by SarahN
Sun Jan 27, 2013 1:22 am
After reading some of your stories I feel dreadful for how much money some of you have lost and I am squabbling about $390.
I was looking for a good deal on a Bugaboo pram. After contacting a couple of businesses in China I then got a response on alibaba.com from a wholesalers in the UK (silly me thought this was a safer place to purchase from). This wholesaler by the name of CHARLES RONIK messaged me and said they could help me out with my pram purchase. I made sure I let him know that I only wanted to purchase 1 pram rather than a bulk order (which obviously limited how many suppliers wanted to deal with me internationally) and he was fine with this. His quoted price was 450AUD and after a bit of bargaining I got him to agree to 380AUD so that "I would recommend him to other Mums".
We decided on the colour, on the delivery and the terms. He then came to me paying. I told him PayPal was no problem but he wanted me to use Money Gram. I told him I had no idea what it was or how to use it was there another option. He said Western Union - little did I know that Western Union is the biggest scammer website going round. So over I passed the money to a woman named JANE CLEVERY in PORT GLASCOW. I thought she must just work with him. When I didn't get a tracking number for my shipment after 12 hours yet he had had time to collect the funds I got worried. Westpac cancelled my debit card and I had to order it back on.
So, I began with harrassing him and he told me that there was a small problem that his boss had said he couldn't send the shipment at that price and i needed to pay another $500. I told him to forget it and to refund me, BUT, of course, he couldn't do that because apparently the shipping sticker can't be taken off it (how stupid does he seriously think I am?!?!). After a lot of emailing back and forth I finally got a phone number and had to make the international call from Australia to the UK to speak with "MR RANDY". He told me that same junk as in the email, everytime I grabbed him on my refund and never stipulating the costs he "couldn't hear me". At that stage he got an earfull and I followed it up with a call to the Australian Federal Police. I continued to warn CHARLES that I was starting the process tomorrow and he had a short amount of time to refund. Nothing. So I spoke with my local Police and they said they would help out. However, they wanted me to keep pushing him a bit first. So I have, I have also reported it on the UK Police Fraud website. I have since Googled the phone number and the dumba**e has also listed it selling mobile phones and keyboards on international (mainly arabic) websites. So I have a new name, TOM LASHAN. Which just today i referred to him and Tom and he responded....loser! Needless to say I am lucky that my Police system will do something about it and continue to forward it to Interpol and the Feds over there. What an idiot I feel like and I'm still a month off having my baby with no pram.....I just want my money back so that I can actually buy one...this time ONSHORE!
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Sarah
I was looking for a good deal on a Bugaboo pram. After contacting a couple of businesses in China I then got a response on alibaba.com from a wholesalers in the UK (silly me thought this was a safer place to purchase from). This wholesaler by the name of CHARLES RONIK messaged me and said they could help me out with my pram purchase. I made sure I let him know that I only wanted to purchase 1 pram rather than a bulk order (which obviously limited how many suppliers wanted to deal with me internationally) and he was fine with this. His quoted price was 450AUD and after a bit of bargaining I got him to agree to 380AUD so that "I would recommend him to other Mums".
We decided on the colour, on the delivery and the terms. He then came to me paying. I told him PayPal was no problem but he wanted me to use Money Gram. I told him I had no idea what it was or how to use it was there another option. He said Western Union - little did I know that Western Union is the biggest scammer website going round. So over I passed the money to a woman named JANE CLEVERY in PORT GLASCOW. I thought she must just work with him. When I didn't get a tracking number for my shipment after 12 hours yet he had had time to collect the funds I got worried. Westpac cancelled my debit card and I had to order it back on.
So, I began with harrassing him and he told me that there was a small problem that his boss had said he couldn't send the shipment at that price and i needed to pay another $500. I told him to forget it and to refund me, BUT, of course, he couldn't do that because apparently the shipping sticker can't be taken off it (how stupid does he seriously think I am?!?!). After a lot of emailing back and forth I finally got a phone number and had to make the international call from Australia to the UK to speak with "MR RANDY". He told me that same junk as in the email, everytime I grabbed him on my refund and never stipulating the costs he "couldn't hear me". At that stage he got an earfull and I followed it up with a call to the Australian Federal Police. I continued to warn CHARLES that I was starting the process tomorrow and he had a short amount of time to refund. Nothing. So I spoke with my local Police and they said they would help out. However, they wanted me to keep pushing him a bit first. So I have, I have also reported it on the UK Police Fraud website. I have since Googled the phone number and the dumba**e has also listed it selling mobile phones and keyboards on international (mainly arabic) websites. So I have a new name, TOM LASHAN. Which just today i referred to him and Tom and he responded....loser! Needless to say I am lucky that my Police system will do something about it and continue to forward it to Interpol and the Feds over there. What an idiot I feel like and I'm still a month off having my baby with no pram.....I just want my money back so that I can actually buy one...this time ONSHORE!
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Sarah
