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Originally Posted by Rickoshea
I have sympathy with your son in law’s loss but it would appear he bought a product he had not seem from a man he had never met and agreed to transfer the money outside of eBay before the product was delivered. Who would have thought anything could go wrong?
His only defence was the man was charming - but this is surely true of all successful conmen?
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The signs were there. I saw the evidence after the event. Emails were clearly poor or stumbling english. Delivery on Bank Holiday Monday? Like you say, bought unseen. He failed to step back and realise what he was getting into. Basic common sense left him completely. Sympathy yes but he was a fool with his money. I said to his face a couple of years ago that I thought he was undiagnosed Bi Polar. Perhaps he had a manic or euphoric episode that blinded his reality and judgment. It gets more complicated the more I analyse it.