Story Time with Delion and Uncle
@Sigmardin
Title: The Waffle BS'er meets the Vaping Community
So I was going through my facebook groups one night, just skimming here and there and doing my normal thing of entering contests and so forth, when I saw a up for raffle the following images
The whole raffle was for a guy who was in the hospital and his mom was raffling off his vaping gear, to help cover some of the surgery expenses as he had not one but two strokes and something leaked down into his spine or something along those lines, so it was a very heart touching story and never thought anything about it, so I tossed my name in for two number out of the 50 each spot was 10 dollars, I got numbers 29 and 44. I almost did not do what I normally do and that is take screen shots of stuff but I did including where my name was mentioned as one of the first three people who had paid for their numbers. I had tagged in
@Sigmardin and a friend of ours we will just call her J to keep names out of this story. So not that night but the next day the 50 numbers were all bought, including people who just sent money out of the kindness of this communities heart, showing the full force of how this community bands together for one of our own no matter what it might be. One of the Vaping B&M stores even setup a gofundme account and so did a fb individual to help in this time of need. Soooooo, the number is drawn it is number 44, yet somehow magically my name was no where even on the list of names any more. I made a comment about it and contacted the raffle person about it. I was asked for proof and I sent every screenshot I had, up to and including my paypal receipt for it where in the notes I had notated what numbers I was paying for, this is when things start going a bit off kilter and into the land of twilight zone styled stuff, J contacted the admins of the page, several people also wondered the same thing but the only screenshot I did not have was of me listed on those numbers even though I had verified before i went to bed I was. Yet another person indeed did have that saved and posted it showing i had indeed been in that number, when this happened all of a sudden a red flag was thrown into the mix, the raffle person had mysteriously and without warning deleted the raffle post all together. Which did not help matter all of a sudden all the people wanting to help started thinking scam, and I must admit so did I. I looked up their account and the profile picture had been changed. To a very healthy young man looking like it was a selfie driving. So we got everything worked out (or so I thought) he would be sending it the next day. blah blah blah. Next day I wake up to hella messages to check out this ebay page that just went up selling something so I do and those same images are used there same person selling the lot for 300 but would sell to J for 275.00 come to find out as she let it rip in the fb group again. I get contacted by the guy asking if he sends it right now with tracking number and video would this please stop and that I was dealing with the real person not his mom or brother etc... That he was already out of the hospital after having two strokes and surgery all like 3 days prior. (Coughs) Anyways I said give me those things and we will see what the community says, he asked me to have everyone apologize to him that was calling him a scammer, at this point people were already disputing the paypal charges and reporting as a scam. I told him there was no way I would ask for an apology as he should know this community better then that to even ask someone to tell people to apologize to him. Then in the video he sent me packing all the stuff up and the receipt with tracking number he was saying here is your f'ing s^%$ and saying sh*& and F*&^ more then anything else which lead me to believe by the anxiety of getting rid of all of his stuff like that he never intended to actually follow through. So as everything was going on people were still making disputes with paypal, and calling his local police department claiming scamming, etc etc so before all the disputes oh yes and people reported him on ebay for some reason or another I never found a way to report anyone as a scammer on ebay lol. The whole time he kept making me feel like I started a huge ruckus or that J had when in fact by his own sketchy and red flag actions had caused all this. So in the meanwhile the guy who had been called as the winner even admitted he was not, but the B&M store that started the gofundme account got in touch and sent him a hexohm as well. They had already been in touch with me and told me if I did not receive my winnings they would make it right, and send me everything I had won themselves. One of their employees even contacted me later on and said worst case he would send me everything out of his own pocket.
I did receive everything pictured except the shotgun and the green batteries and I knew those were not included as I had asked about them. it all arrived in my possession yesterday afternoon so hexohm v2 serial number 1787 was checked in!
Moral of the Story is I belong to one of the most amazing top of the line communities ever, internally we may argue over clone, 1:1, or authentic but in the end we have each others back!!