Unresolved Concerning FlightOfSwords

This is very encouraging. Thanks for letting us know you got your items/refunds!

Edit: Oops, I was logged in as the wrong person. This is Caer, actually. Heh. XD

 

Rotten Lullaby $53
Ashbet $65 – August
Wolfie $94 September
Bloomlikewinter $85 June
Usagi665 $42 October
Nightmare Nurse $45 October
Kotori $88 October
Frzndaqiri $45 June
Firedancer $200 July
Crescent P $80 July received items 20th ?April 2006
Krissi - $32 - October
carltoncig - $36.50 - June 2005 - Received Item April 19, 2006
Caer- $60
Kat $158
ArvanahModray $35 September
psychodragon82 $172
Rhiii $95 June
Xberry Jam
Chia REFUNDED
Devilishly Delicious $44 August

 

You can add me to the list as well. I paypaled her $44 on Aug. 7, 2005.
I dont even have the doll anymore.
She emailed me on Jan. 25, 2006 that I would be getting a refund. Im still waiting.

 

Has anyone else received any refunds lately?

 

I've been wondering the same thing. We were supposed to get refunds more often than this.

 

I'm not surprised really. :\

 

So, what's the next step? =/ I've e-mailed her twice recently and no response, after a couple of weeks. She assured me last month she'd be refunding me at least partially with her next paycheck.

 

I've given up. I really have. And it infuriates me. Yeah, in this hobby $35 doesn't mean much. But it's my money, and I don't like getting *%$@ed over.

OH WELL!

 

same here. only i gave up long before her try at refunds...because I knew it was only a matter of time. too bad..i could use that money...since $50 is all im making in a week now...

 

I suggest you guys file for small claims, as a previous poster has advised: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showpost.php?p=720435&postcount=146

 

man i feel so bad for her, i mean its well over a thousand dollars to repay, but at the same time i completley understand everyones anger, as harsh as it seems legal action is definitley the right choice, otherwise there is just no garuntee to get your money back, so id say file a claim or accept that the money might be gone forever..... =(

 

if she hasn't been meeting her timeline, i think it's time to go to small claims court. the longer you wait, the weaker your case gets and the longer time she has to dissapear.

 

Well, I received my refund on the 31st of March, so tomorrow will mark the 6 week point from that date, which was supposed to be the first. She said she was going to send one (or two) every two weeks, which means, tomorrow she should be sending AT LEAST her fourth refund.

I know I didn't notice I had gotten mine yet until a little while after the fact, but I like to live with the assumption that not everyone is as brain dead as me >.>;. Not to mention she posted that she had sent the first one, and has not made a post since announcing any others.

Now, I realize that sometimes people lose Internet, hard drives crash and computers explode, but there are public venues such as libraries and colleges that offer Internet access, so I never really found the "my Internet isn't working" bit to be a valid excuse for not posting an update of some kind.

 

Well it's pretty sad that she doesn't seem to be refunding like she said.

 

Still no word on refunds -- I'm thinking we should proceed with a case against her. Please respond to this thread with your e-mail address if you're due a refund or item from FlightOfSwords, and I'll coordinate an e-mail list so that we can put together the claim.

Thanks,

-- Andi (disappointed) :/

 

shan @ kity.org

 

[email protected]

 

I'm really disappointed, too.

On April 23rd she replied to my request for an update and said she was just waiting for her next paycheck to make another payment on someone; I've e-mailed her three times since then, and received no response.

[email protected]

 

kotori (at) cocoondream.com

 

I haven't read all of this but I just want to say that you may have a case for mail fraud. If someone say they will mail you something that you purchased and then they dont- that is considered mail fraud, and carries a higher penalty then just goign through small claims court.

 

Two more websites you might want to look at.

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/mailorder.htm
http://www.usps.com/websites/depart/inspect/fraud/welcome.htm

Good luck guys
semirans

 

fantasmic _ magik at hotmail dot com

 

[email protected]

 

johngunther2(at)chartermi.net is my Paypal email~

 

rhii @ kyute DOT net

thanks ~ *sighs*

 

Devilishly.Delicious (at) gmail.com

 

[email protected]

 

My email (and paypal address) is [email protected]

 

I am going to unsticky this thread now that the new Problem Transaction thread is up and is a sticky. You can always refer to that thread if you can't find this thread again. Just look for Flightofswords under F.

