ShannonSolomon
Hatching
- Mar 2, 2024
- 7
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I joined this Facebook group called silkies for rehoming. It has 2.5k members. Everyone talks about how they got their chicks or hens from a person named John mark. That he’s a verified breeder. So I messaged him paid 140 for four silkie chicks and 60 shipping.meant 140 total. He tells me today that the shipper will be emailing me. It did all seemed legit. I could see his info my info all seemed good. It said I need to reply to the email to make sure all info is correct. It was. I then get a email saying that I need to pay 300 for insurance. It went from calling it shipping to now calling it the agency. As the name of the shipping place is united agency something. I feel so upset I fell for this. Now I’m out 140 dollars and they have my address and phone number and I apple paid them. I messaged the admin and they are in on it also calling it the agency and it’s just insurance that will be refunded. How could I have fallen for this. There’s 2.5k in the group and everyone talks about him being a verified breeder. I do see now that almost all post get their comments turned off. Now I know why. I’m lucky I have six silkie babies as they are so beautiful but I wanted to add four more. Whatever now I know it wasn’t meant to be and I need to stick to the six I have. I just feel so upset I fell for a scam. I’m very hyper aware of scams and the language used by scammers but this was not that. Ugh! Sorry I needed to vent.
