For the time being, I am all shopped out. Yesterday I decided to to tackle Dan’s wardrobe, or the lack thereof. I have known Dan for seven years. In that time, he has bought six new t-shirts, one pair of jeans and two pairs of slacks/trousers. Despite me harping him here and there, he was just not interested in new clothes, didn’t want to look at any, and certainly didn’t want to buy any. Well, thanks to me, he now has new clothes. Last winter I bought him two pairs of corduroy pants. Yesterday I bought him three pairs of jeans (low sitting, straight thigh and bootcut make for sexy jeans! Rawr!) and five polo shirts. I want to get him two or three more pairs of jeans and a few more polos, and then he should be set. He still has a half dozen decent t-shirts and four or five pairs of regular pants/trousers, and plenty of the essentials.
Our sleep has been so messed up for the past week… going to bed at 5am, 6am, even 7am and 8am! Well, early this morning, around 3am, I took some Nyquil, and was out like a light. The good? I fell asleep and stayed asleep. The bad? I fell asleep and stayed asleep… until 1:30 this afternoon. Oops.
I don’t know what it is about summer, but I always manage to get my sleep schedule thrown out of whack. And it always seems to happen in August. Why is that?
My Nikon D40 camera body sold. Well, it sold twice, if you want to be technical. The first buyer had a history of good feedback, so while I found it strange that she sent me a rambling email mentioning shipping costs being an extra $150 and shipping the camera to her nephew, I didn’t think *too* much of it. I wrote back and told her that the shipping costs would be the flat rate as described in the listing.
Yesterday morning I received an email from PayPal, showing a payment of the cost of the camera, plus the flat rate of shipping in the listing, and an extra $150. Only… the email wasn’t from PayPal. I immediately knew the email was fake. The fonts were too large, there was no real alignment, no centering, and the graphics weren’t positioned properly. Furthermore, the links didn’t point to paypal.com. I immediately reported the spoof/fraud to PayPal and eBay, then left the buyer negative feedback and re-listed the camera. I also e-mailed the buyer to tell her that her attempts at scamming me had not gone unnoticed, and that in addition to not getting the camera – since she didn’t pay for it, she was reported to eBay and PayPal, and by the way, enjoy the negative feedback I left.
This morning she sends me some rambling email, saying she’s not sure what’s going on, that she did pay, the money was deducted from her account, but that PayPal needs tracking information before releasing the funds into my PayPal account. Right. Whatever. As I had already sold the Nikon D40 camera body to someone else, I replied with the following and left it at that.
Either you are being scammed, or you are failing an attempt to scam me.
customer.service.paypal.payment@OfficeEmail.net – that is NOT Paypal’s email address. Paypal’s email address always ends in paypal.com. You should only access their services through https://www.paypal.com.The supposed payment notification that I received yesterday was clearly a spoof. None of the links actually pointed to paypal.com.
Furthermore, Paypal credits money instantly. There is no such as thing as awaiting a tracking number before the money is credited.
My camera body sold, and that’s all I care about!
I think there’s something with paypal, ebay and cameras. I tried to sell my mom’s iridology camera for her on ebay and the exact same thing happened. Only the person who bought hers was from africa. o_O She tried to tell me paypal wouldn’t send me the money until I gave her tracking information. Uh huh. And paypal has a new website. riiiight. Sheesh.
Uuuuugh I hate scammers. I’ve been lucky to have not dealt with them in all of my ebay experiences, but that particular scam is one that I read about all the time.
I think the whole clothing thing is a guy thing, unless you’ve got yourself a metro-sexual. I can’t get my DH to even consider buying anything for himself – he just doesn’t care. In fact I have to pick out his clothes if we’re going anywhere that isn’t his work. lol
Good thing you’re so savvy when it came to that camera auction. I’m wanting to get into ebay to get rid of a bunch of stuff I don’t want anymore, but I’m not sure I would’ve caught what you did. Good on ya!
