Your consumer protection laws down there are horrendous! I was only reading yesterday about the number of people who were struggling to get money back for holidays and flights that had been cancelled and how laws protecting consumers were much stronger in the US and Europe.
The problem with Paypal is NEVER use Friends and family as then you have zero protection so for anyone wanting PP payments, don't let them trick you into FnF.
Theres no lesson to be learned here, no self flagellation. You were robbed and YOU are the victim.
As for the doors, John Craddock have loads of new ones. Get them to drop them on a pallet, get a price from www.pallet2ship.com and then thye will arrange to pick them up and ship them out. I'm sure it would be a fraction of AUD$6K you've been quoted.
https://www.johncraddockltd.co.uk/land-rover-defender/defender-90-and-110/parts/body-and-fittings/front-door-and-fittings/
Best wishes :-)
Thanks mate. It's a bit frustrating. I think there's more protection if it's over 500, but I think the scammer knew that - hence why he was doing it for small amounts. I think we were so keen to solve this door problem it made us a little more blind to the scam. I'll look into that site - we keep finding shipping is pretty pricey on top of the doors, but even if we could knock it down to 4k with shipping we'd be happy. It's a bit depressing! Thanks a lot for your comment though, Hive is cheering me up a little. xx
You're welcome. I use pallet2ship.com to ship stuff to Thailand where we sell books. They quote online and I get them to pick up at the supplier and then 6 weeks later they arrive here! Not expensive by sea freight. Best wishes and good luck
Thanks mate - check out the cool car pic on one of these comments, hopefully I can pick up one of those and be done with it :P
Fingers crossed.
Either that or we'll do a pikey fix on the current doors and deal with it down the track.
LOL@pikey fix! Yet another word we're not supposed to use in the UK these days! In your case, we'd say you were robbed by a thieving pikey bastard!
PROPER Landie! This is Khan conversion I saw in Kanchanburi! Loads of them here...I wonder whether you could buy some here and ship as its closer?
