Falling For Internet Scams
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00:00Now back to Amy and Sean.
00:021027 VGS.
00:04The downfall of online ordering.
00:07If I don't order it on Amazon, I feel like just by default, it's going to be a scam.
00:12Even sometimes Amazon, like if you have to check the...
00:16Who is sold by.
00:17Yes.
00:17Yeah, yeah.
00:18Yes.
00:18And I have learned that after buying many, many ugly outfits and shirts and dresses that
00:25I think are going to be so awesome that I have to look at the reviews.
00:30So I'll even look at stores when it's like, oh, Pink Flower says you can buy this shirt
00:36for X Mountain.
00:37It's always so targeted, right?
00:38It's like, football mom or whatever.
00:40I'm like, I need this.
00:40Obviously, that's me.
00:42You're talking to me.
00:43Yeah.
00:43And, but then I'll go in and review the store, like, you know, the actual site.
00:49Exactly.
00:50Before.
00:50I've learned my lesson.
00:52I've wasted way too much money and I don't return anything.
00:54So it really is just throwing money at the wall.
00:57Yeah, burning it.
00:57Yeah.
00:57What's the worst, the worst buying online fail?
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01:05What's the worst fail you've had?
01:07I would say probably when I buy things and I think that they're a certain size because
01:12I'm never good with like the seven with the dash.
01:14I'm like, is that, you know what I'm saying?
01:15Like when it could be inches, could be feet, could be yards.
01:18I have no idea.
01:18Seven units.
01:21So I, I believe it was last year.
01:25I bought these pumpkins that I assumed were going to go by my front door and it was three
01:30stacked pumpkins.
01:31Yeah.
01:32Yeah.
01:32They nest, right?
01:33Yeah.
01:34I have those.
01:35Well, mine were like salt and pepper shakers.
01:37Oh no, I got mine at the Home Depot.
01:39Yeah.
01:39See, that's why I, I, that's why Patrick calls me boots on the ground, a foot soldier, because
01:44I, I have to go to stores.
01:46I have to see it and, and, and touch it before I buy it because I'm such a zero.
01:51Yeah.
01:53Yeah.
01:53It's terrible.
01:53I ordered something because I was, uh, I saw a, an ad on Instagram, something for
01:58like, it was a, it was a onesie for mother's day.
02:01I'm like, and this is like February or March.
02:04I'm like, I'm ahead of the game, way ahead of the game.
02:08Sean superhero, order it and wait and wait and wait.
02:12And it finally gets delivered a week after mother's day after mother's day.
02:18I can't.
02:18And then what do you do?
02:19Like what?
02:20And it has their name on it.
02:22It's personalized.
02:22So now like, I'm like, guys, I don't need this anymore.
02:26We can use it next year.
02:27I'm like, yeah, if my kid stays the same size, which he won't.
02:31That's so irritating.
02:32So gross.
02:32They'd never, never, uh, gave me a refund.
02:35I know.
02:35Brutal.
02:35Oh God.
02:36Or they'll say, okay, we'll give you like your, your shipping money back.
02:39I'm like, at this point, keep the shipping money.
02:41Yeah.
02:42No.
02:42Seriously.
02:42It's gross.
02:43Uh, Michelle, you ordered a Christmas tree on Facebook.
02:47I ordered two.
02:48Two Christmas trees on Facebook.
02:49Okay.
02:50First of all, tell us what the ad looked like.
02:51So the ad was so cool.
02:54My, my dad put it up on his, uh, on his Facebook page and he put it up there so that my mom
02:59and I would see it.
03:00It shows a woman putting the tree together, which caught my eye because I can't put my
03:06tree together.
03:07All the pieces are too heavy.
03:08Oh, the worst.
03:09And your tree is, cause I know you personally, your tree is like twice your height.
03:17My tree is 12 feet tall.
03:19More than twice your height.
03:20Yeah.
03:20So I put, my husband puts it up and then I put a ladder on either side of it and I just
03:24go up and down the ladders for hours.
03:26Wow.
03:27Yeah.
03:28Yeah.
03:28It makes a fun little video every year.
03:30Super fun.
03:31So this tree, it shows a woman putting it together, implying that it's very light and the tree,
03:36you know, when all the, all the pieces are put together, the tree is so very smushed.
03:39And then it shows the remote in her hand and she pushes a button and the tree just, it just,
03:45I don't know.
03:46I think I've seen it.
03:47It like fluffs itself.
03:48Yeah.