Lmao.. scammers are funny when they are caught. =D
My bf has clothes from middle school that he won’t get rid of. I really want to spruce him up, but he’ll have none of it! He’s happy with his hideous 80′s polyester shirts – and not even the sort of 80′s stuff that’s fashionable either. It’s the stuff they didn’t want to bring back. XD
My Dad had that happen to him. He received an e-mail saying Paypal.com needed his credit card information. He didn’t click any links, but called me. He didn’t even HAVE a Paypal account much less knew what it was. Stupid scammers.
Oooh thats good that you caught that. Have you bought your new camera yet??
Whenever I am out shopping if I see something in my husband’s size that I know that he would look good in, I purchase it for him since he doesn’t usually buy much for himself. I been buying him a few polo shirts here and there so that he’ll have more nicer things to wear when he’s not at work. I’m trying to get him out of the t-shirt style since he is almost 30 and needs to be dressing more accordingly. So far, he has been quite agreeable to the gradual change.
Ah, scammers. The joys of eBay. Well actually, online shopping all together. My mum’s just bought me an all in one printer/scanner/photocopier for my coursework from a company who promised next day delivery. Well it didn’t show today so I hit their website and called them. Or tried to. 3 different numbers (one for each of their trading names and one for a wholesale supply enquiry) and I held for about 45 minutes before the phone was picked up and put back down again. A bit of digging finds that even though Kelkoo and Pricerunner advertise them as ‘safe’ companies, everybody who’s had a dealing with them has had the same thing happen.
Now I’m screwed because I needed the printer for tomorrow and I’m going to have to go to PC World and buy one tomorrow morning then return the one this website sends, if they ever do. And the bank can’t even revoke the payment as it’s ‘pending’.
At least you figured that this lady was a scam before you got involved. I’m absolutely raging about my situation at the moment.
it must be scam month or something. last week i had two scam emails. the first one saying “quick! urgently re-enter your moneybooker account details!” from a hotmail address, and i don’t even have a moneybooker account, whatever that is, heh. the second said “congratulations on your new webjoker account! quick! log in now!”. *delete* i’ve also had an african lottery scam email recently. i must look rich or something? heh. it’s sad that people actually fall for these things, i’m glad you caught your scammer out in time!
Psychos in the world… (Btw, your smilies aren’t clicking for me for some reason..)
I’ve had to do the same thing with James. When we first met, he was working at a manufacturing company where he got all dirty every day at work. He had very few “good” clothes for going out…His “nice clothes” section has almost tripled in size since we’ve been together…and thankfully he has a new job, so the greasy clothes are gone!
I went searching on ebay for that buyer, and noticed that there are two other negative feedbacks with similar wording also both for nice cameras. Plus their last previous purchase from ebay was back in 2005, perhaps their account has been hijacked or something by those crazy african scam artists. I’m glad that you did not ship out the camera and you are a smart cookie for not falling for it.
I am currently trying to write up a “neutral” response about some beads I received. Shipping was quoted at $5.66 + $5.00 handling (I forgot to read the fine print), but envelope says “$1.25″ for shipping ….. I was misquoted and it sucks.
Oh how dumb could she be. lmao
My husband had a couple of t-shirts from he was at college. it even said 1996 on them so I begged him to get rid of them since they were more than 10 years old and used up. He got rid of them and I bought him some new ones too. He is happy about it though.
I am sorry someone tried to scam you but i am happy that you figured it out before shipping anything.
What an absolute douche. I’m sorry you had to deal with her. On the upside, at least it re-sold, right?
Just one of the reasons I don’t like selling on ebay. I had an account suspended for taking payment for an item that the buyer didn’t receive. I sent the item 3 times, and it kept coming back to me. I tried to refund the money and PayPal said that the user didn’t exist. Then I get this email from ebay saying that my account was suspended (I tried logging in and it was true, I couldn’t log in, it was suspended) for not shipping the item. The gal had given me the wrong address three different times, and then closed her PayPal account. DUH….. people are seriously stupid. I always get spoof mail from “PayPal” to addresses that I don’t even have accounts on PayPal for. It’s really retarded.
Scamming sucks. Good thing you’re smart enough to spot it! I can’t believe people do things like that.
That is pretty shitty if she did get scammed however. It just amazes me how much bullshit is out there trying to illegaly aquire money. Glad to hear you noticed that and did something about it before just accepting/shipping etc.