Yesterday Les/Charles emailed us the link to his "in my defence" blog. Take a look it's entertaining. http://antiquessupermarket.blogspot.com/#main
Why would the local police be more than happy to help a foreigner claim their goods from such an honest dealer?
Why would an honest dealer lie on an invoice, send Ikea items and label them as 1930’s or send over particle board cabinets with a huge date stamp saying 1986 on the back but listed as 1920s articles?
When customs inspects a container and an item made in 1986 is listed on the COMMERCIAL INVOICE and the CUSTOMS DECLARATION as made in 1920 they will seize your container. We were never able to identify or find the “Free items” and the free packing, just check the pictures below it speaks for itself. Also a proper accounting of all items with values has to be included otherwise it is referred to as smuggling, again customs will seize the container…
These things are called fraud. When a customer picks out exact pieces takes photographs of them and receives a container where not one of those pieces is in the container that is called fraud. When a customer pays for one item and receives another that is called theft. Yes the term honest can be a little flexible but when police need to be involved to get items you paid for…how honest is that?
Here is an Ikea mirror labelled as 1920's. Interesting how we now have Ikea antiques!!
Here we have a great Pine unit from the mid 1980's labelled as 1900's. No charge for the broken door!!
Here is a great particle board china cabinet stamped 1986 on the back. We were so surprised to find this rare 1920's example of particle board construction we had to throw it in the garbage. Maybe these were the free items good ol' Charles mentioned. Funny on our invoice we paid for it...
Another nice example of straight to the garbage can!! Here we have a fine example of 1980's construction listed as a 1930's vintage coffee table? Exceptional quality and value! You bet! It is very rare to come across such a fine coffee table (without glass of course) outside of your local garbage dump. Maybe Charles or Les or Simon or William or some other entity will be sending the glass over on the next can?
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Hi we were also victims of Mr Les/Charles Swainbank commonly referred to buy us as "Les Sinecrack". Due to the fact his credibility smells like that part of a pig.
He conned us out of a fair bit of money and threatened my wife and her friend before stealing the goods out of their car. Then posing as our freight company stole other items from Antique centres we had already paid for! Police reports were made by us and also many other people it seems. To no avail just yet, as Les just slips away on technicalities.
However the case is mounting and we have a police inspector handling the information at present, set up by the South African team. So if you have any information on this guy please post it to the blog or contact any of the bloggers with details. Every little bit helps.
Our friends in South Africa had some recent success by fronting up with some strong men and managed to get the majority of their goods back that they had paid for. This man and his whole vipers nest needs exterminating.
We are trying to put together another raid on his little Aladdin’s cave in the near future.
Just for the record Les Swainbank is a lying cheating thief with no ethics and if you are unfortunately dealing with him right now, go straight to the police and get away from him as fast as you can. Otherwise beat the shit out of him and we will all thank you!
Bill Fraser
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