How I Lost 2500$ In Less Than 30 Seconds

Trust Destroy

Today I will tell you something that shocked me from which I didn't learn in my 21 years of life. Two months ago I bought a phone ,an iPhone 8 plus for which I worked sometime because in that period I wasn't in my best state, financially speaking. Because of the Bitcoin deep my money had to suffer and I didn't even have time to enjoy my new purchase so I decided to sell it and buy Bitcoin of course, because after that I will take my phone back and continue my work, but in addition with some more money. In my country, like everywhere else, there where sites like E-bay, Craig's Lists,etc. and I decided to put it there so I could sell it faster, because Bitcoin price was already 7500$. I need to do something. I don't know if you read my last post about "Bitcoin destroyed my life" , there I sad about people who sell stuff to buy Bitcoin, well I'm one of them. The situation where I was it asked me to do so.

I put my phone to sell hoping that I will give it with 950$. After a few days, someone calls me and it says to me that he wants to see it, after days and tens of stupid offers like "I will give you a watch" or "I will give you a "Renault Clio ",I was a little bit desperate so I went to see what was the situation. I packed all really fast and went to see that "sir" . When I arrived he was waiting me in front of a casino, my first impression was not a good one, I wasn't very delighted, but I decided not to judge a book by it's cover. He was a little man, pretty fat, dressed like a man in his 50, but I didn't give it more than 40; he had a round face, look that I could tell he wasn't stupid at all and when he smiled his gold tooth blind me, not suspicious at all.

I put a little smile on my face for encouragement and I walked at him. First thing he said was "Hi, you have all? , come on I'm in a hurry because I'm late to work"; It was 2 pm but he seemed that he was out from that casino and probably won some money and wanted to buy something fast. I give him the box with the phone in it and after watching for two minutes or even less he turned off the phone and put it back in the box. My first thought was why he didn't even verified that it worked, like every people in this country who puts 100 questions and bargain at every little thing. After that he gives my phone back, he takes out the money to pay and go home, or work, or whatever. He takes out a stack of money and he gave's it to me to count them, I did that and it was missing a 200 RON bill ( equivalent of almost 50 $). Meanwhile my boyfriend counts the money more than a few times and after a few seconds the man takes out another bill of 200 RON and put it in that stack of money, all good and nice, we wanted to say goodbye but we were approached by two aggressive people, one of them where tall and skinny, and the other one was tiny and chubby, he was excessive asking us if we "sell something" , but my boyfriend told them to leave us alone, but they wouldn't quit. Meanwhile that man with the phone told us to put the money in the pocket quick , so we wouldn't be stolen by that 2 dubious people. Told and done, we took the money, sad goodbye and we left. We didn't even make two steps but that people kept following us, always asking if we don't sell drugs, cigarettes or God knows what. After 10 meters they quit and left. In that second I though about what was happening, something I didn't want to be true so I told my boyfriend to give me the money. He takes it out of the wallet and open the money nicely arranged and I didn't believed my eyes. Besides the 200 RON bill we had a lot of Russian bills or God knows what bills which didn't even all valued more then 2$ ,in the next second my first thought was to run after the man, but he disappeared, he was long gone, and after all the story not for nothing that people war distracting us in an constantly and obsessive way.

This was Bum-Bum, it was a good phone, and it answered by name of Siri.

Why I Didn't Go To The Police?

Here I have another story which has happened three months ago that was more shocking than this one. I wanted to buy a new phone because my actual one was broke and I barley use it. I wanted an iPhone X so I decided to buy it from that site that I sold my other phone, at the price pretty closed from the stores, because if I bought it from the stores it would take more than a month to have it. I spoked with a guy and because he wasn't from the same city he said to me he would send it by courier with the option to verify the package, and of course I accepted. The other day I was on the road to pick up my phone. When I arrived at the courier car, meanwhile he completed the paper work he said to me that it wasn't with the verification. I didn't think more about that and I gave it the money and took my parcel. I went to the car and the courier goes in his way. I sit down calmly and and I open the parcel, inside was of course the box that was supposed to be an iPhone X, but was a 100% copy with the phone. I panic like hell and I call the courier who was showing so little interest and says to me to call the police. I angry, hang up on him and dial 911 (my country is 112), but in my surprise to hear that they can not do anything, and argue with me because I call for this little thing, and they said it was not an emergency. I said nicely to them that I was stolen, meaning I bought a product and inside the package was something else. After that I took more calls, at the courier firm, at the regional manager of the courier firm, and of course my mom, from which they said to go to the police personally. There, the same story, the two arrogant police ladies leaf in my nose and said this isn't a reason to come to police, they offend me and almost throw me outside the police station, but not before they hand me a piece of paper to write about what happened and sign it. After that I walked all day at different police station, because I had to find someone to help me and after many hours I arrived at the last station where I found a good man that helped me. He gave me a paper which was wrought that I suing that man for fraud and trust issue, which in my country is illegal, to block the money from the courier firm . After two days I receive a note that cannot help us. Since then I'm still waiting a response from the police about the case I opened and received my 1600$ lost in a fraction of second. It's been three months.

Conclusion

I learned that I cannot trust anybody from this country, because of the economic political situations that had happened. My biggest offense is that in my country that I live in, things like that happened and nobody, even the police, help you. That is why I didn't go to the police the second time, because I knew the answer I will receive.

After all the things that happened I have a small period in which I want to be alone and talk to nobody, not to leave the house and no world contact, because I learned that people are mean, and in case of trouble nobody helps you. I am alone in a mean and acid world, this is my conclusion, I hope I will change it fast because I don't like to be this way, but for now I only tell you, the only community I trust, thank you ! ^_^

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