I never told you all about this before because I am sure I should have SUCKER tattooed across my forehead.....but okay...I am just going to vent...I have to, it is driving me insane!
Last spring....I don't know the exact date....should have kept better records, I guess....I won a bid on e-bay, for a changing table ruffle...in the Blue Jean Teddy Bears theme. (the theme for Ambers nursery)
It was only 12 dollars, and I paid via paypal (credit card) and received the very lovely changing table ruffle....I just loved it!!!! (it is a ruffle that fits the top of a babies changing table...hard to explain)
Along with the ruffle, I received a nice printed out form letter, saying how this person also made other custom items, and this included a diaper pail cover out of the material of your choice, etc. etc...(there were several items listed) and she said if there was a specialty item (that wasn't listed) that I would be interested in having made, to please ask her, and she would see what she could do!!!
So like a complete trusting idiot...I e-mailed her, (this was outside of e-bay now) and asked her if she made curtains. I was just so impressed with the changing table ruffle she sent, and I loved the material, especially since it was in the Blue Jean Teddies, which was what I was doing her whole room in and I really wanted curtians made out of the same material in the same theme....and she seemed so professional in her letter (that was included with the ruffle, and in her e-mails, so I took a chance. STUPID..I guess.
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Anyway...she e-mailed me back, saying yes, she could make curtains...what size did I need?
So I had hubby measure both windows in the nursery, and i sent her the measurements. She then told me how much it would cost...it was close to 100 dollars for both windows.
I know that is a bit extravagent...but this is my only child, and so it meant alot to me, and seemed worth it.
So I said okay. She then instructed nme to pay her again by paypal (with my credit card)
I did.
This was back in March or April of last year. Before I even had the baby.
I kept waiting and waiting...and every time I would e-mail her, she would say she had been sick, or one of her kids had been sick, but she was desperatly trying to get the curtains done for me.
Then I heard nothing from her for several months...no replies to my e-mails....
Then she e-mailed me a few months later and said her and her son ( who she said was just a small child, can't remember the age) had been in a terrible car accident...and he had sustained some bad injuries, and she had been spending all her time at the hospital with him, and was so sorry she had not gotten the curtains to me yet.
I of course felt awful for doubting her when I heard this! I prayed for her son, and kept asking her through e-mail how he was....this went on for several months. She said he was in intensive care, and she was with him all the time so she had no time to complete her orders (including mine) But that she would get them done and sent out as soon as possible!
I of course told her to not worry about it...just to focus on her son, and my curtains could wait.
So more months passed and finally I asked....do you think I could get my curtains now? I hated to ask in light of all she had been through....I then received an e-mail from someone claiming to be this woman's good friend and she said she was answering Dawn's e-mails for her (Dawn is the name of the woman I am talking about) she said Dawn's son was still in the hospital and had alot of problems yet.
I felt so bad.....I told her to tell dawn I was thinking of her and her son...etc etc...
This "friend" of Dawns said she was going to ship out all of Dawn's orders for her, and that my order had been completed, so it would be shipped out as well.
So I waited....nothing.
After a few weeks I e-mailed Dawn again, and asked where the curtains were, because I didn't receive them....I saved the e-mail she sent me back....here it is...
Hi Debby,
Im so sorry for the delay in email, I have had such troubles as I had a friend do my shipments while my son was in the hospital. WELL for some reason many did not receive their packages AND I had to redo MANY orders, I am trying to get everything out, YES your packages was one of the packages, after I saw your email I new you did not get yours either, so I went ahead and remade more curtains, they are complete and so is the diaper pail cover, I will ship this out with other shipments tomorrow (Thursday)
Thank you for understanding. I also made you tie backs and sewed in plastic hoops for you to attach to the wall.
Im sure you will be pleased, they came out great (again!!!!)
Ahhh Im sooo tired, you should have seen the mess!!!
Well, back to work, please take care and email me when it arrives, so I know it got there this time.
Thanks so much!
God Bless
~Dawn
So of course I believed her...and felt bad for doubting her. (even though it has now been almost a year since I paid for them)
So I waited......STILL no curtains!!!! And her e-mail was sent to me on Oct. 23rd....I would have got them by now.....so........here is what I just now sent her.....
