Complaints Against Carrie Jones

Maple Ridge, BC, Canada V2X 1P7

maple_is_my_favorite@yahoo.ca  maple_is_my_favorite@shaw.ca, carebearygirl@shaw.ca, carriegirl130@hotmail.com

Notify: Maple Ridge Police department: 604-463-6251
Officer Schulls
Case #: 2002-19687

If you have questions about the complaint,
please contact the person who it was filed by.

August 29, 2002
Complaint filed by: hasanm@bellsouth.net

on july 13th i sent 2 money orders to Carrie Jones, one for $100 and one for $500, totaling $600 (i had to send them in 2 different money orders because $500 is the max that one can be made out for here in alabama and i owed her $600 for the beanies i was purchasing)

she received it and supposedly sent my beanies on july 19th. but i know that is wrong because it took my money order almost 2 weeks to get to her. she was constantly emailing saying it hadnt arrived yet. i dont have any of our old emails. i have everything from the past 2 weeks though. my husband went through my mailbox and deleted all my old emails because i had over 6 thousand.

anywayz, today is august 29th and still no beanies. she is still replying to my emails but she is offering no solution to this problem. i have repeatedly asked her to just send my money back and she never answers me. she has always said that she insured the package but when i asked for the money back the first time she said she would have to check and see if she insured the package. i pointed this out to her. she claims to be filling out an insurance claim form to get the money back. she said that the refund would have to go to me though, not her because i was the buyer and that it could take up to 4 months. i am NOT waiting another 4 months. its been over 1 1/2 months already! in the last email i sent her i told her that i wanted her to send my refund TODAY and if the insurance claim had to come to me so be it. i would just forward it to her once it arrived but i am not waiting on it. she can. she hasnt replied yet.

i am seeing lots of people posting bad trader alerts on her now. a few emails ago she stated that she was in the process of moving. i dont think she meant to tell me that. i think it slipped and she didnt realize it. i keep asking her for her new physical address and phone number but she hasnt given it to me yet. the phone number i have for her is 604-465-0338 i have her mailing and physical address (i insisted on her giving me her physical address as she only wanted to give me her mailing address...a PO box) i fear that NOONE will get their beanies or refund from her if she moves and we dont get her new address. any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. she says that she is willing to "work things out" but i think she is just lying up one side and down the other. i think she is just buying time (telling us all that she is sending refunds or making insurance claims u) until she moves and then noone can get intouch with her.

there is NO jones listed in the canadian phone directory at her physical address or with her phone #. NOTHING is coming up under her name. i have checked and its like she doesnt even exist. i am going to file a police report. im being very patient with her and emailing back and forth and stuff without threatening her with the police, hoping she will have a heart and send my money back. i dont want to piss her off.

i was buying:
mwmt web, mwmt chilly, mwmt trap, mwmt bumble, mwmt caw
her phone number is 604-465-0338. every time i call the # it sounds as if its a fax machine number. i asked her about this and she said she does have her personal fax machine hooked up to her home phone. the deal was done from bbot. i saw her ad on bbot regarding all the beanies she had for sell. she said she wanted to go back to school and she wasnt collecting anymore so she decided to just sell them and use the money for that. she also stated she wanted to have a baby and blah blah blah. she has NO feedback and im kicking myself as we speak for not requiring an escrow service. there are about 4 people on bbot that are also posting that they are having the same problem with her....no beanies and no refund and they sent their money around the same time i did. her user ID was new on bbot (lol im a regular and pretty much know the new and old names) i only saw her posting for a couple of weeks and then that was it. I have contacted the Maple Ridge Police in Canada. If I have to hire a lawyer I will do so as I am already out $600. in just a little while im going to my local PD to file a report. her address is:

Carrie Jones
11039 238th street
maple ridge BC V2W-1E7
Canada

and the post office box address that she gave me is:

Carrie Jones
P.O. Box 21072
Maple Ridge BC V2X-1P7
Canada
Email address is: maple_is_my_favorite@yahoo.ca

the maple ridge police departments # is 604-463-6251  let me know if you need anything else!!   thanx soooo much!!  mel in alabama

Carrie Jones in BC,Canada has never sent my beanies, I need help. I sent Carrie Jones a personal check on 7/8/02 in the amount of $26. The check cleared the bank on 7/19. She said she mailed my 2 june bears and zodiac dragon on the 7/31. I emailed her several times to let her know that i hadn't received my beanies and she told me to be patient they were probably hung up in customs. She then went on a 2 week vacation so i emailed her back to tell her that at this point just refund my money. She has not emailed me indicating what she was going to do.   Thanks   Oletta Box

