He wants his money back

[arjay]

Id keep/sell the boxes as a fee for my services

 

[nachogrande]

OTOH

Got a dog & a pooper scooper? Return the boxes he wants with a surprise inside & messages written all over the outside of the boxes. Petty/ immature/ illegal??? Probly.

 

[500SNW]

I would take the original box shipment and return them to the seller. Make it clear that any future dealing between her and your "friend" would not involve you. Sometimes you just have to eat an expense like the $20 and just write it off to experience!
Jim

That's an optimistic POV. I'd say the OP has lost, by no fault of their own, both the friend in SC...and any chance of friendship with the neighbor.

 

[TTSH]

That's an optimistic POV. I'd say the OP has lost, by no fault of their own, both the friend in SC...and any chance of friendship with the neighbor.

Nothing here that a couple GoFundMe pages couldn't fix. Everybody stays whole and maybe even makes a few bucks.

Isn't life grand in this brave new Internet world of ours?

 

[Wyo]

So why couldn't the original seller ship these boxes himself? Nice of you to try to help out, but I don't understand why either of these goofs thought they needed to involve a third party. What, were the seller's legs broken? He couldn't figure out how to ship this stuff on his own?

 

[handejector]

He also packed up the boxes and returned them to me, demanding I get with the seller and get those missing boxes or a refund. He sent them to my old address, where I moved from two years ago. A year after a forwarding order would of expired, had I filed one.
In closing, the box of boxes had no return address so it likely went to Dead Letter.

Just FYI-
IF you or he has a tracking number, the package can be re-routed.
The PO charges for the service, but it might be worth it, depending on the value.
Just letting you know in case you or he wishes to recover them.

 

[rwsmith]

I don't think he lost a friiend at all...

That's an optimistic POV. I'd say the OP has lost, by no fault of their own, both the friend in SC...and any chance of friendship with the neighbor.

It sounds like like he was a friend only as long as he could get stuff out of the OP. In other words, not a real friend at all.

 

[wingriderz]

Good thing...the guy moved to SC. Don't eat out one meal (you'll save 20 bucks)...fix a good sandwich, get a cold beer...sit on the deck and enjoy the day. Crummy acting people are always looking over their shoulder for the karma truck....cause it is coming their way.

Yes I have an ex employer got a big ole truck delivery coming. Great thing he will never know when .

 

[Rastoff]

No problem, I got seven boxes from the seller's wife, she works nearby, and I mailed them off within a few days.

This sounds like a set up to me. I mean, if the seller's wife can take them to you, she can take them to the USPS.

Unless this was a personal friend, I wouldn't have done it. Further, I would have asked for the shipping money up front. Further still, if he used to live near you, he should have known by the address that it was not where you live now.

Personally, I don't think he actually shipped the boxes back.

 

[TTSH]

Just FYI-
IF you or he has a tracking number, the package can be re-routed.
The PO charges for the service, but it might be worth it, depending on the value.
Just letting you know in case you or he wishes to recover them.

I'll go one step further and add that even if the sender somehow didn't provide a return address and lost his tracking number , he can still go to the post office where he mailed it and politely ask for them to research the parcel tracking number by date, time of mailing and destination zip code. I had to do that once (i.e., have them research a lost tracking number) and they were actually very nice about it. Takes them a few minutes to do that, so best to ask them that favor during a quiet time.

 

[Doug627]

Just karma. What goes around, comes around.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

When people fly off the handle and get too angry over something trivial, I write them off as immature and unstable and put them on my "Avoid" list.

 

[ColbyBruce]

The seller was a friend of mine; I used to deliver mail where he worked. He had by-pass surgery and could not drive at the time. The buyer couldn't wait, wanted the boxes a.s.a.p., but waited a few weeks to open it.

Buyer said he sent them back to me, parcel post, in a different box, as his wife threw out the one I used. He was in a hurry and did not bother to include his return address. He asked how I intended to retrieve that package and make this right.

I wished him a nice life and told him never to bother me again. I retired from the USPS and I could of given him a few suggestions on recovering his box but he would of expected me to do it. That is not going to happen.

A lot of packages go through the mail with no return address, it used to astound me that people were so careless. This guy is no loss to me. His loss is due to his own behavior.

 

[gregintenn]

I'd probably put in the effort to get all the boxes together, and send him an email video of them burning in my driveway while I roasted a hotdog on a stick over the flame.


This guy sounds like the best kind of neighbor he can be....an ex-neighbor.

 

[Whitwabit]

I found to never get involved with someone's else's property .. if a friend wants something like that done would tell them that they had all the info to do it themselves .. sorry I just wouldn't have done it !! I would not gotten involved as a third party which you allowed yourself to be ..

 

[Fishslayer]

Too bad about the $20, I'd write it off like I would a small dollar loan I wouldn't expect back.
Tell 'em all to pound sand starting with the ex neighbor who should have made his own arrangements with the seller.

That was my first thought. The seller would mail them himself?

 

[Bozz10mm]

I can't figure out why he sent the ones back that he did receive. LOL, and then wants you to find the lost box he sent to the wrong address with no return address. He's out of his mind. Bless his heart.

 

[misswired]

Money is an excellent dead~ beat repellent....haven't seen the last friend that borrowed money in five years.

 

[BC38]

My dad would say one of two things to He wants his money back...

Either...

Tell him to want in one hand and defecate in the other and see which gets full first.

or

Yeah? Well, people in Hades want ice water too!

Though Dad would have been a little less PG with both of the words in italics...

 

[RobertJ.]

I wouldn't worry about him finding out he's a jerk, I'm sure he and everyone else already knows it.

Others probably know, but in my experience, jerks rarely know they are jerks. It's always someone else's fault, never their own.

Being able to wash your hands of the whole deal and only be out 20 bucks doesn't seem too terrible.

But I would send him the text from the seller's wife, and thank him for having confidence in your honesty.