Scammed
I think i almost got scammed today. I have been looking at getting a Jawbone II bluetooth headset which retails for about $120. I was looking online and found one at mrbdepot.com for $69.99. A good deal by all means. A quick google search found this commentsearch.com article which had many favorable things to say about it. I didn’t find anything negative although I searched for about two hours, being a very skeptical person. After not finding anything negative I decided to go ahead and purchase the headset. When I went to checkout, I selected the PayPal option, deciding it to be shrewd to hide my credit card info. My second clue that something was wrong (The first being the Too-Good-To-Be-True price) was the company name on the PayPal page said “Madeline Rose Boutique, LLC”. Now I am not one to judge, but most electronics retailers do not refer to themselves as boutiques. BUT I went ahead anyway because I hoped that I could still get the good deal. After entering my information into paypal, I proceeded back to the MRB Depot site, where I was told that an error had occurred. So I went back to my cart and clicked the paypal link again, thinking that a server error may have occurred and knowing that my PayPal transaction had not been fully approved, and therefore my money not been released. After re-entering my PayPal Password, I clicked continue and was taken back to the checkout page asking if I wanted to use my credit card, or checkout with PayPal. I choose PayPal once again and again it took me back. After realizing that it was not going to accept my PayPal payment, I decided to look for a good deal somewhere else. Lo and behold, I found one on Buy.com that was $74.99. I decided that the extra five dollars was worth the assurance that I was dealing with a legitimate site.
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