Internet Textbook Scams
I am really sick and tired of scams on the Internet. I recently decided to try and sell my textbooks using buy back websites. If it weren’t for Aaron asking me to double check to make sure that they were legit I probably would have been successfully scammed. I got a great quote from a company and I was getting ready to package my book up today and decided to do a little research first. As it turns out most of these buy back companies are scammers. They apparently say that your package got lost in the mail and they never received it. Or that when they opened the box the book was more damaged than they originally thought. How lame is that? I am now going to sell my book through a more controllable medium like KSL or e-bay. I am really glad I looked into some of these companies I was going to “get money from”. My first tip-off should have been when Aaron asked me if I got the money first or if they had to get the book before they would give me my money. Well duh! I am so innocent it made sense to me that they would have to look at my book to determine how much money I would actually be getting. Dumb dumb dumb and I almost fell for it! I thought I found a great website that reports Internet scams but then I found a website saying that the report website was also a scam!!! How am I supposed to keep anything straight? I almost don’t want to use the Internet for anything, except for my wonderful website of course! You won’t find any scams here! Not even a lie! This is straight up and real stuff on shaylaknielson.com!
I’m pretty mad about this whole thing and if you know anyone who needs a few textbooks send them my way cuz I really need extra money and I really want these stupid books out of my house!