Well, Well, Well, this is looking more and more like a case of credit card fraud, there has been some contact between Paypal, my mother and I. I was able to provide ParcelForce tracking information and a full email transcript between the ‘buyer’ and myself forwarded to Paypal and can only sit here and wait for the best outcome. It looks like someone in Russia was victim to a stolen credit card and the person that had won the auction and used the stolen credit card to pay for it is a very, very naughty person.

I’m concerned that I will end up being the only victim here as usually these credit card companies can brute force their way into getting money back from anyone and so the person who is going to lose the money is likely to be me. That’ll be 415 GBP + a fee straight out of my pocket for just being the trust worthy chap I am.

I have two great friends who are both from Russia so I suppose that meant that any potential warning flags that this Russian chap from eBay might be seriously dubious were quenched unconciously.

Oh well, I’ll wait and see what the verdict will be, if I lose the money then fair enough, you can say it’d be a lesson for me, ‘once bitten, twice shy’ and whatnot, but I’d rather just stomach the loss and go on trusting people than turn into some kind of paranoid old pessimist. I think having a positive outlook on life and people is important and in the long run is much kinder on your general well being. I won’t let a rotten apple spoil my barrel-full.

Hey hey, yesterday wasn’t all so bad, I had the pleasure of welcoming two very nice deaf people into the farm house here last night. I think they deserve their own post away from the current evils of credit card fraud via Paypal.  So let me just make a new post…