| Online fraud is growing at an alarming rate. I have had | | | | the delay. Well about a week passed and a couple of |
| the unfortunate experience of being scammed out of | | | | my customers e-mailed me informing me that they got |
| 8,000K. I Currently work out of the comfort of my own | | | | iPhones. I asked them to send me the iPhones and |
| home, freelancing, own an eBay store, and also work | | | | refunded them. |
| with affiliate marketing. However, the story I am going | | | | As it turns out everyone got iPhones and they were all |
| to share with you is unfortunate. It shows how a | | | | fake or broken. I did receive my order and it was 4 |
| scammer ripped me off and cost my business 8k. | | | | fake iPod nanos. So I refunded everyone and now am |
| For this story I will be explaining how drop shipping with | | | | stuck with these useless fake iPhones and nanos. I call |
| a scam company has hurt my eBay business | | | | it the evidence pile. I noticed when I received the |
| immensely. | | | | iPhones from my customers that they all had the |
| First, I had this great idea of hooking up with a | | | | same packing list. This made it appear to look like it |
| distributor that sold digital SLR lenses. I got in contact | | | | was sent to the wrong person. |
| with them through a popular B2B site. Anyways I | | | | I was outraged so I tried to contact this company. |
| contacted a lot of different sellers and got many | | | | They would not respond to me. Becoming very |
| quotes on these lenses. They quoted me with a | | | | annoyed I decided to e-mail them from another e-mail |
| decent price and agreed to ship them to my | | | | address posing as a big shot that needed 200 Apple |
| customers. They even gave me a price list. | | | | Laptops. Bam I got a response and have been |
| I thought this was a great deal and agreed to buy 10 | | | | delaying them ever since. |
| of them. I sold 8 of them on eBay in a matter of days. | | | | I have filed a report with the FBI, The Federal Trade |
| I was going to have two shipped to me in the case | | | | Commission, and also Attorney General of State. I |
| that I would need to replace them. The seller | | | | have yet to get a response and decided to count my |
| contacted me though e-mail with tracking information | | | | losses because I do not believe anything will happen |
| for my customers. | | | | very quickly. I made the mistake of using WU to |
| However, the tracking did not work for 12 days. I felt | | | | transfer the money, which was a bad idea. WU is not |
| this could affect my business negatively and decided | | | | a secure way to transfer money. I filed a claim with |
| to give my customers all refund for $50 because of | | | | them but it is not going to matter. |