file a charge like the last one. With that last message I definitely hold the upper hand to make it backfire on him.