My name is Connie Fredrickson and I am in Tennessee. I have been scammed by a Canadian seller. Melanie Hasan has asked me to e-mail you with my story.  The seller's name is supposedly Carrie Jones @ Maple_is_my_favorite@yahoo.ca On July 5th, I mailed her a check for $131 for the purchase of 6 beanies babies (Tusk, Buckingham, Champion Mexico, Chinook, Red digger, & Tabasco). She let me know when the check arrived & said she would send as soon as the check cleared, which I fully understood. The check was mailed to Ridge PO box 21072, Maple Ridge, BC, Canada V2X 1P7

On approx July 20th, I e-mailed her to asked if they had been shipped & she said she felt it had been enough time for the check to clear, so she said she mailed on July 22nd. After about 10 days I contacted her & asked her to verify the date of shipment & was again told July 22nd. I waited & then there was a lot of talk about customs confiscating more then 1 beanie per pkg, so I contacted customs on this end & was told she would have to start the trace, but if customs HAD kept them I would receive a letter saying so.

I then e-mailed her about Aug 15th and received an automatic response that she was on vacation until the 28th. On the 21st of Aug I went on vacation for 2 weeks, but got a chance to check Ty.com at my son's house & saw Melanie's post. Upon e-mailing her I found out she had lost $600 to her. I am now home & have contacted the Canadian police about this, but need to call back Sunday AM to talk to officer Schulls. I have also filed a report with the FBI.

But I thought I would try to e-mail her again & pretend I knew none of this & she responded back saying she had checked on it, but it would take 4-6 weeks to follow through with it.

I have the canceled check, but it is not endorsed. Only the bank cancellation on it. Since my computer deletes e-mails regularly, I only have the last response from her.

If you need any other info, please let me know. I don't know how far we can go to get our money back, but I want this person stopped from doing this to anyone else. I have a feeling WE paid for her vacation.    Connie Fredrickson

It is unfortunate it has gotten to this point. SUITEBO was refunded her money in FULL she should have it THIS WEEK as it was mailed last week. Mel, all my paperwork has been filed with Canada Post. If need be, I can get a letter from my post office indicating the problems I am experiementing as I am not the only one experiementing this.  I am doing everything humanly possible to get this entire thing straightened out. If you need me to fax you any proof refunds for SUITEBO has been sent as well as paperwork for Mel I can do so by you sending me you're fax #!    Thanks!

Later:    If you can also forward me other complaints as I am only aware of 1 other person (Jackie..who I have never dealt with before) I dealt with an Ed Hines who was also sent back a refund last week. Thanks!

Maple Ridge Police department: 604-463-6251
Officer Schulls is incharge of this case.
Case #: 2002-19687

reports have been filed with www.ifccfbi.gov there are 8 of us so far that i know of that have been ripped off by Carrie.

1.) Connie conniejfred@aol.com
2.) Raymond Carr raymond_carr@msn.com
3.) Oletta suitebo@aol.com
4.) Ladan ladanbahramnia@yahoo.com (her mailbox has been full for a long time and i cant get through to her/him)
5.) Jackie beaniehntr@aol.com
6.) Jodi batts@sbcglobal.net
7.) Becky beckyd@charter.net

and then i am the 8th person. i have a list of the amounts that everyone sent except for raymond and becky. i dont know how much they sent. Officer Schulls ran a check in their system for a Carrie Jones, both of legal age and as a minor and NOTHING came up. he went to the address that i mailed my payment to and only a guy lives there. the guy was not home at the time and officer schulls is off until sunday so once he comes back im sure he will revisit that man and see what he can find out. basically carrie jones does NOT exist. i will keep you updated on this case if you would like  thanx   mel

I got ripped off by Carrie too.  I sent Carrie Jones five beanies-PVG, GVR, 2 Red Americas, Scotland and $200 for New Face Magenta. I have the original slip that I bought at the Post Office with the number verifying I sent it registered mail and she received it. Here's the number:  rr818300325us.   You can see the history of this on the USPS website. She sent numerous excuses as to why I hadn't received my half of the trade. I also have a copy that my bank got from her bank of the bankcheck I sent or the $200 showing that she cashed the check I sent. Basically that's it in a nutshell. I'd be happy to sent copies of these items it it helps.   thanks, Becky