Dawn....I never received the curtains. I just don't know what to think anymore. I was so excited when I got your last e-mail, saying you had shipped them out.............I never got them. You said the curtains were originally shipped by your friend and never made it.....so you remade them and resent them.....I can understand them getting lost in the mail once....but twice?????????? Something is not right here.
I'm just not sure what.
I am still holding onto the belief that you are being honest with me, but all I know for sure is that I paid almost 100 dollars last spring for curtains/diaper pail cover that I have never received.
I am not judging you...maybe you really did remake them all and resend them....in which case, I feel as bad for you as I do for me, because that means you are out alot of money, just as I am.
I don't know what happened. All I know is I never got the stuff I paid for, and quite franky...at this point,,,,I don't expect I ever will.
I'm not the judge of what really happened. But God is...he knows. Only he knows for sure if I was scammed or not. Only he will be the judge.
If you remade the curtains and they were truley lost in the mail again, then I don't want you to remake them a 3rd time...that is too much money lost for you....I am not that cruel...but if you have scammed me.....shame on you. I truely trusted you. I just don't know what to think...I give up. I will go buy some curtains somewhere else and chalk it up to "live and learn"
I am just very hurt. Not just because of the money...but because I was starting to consider you a friend. I feel like I was taken advantage of.
Maybe that was harsh...maybe her son really was in the hospital...but my god, it has almost been a year since I paid for those curtains! I think I have been scammed!!!!!!!!!!
I ffel like such an idiot for trusting her!!!!! I just had a soft heart, and I felt so bad about her son being in the hosptial.....
I just needed to get this off my chest....thanks for letting me vent...I am pretty upset about it. On one hand....if her son really is in the hospital still and so very sick, and she remade he curtains and they got lost a second time....then I feel just horrible for doubting her, and for the last e-mail I just sent her (which I copied here just now) But if this is a scam...I have to stick up for myslef, even if it gets me nowhere.....
Thanks for listening.....I am at my wits end about this....never again....I will never buy anything from anyone over the internet unless it is directly from an e-bay auction.
Last spring....I don't know the exact date....should have kept better records, I guess....I won a bid on e-bay, for a changing table ruffle...in the Blue Jean Teddy Bears theme. (the theme for Ambers nursery)
It was only 12 dollars, and I paid via paypal (credit card) and received the very lovely changing table ruffle....I just loved it!!!! (it is a ruffle that fits the top of a babies changing table...hard to explain)
Along with the ruffle, I received a nice printed out form letter, saying how this person also made other custom items, and this included a diaper pail cover out of the material of your choice, etc. etc...(there were several items listed) and she said if there was a specialty item (that wasn't listed) that I would be interested in having made, to please ask her, and she would see what she could do!!!
So like a complete trusting idiot...I e-mailed her, (this was outside of e-bay now) and asked her if she made curtains. I was just so impressed with the changing table ruffle she sent, and I loved the material, especially since it was in the Blue Jean Teddies, which was what I was doing her whole room in and I really wanted curtians made out of the same material in the same theme....and she seemed so professional in her letter (that was included with the ruffle, and in her e-mails, so I took a chance. STUPID..I guess.
Anyway...she e-mailed me back, saying yes, she could make curtains...what size did I need?
So I had hubby measure both windows in the nursery, and i sent her the measurements. She then told me how much it would cost...it was close to 100 dollars for both windows.
I know that is a bit extravagent...but this is my only child, and so it meant alot to me, and seemed worth it.
So I said okay. She then instructed nme to pay her again by paypal (with my credit card)
I did.
This was back in March or April of last year. Before I even had the baby.
I kept waiting and waiting...and every time I would e-mail her, she would say she had been sick, or one of her kids had been sick, but she was desperatly trying to get the curtains done for me.
Then I heard nothing from her for several months...no replies to my e-mails....
Then she e-mailed me a few months later and said her and her son ( who she said was just a small child, can't remember the age) had been in a terrible car accident...and he had sustained some bad injuries, and she had been spending all her time at the hospital with him, and was so sorry she had not gotten the curtains to me yet.
