paid a refundable deposit and not been able to get it back?

I am having problems with a not so ELEGANT business at the moment as they are stalling on repaying me the deposit I paid which was said tobe fully refundable. I have been waiting for about 5 months now and never get any joy from the so called director who took the money from me.

anyone else having the same problem?  6,000Euros is not a lot to wangle out of a buyer but if you are getting enough of them for one development by the beach with guaranteed rental, it sure makes a nice business holding on to other peopl's money and apparantly pays for a nice 4 week holiday to Florida over Christmas.

any clues on how to get it back apart from the obvious pestering and emails?

mike

E-mail me and i may be able to help,i have been succesful in the past.

hi,

i paid a deposit to an agent for a plot of land i was buying in murcia.  the agent is english and lives in spain.

on the contract, and in numerous emails, the agent promised to repay the deposit if we couldn't obtain the appropriate building permissions.  when my solicitor found that the permissions would not be granted i had to pull out of the purchase.  the agent won't give me the deposit back.  unfortunately i found out, after paying the deposit, that the vendor had not signed the contract, even though my solicitor had informed me that they had. 

the agent told me that he gave half the deposit to the vendor, who lives in england.  the agent kept the other half and promised me last november that he would return it to me but, despite many phone calls and emails, still hasn't done which leads me to believe that he will not be returning my deposit. my solicitor asked the vendor if he would, voluntarily, return the half which he had but he declined to do so.

i would be very grateful for a reply.

many thanks, regards,  john allison