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so who wants to hear the story about how my own selfishness and gullibility has nearly scammed me out of almost Php30,000 that I don't have? https://twitter.com/bae_warden/status/1266765422424014848
so i've been hoping for MONTHS now to buy a Switch Lite. i've been looking around local online marketplaces for months as if I had the money to buy one. Last night, i happened upon a deal that was a little too good to be true.
It's even worse now coz last night it was going for P7000. Smelling a scam anyway but curious all the same, i sent a message to the seller. I wanted to know if it was for real, and what the catch was.
Long story short, I chatted and spoke on the phone with the seller and he gave me a good deal. So I bit. Hence my tweet last night about an impulse buy at 10 past midnight.
I felt a little uneasy, and couldnt sleep until around 2am. I was awoken at almost 7am by the merchant (now on a different account in the messenger) sending me invoices, one for the product, and one from "FedEx."
I put that in quotation marks, coz uuuuhhhh
I put that in quotation marks, coz uuuuhhhh
So now there's an additional P7k charge. Naturally i'm like WTF. And uuuuh. Y'all, they are WILD.
at this point, and because it's 7am and i just do not have the energy, and because i had feared a catch, and because P17,000 is about where the Switch Lite is priced at elsewhere anyway, i said okay. I'll pay. So I did.
And then.
AND THEN.
And then.
AND THEN.
Boom goes the dynamite.
NOW, i'm mad, and not just coz I dont have that money. This isnt the first time i've bought anything online. This isnt the first time i've had to deal with FedEx. Even if it were, one look at that invoice would expose the shadiness of everything.
So i refuse, vehemently.
So i refuse, vehemently.
They try to put me in touch with their courier. Of course, at this point, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to smell the fakery. So i'm like, fine, have your "courier" talk to me.
Which really only sank into them trying to get me to pay way more money anyway.
Which really only sank into them trying to get me to pay way more money anyway.
Im fucking tired at this point but a part of me STILL believes i can make this work. So i cut a deal.
The details the "courier" sends me, btw, to pay for the "customs" fee deal, are the same details the merchant sent me to pay for the "task and insurance" or the "oops we sHiPpEd FrOm MaLaYsIa sorry about that" fee an hour and 45 minutes prior. Who tf are they trying to fool.
So I do the thing. I settle down and think "okay, P19000 for a Switch Lite + games sounds reasonable" so i start making this thread. In the middle of making this thread, the "courier" calls me. Tells me the 2k has been rejected and i need to pay everything to get my delivery.
FUCK. THAT. i blow tf up. I yell at them about how shady i know they are and if they dont want to be reported to the authorities, they'll either give me back all my money or send me the item at no additional cost.
THEY. DONT. LISTEN.
THEY. DONT. LISTEN.
After im done yelling, they have the audacity to say "are you done?"
I am NOT. KIDDING. They call me back after hanging up on me after my tirade demanding the item or my money back, and say "are you done?"
I am NOT. KIDDING. They call me back after hanging up on me after my tirade demanding the item or my money back, and say "are you done?"
So i say "what more do you have to say?"
And you know what this asshole said??
"Pay 7k by 11am and you'll get the item"
MOTHER.
F U C K E R.
And you know what this asshole said??
"Pay 7k by 11am and you'll get the item"
MOTHER.
F U C K E R.
Im completely and totally done at this point. Im in a rage. I make the same demands, and i make a different demand. They can either send me the item at no additional cost, refund me all my money, or they fuggin keep everything and i go to the authorities (quarantine loosens --
-- tomorrow, i absolutely can go to the authorities even if i know they're not gonna help me.)
But hoooooo boy are they really tying my ass today.
But hoooooo boy are they really tying my ass today.
so im, like, done. Im hella done. Im ready to take the loss coz i let myself get suckered in and if im out P19k and i dont have a Switch to show for myself, it's my own goddamn fault. I recognize that even now.
But i guess - I HOPE - they're hella done too. Coz now they're like "okay, lemme give you your money back."
I try to make them pay me back at least part of it NOW, but i have a feeling they're not gonna budge, and i dont wanna keep dragging this along. So i say, "fine, tomorrow by lunchtime. Or else."
Some part of me is thinking im not gonna get that money back at all. And if i dont, like i said, that's my L to take and i dont have anyone else to blame but them for scmming me and myself for falling for it coz i'm greedy and selfish. So im just more mad than sad lol.
But yeh, kids. Dont fucking get scammed. A PSA from your friendly neighborhood bisexual nonbinary tropical fruit.