All I know is the post office told me for out of country insurance it takes 4 months. All I know is I filled out some paperwork and sent it off. It did not ask for the other persons signature in this sheet. I am just looking at this paperwork now and it doesn't ask for one. My post office has told me I need to fill this out first and then we both get paperwork sent to me. The # on the form is 1-800-267-1177. I do not know if outside of Canada one can call this #.  I also asked my post office if I get the insurance money or if they do. They told me I do not get it but the other person does. That is why I suggested to Mel, that she has to wait for it.  As for 8 complaints, I have not got that many personally. So unless I know who they are I am not sure how I can correct this problem.  The police have not contacted me and I called the non-emergency line to inquire and they are going to have someone call me back as they are inaware themselves of the problem. If you can't forward me all the complaints, how can I clear up the problem? I can certainly fax you reciepts of every person as I DO have valid reciepts, as well as the refunds I have given already as well as forms filled out. My post office has also said she will personally write me a letter of recommendation as she know how much shipping I do.  You have not given me a list of complaints or fax # to send you all the proof I have!!!!  Thanks!

something weird is MOST definitely going on. NOONE has received a refund as of today, as i have spoken with all 8 of them. i speak with each of them every day. i filed the police report with my local PD and then called her local PD and they started a case # for this and i also filed a report with the ifccfbi.gov website. i have asked carrie for a copy of the insurance form that she says she has and she beats around the bush and wont give it. 4 of us have notified the Maple Ridge police department that we were ripped off by her. 4 of us have filed reports with the ifccfbi site. 3 of us have contacted you. connie, me and jackie. i guess oletta (suitebo) forgot to tell me that she notified you.  this case has just begun. "carrie" does indeed respond to all emails but i think she does that simply because she doesnt think she will be caught. she doesnt think she will be forced to return the money that she herself told me she doesnt have. so she isnt scared. and the phone number she gave me is DEFINITELY a fake number. i finally got someone to answer that phone and it is a guy and he says he has never heard of a carrie jones.   talk to you soon!   mel

I have heard from maple_is_my_favorite, she says the refund check is in the mail. She also requested that if the beanies do get here, that I return them - not a problem!! Now we just have to set, wait to see if I receive the check. Should be here in about 8 days from Canada.     Connie

Hello, my name is Jodi Batts, and I sent a $45 check to Carrie Jones at the address:

Ridge P.O. Box 21072
Maple Ridge, BC
V2X 1P7 Canada

I was supposed to receive a Buckingham beanie. She cashed my check around July 23rd. I have never received my beanie, and she says that she has a receipt stating she mailed him. She continues to answer the emails, but will never answer my question "when did you mail him?" I contacted the Maple Ridge PD after Melissa emailed me telling me her story. She is very good at making you believe her. The PD says that there really isn't anything they can do. They said that a Carrie Jones does not exist in Maple Ridge. She gave me a phone number, but of course I never get an answer. Well, that is the story. I went and got a copy of my check, but there is no name signed on the back. This person knows what they are doing. This persons name has to be Carrie Jones, because she didn't sign the check, and the bank stamped it. Anyway, there is your story.

today is saturday . I have received in the mail a money order from Carrie Jones. The amount is for more than i sent her with a note explaining that she hopes this proves she wasn't trying to defraud me. It does say it is a canada money order but in US funds and i haven't tried to cash it. What should i do?     Oletta Box

I received this email with another complaint.

From: beanies4peace@yahoo.com
To: hasanm@bellsouth.net
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 7:11 PM

I saw your post on knk about maple is my favorite. What beanies did you buy from her? I bought 6 from her on July 9th and nothing has come yet. Thank you,   Lisa

HI, I BOUGHT A UNITY THE BEANIE BABY BEAR FROM HER AND I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 3 WEEKS. PLEASE HELP ME GET MY MONEY BACK. . PLMK. THANKS.

Hi, I sent Carrie Jones $300 for beanies that I never have received

either. She states "must be customs" and now she is moving. We need to get together and see about how many of us poor fools there are and what can be done to retreive our monies. She refuses to refund my money at this time.   Brenda

I sent Carrie a money order for $51.50. The address she gave me was a P.O. Box. I tried contacting the Canadian P.O. to see if I could get a regular mailing address but they would not give me any info. I have also contacted traderlist and was waiting to see what they found out before I went any further. I even waited to leave the negative feedback until I was really sure that she wasn't going to follow through. Yesterday was the first time I saw any feedback other than the positive one from Becky, whom like I said I emailed twice, since she sid it was a problem with customs I thought that maybe she could tell me what had happened and that would explain why my pckage didn't arrive. I emailed her twice and asked her please to respond but she ignored me. Have you contacted her as well ans the other negative feedbacks?

