tallyho8
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I'm telling you how this scam works in case it ever gets you when you order tractor parts or whatever. I ordered a new iPad on Amazon.com for $733. It was sold by a third party seller but I have had luck with Amazon in the past. They emailed me that it would be delivered by USPS on May 19. I watched the mailman drive by and put my mail in my box and then I went and got the mail. No iPad.
I emailed Amazon customer service stating I did not receive my order. They emailed the supplier. He emailed both of us back with a tracking number showing that it was delivered and said it must have been stolen out of my mailbox. I asked for a refund which was denied since they had proof it was delivered. Paypal would not stop payment because the seller, Double-Clik Technology Solutions, had proof it was delivered. They priced it below $750 because Paypal makes sellers ship with signature confirmation all items over $750.
In the meantime I went to my local post office and showed them the tracking number and said I never got it. The postmaster explained to me that all scanners the mailmen use to scan the tracking codes have serial numbers on them that register the scan and he checked my mailman's scanner and the code was not scanned on his scanner but it was scanned in my zip code. That meant my mailman did not scan it so another mailman from that post office scanned it.
I had him check each mailman's scanner to see who scanned it and he found which mailman scanned it. This mailman delivered mail to a different area. Since he delivered over 30 packages that day he could not tell where he delivered it. We told him to keep an eye out for anything unusual. The next day he returned a package to the post office that a patron turned back in because it had a name on it he did not recognize.
This package had my tracking number on it but not my name or address. The seller printed up the mailing label with my name & address and then he cut out my name and address and put a small label over it with a fake name and different address in my zip code. Then he stuffed the envelope with some ads and worthless papers and mailed it figuring that whoever got it would just figure its junk mail and toss it. When it was delivered to the other address the mailman scanned the bar code that had encoded my address so that the tracking info showed it was delivered because the tracking info just shows what zip code it was delivered to and not what address.
The postmaster gave me the envelope which clearly did not contain an iPad and I documented opening the envelope with witnesses and photos and video. I presented the evidence to Amazon and they stated that they would give me a refund in a couple of weeks. I emailed the Federal Postal Inspectors with the story and evidence and am waiting to hear back from them.
When you Google Double-Clik Technology Solutions you see that they have bad reviews and have pulled this scam on several other people this week. Amazon has banned them but I want to see them prosecuted because undoubtedly some of the people they scammed figured it was stolen from their box and just took the loss.
I emailed Amazon customer service stating I did not receive my order. They emailed the supplier. He emailed both of us back with a tracking number showing that it was delivered and said it must have been stolen out of my mailbox. I asked for a refund which was denied since they had proof it was delivered. Paypal would not stop payment because the seller, Double-Clik Technology Solutions, had proof it was delivered. They priced it below $750 because Paypal makes sellers ship with signature confirmation all items over $750.
In the meantime I went to my local post office and showed them the tracking number and said I never got it. The postmaster explained to me that all scanners the mailmen use to scan the tracking codes have serial numbers on them that register the scan and he checked my mailman's scanner and the code was not scanned on his scanner but it was scanned in my zip code. That meant my mailman did not scan it so another mailman from that post office scanned it.
I had him check each mailman's scanner to see who scanned it and he found which mailman scanned it. This mailman delivered mail to a different area. Since he delivered over 30 packages that day he could not tell where he delivered it. We told him to keep an eye out for anything unusual. The next day he returned a package to the post office that a patron turned back in because it had a name on it he did not recognize.
This package had my tracking number on it but not my name or address. The seller printed up the mailing label with my name & address and then he cut out my name and address and put a small label over it with a fake name and different address in my zip code. Then he stuffed the envelope with some ads and worthless papers and mailed it figuring that whoever got it would just figure its junk mail and toss it. When it was delivered to the other address the mailman scanned the bar code that had encoded my address so that the tracking info showed it was delivered because the tracking info just shows what zip code it was delivered to and not what address.
The postmaster gave me the envelope which clearly did not contain an iPad and I documented opening the envelope with witnesses and photos and video. I presented the evidence to Amazon and they stated that they would give me a refund in a couple of weeks. I emailed the Federal Postal Inspectors with the story and evidence and am waiting to hear back from them.
When you Google Double-Clik Technology Solutions you see that they have bad reviews and have pulled this scam on several other people this week. Amazon has banned them but I want to see them prosecuted because undoubtedly some of the people they scammed figured it was stolen from their box and just took the loss.
