Today I had to finally admit to myself that I've been scammed and stolen from by a person in TA :-(
It all began last November when I was in TA irc, and a person said he was selling a motherboard in here forums. I looked it just by curiosity at it seemed ok. I'm in .fi and seller is was in .us tho.
I had chatted with him a bit earlier, and thought he seemed okay dude. I suggested him that I'll buy the mobo and that he gets also a XP for it since they are much cheaper in the .us. He agreed and I sent him the money.
Some time later he confirmed that the money had arrived (albeit after being taking 2x the normal time). Then he said he proceeded to order the XP. After some asking he said he sent the package via USPS. He didn't give any tracking number tho.
After twice the time had passed for the package to arrive, I started asking him you sure everything's okay, etc. Then after some weeks he told me that "the package had been found in some USPS warehouse". And promised he would send it again, this time via UPS.
At one point he told me had mailed it again via UPS, but after it had not been arrived (once again) he admitted he hadn't sent it.
After that, whenever I ask him to mail them or even sell the stuff and even return some money, he makes just another excuse and that "he'll send it next week, honest!"'.
Well, I've waited long enough, over 4 months. I kinda knew how this was going to be, but I just didn't want to admit that something like this would happen to me. Time to count it as loss and move on I suppose.
The amount of money wasn't that big, it's just that I don't even want ever go back to TA irc just because of this :-(.
--posty out for a while