With special thanks to all those who contributed.
 
CASE NOW CLOSED THANK G-D.
 
Lessons learnt on both sides, I feel, most of them on mine.  Complacency leads to items being put up which one assumes are fully functional - must check in future.
Mustn't over react - difficult to bite one's tongue when provoked.
 
Thus said to call a man a spiv or something close to it is not wise - far more deplomacy could have been used!
 
Over - finished.  Thank you everybody for your advice. Fred.