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Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
#2228425
09/17/17 03:17 AM
09/17/17 03:17 AM
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 8,753 bessemer, al
hunterturf
OP
14 point
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OP
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Found a scope on a Facebook but/sell optics group. Very common scope for a very common price. I message the guy that I would like to purchase the scope. He responds with he was helping his neighbor sell the scope. I know the safest transaction is thru PayPal so that's what I suggested be the payment method. He asked would I be comfortable with mailing a postal money order instead of PayPal Bc he did not have a PayPal acct. I did some googling on the safety of a postal money order and in a moment of stupidity said sure. I mail 2 money orders to the neighbors name and address (both of which can be googled and lead back to each other). Send the tracking numbers and he said he will mail the scope as soon as the money is in his account. It arrived in Thursday and he said he tried to cash / deposit the money orders but that there is a standard 2 day hold ( I immediately called my banking lady to which she said was true ) and that as soon as it cleared that he would mail scope and send tracking #. All of that lead up to Friday afternoon about 5 and all was right in the world. For whatever reason I started digging into the guy that was leading this arrangement. His fb profile is ur standard older guys page with very few pics of family and an occasional dog. Then I click on his friends..... there's 19 of them with none of them having his last name and none of them in his state. This is when I started wigging out. I can't find any info on the guy leading this transaction. So I start looking up the guy who is supposedly selling the scope and the name the money orders are made to. I know there are a lot of people with the same name so I looked up the name on fb and the city / state. Bammm.... a younger guy with a Alabama hat on. I message him and ask if he is selling a scope , he says no. So I asked was the address I mailed the money orders to his address and he has yet to respond. This is now sat night, I get a message from the guy leading up the sell and he asked how hard was it to make a PayPal acct since the money order is taking more time than originally thought. I said that I suggested this first but if he could mail back the money orders (not sure how u could get them out of the bank after u supposedly deposit them........and after I made sure they were the real ines I mailed) that I would send payment via PayPal. He said that Monday afternoon, if the funds weren't available, that he would mail the money orders back . I know u can't stop payment on a money order but since someone by the name on the money order had to deposit it into his bank account I should be able to figure out who he is right???? And if I don't get my scope be able to do something right???
This is by far one of my dumbest moves to date and should have stayed with my PayPal only policy on fb transactions. So aldeerians.... what should my next step be besides going to work to make back the $$$ I just pissed away
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228430
09/17/17 03:22 AM
09/17/17 03:22 AM
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Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681 Slidell, La
perchjerker
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Contact the post office. That is mail fraud. Do it first thing Monday. Maybe they can do something. There are so many crooks on the internet.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228432
09/17/17 03:24 AM
09/17/17 03:24 AM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 6,384 D'Iberville, MS
MS_Hunter
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On One end, maybe it will all work out. On the other you might have to eat it and move on unless you want to invest alot of time and energy trying to track this guy down and it still might result in you eating it. Good luck
In your darkest hour when the demons come, call on me brother and we'll fight them together.
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228434
09/17/17 03:25 AM
09/17/17 03:25 AM
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Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 44,211 North Alabama
Wiley Coyote
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Well, he or they will have at least committed mail fraud if you don't get your scope. Post Office folks are the ones to start that process with.
I firmly believe that a double gallows should be constructed on the East Lawn of The White House. Politicians who willfully and shamelessly violate their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America should be swiftly tried and, upon conviction, publicly hanged at sunup the day after conviction. If multiple convicts are to be hanged they can choose with whom to share the gallows or names shall be drawn from the hangman's hat to be hanged 2 at a time.
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228444
09/17/17 03:38 AM
09/17/17 03:38 AM
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 8,753 bessemer, al
hunterturf
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14 point
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bessemer, al
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$1000 is max amount for a postal money
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228448
09/17/17 03:41 AM
09/17/17 03:41 AM
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 8,753 bessemer, al
hunterturf
OP
14 point
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OP
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bessemer, al
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and I would spend 3x what I paid for the scope to roast his a$$.... should this end up a scam. And Wisconsin isn't that far if ur mad
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228450
09/17/17 03:43 AM
09/17/17 03:43 AM
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 8,753 bessemer, al
hunterturf
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14 point
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OP
14 point
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Facebook. High end optics trade/sell. I've bought several scopes off there with zero issues. I got complacent and didn't investigate the seller enough. I should have smelled a rat right off the bat but hindsight is always 20/20
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228456
09/17/17 03:55 AM
09/17/17 03:55 AM
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Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 13,907 AL
hunterbuck
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Booner
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Posts: 13,907
AL
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I would give it more than one business day before I got all worked up over it.
"You think I care? Roll Damn Tide"
Have you tried Google?
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228467
09/17/17 04:10 AM
09/17/17 04:10 AM
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 3,995 Anytown. usa
pcamper
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Geese, is it that good of a deal to buy in Wisconsin and go through all that? Good advise from Perch, that seems to be mail fraud. Google earth that address and see what it is. You can zoom down to look at the the house. See if it is a residence. It would at least tell you where/what your dealing with. I wonder if Facebook would offer any help?
Lone Watie: I'm glad you stopped me when you did. I might have killed her
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228476
09/17/17 04:21 AM
09/17/17 04:21 AM
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Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 10,721 Birmingham
wew3006
Booner
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Booner
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File with Post Office; expect a resolution, if you get one, to be slow and frustrating. May also want to call the local Sheriff at shipping address. Did you google Earth the address?
Last edited by wew3006; 09/17/17 04:23 AM.
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228478
09/17/17 04:31 AM
09/17/17 04:31 AM
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Posts: 7,938 north Alabama
biglmbass
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14 point
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He responds with he was helping his neighbor sell the scope. Flag #1. It doesn't sound/look good, but give it a few more days. Plenty of folks will tell you it's mail fraud, theft by deception, etc. Reality is there's little you can do unless he's down the street and you can go knock on his door... Hope it works out.
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228488
09/17/17 04:43 AM
09/17/17 04:43 AM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,185 alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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drive to Wisconsin and whip his ass to the tune of the amount you lost.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Need some advice about a potentially bad internet buy/sell
[Re: hunterturf]
#2228493
09/17/17 04:54 AM
09/17/17 04:54 AM
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Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681 Slidell, La
perchjerker
Freak of Nature
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You can bet that is not his address. most likely it's one of his criminal buddies or a mail drop at a vacant house.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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