Owen Sweeney scammed me!!!

I thought it odd that the first book hadn't arrived, as i said in my post below, Ive sent hundreds of items, most via international mail and the one that i send that has to travel only 131 miles doesn't arrive ? Then obviously its suspicious.

I kept an eye out on ebay, specifically on Owen Sweeneys ebay sales, nothing out of the ordinary so i kinda let things go and thought nothing else of it.

For some unknown reason, just last week i thought id have a look at Mr Sweeneys ebay sales again, a couple of months had passed and i clicked to look on his past completed sale.

I wasn't surprised to see that he had sold the book on the 23rd April that i had mailed him, however i was VERY surprised to see he had sold a second one on that had sold a week later on the 30th May! How could this be ?

First listing below, ended the 23rd April and sold for $44.99:

Feedback was left by the buyer of the above on the 30th April

And feedback was in return left by Owen Sweeney AKA aplemacapplemac on the same day several hours later.

He had however as i said, listed a second auction for another book but it didn't appear to sell and ended on the 30th May without a buyer.:

One thing i didnt mention in the forst post is that the 1st and the replacement ooks i sent to Mr Sweeney were slightly different. The first had a matt card cover, the cover had not been gloss coated when it was produced. The replacement however had had the gloass coating when it was produced and you can see the difference here between the two.

First book with matt cover below:

 

Replacement book with gloss cover below:

 

You can also tell these are two different books by the ring bounding at the top left hand corner, one of them is as it should be with the holes in the cover but the replacement one has the holes punched slightly out of the cover!

Close ups of ring binding below:

 

I've sent a couple of polite messages to Owen Sweeney asking for an explanation and of course as expected have received no reply or explanation. Had he replied or even apologized, this blog would not be here!