Have I Been Scammed?
Well, I hope I haven't done something incredibly stupid. While scanning for the going rates on National Triolian mandolins on the interweb, seeing mostly $1000 and upward, I saw one for $56. Seriously. Drastically reduced from $1429. Free shipping. I will grant that it was being offered at a site I'd never heard of, but, well, so were most of the other sites I'd already visited. I went ahead and clicked through to make the purchase, and everything went as usual. So I made the payment, through PayPal, and all seemed fine ... Till I checked the transaction at PayPal, which specified an email address that had nothing to do with the site's url. I went back to the listing<Removed by Moderator, the listing is still active>, or tried to via my google search, and the listing was gone. Odd - it should have still been up. I found it by going to my browser history. The listing is indeed still up, though why it dropped out of google escapes me. The seller's email is <Removed by Moderator. No sense in giving a scammer someone else's e-mail address>@gmx.com - and gmx.com isn't a website, but some sort of emailboxes set-up - somewhere you can set up an email account, nothing more.
My spidey sense is going haywire. They say that if a deal is too good to be true, it probably is. I'm glad I went through PayPal, and I keep my PayPal balance at $0, so it draws from a bank account, and the one it's linked to is reserved for online transactions only, and I keep it under $100 at all time - for this very reason. PayPal tells me the transaction is pending. I wonder whether I should cancel it.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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