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Just got scammed, not happy. Anyone been in my shoes before?

which would you do?

  • Take the $150 as a hard loss and buy another from good friend knowing im in good hands

    Votes: 8 47.1%

  • Just use the one I have now, even though its inferior and no warranty and from a scammer

    Votes: 9 52.9%
  • Total voters
    17
How do you know the appraiser wasn't scamming you? He could have made all that garbage up to get a $150 necklace you got a deal on for $50 to then turn around and sell it for more than $150.

Like others have said how could you love something so much and then when you get offended at $50 you hate it.

Find a different appraiser and see what they say. Or novel idea go to a tiffany store and have them look at it to determine if it's real or fake. Sometimes high quality retailers will provide compensation towards the real product in exchange for getting a fake off the streets.
 
I live in China, so I probably have 10 times the value in fake things :p
 
OP, you bought a piece of Tiffany jewelry off Craigslist and expected it to be real?

I'm sorry, I am genuinely sympathetic to someone being ripped off, I really am, but I'm a bit flummoxed that you thought this would be legit. Tiffany & Co. just doesn't seem like the sort of thing I would want to buy from a stranger on Craigslist.
 
Tell the scammer you are going to get the police involved because they are selling counterfeit goods. If they sold you one, they probably have a lot of others to sell too. However, they can avoid all that by giving you a full refund.

Whether the scammer believes you'd go to all that trouble or not doesn't matter since if they are in the business of selling counterfeit goods, they'd rather get rid of you with a refund than have a 'potential' counterfeit goods investigation to deal with.

You want to play a good bluff that'll make the scammer realise denying you a refund is going to be a lot of hassle for them and they'll hopefully opt for the quick solution.
 
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Misskitty said:
Ya thats what im gonna do, buy from my friend and know im in good hands. I just wish I wasnt so impatient and waited the extra day cause that would save me. :mad:

Im gonna try to recoup some money back by selling the fake one. Even if i get $50 for it, it at least cuts down my losses.
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Exactly. Sell and try not be too hard on yourself.

I got scammed for a lot more for new glasses from Cohen Fashion Optical 5 years ago as they were trying to push bifocals on me. Tried to return them, reported to BBB, nada.

The good thing was this pushed me to finally try the eye exercise plan I had lying around the house. And since then my vision has slightly improved and/or stayed at the same prescription. I've since used those glasses once or twice and was pleased to discover I did not need that strength.

So I was meant to take that financial blow in order to work with those exercises. Yeah, it was a LOT of money, but my vision is a lot more important. I know what to look for now and I'm far more careful with my $ in regards to most purchases.

I wish you luck with the sale. You learned from this mistake and that's always a good thing.
 
I once bought a fake iPhone 2G on ebay back in 2007. They used a photo of a real iPhone but sent me a Chinese knockoff. Luckily after I sent the item to paypal so they could investigate it they sides with me and gave me my money back and the seller's ebay account was banned.
 
If this is a legit business,(they have a physical shop), then file a complaint with the BBB. Next step, file a consumer complaint with your state's attorney general.
 
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