Buyer wins my auction but won't pay, so I make fake accounts to win all his auctions without paying.

I make art as a hobby, metal sculptures, to be precise. I only sell them when I need a bit of money

for something. I had a holiday coming up, so I listed one here on Trade Me, an auction site for $1 reserve.

The auction lasted 10 days, and the piece got quite a bit of interest in that time, with lots of people adding it to their watch list and bidding on it.

It ended up selling for a bit over $500.

Perfect!

I contacted the winner with my bank details and asked for their delivery address. No reply.

I email them again, nothing. I look into his profile a bit and sure enough he doesn't follow

through on half the things he buys. A fair few grumpy feedbacks from other sellers. He's a complete

time-waster. Huh, I'm a bit annoyed. I've already had to pay a listing fee, advertising fees and a $40 success fee.

I'll eventually get this back, but it's still annoying.

Being in the limboge on a deal kind of sucks.

You expect the money and kind of don't at the same time.

It got me raging.

I Google his email, nothing. I check if he has any listings for sale and he doesn't at the same time. It got me raging. I Google his email, nothing. I check if he has any

listings for sale and he doesn't at the moment. Besides giving him bad feedback, there's really

not much else I can do right now. I add him as a favourite seller. This way, the next time he lists

something, I'll get emailed about it, but he never does. About a year later, after I'd forgotten about all of

it, I got a bunch of emails from Trade Me, telling me that the Time Waster has new listings.

Seems Time Waster is packing up shop and moving to Australia. Seems everything has got to go, mate.

Ironically, his listing states that everything must be picked up by the end of August,

as, I'm moving to Australia. No time wasters. He's got listings for a car, motorcycle, tools, a welder,

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