There exist no words in my vocabulary that could come close to describing how this thread makes me feel. I'm not sure I've ever been more dumbfounded.
Squilly. Just... Squilly.
Do you believe everything you are told?
This happened yesterday
Got scammed for $330 last night.
Only if someone outside this thread tells him.
If you used a middleman to protect from being scammed, how is it you ended up being scammed?
When this first started I never imagined saying this... But its WASTELAND time.
How does one say this nicely?
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..and in what amounts to about 25 years of being exposed to shipping in one way or another, with a vast amount of years dealing with container loads, LTL, a few pallets, odd shaped stuff, etc.Stated before: only two pallets can be shipped to one address at a time. That's why they're at different locations.
We (buyer and seller) met on a forum and I requested a middleman.
Selling/buying an intangible, completely anonymous product designed so that it cannot be tracked with someone you met on a forum. What could possibly go wrong?
You forgot the High School Security Officer who is a partner in a 40 store chain in Poland.
As a final update, I talked to my brother and had a brief discussion for an update. The Poles have no idea that he's getting $20,000 in profit from this, it's simply tied into the price of each iPhone and iPad. It was never deliberately stated. I do not know why they don't bother going through Apumac. He met up with the security guard again, although I don't know what was said during the conversation. It's been a nice thread, overall. Maybe another update soon, if the mods allow it.
New update:
3 pallets have been shipped and delivered to Poland. My brother released the pallets from UPS in California to them. I haven't been told how much he made but there are 6 on hold by UPS. My brother is apparently being paid via Citadel (don't know what happened with PFCU). That's the very latest.