ITT: online shopping scams stories

ITT: online shopping scams stories

I have a scam story where I was the victim but it isn't online shopping do you still wanna hear?

K.

surerrr

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>be me
>17 years old
>squatting in my friends house because omg threw me out
>only have weekend job that pays shit
>going to school and donating plasma during the week
>friend says
"Hey man my mom is selling the house"
>omfg.jpeg
>homeless thoughts creep into my head
>my now wife is squatting with me and working the same job I am.
>go to Craigslist to find a manual labor job
>see painting job offering good pay
>email the guy
>quick reply back
>job is to paint a corridor and a room
>all materials are provided
>Fuckyeah.gif
>boss guy emails this...

"I owe someone 5000 dollars and if you work the job I need you to pay him for me when you get to the job"
>guy says he will mail me a check for 7k
>I keep 2k and give the guy 5k
2k to paint a room and a corridor? Fuck it
>open up bank account because no way to cash a 7k check
>bank teller lady says I have to be 18 to open an account
>she lies for me and open it up anyway
>I cash it and it takes 3 days to clear.
>get cash
>call into work
>Walk out like a fucking badass with 7k
>ballershotcaller20inchbladesonmyimpaler.jpeg
>go to western union and mail the address given to me 5k
>teller asks if the amount is correct...

bumping for end of this

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Hell yeah bitch boi just send it
>I email the guy and he says someone already painted it but for my troubles to keep the 2k.
>Nofuckingway.gif
>mfw I have 2k in my pocket
>mfw I literally blow it all in 1 day on bullshit
>mfw I'm back to being homeless
>mfw the bank calls me 4 days later and tells me that the check I cashed was fake and that I need to pay that money back
>mfw I now have bad credit because of it
>mfw if I knew it was gonna fuck me I should have just kept the full 7k

One time I bought a 32 gb micro sd card on Amazon and it turned out to only have 300 megabytes on it. Should've known it'd be a scam when it was only $5.

Fuck man same, I ordered a 128GB from that wish app and I filled it up to about 30GB of shit and it all erased by itself. So fucking pissed. I ended up selling it and getting my money back but I fucked over someone else.

didnt you ever think, "Why would this guy give me 5 FUCKING THOUSAND EXTRA DOLLARS and trust me to give it back"

YOU ABSOLUTE BLITHERING IDIOT

i guess it was a scam.
>be me
>retarded
>need to find an old sony proprietary cable
>find one at Goodwill one day.
>buy it and realize it has the wrong connector
>leave it on my desk
>forget about it
>month later
>order correct cable on amazon
>arrives a week later
>take it out
>leave it on desk for a week
>test cable
>wtf they gave me the wrong cable!
>send email to amazon
>get money back
>week later buy cable from ebay
>receive cable a week later
>test the cable
>its the correct cable
>disconnect cable
>do other things around the house
>grab cable from the desk
>hook up Sony Camcorder to PC with cable
>go to the kitchen and see my Sony cable on the kitchen table
>test the cable
>it also works
that's when i realized that the amazon order was actually the correct cable.

Something similar happened to me. Mine was for about four grand.

>It cleared, here's your cash.
>Three days later, "Lol, never mind, fuck you pay me"

I don't use banks anymore.

If you send me any dollar amount in USD i'll double it

not the banks fault, cashiers checks are supposed to be verified.

just take a second and recognize if something is too good to be true

Not really man I was dirt poor and young and naive so it never crossed my mind I was being scammed. I just cared about feeding me and my wife and having a roof. Oh well. That nigger got 5k of clean money and I got 7k in debt.

>sends you $0
Double that bitch

Yeah same. My bank cleared it and I thought it was legit. I was actually gonna say "yeah well it's your fault you said it was clear" kek if only that was a good enough reason

>be me
>play magic the fagening
>buy high quality fakes from chinaman
>buy high value cards from sellers on ebay
>make a claim that the cards I recieved are fakes
>take pictures of my fakes for evidence
>send the fakes back to sellers while keeping their $100's of dollars worth of cards
>buy more fakes from chinaman
>make a new ebay account
>feelsgoodman

>Send you back 2 money orders for 1 penny that will cost 1 penny to cash therefore doubling zero
Checkmate

In my opinion it is the banks fault. And that's why I send them about five pounds of those rocks you find by the rail road tracks with a nickel hidden somewhere in the box ever since.

It costs me money to ship it to USAA but I'm spiteful so to me it's worth it. Fuck banks. Fuck usury.

Thanks for the idea. Time to commit some fraud. Been meaning to go darkside.

storage devices are one the most fraudulent products you can buy online specially if they claim to have ridiculous storage capabilities for a low price

I didn't return mine. The $5 back wasn't really worth it. Really what the seller was doing was the perfect crime.

This is a classic scam

>beon Sup Forums
>guy posts "holy shit, this website has mismarked stuff... $300 headphones for $30, $150 stuff for $15.
>get in here b/ros!
>I go order shit via paypal
>90% sure it is a scam, but figure I have paypal protection
>nothing ever shows up
>complain to paypal
>they agree it is fraud
>they never send me any money back
>forget the bullshit reason paypal gave me
>oh well just $30

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>wiredwirelessdongle.jpg

>>mfw if I knew it was gonna fuck me I should have just kept the full 7k

uhm... you know there wasn't really 7k right?

The check was fake. But if I knew I was gonna get fucked I would have kept the money. The actual paper money was real dipshit.

as an ebay seller, I hope you rot in fucking hell. to be honest you don't even need to do that whole fake thing. you could send back a box of rocks and the seller still gets fucked.

if you knew you were gonna get fucked, you would have just paid the bank back. Or ar eyou saying if you knew that it was a fake check you would have spent that $7k??

thanks for the cards an my money back, enjoy your chinaman fakes :^)

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>overstock website
>selling nintendo DS for $20 each
>buy 3 of them
>plan to keep 1 and sell the rest for like $200 a piece
>get email
>hurf durf there was an error in the pricing of these so fuck you they are canceled
>give me a coupon so if I spend $50 I get $20 off
>really
There never were any ds'es
Fucking faggots.

it sucks. If it were me, and you were in the US, I'd go after you. It's a pain in the ass though, you have to do small claims, serve the person, etc.

Then they never show up, so you win the judgement, but still need to enforce it.

About all you get out of it is wrecking their credit.

but they got their fake cards back, they should not have tried to sell me fakes in the first place, unless they can prove the ones they sent were genuine, but they cant so there is no grounds for a counter claim

sure you can say that. but at this point I'm dragging your ass to small claims court. Odds are you aren't even going to show up. at least that has been my experience.

I hope you bring the fake cards you tried to sell with you so you can pay my court costs too after its thrown out after 5 mins

pretty sure I've sued more people than you have. that isn't how it happens at all. I'm going to come in, show that the cards are valid, demonstrate that I have a history of selling cards online. explain the very common scam you ran.but again - no one ever shows up. they know they ran a scam, they are too scared to show up at court.