Thanks Pagar. And thanks again for everybody's help here. I think I'll ask the offroadexpress administrators to delete this thread though. --- That's because I do think it is possible for people to "reform" and I don't think it is fair on Matt to leave a thread like this sitting on the Internet ...

Hi there Tahoogs and thanks for the post. Sounds like the same young man alright. You'll be pleased to know that we (myself and the Invercargil police) were able to track him down to his father's address (a farm just out of Invercargil as I remember). As is often the case, his father is both nice ...

Its possible (Although he doesn't state it or imply it) that he has quite 'innocently' used the photo as an example of the type of vehicle that he is wrecking I'm quite sure this would be HIS explanation. But there can be no doubt that using a photo of an entirely different vehicle is totally ...

Thanks Borg. Receiving THAT sort of well-considered advice is why I have recently been turned into an "internet forum junkie". (We have a whole world full of talent/experience at our disposal to make "life" better/easier/more-enjoyable/etc for us all.) Rightly or wrongly - I'm giving this "trader" a ...

Well looky here. This just landed in my Email Intray: ----- Original Message ----- From: matt H****** To: Tom D****** Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 3:03 PM Subject: RE: Trade Me -- A response to your question (Auction no.133017805) whats your postal addy ta?you wanted the duct aye? -----------Well ...

copy and paste from one of his earlier auctions....You didnt consider my first comment to well when i had said that you must have been waiting for the phone before you were willing to tranz money Really disappointed that you havent even bothered to query the phone....two weeks.....cmon ...

Thanks nstg8a. Bit hard to follow what's going on there but I assume Matt is at fault again. There's no way he can ever say he never got my money because I put it into his Southland Credit Union account 03 1752 #######.00 myself on 29 November and I have ample evidence to prove it. (And that account ...

Thanks Guys. My lack of confidence in the desire of our police force to really want to fight crime is why I haven't yet contacted them. I remember reading/seeing somewhere that the police have a "squad" set up specially for "Internet crime". Anyone know an Email address? (Surely if they're an ...

Bingo! With the help of the international cruiser community on IH8MUD I've found where Matt H******* of Southland (slarris_whanau) stole the picture of the FJ40 he was supposedly wrecking on New Zealand Trademe. Here's the link: m This cruiser is not even in New Zealand! Anyone know anything about ...

He put the deal through as 75c because he didn't want to pay Trademe their share of $75.

I think that's why Trademe wasted no time in chucking him off. (I doubt they care much about me getting ripped off compared to how much they care about getting ripped off themselves.)

I'll be damned! You're right IcedJohnno. Funny how I never noticed it was left-hand drive before.

Looks like there goes my chances of finding the real owner in NZ.

I'll go and post this on ih8mud now and we'll see what we get from there!

Thanks

Thanks Dave. But I already know who he is. (I even have his bank account details where my money went.) In cases like this, apparently the police aren't very interested because "it's only $75 and they have the BIG crimes to deal with". (Taking him to the small claims court is another option though. I ...

Hi folks. I'm new here so you don't know me. But if you want to know more about me, I post regularly as "lostmarbles" on ih8mud.com. Recently I bought an FJ40 part off Trademe from the following auction: m Do you recognise the vehicle shown in this auction? The reason I ask is because this person ...