This case seems to be the same buyer bought 2 items and got a refund on the more expensive one, typical. Good plan and i’m sure we seen it before a few times here :/

Sold an item on ebay in well described rough condition for $60. Later I sold a similar item in excellent condition to the same bidder for $290. He said it was wrong and returned the poor condition item but got a refund for the excellent item. I called ebay AND PayPal. PayPal made me call the police and get a police report. I did that and submitted everything they asked for for their “investigation”. They didn’t do anything for me. He kept the item and the money and didn’t even get kicked off the site.

In July 2016, Englishman Phil Stephenson found himself in Turkey during the country's failed coup, thanks to a Tinder date. A woman Stephenson matched with on Tinder asked him if he would travel to Turkey with her after her family dropped out of the trip at the last minute. Free trip to Turkey? Sure. Why not? 

Unfortunately for them, they landed in the country just as the coup was getting started. To make matters worse, the two had very different ideas of how the trip should go. Stephenson was looking for casual fun while his date, Nicole Graham, reportedly wanted something a little more serious.

"As soon as we got on the plane she was wanting to hold hands," he said. "She was a nice girl, don't get me wrong... Unfortunately it was a Tinder date that went wrong."

Speaking to The Northern Echo, Graham had her own commentary about the date: “It was the worst time of my life - and he nicked my toothpaste."

Something happened to me a few weeks ago that I planned to keep secret but recently it has been eating away at me and I need to speak about it. The situation involves the Dark Web but it isn’t like all the other stories you hear of some unsuspecting soul learning of the Dark Web through a friend, going on it for the first time and browsing around until they inevitably come across some horrifying page that leave them sleepless for nights. No this is the opposite, to be honest, I’m actually the one who would be terrifying these curious souls. You see I’m a ‘Dark Web Prankster’ meaning I spend my free time on the Dark Web messing with unsuspecting strangers, I join chatrooms and send them links to gory but obviously fake videos, I play similar videos in place of my webcam in private chats tricking the other user into thinking they are chatting with a psychopathic killer. My favourite trick though is taking control of their cursor, manipulating the chatroom and making the site unclosable unless they turn off their machine, this one gets the most screams and appaled expressions and it is all achieved through running some simple bash scripts. Now some people may think this is cruel but I see it as a service, a free one at that, you see these people come onto the Dark Web for these kinds of experiences, they hear somebody tell a scary story of their experience on the big bad Dark Web and they want to be able to tell similar stories in a sad attempt to be interesting. They come looking to be terrified and I ensure they aren’t disappointed, of course, I get my own enjoyment out of it so it’s a win-win but recently this has all changed, if you fly too close to the sun you will eventually be burned; I am burning.

The night started like any other, I got back from work, made some dinner and after washing up I logged onto my PC and got to work. I jumped around a few chatrooms but they were unusually quiet or taking way too long to connect and when they did connect people left before I got a chance to mess with them. Eventually, I was able to keep someone around for more than a few seconds, they were some bald dude with a gnarly scar across their nose. His ears and face were both heavily pierced and he had a python tattoo wrapped around his neck - a tough guy, they were always fun to make cry like a baby. The way I usually do these pranks is I keep the screen blank until I see the person then I choose from the collection of cam clips I have and slowly escalate it from there. For this specific instance, I chose a clip of a cute girl who starts by smiling and waving. The man smiled back and began typing until a message popped up,

Hi, you are cute.
Thank you, I like your tattoo :)

We went back and forth typing and discussing ourselves until I decided to start the fun. I took down the video of the girl and replaced it with a video that starts with a man tied to a chair, a masked man then begins to beat the man in the chair with a hammer, to my surprise the man didn’t seem horrified instead he began to wholeheartedly laugh before sending another message
Funny but I preferred the lady

I replied telling him to shut up or the girl will get it next, once that message sent the man’s laughter stopped and he began to stare into the camera with a cold, emotionless gaze.

You shouldn’t be so rude.

That message was the beginning of the end for my pranking, he began to type again and when he stopped my jaw dropped and my fun was over, he sent the message and it was my full name, I quickly moved my cursor up and tried to x out of the chat but my cursor froze before dissipating before my very eyes, I opened my console and began to frantically type some commands but each one was denied, slowly the chat began to turn black with red font. I was in a full-blown panic now, my heart was racing and I felt like I had spikes sticking into my arms, legs and neck, I couldn’t control my breathing and I was sweating profusely. All the while that psycho was smiling into the camera his dirty yellow teeth glaring at me as he continued to type.

