Go with your gut...ALWAYS

 

And I know this.  I KNOW this.  It's been proven to me time and time again.  Yet, I want to trust and believe in people so I do.  

Blaine wants a gaming laptop.  We didn't know he wanted a gaming laptop so I found one on Facebook Marketplace and bought it.  It's a great laptop.  But it's not a gaming laptop.  So needless to say, it doesn't work for what he wants.  

So back to Marketplace to find a gaming laptop.  I found one that seemed too good to be true.  *first gut feel.  It was a $900 laptop that was selling for $400.  The owner said that her son locked it and he couldn't remember the password so it needed to be factory reset.  *second gut feel.  If it's locked you can't verify it's really what she says it is.  I met with her and asked her point blank if this really is what she says it is.  I said I have already been scammed and I can't afford to be scammed again.  She looked me in the face and promised me it was exactly what she said it was.  She even told me I could go down the street and get it fixed for FREE.  I asked her if that was the case, why didn't she do it?  Oh I don't drive she said.  It's within walking distance I replied.  No answer.  *THIRD gut feel.  Never mind the gut feel when I met her - and I hate to be stereotypical here - but she lived in Ontario housing and looked ROUGH.  She didn't look like she had two farts to rub to her name - but she also didn't seem that intelligent either so maybe she really didn't know about this computer.  

Anyways, bought the damn thing, and brought it to the store to get fixed.  It was not free (I didn't think it would be) and it was fixed within an hour.  IT WAS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO WHAT SHE SAID IT WAS.  It didn't even connect to the internet!!  I contacted her immediately and asked her to call me.  She called me (surprised she did this - knowing she scammed me) and I asked for my money back.  She refused saying it's exactly what she said it was, an HP Pavillion Laptop.  Obviously, when someone is buying a laptop they want the specs.  Not just the name brand!  

I asked her when she was going to be home and she said she was at the hospital having a procedure done.  I told her I wasn't happy and wanted my money back.  She said, "the laptop is exactly what the ad says!  It's an HP Pavillion. Sold as is.  Take care" 

I was BEYOND PISSED. 😡 She scammed me.  Even after I told her it was for my son and I had already been scammed!!  I told Blaine I was going to her house and going to demand my money back.  She lived in an Ontario housing apartment and I was prepared to knock on every door until I found her!  I knocked on one door and asked if they knew where my friend Amanda Lynn lived and she did!  One door down!  Knocked on that door and guess what?!  She answered!!  (Even though she doesn't drive and was at the hospital only 15 minutes earlier having an ultrasound!)

I told her I wanted my money back.  She yelled at me and said, "You'll have to wait!" I told her I wasn't leaving until she gave me my money back.  She screamed and yelled at me to get out of her unit.  I told her I wasn't going ANYWHERE until she gave me my money back.  She said I'm calling the police.  And I said, "Good!!!  Get them here so we can't sort this out!"  So she left her unit, at which point the building manager came by and told me I had to leave the building.  I told her nicely that I wasn't going anywhere and I would wait for the police to sort the whole matter out.  I had one foot in her unit and I stepped out into the hallway.  

I was shaking in my boots.  I wasn't completely certain that I wasn't going to get arrested.  The police did come and took her story and then they came inside and took mine.  They went back and forth a couple of times and then said they were going to try and do an exchange.  I was doubtful but VERY hopeful that I was going to get my money back.  I pleaded with the police that I needed the money as my son needed a computer and needed to do his exams at the end of his semester and he wouldn't be able to do that if I didn't get my money back.  I even started to cry - waterworks always help.  I was feeling very trapped and frustrated so it didn't take much for them to come on.  

The police asked us to return to our car and took the laptop, and would do the exchange.  Blaine and I went out to our van and as we sat we saw one officer trade money for the laptop with the other.  I was ELATED!!! 

What an ordeal to go through!!!  I just can't comprehend why and how someone scams another human being out of their hard-earned money.  Like I said before, she looked very poor and uneducated but to lie again and again to scam someone out of their money.  To lie to their face.  To scream at them that they are in the right when they KNOW they are in the wrong! 

What in the actual fuck is wrong with the world today?!  

I am beyond relieved that I got the money back.  We can ill afford to be scammed out of $400 right now.  I know it's not a lot but it is for us right now.  

Moral of the story: GO WITH YOUR GUT ALWAYS.  

Oh, and don't cross me because I'm a bad bitch that doesn't let that shit happen!