Falling For Internet Scams

Beasley Digital

4/22/2025

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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?

01:01And we're asking you too, 702-597-1027.

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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.

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