I of course felt awful for doubting her when I heard this! I prayed for her son, and kept asking her through e-mail how he was....this went on for several months. She said he was in intensive care, and she was with him all the time so she had no time to complete her orders (including mine) But that she would get them done and sent out as soon as possible!
I of course told her to not worry about it...just to focus on her son, and my curtains could wait.
So more months passed and finally I asked....do you think I could get my curtains now? I hated to ask in light of all she had been through....I then received an e-mail from someone claiming to be this woman's good friend and she said she was answering Dawn's e-mails for her (Dawn is the name of the woman I am talking about) she said Dawn's son was still in the hospital and had alot of problems yet.
I felt so bad.....I told her to tell dawn I was thinking of her and her son...etc etc...
This "friend" of Dawns said she was going to ship out all of Dawn's orders for her, and that my order had been completed, so it would be shipped out as well.
So I waited....nothing.
After a few weeks I e-mailed Dawn again, and asked where the curtains were, because I didn't receive them....I saved the e-mail she sent me back....here it is...
Hi Debby,
Im so sorry for the delay in email, I have had such troubles as I had a friend do my shipments while my son was in the hospital. WELL for some reason many did not receive their packages AND I had to redo MANY orders, I am trying to get everything out, YES your packages was one of the packages, after I saw your email I new you did not get yours either, so I went ahead and remade more curtains, they are complete and so is the diaper pail cover, I will ship this out with other shipments tomorrow (Thursday)
Thank you for understanding. I also made you tie backs and sewed in plastic hoops for you to attach to the wall.
Im sure you will be pleased, they came out great (again!!!!)
Ahhh Im sooo tired, you should have seen the mess!!!
Well, back to work, please take care and email me when it arrives, so I know it got there this time.
Thanks so much!
God Bless
~Dawn
So of course I believed her...and felt bad for doubting her. (even though it has now been almost a year since I paid for them)
So I waited......STILL no curtains!!!! And her e-mail was sent to me on Oct. 23rd....I would have got them by now.....so........here is what I just now sent her.....
Dawn....I never received the curtains. I just don't know what to think anymore. I was so excited when I got your last e-mail, saying you had shipped them out.............I never got them. You said the curtains were originally shipped by your friend and never made it.....so you remade them and resent them.....I can understand them getting lost in the mail once....but twice?????????? Something is not right here.
I'm just not sure what.
I am still holding onto the belief that you are being honest with me, but all I know for sure is that I paid almost 100 dollars last spring for curtains/diaper pail cover that I have never received.
I am not judging you...maybe you really did remake them all and resend them....in which case, I feel as bad for you as I do for me, because that means you are out alot of money, just as I am.
I don't know what happened. All I know is I never got the stuff I paid for, and quite franky...at this point,,,,I don't expect I ever will.
I'm not the judge of what really happened. But God is...he knows. Only he knows for sure if I was scammed or not. Only he will be the judge.
If you remade the curtains and they were truley lost in the mail again, then I don't want you to remake them a 3rd time...that is too much money lost for you....I am not that cruel...but if you have scammed me.....shame on you. I truely trusted you. I just don't know what to think...I give up. I will go buy some curtains somewhere else and chalk it up to "live and learn"
I am just very hurt. Not just because of the money...but because I was starting to consider you a friend. I feel like I was taken advantage of.
Maybe that was harsh...maybe her son really was in the hospital...but my god, it has almost been a year since I paid for those curtains! I think I have been scammed!!!!!!!!!!
I ffel like such an idiot for trusting her!!!!! I just had a soft heart, and I felt so bad about her son being in the hosptial.....
I just needed to get this off my chest....thanks for letting me vent...I am pretty upset about it. On one hand....if her son really is in the hospital still and so very sick, and she remade he curtains and they got lost a second time....then I feel just horrible for doubting her, and for the last e-mail I just sent her (which I copied here just now) But if this is a scam...I have to stick up for myslef, even if it gets me nowhere.....
Thanks for listening.....I am at my wits end about this....never again....I will never buy anything from anyone over the internet unless it is directly from an e-bay auction.