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How did your story end? You got your money back immediately or it took a while?

• lazide 3y ago
  I had other things going on in my life that meant I couldn’t do what I needed to do in a reasonable amount of time - and unfortunately just got screwed. I couldn’t charge back on the card without a police report during a specific time window (30 days). Filing it after that might have resulted in some action, but I wouldn’t likely get my money back. I suspect it was the store manager, and I wasn’t the first one. But I had no real evidence, just a pattern of shifty behavior and lies. They’d conveniently avoided having cameras in the areas to document what actually happened, and my pickup code had been used to pick it up, so definitely an inside job. I had video evidence I was at home when the supposed pickup happened, but that was it. So the thief won.
  • grugagag 3y ago
    Sorry to hear that. Yeah, they probably thought about how some people would never follow through with the police report and their scheme will keep on going for some time. But they’ll get caught eventually
    • lazide 3y ago
      Yup, at least if they got greedy. My guess is they’d just do it infrequently and if anyone started asking questions stop. Hard to not get greedy though at some point. In hindsight/next time, I’d just call the police right then and there the moment I heard them say someone else picked it up. Listening to them after that or letting them give me the run around just wore me out and let me be convinced that I wasn’t somehow having a felony committed against me right there. Also, not letting the personal issue escalate to where it was that bad would have let me do that much, much easier. But that is much easier said than done. Lessons learned!