http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190391024053

this is my old sail that TNT "lost" in transit. VERY funny how this guy has come accross it. beware it is not new. would love to know were this guy got it from! doesnt look like a windsurfer!??

I hope your sending some notice to Ebay and also TNT, as this sort of thing really sucks. Maybe print off some web pages before its sold as proof.

give the police a call also.

i would contact ebay and tell them the story , ask for the item to be suspended untill the problem is resolved,if the guy has enough balls too admit that it's not his sail & TNT will cop the freight, i feel for you my friend and i hope you get your sail back

I had my Van stolen in 2005, with all my windsurfing gear in it. The Van was covered by insurance, and I was able to get a better one with the payout.

4 years later, almost to the day, I spotted the windsurfing gear on ebay.

The ad was a beautie.... "mistral 2 concept" (it was a flow 266) "......comes with 2 sets of poles" ( 4 masts ) etc.

I alerted the police (one of them was a windsurfing mate), showed them detailed descriptions of the items which checked out with the list of stolen items I'd listed with them back in 2005. They went and recovered the gear for me.

Thanks to the boys in blue!! (only cost me a slab of Crownies!!)

kato said...

Bondalucci said...

I had my Van stolen in 2005, with all my windsurfing gear in it. The Van was covered by insurance, and I was able to get a better one with the payout.

4 years later, almost to the day, I spotted the windsurfing gear on ebay.

The ad was a beautie.... "mistral 2 concept" (it was a flow 266) "......comes with 2 sets of poles" ( 4 masts ) etc.

I alerted the police (one of them was a windsurfing mate), showed them detailed descriptions of the items which checked out with the list of stolen items I'd listed with them back in 2005. They went and recovered the gear for me.

Thanks to the boys in blue!! (only cost me a slab of Crownies!!)

Had a similar problem but pre interweb. Gear stolen and then advertised in the Trading Post 4 mths latter. Just went round with a large mate and some photos and asked nicely for my gear back. Don,t every buy "Hot" gear no matter how good the price.

What if it was the 2nd owner since the gear was stolen? Ie you were asking your gear back to someone who unknowingly bought it already for a decent sum of cash?

I was the winning bider on E-bay !!
I've noticed this thread after the guy just phoned me up. He told me he had been contacted by the owner who had informed him that the sail is not new. He bought the sail at an auction where TNT clear out lost stuff. He seemed like a pretty like a pretty honest bloke with little to hide. His opinion is since Hail received a pay out for the sail and he bought it legit, it is his to sell, which i think i agree with (allthough 350 seems a bit low, but thats hails beef with TNT i would say).

Ok so he apologised for misleading me (which may have been a genuine mistake) , and offered me the sail for what he payed, which i thought seemed ok. Only problem is since he's not a windsurfer its a bit hard to get him to discribe the condition to me. Hope this is not to cheaky Hail but what condition was that sail in ??!!

What does anyone else think of this situation, thoughts welcome ...

How do TNT "lose" things? For a start you can only use them if you have an account set up (or used to be the case). They have a fairly foolproof system of consignment notes in quadruplicate, it would all be computerised, it seems strange that an item couldn't be correlated with either the sender or consignee and designated "lost".

I don't know anything about TNT, but nothing in life is foolproof, some stuff must get lost now and again.

Dont worry dunko what he told me he paid for it is less than what Hail recieved from TNT, so no profiting from lost items there, aparentlly !!

I think I might ask this guy if he has a reciept, or can at lest tell me what auction it came from, but if he passes these tests got to assume everything is legit!!

If this is the case it would be really good to know what sort of condition that sail is in !!!!!

If not .......

i would have bidded myself on it but i have the exact same sail and love it, it got a workout in this arvos westerly.

no worries! lucky the windsurfing family isnt massive!!

Krisiz1 said...

So why would a guy who knows nothing about windsurfing, BUY a sail, on it's own, (be different if it was a complete set-up) in an auction??? That would be like me buying a racing car gearbox! It's no good to me, I dont know what to do with it, and most importantly, wouldn't know if theres even a market for it! Sounds dodge to me [}:)]

Two words --- JOUSTING STICKS. And in case you don't get the reference, another two words --- THE CASTLE. And if you still don't get what I mean, hire the movie and I think you'll understand.

People will buy and sell anything if they think they can make a buck out of it.