Ian Cross: A New Kind Of Low-life
Recently I offered an item of furniture free on our local Freecycle group. Immediately there was quite a lot of interest, including an e-mail from someone calling himself Ian Cross which simply said, 'Is the item still available?' I replied by return, saying in similar terse fashion, 'Yes it is - it has only just gone on offer.' I heard nothing more that day from Ian Cross, but several other people were more forthcoming in their emails and one of them sounded like a worthy recipient of my generosity. So, I decided to give the item to that person, made arrangements for its collection, immediately posted an 'Item Taken' notice on the Freecycle website .
Over 24 hours later, and after the item had been collected by my chosen recipient, Ian Cross sent me a surprising email which stated, 'When can I come to collect the item, and what is your address?' I replied, 'Sorry, the item has gone - I posted a notice to that effect on the Freecycle forum.' Imagine my surprise, therefore, when Ian Cross immediately replied with an extremely offensive and threatening e-mail claiming that I had promised the item to him, that he'd had to hire a van to collect it, and that I had cost him the £20 non-refundable deposit he'd had to pay to book the van. There is no doubt in my mind from the threatening tone and mendacious nature of Ian Cross' e-mail that he was trying to extort money from me, and I wrote back to him rebutting his claims, and pointing out that his threats and demand for money amounted to extortion.
A wiser person would have left it there, but Ian Cross is not such a person, so he replied in an even more abusive fashion bleating on about how it was 'appauling' (sic) to accuse him of extortion, and that I am 'pompus (sic) and snobby' for refusing to reimburse his alleged financial losses, and that I 'should get a grip with reality'. At that point I reported Ian Cross to the Moderators of our Freecycle group for his threatening, abusive behaviour and his attempts to extort money, but not surprisingly I have received no response from them.
Frankly, I doubt that this is the first time that Ian Cross has tried this despicable technique of his to extort money from less able or vulnerable Freecyclers, so if anyone out there receives an email from him or one bearing the e-mail address ianinkent@yahoo.co.uk then they should immediately trash it after marking it as spam, for he, if it is indeed a he, is nothing other than a duplicitous, mendacious cheat and low-life would-be extortioner.
Over 24 hours later, and after the item had been collected by my chosen recipient, Ian Cross sent me a surprising email which stated, 'When can I come to collect the item, and what is your address?' I replied, 'Sorry, the item has gone - I posted a notice to that effect on the Freecycle forum.' Imagine my surprise, therefore, when Ian Cross immediately replied with an extremely offensive and threatening e-mail claiming that I had promised the item to him, that he'd had to hire a van to collect it, and that I had cost him the £20 non-refundable deposit he'd had to pay to book the van. There is no doubt in my mind from the threatening tone and mendacious nature of Ian Cross' e-mail that he was trying to extort money from me, and I wrote back to him rebutting his claims, and pointing out that his threats and demand for money amounted to extortion.
A wiser person would have left it there, but Ian Cross is not such a person, so he replied in an even more abusive fashion bleating on about how it was 'appauling' (sic) to accuse him of extortion, and that I am 'pompus (sic) and snobby' for refusing to reimburse his alleged financial losses, and that I 'should get a grip with reality'. At that point I reported Ian Cross to the Moderators of our Freecycle group for his threatening, abusive behaviour and his attempts to extort money, but not surprisingly I have received no response from them.
Frankly, I doubt that this is the first time that Ian Cross has tried this despicable technique of his to extort money from less able or vulnerable Freecyclers, so if anyone out there receives an email from him or one bearing the e-mail address ianinkent@yahoo.co.uk then they should immediately trash it after marking it as spam, for he, if it is indeed a he, is nothing other than a duplicitous, mendacious cheat and low-life would-be extortioner.
posted by The Merchant of Menace at 8:41 AM
1 Comments:
Nothing new about the mentality just the vector
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