Categories: Experiences and daily life; Commerce and business
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The title is not sarcastic. I am a collateral beneficiary of a fraud scheme through no fault of my own.
I saw a few good deals online and thought, "What the heck. Might as well buy them even though I'm
certain they're a scam." I'd lose no money because of the buyer protection policies. If they were
legit I'd pay pennies on the dollar.
Getting tracking numbers or replies to emails were not without incident - alarm bells rang.
I studiously monitored the packages' progress...another scam is sending the item but recalling it at
the last minute. When the tracking number says it's "delivered," the seller
gets their money with the product showing up on their doorstep shortly thereafter. A buyer would still get refunded but
the whole point is that the seller walks away with the product for that same dirt-cheap price. Sometimes they close the account
and keep the money, too.
All packages showed up. The evidence convincingly pointed to a dishonest employee(s) working
at a home improvement center. They have ordering privileges and drop-ship to the customer's house.
Their name is nowhere, an untraceable transaction and shipment as I discovered.
My conscience was grumbling so I had to speak up. Normal complaints pertain
to poor service, defective products, or dishonest sellers. This was the diametric opposite, complaining
because I got a blazing deal. But it was the right thing to do.
Who wouldn't be livid if their company was being used in this manner? And who wouldn't
want to stop this and be thankful for the heads-up?
Apparently, that company. For hours I tried. No one would listen.
I was met with a patronizing attitude by most of the CSRs. Others were in their own Private Idaho
and put the smack down on me for requesting to speak to a supervisor because the problem
was above their pay grade. Clearly a nobody like me won't be telling them how to run their business.
My duty to do the right thing had been quashed.
Strangely, I found myself more infuriated than if I had been the victim.
I'll follow their lead: If it doesn't concern them then it doesn't matter to me.
Though I have ample product, I continued to buy more, more, more for the handful of days the deals persisted!
Each purchase was a decadent pleasure knowing it costed the company hundreds.
Selling one will pay for all the rest and anything additional is pure profit, thank you very much.
It's compensation for all the time I wasted while surreptitiously delivering
a healthy dose of sweet revenge.
There was probably tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars
hemorrhaged away based on the items these sellers listed, my take just a fraction.
No one deserves getting conned but when ungrateful fools adamantly refuse to listen,
then it's karma speaking. I happened to be manning the pulpit.
Posted by M: October 3, 2021
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