the victim of a rogue trader, or a con, either on your doorstep or on-line?
Please reveal what it was, and if it ended with a satisfactory outcome?
Examples:
dodgy building work, fitters, e-mail scams, bought something on the doorstep which turned out to not be what you thought...you get the idea.
Once I bought something from an American company (website), and months later I still hadn't received the goods...it took another 3 months, but I did eventually get a full refund via police intervention (American police not UK).
The company is no longer.
OOOO,oooooo My hubby and I owned a semitruck which hubby drove. Typically you get paid for a load 30-45 days after it is delivered. Well, the company he was hauling for kept making excuses why they wouldn't pay. Then they deposited money in our business account with a forged check. Well, come to find out they were involved in a bunch of shady dealings in multiple states. We lost a ton of money. sigh
Door to door: Guy selling CPR courses (first calling the neighbourhood asking for interest) - couldn't do anything as they have "three years to offer the courses".
Water heater scam: claim to be of the local energy company, check out the water heater, tell you it definately needs replacement and tries to sign you up. - since we dont own the house, this one was easy to fix.
E-mail: I got an e-mail from the inventor of pennecilin once, who was looking for an assistant <_< Very shady. Didn't respond there.
Original Post by luvs2eat:
OOOO,oooooo My hubby and I owned a semitruck which hubby drove. Typically you get paid for a load 30-45 days after it is delivered. Well, the company he was hauling for kept making excuses why they wouldn't pay. Then they deposited money in our business account with a forged check. Well, come to find out they were involved in a bunch of shady dealings in multiple states. We lost a ton of money. sigh
Oh! that is just horrible, I think these people who con others are some of the worst, no conscience what so ever.
I'm sorry that happened to you. :/
Pretty girl I knew asked to "borrow" $50 (this was in the 80s, when $50 was actually worth something).
Never saw it again.
Lesson learned.
Also had a close call... was contracting to a company making a set-top box for streaming media over the internet to TV (this was before the days of VoD and direct TV and the like). Was going along fine. Then they sent me a contract to sign and were pushy about it. I gave it to my lawyer and the lawyer identified a bunch of sketchy stuff, including that work done immediately became property of that company, whether done on the clock or not. I said "oh hell no, you get the work I do when I get paid for it, and only the work I've done". Got the nasty crap struck, big back-and-forth... finally ended up with something approximating a halfway decent agreement, signed it.
All payments stopped. Excuses about things being lost, about people needing to sign it not being in the office, blah blah. Guess they figured they got the contract that they could keep me working for x number of months because, hey, I've got a contract now that says any disputes have to happen in a California courtroom some 8000km away from me, so I'm "safe". Three months goes by, and I'm talking with one of the sales guys who is tight with the CEO, and I mention that I haven't been paid in a while and it'd better be resolved soon because I've got a contract that says I can yank all code that hasn't been paid for, and the stuff I've been working on over the last few months is billing.
Surprise surprise, got a call that night from the CEO sending me a cheque. Cashed that, waited a week so that I knew it wouldn't bounce and cut all ties.
I posted furniture for sale on Craigslist and had people offering to pay for shipping and offering full price of the furniture, but they needed to have me transfer some funds to do so. They were reported.
I ordered items on eBay that never arrived. The seller was reported, and I was refunded.
In college, I fell for the "Get paid to do surveys" biz. That's $35 I'll never see again.
I almost fell for film school.
Oh yes, that's right! I fell for getting my liberal arts degree.
