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AndyC1911 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 11:04 am

K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:46 am However, I do NOT buy anything where the shipping costs more than the item price, or even a large fraction of the item price.

Great tip.

As for me, I ordered some lobster via a FB ad - the price was good, but not so good as to make me suspicious (regardless, I did check and they had a long-standing domain-name and payment was via Paypal) so I pulled the trigger.

Of course, 3 days later and still no tracking details so I emailed them - heard nothing back and a day later disputed it with PayPal.

These guys fed Paypal a line (from a 163.com email-address ie. Chinese), showing them a UPS tracking-number as having been delivered to Garland - hmmm. I phoned UPS and they confirmed that the tracking-number had nothing to do with my name or address, and the sender was Amazon - double hmm.

I then phoned Amazon and they confirmed, in writing, that the item/tracking-number had nothing to do with me (makes one wonder how these guys got that tracking number; I have some ideas) - so I sent all the evidence I'd gathered to Paypal who refunded me promptly.

Still, 2 days later that same ad was still on FB and it's dismaying that the big guys such as eBay, Amazon, FB, etc really don't care enough to weed out bad sellers (money talks, I guess) - my impression is that most of the big scammers are from China. Anyway, I'm done buying anything from ads any more - I've even seen ads claiming to be Guitar Center but the link ultimately goes elsewhere.