Okay I am not even sure whether I was scammed, or this was a
mix-up, or some other scenario, as the problem has not been
solved.
The comic shop that I go to, (it sells comics imported from
america, there are only a few of these in Singapore) serves its
customers in this method. They upload the weekly comics on their
website on teusday, the customers e-mail the titles they want along
with their membership number,(membership must be paid for) and the
comics arrive at the shop the following thursday. The members then
go and collect the comics and pay for them. The friendly shop owner
told me that I can even come back a few months later and collect
them. I have been sending my orders since about june but did not
collect them since I had to spend time to prepare for my
examination.
My examinations ended, but I did not go buy the comics yet. I
still sent the orders though. In one email I recieved, the shop
owner said "YOU HAVE A LOT TO
COLLECT. WHEN ARE YOU COMING???? " (copied and pasted from the
email) Then i thought it was about time I collected the comics. So
on the 4th of this month (November), which was a teusday, I went to
buy them. What happens now gets weird.
I went to the comic shop, and checked all my comics (which they
had held on to for me). ALL I ORDERED WAS THERE AND THERE
WERE NO COMICS THAT I DID NOT ASK FOR. The overall
bill was more then $400 and I tried to pay by nets, but i was
rejected since the daily withdrawal limit was $200 and I did not
know that.
So, they were kind enough to let me take
home a number of comics to read, and then I would bring cash money
and pay for them. I decided to return on thursday.
On the 6th, I brought cash money, and purchased the comics. They
did not count the total again, since they had counted it on
teusday, so I paid them $400+ and took the bags of comics home.
When I went home, I checked the comics and guess what? SOME
COMICS WERE MISSING, AND THERE WERE A FEW COMICS I DID NOT
ORDER. I emailed them to inform them, they said
nothing could have gone wrong and told me to re check. Obviously
something had been mixed up. The comics that i did not order had
cardboard backing, something they used for the comics which they
kept in the shop. hmmm.... What did they do with my comics during
the interval between these two times i visited their shop?
They told me that THERE WAS NO PERMENANT
ORDER RECORD SO THE REASON I DID NOT GET THE COMICS WAS
BECAUSE I DID NOT SEND THE TITLE IN THE EMAIL. hmm.
Why would they delete the emails from their customers? I Feel so
damn cheated. I told them about everything and the instructions
they gave me were, Return the comics I did not order, and send in a
list of comics that were missing (list of comics i did not order
according to them.) and buy it from them. WTF man. I paid for the
comics and then did not recieve it. I lost more than 100 or 200
dollars sia.
What must I do?
What would you do?
Do I have to inform anyone like the police?
Next time remember to check properly first before you pay for
anything that is of a SIGNIFICANT amount to you.
