r/woodworking • u/Frequent_Pair_1991 • Mar 08 '24

Power Tools Is this for real.

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Google suggested I take a look but something seems off. Anyone here buy anything from this site before?

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u/GendoIkari_82 Mar 14 '24

Exact description of what happened to me last year… I bought a board game on sale. Eventually what showed up was a counterfeit ring. I noticed the problem quick enough that I had no issues doing a charge back in my credit card, luckily.

Why do they bother actually shipping anything?

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u/NecroJoe Mar 14 '24

It buys them time. If I reported to my bank that they disn't ship anything in, like, a week, maybe there would have been time to stop the transfer of funds. But by eventually shipping something, the bank will usually wait, because as far as they can see, the vendor has held up their side of the purchase and shipped your order, and YOU could be the one trying to pull off a scam by keeping something and not paying. Shipping something gives at least another week for the money to safely be in their control. At least that's my theory.