I also tried looking for her on ebay and meta exchange y I didn't find anything unldes she is using a different name. When I first became involved with her she said she had a list of beanies for sale so I emailed her and asked for the list. She sent it to me and then I negotiated with her about the Buckingham beanie that I wanted. She was so nice and answered all my questions until we finally made a deal. After 2 weeks when I didn't re4ceive anything I emailed her and she told me not to worry since customs was holding things up. She suggested that I wait until the end of the week and email her again if I didn't receive anything. I waited 2 more weeks and then I emailed again, thats when she stopped answering me. Well thats my story. LOL. .Thanks for your email and keep me informed. I am in the U.S. in upstate New York. Donna

hi. i sent her money ,and never got the beanies,$75.00.   8 weeks ago, she said they were mailed to wrong addess,the first time. i told them ,that we were comeing on fish trip,it happen to be 3 miles from her town, about 4 hours later,email said they would send money w,u,. about 2 hours went by and it was there. i dont even fish. .i think theres to of them,iam not sure but i think the other one is battey and they work to gether.but they didnt want me at that address..

On July 12, 2002, I purchased and sent a money order(#0673307214) in the amount of $170.00. It was to be payment to Carrie Jones for ten MWMT 98 Holiday Teddy Beanies and 4 MWMT Red America Beanies. I sent it to

Carrie Jones
Ridge PO Box 21072
Maple Ridge, BC
V2X 1P7
Canada

Carrie stated that she received payment on 7/20/2002 and was going to ship out Monday. I have saved numerous e-mail from me to her inquiring as to where are my Beanies. She finally said that she was checking with the post office to see what the problem was because there were others that had not received items. That was back on 8/30/2002 and the last I have heard from her. Please let me know if this is enough information. I can send all of the e-mails that I have saved if that would help. I really want to help in any way I can in resolving this issue. I want to see Carrie get what she deserves and has coming to her. I am going to check into out filing a report with the FBI and also contacting Officer Shulls in Canada that you spoke of. Please stay in touch.   Thanks, Gary

Just wanted you to know that I was able to cash the money order she sent to me so I have now been refunded. thanks Oletta

Hi, my name is Brenda Brady and I would like to add my name to the long list of people "taken" by one Carrie Jones aka maple_is_my_favorite.ca. I originally communicated with Carrie on July 4th 2002 when she sent me a requested list of "old" beanies she had for sale. She refused to use a mediator/escrow co (ie Peggy Gallagher) as I requested, but we eventually arrived at a price on 4 beanies: Caw, Bumble, Tusk, and Tradee for a total of $300. She said she would take care of the shipping since my order was so large. On July 8th, I mailed Carrie Jones, 11039 238th st, Maple Ridge, BC, V2W-1E7, phone/fax # 604-465-0338 a personal check for $300. I never received an email saying she received my check so on 7/21 I sent her an email and she responded that she did get it and did send me an email...which I never received......and that it would take a while to clear her bank. I emailed her back and told her that the check had already cleared my bank and when would she be shipping my beanies? She said it takes a while (up to a month???????) for a check from the US to clear her bank. She emailed me on 7/27 stating that she had mailed my beanies to me on 7/26. I emailed multiple times stating that I still had no beanies...she says "give it time....Customs" The next thing I heard from her was that she was going out of town for a couple of weeks and would be back on the 28th of Aug, but I should have beanies by that time. Well, it went down hill from there...Multiple emails (most answered) sent and responses saying something must be wrong with customs....quite a few of the people haven't gotten beanies. She would check on it...right after the long weekend(Labor Day in US....does Canada celebrate the US holiday?). I requested a refund multiple times and she then started asking "did you request insurance...I will file a report" I told her that she had agreed to do and pay for the shipping, so did she do insurance? She then told me that she was sure she prob did, but the receipts were all packed away in a box awaiting the "MOVE" and when she got settled again she would look. She didn't give me a new address, but did acknowledge that she was moving. I really didn't know what to do after this long a period. Then I saw the post on the BBOT and responded to hasanm@bellsouth.net(Mustafa Hasan)'s post. I will follow through with whatever needs to be done to stop these people.  Please keep me posted on the progress of this and if there is anything else you need from me, feel free to get in touch with me...  Brenda Brady

