Great, thanks very much Gary; live and learn :).

Thanks very much Gary; exactly what I was looking for :).

Oh, and Merry Christmas to you and yours as well. Thank you 😊

Not long afterwards I received this one below. Within four weeks indeed. This is not right and I feel Trademe are in collusion with this nasty piece of work (call me paranoid 😬🙂)- or else they don’t like being criticised and so are drawing it out as well. It’s just not good enough. ‘Hi Claire, ** You can’t reply directly to this email but we will get in touch with you as soon as we can ** I'm sorry to hear that your dispute for the Apple iPhone SE 2020 64GB Black New Battery (Grade 1 - As New) *Free Case, Sc... (reference P219274641) is still not resolved. As you paid through the Pay...

Received this email overnight; of course I clicked on the no resolution Hi Claire, ** You can’t reply directly to this email ** Recently you contacted us about the listing Apple iPhone SE 2020 64GB Black New Battery (Grade 1 - As New) *Free Case, Sc... (reference P219274641). We have reviewed the seller's membership and directed them to resolve this trade. Please confirm whether the trade has been sorted out, or not, by clicking here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/complaints?report_id=324643 If you are having any issues clicking on the link, please copy and paste it into your browser. Reg...

All good; us ‘peons’ have to stick to together 👍😁

For sure; I’ve had the odd minor setback with a couple of sellers, and I must say, Trademe were quite helpful those two times. But as I say, minor, with minor amounts of money. And the sellers weren’t dropkicks like this one now. The amount of money involved in this debacle is significant to me, if not to the dropkick and Trademe. Yes, 99.9% of the sellers I’ve dealt with here are fantastic :). So i shouldn’t grizzle; if the percentage was reversed, then id be entitled to :).

Thank you for your input too S; appears to be the way of the world this ‘care less’ attitude. I use Ping always unless the seller doesn’t facilitate it, which is not very often. Yes, patience; not always easy when you’re dealing with people who don’t do the ‘proper’ thing. Lying/dishonesty gets my goat no end; however, as it’s pretty rife in business these days I’ll have to learn not to let it and do my business with those you can trust; who have been seen to be trustworthy. :).

Hi Callum I did wonder about the ‘resetting the clock’ thing, just extremely frustrated with the lack of action, this nasty piece of work being able to get away with his rubbish.

Good morning S I paid by Ping; but Trademe don’t appear to be interested in the whole thing. Thanks for your good wishes. To be clear, @Callum, I have not as yet gone to the disputes tribunal, just notified Trademe several times through the dispute resolution page from my won page. I am very disappointed with Trademe; but it just proves that ‘big business’ are not interested in the ‘little feller’; as long as they’ve got the bucks rolling in, that’s all that matters. I certainly won’t be using Trademe much anymore; which won’t worry them at all I guess. Big lesson learned.