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Originally Posted by cw1865
For some reason, this man begins to e-mail you contact information of potential leads. I am a little bit perplexed here because why did you think he was doing this? Essentially he's putting in a Request for Quote for a hundred units and then he's giving you the contact information of the people who would ostensibly be purchasing these units from him? This doesn't make much sense.
Notwithstanding, this man somehow knows that you sold units to these contacts. Why would he know if he's not part of the deal?
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This was when things got weird, having told me he was from this fake company and given a fake name, and getting a quote for a wholesale price, he then came to me and said that one of his contacts had placed an order for one, and asked could I process the guys payment, I kept asking him what about his cut for getting me a sale and he kept saying we can talk about it later, lets just get it processed. Another thing I was annoyed about, was that I saw in subsequent emails that were visible beneath emails he sent me with despatch addresses, that he was sending out invoices in my Company Name!
So these 3 buyers sent money direct to me and I sent them the goods, as I would with any sale, it was just that this guy had got the sale. So although he may be due a commission, that would be entirely different from the kind of markup, someone who bought stock as a reseller would expect. He is basically asking for a commission of about 45%, saying that is what was agreed, when I am adamant that was not at all agreed and dont like being pushed that way.
I agree that I owe him something for getting the sale, although due to his having used a fake name and taken one of my units to blackmail me into paying him, I feel loathe to give the guy anything because of that. I had tried to discuss with him about that, but he keeps rail roading me saying that we had an arrangement, that we did not have.
Anyway, I decided not to mess about and dont want the hassle of it all really, but also dont want get done over that way. So I reported it to the police. I thought they may just laugh in my face, but actually they took it quite seriously, and the police here have passed it to police in his locality who are going to ask him for the unit back.
If he gives the unit back then that is fine and I told the police that I am quite willing to discuss what he thinks I owe him with him. But not under the circumstances that he is holding my property as blackmail to get money from me.
I guess I will see whether they do anything in the next couple of weeks.
Thanks for all your advice here, it is really appreciated, I wanted to run it by some other people, to see what others thought of the situation and what they would do.