We ordered beanies from her about 4 weeks maybe five ago and she kept saying she sent it and kept lying. I suggest you put her on traderlist like we did and it many people do it maybe they will get a fraud case against her. If you need anymore information just email   thanks    jackie

This is ed and she reimbursed us last week and repeated attempts to get our money back  thanks   ed

here are the ones that received refunds so far:

wolfgirl (thats all i know her by) received the beanie unity.
connie conniejfred@aol.com received full refund of $131
oletta suitebo@aol.com received full refund of $25
ladan ladanbahramnia@aol.com received PARTIAL refund of $56. she says carrie still owes her $150 canadian dollars.
jackie (or ed) beaniehntr@aol.com received full refund of $56
jodi batts@sbcglobal.net received full refund of $45
kim csmileyone@aol.com received full refund of $206

that still leaves the following to refund:
becky beckyd@charter.net $204 or $205
brenda brenda.brady@med.va.gov $300
gary boring11@aol.com $170
donna donnavretired@aol.com $51.50 (carrie said she mailed this refund out already. has not been received as of today)
ladan ladanbahramnia@aol.com $150 canadian dollars

will keep you updated. she intended on ripping us all off. i know she did. she wouldnt send anyones money back until we all started calling the police and making reports. THEN she started sending money back. i dont care if she refunds everyones money, she will always be a bad trader in my eyes. she has probably kept close to or a little over $2,000 for over 2 months from everyone. and she had the nerve to send a letter along with a refund to someone and say that they caused her so much trouble and she would never forgive them for this......anywayz, talk to ya later   mel

Hi, my name is Debra Chandler and I have been taken for $71.00 by a lady of the name of:

Carrie Jones
Ridge PO Box 21072
Maple Ridge, BC
V2X 1P7
Canada
Her Email address is: maple_is_my_favorite@shaw.ca

I purchased three beanies from her Harry the bear, June Birthday Bear, and Buckingham beanie babies. I have not received the beanies or a refund. I send her a check on July 8, 2002 and it cleared my bank around July 15, 2002. I have sent numerous emails, she always promises a refund but my last email was not responded to. Can you help? Thank you for your time. Deb

I did get a refund from Carrie.

I purchased some beanies from her. They never came and she sent me my money back.   Kim

no, i still have not received my money either.  SOOO glad to hear that she is finally going to have a page of her own on traderlist.com. i fear that she is still trying to sell to people.  thanx trudy!!  mel

About one week ago I recived a money order for the amount of $56 US from her along with piece of typed and unsigned paper, in that she wrote I have caused her financial hardship due to dishonesty!! and she had written shame on you!!! She still owes me $150 canadian but she wrote to me that she will return that to me when she can afford it, which I know she is not, probably she send me $56 , because I traced my money order and found out which bank she has deposited my money order and my canadian cheque and I gave the account # and the address of the bank where she had deposited the money to the Canadian police, and my guess is that police could trace the accout to whoever she is, and she only sent $56 to get me off her back. So she still ows me $150 Canadian $.   Thanks    Ladan

i started dealing with carrie jones back in june/july. we agreed a trade for her 2 x sakura, 2 x libearty, 2 x buckingham and 2 x garcia beanies. i was to trade about 20 beanies + in total (if u need the list plmk as i still have it but its in my room) we agreed to send on the monday, however i was unable to get to the post office due to a family crisis. in this time carrie made too many statements which contradicted what she ahd already said, she had insurance - then wasnt sure if she had. carrie had also mentioned she was going away to college (change of address)and she had no feedback and to me alarm bells started ringing so i only part traded. carrie then started pressurising me to do a second high value deal. originally we said we would do this deal after the first one was completed. carrie became very demanding and agressive and my father then banned me from having any further contact with carrie and he then contacted her to that affect. My dad allowed time for carries parcel then cancelled the deal with Carrie when her package did not arrive.  to this day i have recieved nothing but abuse and threats from carrie. to this date my only negative feedback had been from carrie.   best wishes karen

RECEIVED MY BEANIE BABY FROM CARRIE.

I have not officially reported Carrie Jones as of yet as I had so much faith and hope that she was telling the truth. Here is my story... I sent Carrie the following items along with a money order of $420.00.

