Have had my eye on a type of bag for a few weeks and spotted a few on Gumtree.
Messaged three sellers, one didn’t reply, two did.
I ask them both if they have paypal as I am dubious to pay for anything via bank transfer...
Both don’t have it. One does offer her boyfriends PayPal, but I take too long to reply and the bag she has sells.
I really want this bag. So message the other seller to ask for her details and if she’ll send it tracked. She replies very fast each time, and says of course :) no problem. Say sometimes if I pay tonight it’ll be sent tomorrow.
I pay the money. Email to say it’s sent.
She doesn’t reply.
A DAY later, she apologises - she was at work and will send tomorrow or Friday.
It’s saturday and Iv had no email from her. Is she busy, or have I not surprisingly been scammed out of my money...!?
It was ‘only’ £20 which I can afford to lose (but would rather not!) and I haven’t ‘rated’ her as a seller yet as I’m giving the benefit of the doubt.