Collector and shooter of guns and other items that require a tax stamp, Lead and brass scrounger. Never too much brass, lead or components in inventory! Always looking to win beauty contests with my reloads.
If a credit card was used, you may try to get a cash back. Do a search to see what others have done. I wouldn't give in too easy without a good try.
Collector and shooter of guns and other items that require a tax stamp, Lead and brass scrounger. Never too much brass, lead or components in inventory! Always looking to win beauty contests with my reloads.
Too bad people have to be that way.
Last edited by gwozdz; 04-04-2022 at 11:41 AM.
Well, in a way, it was my own excitement and lack of due diligence that did me in.
Yes, he had 0 posts.
Yes, he was banned.
Yes, he used 2 different emails in the transaction.
I SIMPLY DID NOT DO MY HOMEWORK!
Pay attention. A scammer usually messes up once during the transaction (lousy English, lousy spelling, demand for payment in non-recourse transfers, etc. (like Venmo, etc.).
That may be the ONLY warning you get.
Yes, he refunded my original payment because it was for goods and services.
Yes, I fell for the "Friends and Family" option.
He also asked for Venmo and a bunch of other payment methods.
PP was the ONLY one I wanted to use because I THOUGHT I was getting some protection.
WRONG!
But I have to say the book was something I had been looking for for a long time.
I was blinded by my own excitement at getting the book and didn't see (pay attention to ) the warning flags.
I guess that $60 is cheap tuition.
Collector and shooter of guns and other items that require a tax stamp, Lead and brass scrounger. Never too much brass, lead or components in inventory! Always looking to win beauty contests with my reloads.
Hello, I am a brand new member here......24 hours. I joined to avoid what you folks are experiencing. I am an old retired guy who has been searching all over the internet for a replacement vintage duty holster, border patrol style, for my 6" S&W N frame. You would not believe the number of third party replies, telling me to contact this friend or that friend who has what I am looking for. My BS indicator light so far has saved me from wasting money........but the America of today isn't the one I grew up in. Good advice you are providing, we just no longer can take of face value unknown people......so I guess I just excluded myself. < George4
I have seen the same here.. A 0 post user that pls you that soandso has what you are looking for.
Collector and shooter of guns and other items that require a tax stamp, Lead and brass scrounger. Never too much brass, lead or components in inventory! Always looking to win beauty contests with my reloads.
I got a similar PM with the same email contact. I noticed the sender was banned and attempted to reply to the person that sent the PM, however, due to that member being banned I could not reply directly, only to the email address and I did not do that.
My question, how does a banned member get to send a PM in the first place?
Slim
JUST GOTTA LOVE THIS JOINT.
not to take away from the above posts but also I am seeing many gun sites I have NEVER seen or heard of before pop up with ammo no one else has at very reasonable prices
these are also scams. seen several that were duplicate sites with just the name, the back grounds fonts and such changed. same items same prices
due you due diligence . be careful out there
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I am not crazy my mom had me tested
Theres a fine line between genius and crazy .. I'm that line
and depending on the day I might just step over that line !!!
I'm glad I read this. I have made so many purchases on this site over the last ten years that I'm can't even start to recall them all. That being said, I recently posted WTB and purchased from a member a H/P version of the mould I was looking for but left the ad up in case someone had a non HP version. Amazingly I received a private message to email another fellow about the exact mould I was looking for and I did. What is weird I get a photo of the exact boolit that looked freshly cast in the fellows hand that I have been looking for but the whole thing seems off. when I went back to see the person that messaged me he had already been banned. I declined to react any further.
Thank you for the sticky to help us old fellows keep up with the currant scammers
Sometimes it takes a second box of boolits to clear my head.
Feed back thread http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...?261449-jeepyj
Slim:
My guess is they probably send out a bunch of these PM's before they get banned.
My guess is that they could send out a hundred in short order before anyone catches on......they get banned, and the emails are already flying.
Out of a hundred, you might get 5 people that get scammed....maybe more....depending on how much each person gets scammed for, they could rake in some money.
Heck of a way to make a living..........
Collector and shooter of guns and other items that require a tax stamp, Lead and brass scrounger. Never too much brass, lead or components in inventory! Always looking to win beauty contests with my reloads.
Originally Posted by Theodore Roosevelt
all I can add is my eyes are wide open now after losing $500 to a scammer ad about 8 or 10 years ago on armslist with fake gun shop ffl connection web site, it was pretty elaborate and I',m guessing I'm not the only one to fall for it. I could not get any law enforcement agency to do anything about it and I called everyone I could get a phone number for including postal inspector since it was postal money order using priority mail with tracking number they just either dont give a hoot or are so overwhelmed with this sort of stuff they can't get to them. live and learn. good thing at the time I had pockets full of cash. I dont do online money transactions and when dealing with someone in swapping and selling it is only with people who actively participate on the site.
I, a few years back, was in "desperate want" for a particular Beeman spring air pistol, and EVERY shop and site I was aware of had this model long-back-ordered. I received an email from a site member advising a vendor who has them in stock! I should've been smart right off, but again, my desire to obtain the pistol trumped this! The site looked 101% real. I did a business check, and they were incorporated in Texas, albeit only a year earlier.
My one bit of "smarts" was paying with a Visa CREDIT card. After two weeks and no product, I sent an email inquiry. A bright red flag came up as I immediately recognized, from response, that English was definitely not the native tongue of writer! The provided telephone number rang and rang... never picked up.
Two weeks later, I dialed the number on back of my credit card; spoke to a very nice lady; and was told an investigation would be made -- which would take up to 90 days. Oh -- this credit card was immediately canceled, too -- but a few days later I received a new replacement.
About two weeks after my call I received a first class letter from Visa stating that my funds to vendor ($518.00) were returned to me; an investigation was still in progress; and if it turned out I was the scammer -- the $518.00 would be rebilled to me -- with no further action required on my behalf.
Bion, about eight weeks later I received a second first class mail letter from Visa advising their investigation had ended; the vendor turned out to be a known to them bad-guy, and all ended well.
In retrospect -- I still ask the question how ANYONE had any idea I was trying to purchase this model air pistol? I had posted NO wtb's or even mentioned it in discussion. Was it a lucky scam guess? I put the question to bed remembering I had eMailed one inquiry to a known site asking if they had any idea when these would be back in stock. My conclusion, then, either one of their employees or an email breech as the source. I changed my email passwords and a few others, and have never since dealt with that vendor.
My bottom line, however, unless it is a known-known-trusted-entity, I use nothing but a name-brand CREDIT CARD -- never a debit card or PayPal F&F for any purchases.
Collector and shooter of guns and other items that require a tax stamp, Lead and brass scrounger. Never too much brass, lead or components in inventory! Always looking to win beauty contests with my reloads.
Thanks to all for the great info!
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