03:49It fluffs itself.
03:50I, since I, yeah, I, it fluffs itself and it shows this woman standing there smiling and
03:55I'm like, Oh, I could do this.
03:56And it's on wheels.
03:58Wow.
03:59You know, the tree stands.
04:00Right.
04:01So the ad said that it was a, it was a huge closeout sale.
04:05And if you buy the two seven and a half foot trees, there's two options, seven and a half
04:11foot or nine foot.
04:12So if you buy the two seven and a half foot trees, there are 44 and change each.
04:19Oh, there's your first one.
04:21I know that's a warning.
04:21That's way too cheap.
04:22You ever been on the Balsam Hill website?
04:24Those things go for like a thousand dollars minimum.
04:27My 12 foot tree was so expensive.
04:29I can't even talk about it.
04:30So yeah, $44 each.
04:32But if you order two of them, you get free shipping.
04:36So I did.
04:37So 88 and change is, you know, charged to my credit card.
04:42And, and that's it.
04:43And, and then, and then we wait, you know, so I had to order early.
04:46I mean, it's September, you know, but stuff that comes, I've ordered, you know, from Sheen
04:51before it takes a long time.
04:52Yeah.
04:52So plenty of time for Christmas, right?
04:57Everything's fine, right?
04:58Yeah.
04:59Yeah.
04:59So, um, so I got tracking, I got notification that it shipped, I don't know, maybe a week
05:06later.
05:07And so I was following the tracking and, um, so I finally got notification.
05:12I think it was this past Monday that I got, excuse me, the email saying your package was
05:18delivered in your mailbox.
05:19Oh no.
05:21Which is interesting.
05:23Since it's two seven and a half foot trees in my mailbox.
05:28Okay, fine.
05:29So I walk out to the mailbox and I have this, this package that has the same tracking number
05:35as my China post Christmas trees.
05:39Um, except that I could hold the package in the palm of my hand and I opened it up and it's
05:44this cute little, um, gold plated two piece cutlery set, stainless steel.
05:50It's a spoon and a fork.
05:52And just to give you a visual, the fork is like, have you ever gotten one of those little
05:57tiny forks, like when you, when you have crab legs?
05:59Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:03So, so that's, that my, my two seven and a half foot Christmas trees.
06:10Yeah.
06:11So.
06:12Are you going to put tensile around them?
06:13But where are the trees?
06:14Did you call them and say, where are my damn trees?
06:16There are no trees.
06:17Oh, oh wait.
06:18So yes.
06:19So I go back to Facebook to my dad's original post and I click on it to see if there's some
06:23kind of contact us.
06:25The website's gone.
06:26It's gone.
06:26There's nothing.
06:27It's.
06:28At least they sent you something.
06:30You can use them.
06:32Are you going to get crab now?
06:33I mean, crab's good.
06:35Oh yeah.
06:35I mean, what could go wrong?
06:36I'm sure that those, um, that, that fork and spoon are totally safe to use.
06:40Yeah, absolutely.
06:40You spent $88 on a spoon and fork.
06:43So wait a second.
06:44So this is kind of fun too.
06:46So my mom goes to work the day after I ordered everything.
06:49My mom goes to work and she's all excited and she's telling her bosses, oh my gosh, these
06:53trees, look at how cool.
06:54And she shows them the ad on my dad's Facebook page.
06:57They said, order us two of the nine foot trees.
06:59Oh wow.
06:59So my mother calls me freaking out.
07:02What did you pay for shipping?
07:03And I said, nothing.
07:04She's like, go online and look when you put two nine foot trees in your cart.
07:08So the nine foot trees were $10 more instead of $44 each.
07:12They were $54 each.
07:13That's only fair.
07:14Right.
07:15Sure.
07:16But you put them in the cart.
07:17Shipping was $10 million.
07:20So I said, certainly this is not USD.
07:27It must be like dong or something.
07:29And so, do you like that?
07:30Yeah.
07:31So I, you know, I'm looking all over and it says conversion, monetary, USD, legit $10
07:36million.
07:37Wow.
07:38So she went ahead and she took those out of her cart and she ordered two seven and a
07:41half foot trees.
07:42And did she get a spoon and fork?
07:44Well, so far she hasn't gotten anything.
07:47She goes back to work tomorrow.
07:48See, you should be thankful.
07:49I cannot wait to find out what she got.
07:52I hope it's something different, like a spatula or something.
07:54I can't wait to find out what she got.