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Originally Posted by jfalz73  I sold a video game console. The buyer supposidly put the money in my paypal acct. I got the email from paypal (or what i thought was paypal) that the money was there but was held until i shipped. I shipped to Nigeria (i had no knowledge of Nigerian Fraud). Needless to say there was no money and the item was gone. And i paid to ship it. I felt so stupid when i found out i was scammed. Anyway, make sure that any emails you get from paypal or ebay have the correct address up in the address bar on your computer. I was very inexperienced in selling anything, i am usually the buyer. I even had it listed to ship only in the us, but of course this guy gave me a song and dance of how he was away on business and wanted to give it to his boss, blah, blah, blah....good luck...i hope this answered your question so that you can understand. its kind of hard to type it all out.. I'm sure your transaction will be fine, just be careful. If you have paypal set up make sure you go to your paypal account yourself to see that the money is there. I didn't do that...just read the fake email and believed it was there. What a dope! Oh well, lesson learned.....  |
Thank you MrsPeanut, I'm a new PayPal user and I don't know much about how it works yet. I've only used it once, to pay S/H costs on a gorgeous dress that a very nice YT'er
gave Ms. Lola as a welcoming home gift. Oh ya, and did I mention that the beautiful dress is embroidered with her name on it. I Love it. She finally gets to wear it to the Art & Wine Festival tomorrow so I will post some photos of her in it.
As far as getting "The Yorkie Scam" it happened to me too. I was new to being online again, after about 5 years (which a lot had changed by then) and I got the "American Missionary Scam" who was working in Africa helping sick and injured children. They recently bought a Yorkie and they now were unexpectedly needing to go over seas to work. So they needed a loving home for their 3 month old baby girl (Free of course to a good home) What Ever!!
Then there was the lady that had to fly into San Francisco because her Aunt or Grandmother had died and they need to find a home for her Yorkie ASAP. I guess they didn't expect that I only live 20-30 minutes away and was willing to drive there immediately. As soon as I asked them for the address to come and pick her up, they would not respond to me anymore. I was kinda clueless as to what was going on. Not to mention how heartbroken
I was by this time.
I think this is why I waited for a year an a half before I brought Lola home. That was again after my first baby had passed away at 6 weeks old from Hydrocephalus (water on the brain).
I'm still mourning her, and tear up when I think of her. But, Its only been 33 days since she passed and time does heal.
I lost a lot of trust in everyone that had a Yorkie for sale. It was pretty sad, and I cried a lot over it. I had wanted a baby (Yorkie) so bad, that the pain in my heart, was the same as if I was having multiple miscarriages.
I hate those dam people
for hurting me and other innocent people. They do this for a living, and probably make a good amount of income from it... I'm sure of it. Very... Very... Sad People!