Let’s have a look, shall we?

The light for my webcam lit up and sure enough, down in the lefthand corner of the screen was my terrified face staring aimlessly at the screen, my brain was screaming instructions at me but my body couldn’t react; I was frozen in fear. Eventually, I snapped out of it and stood up to turn off my computer when he screamed in a deep, grisly, distorted voice

“WAIT!”

This stopped me in my tracks, I looked back at the screen and he was gone but only momentarily when he returned he was standing up leaning over directly into the camera, he lifted his hand balled in a fist and opened it revealing multiple human teeth which fell from his hand and bounced off the desk beneath, he then sent the last message

See you soon, boy

He smiled as the words in the chatroom began to fall off the screen while a loud screeching noise blared from my speaker, just then my computer switched itself off leaving me standing staring at my reflection on the darkened monitor. I must have stood there for at least five minutes before I snapped out of it and went to bed, I didn’t sleep that night, I couldn’t. Every time I closed my eyes I saw his horrifying smile and I heard the disgusting sound of the teeth hitting the desk, I called in sick to work the next day so I could try to relax and I went for a run to clear my head, it helped enormously and three days later I had put the whole experience behind me. However, a week ago - about ten days after the incident - something happened which has made me tell this story.

At about 1 AM I was awoken by some strange banging sounds, I got up in a haze and looked out the front window to see an old maroon-colored Toyota Camry parked right behind my car blocking it in. The banging had stopped but the strange car had put me on edge, I had lived in the neighborhood for a few years and I never once saw this car, I put on some clothes and began to walk down my stairs and towards the front door but as I did the banging began again, it was coming from the backdoor. I slowly walked towards the door my heart racing, the closer I got the louder the bangs whatever was causing it was trying to smash the door off its hinges. I wanted to scream “Get the hell away from my house” however for once in my life I made the smart decision and ran up my stairs and into my bedroom before barricading my door and calling 9-1-1. The operator picked up just as I heard a window smash from downstairs

“THERE’S A MAN IN MY HOUSE, HE’S TRYING TO KILL ME!” I screamed before she responded telling me to calm down and to tell her my location, she asked me to stay on the line and that a squad car was close by. I heard heavy footsteps stomping up my stairs and towards my door before stopping, the operator asked was I still there but before I could answer her inquiry the man started to attempt to knock down my bedroom door, the bangs on the door were deafening. The operator kept pushing me to respond but I couldn’t I was transfixed on the door and how with every sickening thud that psycho got closer and closer, suddenly I could hear sirens in the distance and the banging stopped followed by the sound of quick steps speeding down the stairs and shortly after the sound of a car starting and speeding away. A few minutes later the lights from the sirens illuminated my room, this broke me out of my frozen, fearful state I moved the barricade and ran down my stairs and out the front door to the police.

They questioned me for some time and searched around my house, they found shoe and axe marks on both doors, my bedroom door had a massive hole in it from where that lunatic was cutting it. I gave them a full statement and told them everything when all was finished they drove me to my friend’s house as I couldn’t stay at mine anymore. The next day I rang my landlord and cancelled my tenancy, which cost me my deposit and a cancellation fee, I’ve been staying with my friend while I look for a new place, I haven’t been sleeping at all I’m terrified that the psycho will find me again. The police found no evidence that could be used to find him bar the Camry but there are thousands of them in the state alone. I fear for my life every day and I’m unsure if I’ll ever be safe again.

Stay off the Dark Web, it is mostly used by jokesters but it only takes one wrong click to put your life in danger

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/fi9b1d/i_prank_unsuspecting_guests_on_the_dark_web_for/

I knew it was coming. I got an ODR notice in Nov, saying they would re-evaluate in Feb, so my evaluation period was over the worst holiday season. I sell like 100 items every 3 months or so, so I knew it would be impossible to keep everyone completely satisfied seeing as 1 upset customer would do it to me. Honestly, Etsy has been destroying my mental health and love of the craft with their policies and notices, constantly pushing, so I'm almost relieved although that came after many tears. I got my email on the 19th.

Anyways, the notice email's first line is: This is Peter from Etsy's Trust & Safety team. After a manual review of your account history, we’ve permanently suspended your buying and selling privileges.

But I just got another order, and my shop page looks fine. I don't want to do it after everything Etsy has put me through. I know I can just cancel this particular order but I can't figure out why they would allow an order to be placed several days later. I hate this company.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Etsy/comments/f8osy9/yet_another_closed_shop_its_been_real_yall/