ZSkipper

6 May - An ad for Lloyd Mats was a total SCAM! Unfortunately, I didn't catch it in time, and didn't realize PayPal will not cancel payment if you send it "friends and family". Sounded perfectly legit initially, but unfortunately didn't catch it soon enough. Out $100...my bad. So, just posting this as an alert. This is the Lloyd posting:

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Iowa

If someone won't take paypal goods and services that's the only sign you need to not deal with them. Scammers exist because people continue to send money with no recourse if things go wrong.

FatsWaller

The seller has been a forum member for 15+ years and takes another member for $100? There’s got to be more to this than just a simple scam.

vetteish

Man idk…he has so many posts with knowledge and tons of buy/sell posts. This is odd

StayinStock

Yeah I'd be willing to guess this is a miscommunication thing... OP why do you believe your being scammed?

4SUMERZ

No matter, one should NEVER send PPFF for that reason. If the seller won't take the $3.00 hit for using PayPal, then it's a non starter. If you want the item, tell the "cheap" seller, that you will add the 3% PP fee so you can have the PayPal insurance. If they don't agree to that, then bye bye!

savewave

Sorry you lost money to a scammer. The seller doesn't fit the pattern of the scammers we typically see. It's likely you sent money to a scammer who noticed your interest in the mats and PMed you with payment information hoping you wouldn't realize he wasn't the actual seller. That is a frequent pattern we see from scammers. I note there was a scammer active in the sales thread, 98Pace, and he was banned. The database shows you were sent three warnings about scammers who had contacted you by PM.

yeller z06

Sometimes a perfectly good, trustworthy forum member gets his or her account hijacked. That may be what happened here, unfortunately.

sramzzz

Yea it sounds to me like someone intervened here. The seller is online now so maybe reach out and see what is going on. My guess is is has no clue that you paid someone for those mats.

lbzraptor

You may have sent it to the wrong person. I bought something from on here and sent the money and the seller said he didn't receive the money. Upon further investigation i found that i had one letter off in the sellers account. Straightened that out, paid again and got the product but paypal never did give me my money back from where i sent it to the wrong person. And the wrong person never would credit it back like he should have either.250 dollar mistake. Now instead of asking for their paypal info i have them send me an invoice.

leebay

The original seller of the floor mats now has a C7 so he may not be here on the C6 forum much so I sent him a pm explaining what has happened, hopefully he will chime in and clear his name.

Mr D.

Sorry you got scammed, I too got scammed once on the AVS Forum for $350 using PayPal Friends & Family, never again will I use Friends & Family to purchase anything.

cthusker

Sadly the world is rife with scammers and scumbags!

LS YEET

+100

iw172

former MB cop too. hard to believe

iridelow

This is BS! I don't know who this guy is, never sold him anything, never took money from him! Total BS!

iridelow

Thanks for the heads up. I see this BS POST! Yes I have a set of Z06 floormats for sale, still do, never sold them, never took any money from anyone, this guy is full of ****!

iridelow

Sounds like HE got scammed by someone else! I ALWAYS PM my phone number to any buyer and personally talk with them on the phone! I do the same thing when I buy something from a forum member. This way, we are connected in everyway with the sell! If someone is not willing to talk to me on the phone, I'm not buying or selling! I have owned 16 corvettes, bought and sold hundreds of items, Retired LEO and own Kdogs customes corvette's garage! $100 means nothing to me, but my reputation is priceless! This pisses me off beyond words!

PMPerformance

OP just does not understand how the internet works. It’s a shame to see stuff like this, but the mods will clean this up

leebay

( iridelow ) we know your innocent and a long time forum member and retired cop & business man. The moderator's hopefully will clean this mess up, sorry it happened to you . You got caught up in the middle and knew nothing about it.