On March first I went on Oodle Marketplace and found a female dalmatian for farely cheap. I asked the necessary questions as to why she was so cheap compared to the other Dalmatians I had come across. I contacted him first over text when he then asked for my email address so he could anwer my questions fully.
The conversation was going great and he answered all of the questions i had and i thought and felt like it was a legit situation and was so excited to have found a Dalmatian for the price I was going to be getting her at. He said that he lived in Massachusetts although the ad said he lived in Illinois. I believed him when he said that they moved because his wife died and they were now having a hard time looking at the puppies without remembering her so he just wanted them to go to a good home.
I told him I was waiting for my tax return to come because that is what I would be using to purchase the puppy with.
We agreed on that he would hold the dog until I notified that I had the full amount of $500 which included the rehoming fee as well as the delivery fee. He also said that I would not have to worry about paying until I recieved the dog. I asked for clarification and he said that I would pay the delivery driver.
I was relieved when he told me this becasue I was not comfortable with wiring money all the way to Massachusetts. As the days went buy I kept him updated on when I was going to be recieving my tax return and he was very cordal until I asked for some more pictures of her because I wanted to show my family.
He sent three pictures all of which were clearly the same dog and was very pleased. After he sent those pictures he stopped emailing and returning my texts and phone calls altogether. My dad found a scam report on this site that had his name all over it in regards to a Boston Terrior. Same phone number, same email, same name. I was completely heart broken.
The dog that I had had on my screen saver for almost two weeks was probably not even real. When I asked for the vet records and the contact info for the vet so I could call just to make sure she was healthy and the vet said she was good he never responded. I was very polite with my emails and text messages asking him to read his email. I finally decided to copy the link to the scam report from this site that his name and contact information was on into an email and asked for an explination.
His response was copying two emails that he had already sent me and pasted them into another email to send me. I was starting to get very upset when I said "Unfortunately Mr. Nelly that is not an explination and you are avoiding my questions and concerns." He never responded again.
I have come to the realization that I had not been officially scammed but that it was in the process of taking place. For someone who can sit there and toy with someone about a puppy that they are so excited about and then rip it out from underneath them is absolutely awful. And to also say that you are rehoming them because your wife died and you would like them to go to a good home is a shame on you.
I hope that others read this and do not have a chance to come in contact with him. If it wasn't really a scam then there should have been no problem in him trying to explain himself or assure me that it was not the case. I am both heart broken and extremely upset due to the fact that we talked about this puppy every day and essentiallylooked at her everyday because she was our screen savers on our phones.
I hope that if you end up reading this you catch it as quick as I did.
Nelly Brooke Reviews
On March first I went on Oodle Marketplace and found a female dalmatian for farely cheap. I asked the necessary questions as to why she was so cheap compared to the other Dalmatians I had come across. I contacted him first over text when he then asked for my email address so he could anwer my questions fully.
The conversation was going great and he answered all of the questions i had and i thought and felt like it was a legit situation and was so excited to have found a Dalmatian for the price I was going to be getting her at. He said that he lived in Massachusetts although the ad said he lived in Illinois. I believed him when he said that they moved because his wife died and they were now having a hard time looking at the puppies without remembering her so he just wanted them to go to a good home.
I told him I was waiting for my tax return to come because that is what I would be using to purchase the puppy with.
We agreed on that he would hold the dog until I notified that I had the full amount of $500 which included the rehoming fee as well as the delivery fee. He also said that I would not have to worry about paying until I recieved the dog. I asked for clarification and he said that I would pay the delivery driver.
I was relieved when he told me this becasue I was not comfortable with wiring money all the way to Massachusetts. As the days went buy I kept him updated on when I was going to be recieving my tax return and he was very cordal until I asked for some more pictures of her because I wanted to show my family.
He sent three pictures all of which were clearly the same dog and was very pleased. After he sent those pictures he stopped emailing and returning my texts and phone calls altogether. My dad found a scam report on this site that had his name all over it in regards to a Boston Terrior. Same phone number, same email, same name. I was completely heart broken.
The dog that I had had on my screen saver for almost two weeks was probably not even real. When I asked for the vet records and the contact info for the vet so I could call just to make sure she was healthy and the vet said she was good he never responded. I was very polite with my emails and text messages asking him to read his email. I finally decided to copy the link to the scam report from this site that his name and contact information was on into an email and asked for an explination.
His response was copying two emails that he had already sent me and pasted them into another email to send me. I was starting to get very upset when I said "Unfortunately Mr. Nelly that is not an explination and you are avoiding my questions and concerns." He never responded again.
I have come to the realization that I had not been officially scammed but that it was in the process of taking place. For someone who can sit there and toy with someone about a puppy that they are so excited about and then rip it out from underneath them is absolutely awful. And to also say that you are rehoming them because your wife died and you would like them to go to a good home is a shame on you.
I hope that others read this and do not have a chance to come in contact with him. If it wasn't really a scam then there should have been no problem in him trying to explain himself or assure me that it was not the case. I am both heart broken and extremely upset due to the fact that we talked about this puppy every day and essentiallylooked at her everyday because she was our screen savers on our phones.
I hope that if you end up reading this you catch it as quick as I did.