I just received a message from the seller, he has confirmed that he and his colleagues purchase pallet loads of 'Lost Items' from couriers and that my frame was in one of the pallets. He has removed the frame from Ebay and has agreed to give me the frame back for free. I'm going to pick it up today from Nottingham.
As I suspected he is a totally innocent party in this, the guilty party is My Hermes who flogged off my frame and pallets of other lost items within a few weeks of them receiving the items.
Learn your lesson here my friends, do not use My Hermes.
I'll be contacting the original buyer to see if he still wants the frame, if not it will be going up for sale again. Or maybe I'll put it back in my loft for another ten years, where it's safe.
As I suspected he is a totally innocent party in this, the guilty party is My Hermes who flogged off my frame and pallets of other lost items within a few weeks of them receiving the items.
Learn your lesson here my friends, do not use My Hermes.
I'll be contacting the original buyer to see if he still wants the frame, if not it will be going up for sale again. Or maybe I'll put it back in my loft for another ten years, where it's safe.