Sold goods, paid for, but uncollected over 5 years, what to do ?

[ollie989898]

I swear TFF gets more 'interesting' by the week. Re-read this thread in the eyes of someone new to the forum and 'unfamiliar with it's ways'.

OP: 'sold an item to someone some time ago and he hasn't collected it'.

Rest of forum: 'check if he's dead'.


Quite the moral quandary, one must agree.

 

[JCMaloney]

I swear TFF gets more 'interesting' by the week. Re-read this thread in the eyes of someone new to the forum and 'unfamiliar with it's ways'.

OP: 'sold an item to someone some time ago and he hasn't collected it'.

Rest of forum: 'check if he's dead'.


Quite the moral quandary, one must agree.

Tis the harsh reality of life.

Its not like the OP hasn`t already gone above & beyond.

You never know it might be something useful.....

 

[Old apprentice]

After 6 years you can't claim against some one who owes you money. So would be the same as selling something like you describe ?

 

[Guiggs]

Why are you even bothered?
He's had ample opportunities to collect and you even went out of your way to meet him he didn't have the decency to show up.
The money is yours, keep it and do what you like with the goods, you'll not here from him again.

 

[borderterribles]

I swear TFF gets more 'interesting' by the week. Re-read this thread in the eyes of someone new to the forum and 'unfamiliar with it's ways'.

OP: 'sold an item to someone some time ago and he hasn't collected it'.

Rest of forum: 'check if he's dead'.


Quite the moral quandary, one must agree.

True enough @ollie989898 , but we are in an industry where the norm is to do it till you drop, hence the acceptance on here that is what may have happened.

 

[Happy at it]

Just saw this thread. Thanks @Pennine Ploughing, I'm so sorry I lost your contact details and have been hoping to be able to find you. Sorry for messing you about. Would it be OK to send me my £200 back for the thing I definitely bought from you, to allow you to sell away at the thing that was bought. Will pm my new details...

 

[som farmer]

mate sold a generator at his farm sale, £6,000 worth, still there 4 if not 5 yrs on, rung the chap etc, told auctioneers - who were not interested.

damn certain l wouldn't leave £6,000 spent, and not collected.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

mate sold a generator at his farm sale, £6,000 worth, still there 4 if not 5 yrs on, rung the chap etc, told auctioneers - who were not interested.

damn certain l wouldn't leave £6,000 spent, and not collected.

Blimey, @Happy at it gets about

 

[wr.]

14 years ago, my brother sold an old cider press to a chap who came to see it and paid cash up front. He was going to come soon to pick it up.
It's still here and we haven't a clue who he was or where he was from. I bet if we resold it, he'd turn up to collect the following week. Mind you, I bet it's worth a fair bit more now that 14 years ago.

 

[Red Fred]

We had a vintage car business in one of our units who left suddenly and for years, folks would turn up out of the blue asking if they could have the stuff back that they left to be worked on or had lent them. I found it pretty stressful as I was having to sort out the mess left by the tenants as well as facing their unhappy clients who seemed to think I was responsible, Even 10 years later, and with completely new tenants established, it still surfaces every now and then.
I have found that since so many folks have popped their clogs or moved on, I can use their passing as an excuse, eg "It's before my time mate, mum was still here then running things and she's been gone 5 years so no one remembers it".

 

[Happy at it]

Guess everyone has good intentions to do things and if it's left past a certain time that they don't want to show themselves up by coming for it.

Find it hard chasing people for a bill or working with boys that leave work unfinished or wont do as they say.....