Meh
not sure if youâre trying to âout dumbâ your forum title but having a go at someone for 1st world problems when youâve just spent the last two weeks looking for a turntable and tonearm for your second system is championship window licking.
A tolchok to the grollies of The Independantâs journalist who filed this statement:
â[Fleetwood Macâs] Tusk is arguably the most punk record of the Seventies; the ultimate in nonconformist, anti-commercial artistic expressionâŚâ.
âArguablyâ you cunt? Fucking âARGUABLY!â
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You mean they should have put âunequivocallyâ or similar?
Royal Mail (again).
For reasons which arenât clear to me HMRC insist that the final tax return for a person who has died is submitted on paper. They give you a decent length of time to do it - in Claireâs case by the end of this month (Oct 24 in case anyoneâs reading this in the distant future).
It seemed wise to get RM to confirm the delivery so I paid them for â1st Class Signed Forâ and they took my money without making any comment.
Iâve been checking the tracking number every once in a while but thereâs no sign of them attempting to make the delivery. Indeed this morning theyâre still assuring me âWeâve got itâ
to which the obvious response is âEr, why ? Itâs been ten days now. How about you deliver it ?â.
A bit of Googling yesterday revealed that the HMRC postcode isnât tied to a particular delivery location and RM simply hand everything with BX9 1AS on to some centralised HMRC scanning office who digitise it and then distribute it inside the organisation. Because thereâs no actual letterbox it seems RM never âattempt to deliverâ HMRC letters. So they never complete the Signed For process and you never get confirmation that your mail has ended up at its destination.
I phoned HMRC yesterday and a nice lady (yup) confirmed that theyâve had the return on their system since Oct 15th, despite RMâs assertion to the contrary.
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Well, the good news is, you managed to contact a real human being!
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I had to finesse my way past the essentially useless AI-bot (might be OK if your question is both easy to answer and within the botâs scope) and then wait 35 minutes in the phone queue. But once I was talking to a human she proved to be helpful, efficient and well-connected in terms of being able to see Claireâs record. All I needed to know was whether the letter had arrived and she could tell me that it had, when Royal Mail couldnât.
It gets better , eBay have fully refunded the buyer and the amplifier hasnât been returned and after 1 call he has blocked me so Iâm down a grand and an amplifier .
eBay do not want fucking anything to do with it
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Really sorry to read this 
ebay is beyond a fucking joke - just a scammersâ playground now 
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Iâd go knock on his door over the weekend, assuming he lives at the shipping address.
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What an absolute fucking joke.
You could small claims him or personally I would use his address and sign him up to UKIP, Reform, National Front, Britain First and all the fucking nasty cunts I could think of.
PS use postal orders to pay for the memberships.
Donât forget the old favourite
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Donât understand why they paid him before you got the amp back.
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The fact that the buyer shows no sign of returning the amp even after they have been refunded would surely be deemed as theft legally?
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Thatâs what Iâm looking at next
I actually pursued till I got to speak to someone, the response was speak to citizens advice for legal advice after 30 mins of them actually reading the trail and it is long . Their end was you didnât respond to the return and your appeal doesnât negate this policy even though the appeal was placed within that period.
Tough shit is just tough shit to eat
Maybe try this.
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If anyone makes contact with me regarding it, Iâll get details as discreetly as possible.
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Hmm, what are the chances is the same guy?
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LP12 and chord speaker cables, clearly a cunt.
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