[matteo68]

Wellk3881 is a complete fraud - he offered a set of Ampliluxes for sale for $400 (and we know they’re as rare as hens teeth) on here and I’d been emailing John Audette about wanting some and John sent me the link to his ad. I sent him a PM offering $350 including shipping to the UK, which he (surprisingly) accepted and I paid him by PayPal - but stupidly I agreed to pay by Friends and Family as everyone seems to be wanting to avoid PP fees nowadays. I know I should have checked out how many posts he’d made etc, and insisted on paying by PP Goods and Services (and paying his fees if necessary) but I didn’t, and went ahead and paid him.

He was communicating regularly on Whatsapp with me about my address etc and then started dragging his feet about not being able to get to the post office again (where he’d supposedly left the parcel but not paid for the postage yet) due to work commitments, and then messaged me to say he’d discovered the shipping cost to the UK was a lot more than he was expecting, partly because the items are fragile and the shipping box is large. I then - I know, stupidly - agreed to send him another $100.

I then noticed he’d bumped his ad for the lights after I’d paid him and asked him what he thought he was doing and that he should have changed the post to sold. He apologised and duly did amend his post, and removed the picture (which was probably an image he’d grabbed off Google), but I had screenshotted his post before he did so). This really got me wondering whether he was a fraud as you can imagine.

After another week of delay he finally confirmed he had done an online customs declaration and that the lights had been shipped but would send me the tracking number when he was next able to get to the post office, which was over a week ago, and has since failed to reply to any of my messages asking for the tracking number. I have told him I am going to report him on here as a fraud and a scammer today and have had no reply. I therefore feel I have been scammed out of $400 and won’t be getting that back (we all make mistakes) but I just wanted to add my experience of this guy - his name on PayPal is Kinyavu Kyondo by the way - so that others don’t make the same stupid mistake as I did.