david d.

If I could give this site less than 1 star I surely would. This site cost me 3 years of loss of employment. For nearly 35 years I have worked in security as a doorman and CPS work. I ordered a Farge gel from this site which is a red dye identifier which is totally legal in the UK. Anyone can carry this identifier which sprays a red gel onto the perpetrators clothing for easy police identification. This identifier is a safety item used mainly by volunarable persons to avoid assault especially women. It's also carried by door supervisors for identifying the assailant. I ordered two of these gels which is much cheaper to purchase from another country as you get two for the price of one if purchased in the UK. Four weeks after purchase I recieved a letter from customs asking if I wanted the item destroyed as they were unable to identify it's contents from the seller. So I agreed to this and immediately contacted the seller on ioffer to see exactly what he had sent out. I got no reply. I then recieved a knock on my door by two local police officers that I knew. They asked me to attend the police station that day on my own remittence which I did. I was not arrested but given the chance to answer some questions regarding the items I had purchased from ioffer. No arrest sheet was given to me and I was free to go. I immediately contacted ioffer customer support and explained about the customs letter and police visit to my address. I later found out that the seller had been bared from selling again on the ioffee site. I asked for a refund but no money was forthcoming. Several months passed by and my security license was due for renewal. I spent over two hundred pounds to renew my license which is the standard fee from the security industry authority. It was then I recieved a letter informing me to attend court to answer questions regarding the items purchased from ioffer. I attended the local magistrates court in South Wales and was given a fine of nearly two hundred pounds and 200 hours community service. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't appeal the sentence as I didn't have a thousand pounds spare to appeal the sentencing for a crime I had not committed. I had to fit in these community service hours on my only day off from my full time security employment. Mind you I've never broken the law in my life and just had the book thrown at me from the magistrates court. My employer was aware of the court case and situation but as of my excellent employment record and being head of security I was able to stay within my job. After completing 100 hours of the community service order I was able to get the remainder of those hours squashed through a letter from the local probation service. I was then given a two month curfew with an electronic tag around my ankle where I was not allowed out after 7pm until the following morning. How ridicoulos. I was not able to fulfil my employment duties so had to resign and sign on as unemployed. To add fuel to the fire, I then recieved a letter from the security industry authority stating I could not reapply for my license until 2019 and my two hundred pounds was not refundable. All this because the seller sent out the wrong item that I had not ordered. So I ended up with no job, no license, a criminal conviction-first one ever and three years of unemployment as well as losing the fee paid for the license to be renewed. So no I'm not exactly impressed with ioffer. Luckily enough my previous employer is willing to re-employ me as soon as I recieve my security license back which I will have in the next month thank God. This situation all happened in March 2016 and my whole life changed all because of a seller from this site. So I urge you all to be extremely careful when ordering items from this website.