Fs - Set of LOMO Anamorphic roundfront F = 35,50,75,100 - NEW , PL mout , ARRI gear

[Tom Devine]

This looks like one of Sergey's rehoused lens recently on ebay. Maybe Sergey or someone close to him you could follow up with.

Tom

http://www.ebay.com/itm/110868617769...84.m1438.l2649

[aree shonteff]

Can you get any info from his bank

[Robert Horwell]

This looks like one of Sergey's rehoused lens recently on ebay. Maybe Sergey or someone close to him you could follow up with.

Tom

http://www.ebay.com/itm/110868617769...84.m1438.l2649

Thanks Tom ,I emailed the seller.

Alex, I have all bank details but don't know how to get info from them with the freedom of information act?

[Robert Horwell]

Have made contact with EMS office Russia. They have no knowledge of a parcel with the tracking number that Sergey gave me.

[aree shonteff]

Rob i think you only have 1 option get a russian solicitor in the uk and let the solicitor deal with it and forget about it.You will get your money back and i would also tell the bank manager about the problem.A very good friend of mine works in a bank but would it even help if there is a way of getting an address.

[Emanuel A.]

Any luck finding Sergey with your contacts?

Not yet, unfortunately :-(

[Emanuel A.]

Also, I think Sergey may have done some work with Olex Kalynychenko . Try contacting him. He may have worked on your lenses and may have some info. olex.camera@gmail.com

Nick

I already did it before. Olex said to me there's more than a month he's not in touch with Sergey. He has joined us to try to reach him. Olex told me Sergey can be in summer pause these days.

[Emanuel A.]

Ok still no word from sergey. To all those who still think this is going to be ok, to those who have money invested with him at the moment. Here are a few facts, about my experience with him and why i think sergey is probably not going to re-surface again on reduser.

1. Prior to payment sergey was readily available to reply to emails, in fact he mailed me a lot, usually trying to push the price of the lenses up. After i paid him, the emails were less frequent, usually with 4 days to a week to reply. I paid him 22nd April for lenses that he said he had in hand. The lenses pictured in this thread. He said they would be ready to ship tuesday 1st May. They never shipped.

2. He stalled me on the shipping, giving excuse after excuse as to why this could not be done, including the idea that the whole of Russia was not working from 1st - 9th may. I went with it, trusting him.

4. The stalling kept going. " sorry i've been away" lenses disassembled for painting of index marks". Work i thought had already been done.

5. I asked sergey if i could arrange my own shipping, i didnt want to use russian post. No reply. Then email telling me the lenses have shipped on 22nd May. Strange i thought, i don't remember Sergey asking me for my address, maybe i gave it to him in a past email. I scoured my emails, he doesnt have my address. I mail him again, 23rd he sends me a tracking number that is not valid. Sergey then Disappears. No contact since then to many many emails sent to him.

6. I did some research, found out some very interesting facts, one being that according to his ID with the TAX department number sergey lost the right to be a trader or individual entrepreneur.

7. I also know there are a few others either in dispute with sergey or have money with him at the moment. The lenses have disappeared, no one knows where they are.

8. Friends and colleagues in Russia, have not heard from him, neither do they know his whereabouts.

9. He does not respond to phone calls.

This has been a massive hit to me. It's no small amount of money. It has the potential to put me out of business, as i had quite a few jobs lined up for these lenses, it's why i was happy to pay way over the odds for them. 2 of those jobs have now gone and the third looks like it will not work out either as i will have to let the company know what has happened. It was a big job and would more than pay for half the cost of the lenses.

I'm not a big player, I'm a very small fish compared to most. I pooled a lot of resources to pay for these lenses. Not only have those resources now gone out of my business, so has my money paid to sergey and the revenue created by the purchase of the lenses. Now i will have to sell more of my assets to try and cover this loss.

I hope one day i get to see sergey face to face, maybe he could explain to my 4 kids why he is doing this. The stress and worry far out weighs the money, now my main goal is to keep my business afloat and keep a roof over our heads.

I know there are some of you out there who will say, don't worry, he will surface he is an honest man. But i don't see any honesty in what has happened here, i have been lied to on more than one occasion during this process, i can't see any good reason not to reply to an email, he know he has my money, he knows he hasn't sent the lenses, he must know how i will be feeling. That tells me a lot about him. I would love for you all to be right, but it's not what i see happening at the moment.

Thank you to everyone who has been in touch with information, and offered support.

Bob

I fully understand your sadness but be confident and strong :-) I guess Sergey will come up when people are not expecting for anymore. From my experience with him, that's the way our communication has been based on.

[Robert Horwell]

I already did it before. Olex said to me there's more than a month he's not in touch with Sergey. He has joined us to try to reach him. Olex told me Sergey can be in summer pause these days.

In summer rest?....how nice for him, resting up, on my money. While I'm here trying to put out fires caused by his lack of concern.

[Emanuel A.]

In summer rest?....how nice for him, resting up, on my money. While I'm here trying to put out fires caused by his lack of concern.

Unfortunately, I know nothing, Bob. I only know what others and my own experience can add on topic.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he would come up, addressing he's simply not aware of it because he has been in vacations and thought the lenses would already be with you, following up the shipping information you received from him.

I think as grown-up people we all just know what matters now... is to guarantee the money placed with him is not lost, minimizing other eventual losses with the whole hassle.

Let's hope for a happy end as best as possible. Fingers crossed.