I live in Ontario Canada and found a guy on kijiji (like craigslist) who sharpens all kinds of blades out of the back of his truck and asked if he’d sharpen my sword. He said he’d do it for $60 and so he came and started working on it. After a bit he said it will take much more work than he thought and that hes gonna have to take it with him and work on it for a few days. he also said that hes going to charge me $80 instead because its a lot more work than expected. (the blade was completely blunt). So i have him the money (yeah i know i shouldn’t have paid him before i got it back) and he went on his way.
Weeks pass and multiple times he says that its ready and he just needs to bring it over. Says he wil bring it “tomorrow” so many times. Eventually i said just cut the crap and tell me how long you need to finish. He said he needed another 9 days. After the 9 days passed it was the same thing. Constantly ducking my messages or saying that he will bring it tomorrow but never comes. Its been 2 months and a week since i gave it to him and he just wont give it back. I do not know what to do to get it back. any advice?
EDIT: Went to police station and showed cop the proof. He called the guy and scared the shit outta him. I got my sword back a few hours later. Thanks guys
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Since it’s been over two months, gather all your evidence including messages, payment proof, and agreements. Contact local authorities or file a police report for theft. You should also report him on Kijiji and consider taking the matter to small claims court if the sword’s value is significant.
A guy who sharpens swords out of the back of his truck, no more internet for me today
Go and get it.
If the website is anything like Craigslist and you don’t have the guys info/address, it sounds like you got robbed.. Craigslist is full of all kinds of shady folk where I live up to all sorts of ridiculous scams and shenanigans
Have one of your friends or relatives order his services and meet up and confront him, also if you have his number you can find his address
Quite a sworded affair.
Honestly, on the one hand he could be robbing/scamming you. On the other hand some people really are this flaky. Either way it sucks, but at this point you’ve given him every opportunity to return it without escalating things. You need to tell him that you’ll unfortunately have to report the issue to Kijiji and/or police if he’s not able to return it within the next day or so. That will probably pretty quickly give you your answer as to whether this is a scam or not, based on his response, but I think you’re at the point where that’s the logical next step.
report theft to police
Check local pawn shops. He has sold it.
Dude lost it or stole it. I assume he didn’t give you a receipt, and the shitty part is that to get it back you’d have to prove that that blade is yours, which might be a little tough depending on how identifiable it is. You should still file a police report for the theft, but the likelihood that dude is going to say he returned it already etc. is very very high and he probably doesn’t even have it anymore.
call cops on him.
He broke it and is trying to find a replacement to give back to you
Tell your mom to go to his house and talk to his mom.
Was it sharp when you got it back?
Was it sharp when you got it back? Did he damage it?
Did he at least sharpen it?
Was there an issue to the sword? Did he become fond of the sword?
What was his reasoning that he gave the police? Did it come back sharpened?
Was it at least sharpened? Or did you get the money back as well?
Yeah once he took it and stopped responding it turned into theft. Police were the right move and I’m glad you got it back. Never pay upfront for stuff like that again especially with randoms off kijiji.
Was it sharp enough to cut god himself?