A couple of months ago I sold an old Range Rover on Ebay. It was sold as spares and went for £150.
The bloke turned up with a trailer behind his Ranjy.
The spare Ranjy has no battery so I reluctantly took the brand new one off my kit just to get the old bus onto the trailer. I told him that the battery was off another car and he wasn't keeping it!
Then we noticed the towbar on the blokes Rangy was cracked!
I spent two hours rolling in slush in a snow storm taking the towbar off the spares Rover whilst the other chap and his mate took the cracked one off. We soon had the good towbar fitted and the trailer attached. The chap mentioned he was after some panels for the RR and I happened to have a few new ones that I bought for the scrapper before I got bored with it so I let him have them.
When he came to pay, he only had twenty's, so I let him have it for £140 and wave him goodbye.
So this blokes got three hours of my time, two hundred quids worth of new panels a RR for spares (that was in better condition than the one he turned up in!), and my brand new £90 battery! In all the excitement, we forgot to take it off.
By the time I realised, he was almost home in Mansfield. I sent him a text saying that I would collect the battery the following weekend as I was in that area. He text back saying that was OK.
I tried 'phoning as I got close but there was no answer. I tried several times during the weekend but still no reply.
i 'phoned him a couple of weeks later on my GFs 'phone and he answered but then said I had the wrong number!

Now I don't mind driving down to Mansfield to collect the battery but it would be nice to know he would be there when I got there! I'm sure if I turned up on the doorstep he'd give me the battery back as he wasn't that big and seemed a fairly nice chap. He's just chancing the fact that I won't be driving a four hour return journey just to collect a poxy battery. To tell the truth, it would cost more in fuel to go and collect it but it's my battery!!!
What now? I realise that y battery has a new home so what stunts can I play on him?
A load of Readymix o his doorstep?

Well for a start you can contact Ebay and get his address

Once armed with his address - I'd wage a war of Pizza deliveries, Funeral Services, Taxi's etc.

The good thing is - if you ring all the taxis and keep doing it - his address will get blacklisted

Also - sign him up for every single spam mail campaign on the internet - P0RN etc .

Then after a month of this - I'd turn up and collect my battery from a VERY HAGGARD individual

I have his address. I got the postcode from the Ebay invoice but his address was a bit vague so I got his home number from one of his previous listings and checked it with an online 192 thingy.
Hmmm Pizza deliveries. I could get some taxi's to collect the pizzas.....

whitby to mansfield and back is a good old drive.

I think this one comes under the "life's a bitch sometimes" banner, and you'll just have to let it go.

Just think, it's better than the day I drove past a horse slightly too fast and it ended up costing me £1600 to be done for "driving without reasonable consideration for other road users"

Tis a bitch, but sometimes life is. Let it go and sometime fate will work the other way round and something will fall into your lap!

PS don't think most of the other suggestions are good ideas, tit for tat never works, but signing him up for some porn publications could be amusing and light hearted enough and still give you at least some satisfaction!!!

sadly mate you were to nice

these days you get nothing for being 'nice'

apart from used

where as if your an arrogant wankie youll get full respect of most and theyll fall over themselves to help you

only a minority will appreciate you being helpful

put his number up on here and ill get your stuff back

he thinks hes having a laugh

chris

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tit for tat never works

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ah, the old "don;t have the right money" trick.

Unfortunatley you have to put it down to experience and not be so helpful for the future - you have been had I'm afraid.

As for battery, is it worth the hassle etc: If you think it is, then jchances are Rangie is out on the front so just open it up and remove your battery.

As for pizza etc: stuff, although it wold be nice to have some sort of revenge, you're time would better spend on something more constructive. Negative feedback natrually!.

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Originally posted by zxrlocost
sadly mate you were to nice

these days you get nothing for being 'nice'

apart from used

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i still try and treat people how i like to be treated. Yeah i get crapped on, but i also meet decent blokes along the way and i think the others get there comeuppance eventually.

I used to say alright to people in my street if I walked past them but slowly Ive noticed(and Im only 22)

'that it was always me saying it first' and if it wasnt for me saying anything they would just walk past me Blank

so I thought feckem

and now I blatantly jump at them looking really happy saying hello and waving like a girlie at the same time

I actually work in Mansfield, so give me his address and I'll pop round one afternoon and collect if for ya. I'm sure that from here, we can get it back to you the Locost way If he's out working during the day, I'm sure you could get him to leave the battery out for me to collect

Phil

I was once made redundant from a job, and the official reason for my selection was that I was "a nice bloke".

