Arghhh, buyer threatening me with court. HELP!

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Link to other thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/ebay/1446033-A-buyer-wants-me-to-post-to-an-address-not-registered-to-his-account

Hope link works, never done one before.

This is what he has said.

By calling me a bully on a public forum you have libelled me. I have no issue with the rest of your feedback.
UK law is very clear on this issue. If the feedback response isn't amended within the timescale I have offered you, then further action will be taken. When deciding how to respond to this Eileen please be sure that this will be an issue for the courts to deal with, not eBay. You have commited a crime and I am giving you a chance to put it right. Please accept my offer.

What do I do?

ignore him - it is only your opinion. What an utter bully he is - how the hell did he find the thread anyway?

Let him take you to court and waste his money - is absolutely ridiculous. feedback is your opinion, nothing more.

Libel requires an individual to be personally identifiable, calling an un-named (or otherwise identified) person a bully on every forum in the land still won't be libel.

Honestly please do not worry - just ignore him. He has just proved you were right hasn't he - I think calling him a bully was more than generous!

well its only libellous under certain conditions here - might just be easier to change feedback to remove the reference to bully

He didn't find the thread, I called him a bully in the feedback I left.
Shall I just ignore him then

I would forward all emails on to ebay and ignore. Sounds like you are right and he sold the tickets. He sounds like he is panicing and trying to bully you. If he was innocent he wouldn't be "giving you a chance to put it right" and pleading with you to accept the "offer".

Also may be worth posting this in legal. I may be wrong but I always thought libel was a civil matter not a "crime".

yes do ignore it - a solicitor would laugh at him.

I would amend your feedback just for the sake of minimalising hassle. I doubt that he'd go to court, too expensive.

don't even reply to him - please don't worry.

I think he means ebays feedback forum when he states public forum.

oh right ok - either way, feedback doesn't identify the person and is your opinion - he does not have a leg to stand on.

Amend the feedback to call him a cunt

also your buyer has pulled this stunt before hasn't he - look at the feedback he has left for other sellers - they also refused to send to unregistered address.

I'm with tethersend. Threaten him with court for harassment.

Dickhead.

I agree with tethers - except sadly eBay won't accept language :(

Clearly this buyer is
Unreasonable and is
Not providing his real details;
Truly, I think he may be scamming.

he is selling tickets he doesn't own, and getting sellers to post them to alternative address but not doing it correctly.

Cunning buyer didn't
Understand me
Not wanting to post
To unknown address.

Thank you so much every body. Your advice has been brilliant fergoose, I'm just going to look at his feedback now.
tethersend, you had me in stitches
IllegitimateGruffaloChild, very clever

I was very worried, but you have all, really cheered me up.
Thank you

He's just full of it. Just ignore him.

Yes I will ignore him, that will piss him off more

I've looked at his feedback he definitely has form, dodgy bastard.

He doesn't know what he's talking about as libel is a civil rather than a criminal matter so his "you have committed a crime" is just drivel. And bringing a libel action is mindbuggeringly expensive. And you almost certainly didn't libel him anyway.

Ignore, ignore, ignore.