Originally Posted by
Crius
Okay, first, my friend, my name is Gary, not John. And I do know that I tend to have a little bit more success than others with this sort of thing. Whenever I get a female on the line at someplace like PayPal or Ebay, the first thing I do is tell them a little joke, why can't men catch mad cow disease? Because men are pigs. Then they laugh, then they like me, then they help me. I think you'll be okay in the end, and I really hope that you get your money back. It just pains me to see that same scam at so many other sites on the web. The site Aristchoose appears to be a scam throughout the entire site.
Ooops, sorry Gary.... I'm admittedly the chitz with names.... It seems PayPal may come through with a refund after all. It took some calls, a very nice young lady with a beautiful name (I told her so in fact) and there it is. She was very nice.... I wasn't sure what was going to happen.
I'm reluctant to give that abomination that was sent to us even as a gift because I would hate to have some young person get the wrong idea as to what the hobby is about... I'm thinking of keeping it as a warning to others; Perhaps I should create a 'known scams' page on my website and lead with this thing.
The woman I spoke with did say that if they receive a number of complaints about a particular seller they will prevent them from using PayPal which makes sense of course. PayPal doesn't want to be handing out refunds right and left and they have a reputation at stake. I don't want to see others taken in by scams like this so please if you do any transactions with fly_by_night outfits like this please report them and pressure the payment people as much as is practical...
Jerry