No, REALLY!

David

go to mansfield and talk to a local gang of lads, buy £20 of spray paint and give to the gang, tell them this guy screwed you over and you want revenge, im sure they would be happy to obligue (spelling), give the gang £50 to get some weed, job done!

it will cost him far more to get rid of the graffiti, lol, then ring the taxi's pizza's etc and say its the house that looks like a drug den!

At least you've cheered me up a bit!
I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm not going to get the battery back. If anyone fancies calling by Farnsfield Court to collect, I'll pay you in Jaffa Cakes and beer!
The revenge thing would probably bite me in the hoop as he knows my address and there are only a couple of take aways in Whitby and I don't want to upset them (even though I would lose weight!), when he does the same back!
As for the bein nice thing..........
I always try to be nice. Sometimes, it happens back to me but as far as I can remember, it has only happened on this forum! (Cheers folks). I once stopped to help an elderly couple who had broken down. After they had gone, I noticed my toolbag out of my boot had gone.........

As my old Grandad used to say, "he who sits by the river long enough, will see the body of the enemy floating by....." Either he was chinese or he stole the phrase and accent off someone else. He also used to say " he who hesitates, er....what was I saying?" He went a bit mad before he died.

Any hooooo. Cheers once again chaps.

Did you read my last post, or do you not want your battery back?

Phil

Cheers Mr Hellfire. I'll U2U the address when I dig it out in the morning.
I wasn't sure if you were serious!!

thats the way the world is today, though its always had people like that. my dad is a helpful and nice person, helping peeps who have broken down etc but has been taken for a ride many a time.

i do try to be a niceperson, i think i am pretty good in this modern world. one thing that keeps happening to me is passing ATM's beeping at me do i want me time. yup someone left there card in there. but being the nice guy i am, i took the card out and handed it in to the bank. has happened twice now to me.

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remember that two wrongs will never make a right. It might make you feel better, but then the world would be in a downward spiral of escalating miserableness.

And if you think the world is already going downhill, well, its never too late to change it.

Regarding the battery, you need to get it back. Its not hard to get it without resorting to violence or revenge, im sure the hellfire lads will sort it politely

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Originally posted by Hellfire
I actually work in Mansfield, so give me his address and I'll pop round one afternoon and collect if for ya. I'm sure that from here, we can get it back to you the Locost way If he's out working during the day, I'm sure you could get him to leave the battery out for me to collect

Phil

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Originally posted by JoelP
remember that two wrongs will never make a right. It might make you feel better, but then the world would be in a downward spiral of escalating miserableness.

And if you think the world is already going downhill, well, its never too late to change it.

Regarding the battery, you need to get it back. Its not hard to get it without resorting to violence or revenge, im sure the hellfire lads will sort it politely

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Phil 'chopper' Hellfire

Just been round to where he lives but without a house number, he won't be that easy to find. No sign of any Range Rovers whatsoever. I have his home phone number, name and address (apart from house number) so does anyone know of a website that will give me the house number? I've tried directory enquiries to no avail.

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Originally posted by Hellfire
Just been round to where he lives but without a house number, he won't be that easy to find. No sign of any Range Rovers whatsoever. I have his home phone number, name and address (apart from house number) so does anyone know of a website that will give me the house number? I've tried directory enquiries to no avail.

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Local library should have a copy of the electoral roll.

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Originally posted by jack trolley
Local library should have a copy of the electoral roll.

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Originally posted by flak monkey

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Originally posted by jack trolley
Local library should have a copy of the electoral roll.

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http://www.tracesmart.co.uk/

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You're a superstar hellfire. I owe you many Jaffa Cakes.

Only just read the post, that's about 5/6 miles from me, Hellfire u2u addy ect I can have a look see whats appertaining.........

Jon, you have U2U.

Ta, will do a spot of reconnaissance over the weekend, did I tell anyone I had a fuel tank for sale on ebay ?

As said before ill be coming back up North on Wednesday. Would love to help reaying the battery and catch up with some of the core LCB team (especially seeing as i missed the convoy - did i mention that before?????)

OK, just to keep you updated, I visited the other address earlier on and unfortunately, there were no signs of any Range Rovers. I knocked on the door and there was no answer. Probably out at work. I'll try again later but theres still a glimmer of hope.

Phil

Cheers Phil. You're my Knight in shining carbon fibre........

Phil, i have just U2U'd you my mobile number and some details. If you get battery by say Wed lunchtime i should be able to collect and relay up North. Failing that i will probs be doing same journey in next couple of weeks.

Darren.