1 Thank You bear with UK letter
1 Russ Bear
Creative Memories items for scrapbooking
6 pack of Asian bears (Ferny, Mugungwha, Runga Raya, Sakura II, Vanda, Wattlie)
1 Buckingham
1 Garcia
1 Sakura beanie
1 Feirherr Von Schwartz
1 Scotland
1 Wales
1 Maple (4th gen hang tag)
1 Maple (5th gen hang tag)
2 Red America
1 Unity
1 Nipponia
1 Dad-E
1 Authenticated NF Jade beanie baby with no hang tag

For these items and the $420.00 money order I was to have received the following beanies all with minty mint hang tags from Carrie:

1 NF Violet
1 NF Cranberry
1 NF Magenta
1 NF Jade
1 NF Teal
(I traded her the no hang tag Jade from my collection for a mint hang tag Jade plus some bonus beanies)

I sent these out in two separate boxes and 1 envelope for the money order on July 9th and 10th respectively. To date I have gotten nothing from Carrie Jones. I have asked for my money back and told her I would submit insurance claims as she says she never got my packages to see if I could get reimbursed a little that way but no money or packages have been returned. She denies getting my packages but she did tell me 3 days after I sent the money order that she received it. However, when I asked her to return it she does not. As a matter of fact on up until last week I was emailing back and forth with Carrie but as soon as I asked her to go ahead and send me back the $420.00 dollars (actually I only asked her for $400.00) she immediately quit communicating with me. This was the first time I asked her for my money or any type of resolution as I was trying to be patient with her and the Customs Service.  I feel like over 3 months of waiting is fair and I realize packages get lost but not 4 packages (my two to her and her two to me). This is only the second time out of hundreds of trade this has happened and I do truly feel like both times I was intentionally ripped-off. I know the other trader that never sent me a package and claimed she never got mine was suspended from Collecting Nation. So basically I believe Carrie did intend to rip me off from day one. I was so taken in with her promises and smooth talk and of course her promises of these very rare and hard to find beanies.  I traded Carrie some of these items when they were at their peek of value and has since fallen some but my estimate at the time I sent these beanies to Carrie was a value of $1400.00 plus the $420.00 money order with a total of $1820.00 in value that she has ripped me off.   I feel stupid as I tried so hard to talk Carrie into doing one trade at a time or at least no more than 2 items at a time but she insisted that she would go ahead let someone else have the other beanies as she just could not "hold them" as her husband would not allow it as the offerings were pouring in.  So I guess greed got the best of me as I wanted to have all of the NF colored teddies not just a couple if I was going to collect them.  I would in fact really appreciate any help you could give me as Carrie herself has told me that I was her biggest trade...thus as the case may be...her biggest fool.  Thanks,   Diane Piper

Yes I did get my money back. She did put negative feedback on KNK, but if people will read it carefully, it wasn't negative on my part (only that I left negative feedback for her) & she can't understand why I would do that, since she refunded my money. I really feel that we would not have gotten our money back without your help. Thank you so much.

This is to let you know that I did receive a refund from Carrie Jones in the amount of $51.50 on 9-20. Carrie claimed that she sent the beanie and if I received it I should send it back and then I would know that she was not lying.I find it very interesting that she sold the same beanie to at least 4 people when she only had one.  Donna

I am settled with Carrie Jones

My husband and I have been dealing with Carrie since June. We have sent her $2500 in combination cashier's check and money order. We saw she was selling an extensive beanie set on ebay and e-mailed back and forth about it. She decided to cancel her auction and we could pick from her list of beanies what we wanted and she would give us a price. Once we settled on price and sent the first payment by cashier's check, she held up sending the beanies by a month because her bank had to clear such a high amount on the check. That sounded weird to us so after bugging her enough, she said she was using the money to pay on a loan and that was the reason it was being held up. In the meantime our second payment by money order was sent and received by her. That was July. Since then she has kept in contact saying that she was waiting on claim forms from Canada Post in order to submit the claim for us not receiving our beanies. She also told us that the box was probably held up in customs. Several e-mails have come saying Canada Post hadn't processed the paperwork yet. I think that is a little too long, even our post office doesn't take that long to process a claim. The most recent e-mail was about two weeks ago saying she is contacting Canada Post twice a week to get a file number. She hasn't responded to us in a week. I noticed there is a case number now with Canada police. I am going to add our name to that case as well as file a report with the IFCC. Incidently, I called Canada Post to see if I could get any information on the claim, and they said they only deal with the sender. Another case of the seller being protected more than the buyer!! Also, the e-mail I have listed of hers is the fourth one she has e-mailed us from since we started dealing with her in June. PLEASE DO NOT DEAL WITH THIS PERSON IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM!!!! If at any point in time she was an honest person, she has been corrupted by greed and I hope she pays for her mistakes.