[BEWARE] Partymausa / Lars Leker / Antje Rendelmann / Rita Lecker

<the "seller FB" section doesn't seem to be taken in account when one clicks the "latest" button, so I figured out I put this here instead of not even giving it a chance to be seen before it gets buried into 99% of positive feedback for everyone else, as the OF community overall is a good bunch. Mods, pls kindly move this somewhere else if you disagree>

All,

I just want to report some dishonest activity from a seller outside of OF - maybe that person is active on OF under another name, and if that's the case, is more than encouraged to tell the other side of the story here.

The seller name is partymausa on ebay, emails are sent by a person called Antje Rendelmann, paypals account is under the name Rita Leker. Let's call this person Antje for the sake of simplicity.

Here's a shortened version of what happened:

A bit less than two months ago, i spotted this zenith bracelet on ebay:
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Zenith-A386...band-unpoliert-unpolish-GF-02-71/264457591941

I pinged the seller via ebay PM, asking if there were some ZJ end-links for sale too. The seller said that if I win the auction, I could also purchase the end-links, for a very tempting price, which we agreed upon.

A couple of days later, as I win the auction, the seller tells me to pay for the auction, and to wire half of the extra we agreed upon via Paypal, as it is not possible to have both covered by the ebay checkout system. Fine... I pay the auction itself. We then move to email, this is when the name Antje Rendelmann appears.

- Then I pay the extra a first time by paypal - the seller sends it back saying i didn't cover the fees. ok...
- Then I pay a second time as "goods and service", but I bump up the total to cover the fees - the seller sends it back saying it should be F&F. By that time, my spider senses are tingling, but the seller's reputation on ebay looks right, so i'm taking the risk. YOLO.
- Then i pay a third time for the extra by F&F... last time I will see my money.

Then the bracelet arrives - with ZC links. Not at all what we had agreed. And the seller become as quiet as it gets. After many emails, the seller finally re-engages then apologizes and says her husband shipped the wrong links vs. what was planned, and then that her father passed away a few days ago, so this got buried under priorities... the seller finally resends another package.

The package takes seemingly forever to arrive - for a good reason: the seller had put an incomplete address on it, I'm actually wondering how this was able to make it to me at all... Anyway. Once I get it much later, the contents are chunks of stamped metal that do look like ZJ from atop and from afar, but (1) are not stamped ZJ on the underside like they should be, and (2) have some unknown notches manufactured at the bottom to reach provide an easier reach to the springbars. These are not ZJ's by any means.

This whole thing has lasted for about two months now. The seller has not answered any of my emails for about 10ds now where I'm asking for this to be straightened out. I tend to leave people the benefit of the doubt when there's a conflict (
https://medium.com/@BlairOutLoud/3-benefits-in-my-life-from-assuming-positive-intent-8c2024400d8
) but I have now officially lost faith.

So beware of:
partymausa: https://www.ebay.ie/usr/partymausa?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 - ebay seller, IG (private) also it seems.
Antje Rendelmann: [email protected] - emails.
Rita Leker: [email protected] - paypal account.

if you do a couple of quick searchs on the internet, the name Anjte Rendelmann comes up within a few watch-focused webpages, forums or blogs, usually german-speaking... so the person does seem to exist, or has been smart enough to created a trail that looks very realistic. I have a postal address on the packages that supposedly shows a sender's address, but i think is not worth anything.

Happy to provide email logs if someone wants more.

Also happy to read about the seller if she is here too, and with (a lot of...) hope we can maybe fix all this.

Paul

PS: yes, bad summer 2019 for me, first the icelandic scam, then this. Again, I've lost "minor" amounts compared to some of you who've had full watches missing...

Because, for posterity, pictures are better then ebay links 👍

You are absolutely correct, thank you.

Paul

I didn't fully read your story, my bell rang at partymause already.
The actual person behind this account is a well known German scammer, at least well known among German collectors.

He was banned here in 2018, he was stupid enough to use his German scammer-alias "roadsternet" here.
@JimJupiter and me noticed that early, we were alarmed and as soon as he started to show the same patterns of behaviour here as in the past, we reported it to the mods. As a result, he was banned. Unfortunately the whole case was just discussed in a private message con.
I would like to post it here, but might need the approval from any or all of the guys.

@cicindela @Trev @dsio @DLT222 any concerns if I do?

Thanks @mr_yossarian, so I'm truly SOL on this one then. Sorry to hear other have been scammed. Crazy that the seller has a decent track record on ebay... Oh well. Stay safe out there everyone. Paul

Wow..just read your post...exactly what I meant when I said "known pattern" of behaviour..excuses, lies, wrong parts, forced delays..etc..a notorious liar and scammer.
btw: the scammers real name is...Lars Leker..there you go.

Sounds like a character straight out of...

Here's a link to the german Uhrforum where he is well known as a person you shouldn't deal with
https://uhrforum.de/threads/wie-ver...-defekter-uhr-roadsternet.224135/post-2781400

The Ebay account he is using is most likely his wife's.
The guy has easy a 10 year track record of scamming, he started with bicycle parts on cyclist forums in Germany, then eventually got "into" watches. I did some research back then, notorious guy.

ther is negative feedback, buried in the history there. But as said, this account is known and was discussed on german forums regarding the scammer.

And still nobody did set his house on fire? ☕

Because up until I saw all these answers, I still had the secret hope that I would get my stuff in the end. I guess it isn't going to happen.

So I will leave negative feedback on eBay indeed shortly, though it could be challenged from a purely formal standpoint: I did actually received the ladder bracelet I paid for which was the only thing the eBay sale was related to. The bracelet is totally ok with the ad and is actually very nice...🙄

the end-links that were the scam, and this was outside of eBay even though it was strongly connected to it.

I'm also updating the title of this topic so the guy's real name is mentioned right at the top.

Thanks,
Paul

Please elaborate 😀 I'm totally open about how to "best"handle this all...

I followed the whole drama on the German Uhrforum back in the day, and all I can say is I am amazed how this guy is still not only active, but using some of his old implicated accounts... he was legally bankrupt and has been sued several times, and keeps going without even trying to hide behind new usernames... amazing.

Selling incomplete/defective/delayed stuff is part of his modus operandi...