 

so has anyone received anything at all lately?

 

I haven't, not that I'm surprised

 

Oops, I hadn't caught the latest update.... Still owed money, my email (and paypal) is myarmcanfly (at) gmail.com

 

Any refunds, any news, does flightofswords still post, has anyone heard anything?

*holding out hope because she needs extra money to fund her dollly*

 

Andi, were you still planning on coordinating the claim or the e-mail list?

 

anything recently? or any word on filing a claim?

 

I'm sorry, I've had some life-craziness come up that got me off the track -- if you're interested in organizing it, I'd be glad to hand it over to you, or I can get on it right away now that my daughter is going back to school :>

Thanks for bringing it up, I'd recently been wondering if anyone had gotten their promised refunds :/

-- Andi

 

Does anyone have her address? I e-mailed her but haven't heard anything, so I wanted to send a registered letter.

 

http://www.ic3.gov/

shall we do that ?
its been too long and i don't think I want to sit quietly by while someone enjoys our money.
does anyone at all have any real-life info such as her real name and address.
this is getting out of hand.

 

For anyone that is still intrested in getting their money back...she's started posting on LJ again. So she's on the net and we can make her aware of the fact that we want to try and bring leagal acation against her.

Or is everone on that got ripped off by her willing to just let it go?

 

Hell, no, I want my money back! I actually used a credit card through Paypal and was considering asking my credit card if there was a statute of limitations. (It's been over a year.)

 

I just was saddend by the lack of intrest in getting they money back...I would go and file a claim or something againts her myself but my total was only $53 and the legal mess would be to stressfull and costly for such a partly sum..

I'm going to look into this; http://www.ic3.gov/ like rhii said. It would be better if eveoyone was in with this though.

 

Where is her journal? She unfriended me quite some time ago, so I lost track. Her e-mail and website are no longer working.

 

If someone starts a claim im sure Most of us would like to be involved.

 

i'm all up for it ~

 

I looked into trying to start a claim at that website but I don't have her address..*sigh*

Oh and her journal is http://jedimartini.livejournal.com/profile i urge people to ask for your money back..in case she forgot.

 

So who's still on this? I haven't been checking back here lately, but I got her AIM from the LJ RottenLullaby posted and fully intend to begin my fresh fresh barrage of questions all over again as soon as she logs on. She just posted in said LJ yesterday, so we know she hasn't fallen off the face of the internets!

 

Mm, I tried her old email a few days ago, the one she always wrote to me by, and it doesn't work anymore. >.<

 

Digging this one up from the dead. Has anyone else ever got anything back from this? or is it a total lost cause.

 

*prods it hopefully*

 

http://jedimartini.livejournal.com/576667.html?view=435355#t435355

We'll see how long it stays up.

 

what happened? i think your reply got deleted?

 

oh screening comments now !
any updates ? X_x

 

Thats to bad. She seems to really want to turn a bind eye and pretend that what she owes us all does not exist

 

Oh yes, it definitely got deleted.

I left a long comment that I originally sent to her e-mail, but it bounced, so I dropped it as a comment and told her she could screen it - but she deleted it.

The basic gist of it was, regardless of what her current situation is (and she's claimed to me a couple of times that she's just not making enough money to give refunds right now, she's living paycheck to paycheck) that even if she saved up $1 a week, that's $5 a month she could be refunding someone, anyone, on the installment plan.

I told her that I thought I've been beyond patient (because here she was, asking me again to be patient until her situation improved) and said I thought she wasn't taking the situation seriously simply because no one had yet threatened her with police action for defrauding dozens of people.

You guys know what recently happened with vanillashine, right? Ashbet sought to bring police action against her, and all of a sudden vanillashine discovered she could find the means to start refunding people and sending their heads back, after all.

I think we've waited BEYOND long enough.

I'm pursuing a chargeback through my Discover card, because they've indicated that I can.

If anyone has FlightofSword's address, through shipping her anything or mailing her a payment, I recommend they file a police report against her. Ask Ashbet whether to file it locally or call and file it in FlightofSwords' jurisdiction.

I have reached the point where I don't believe she will refund anyone, ever; she is counting on us to drop it and hopes we will forget and the whole thing will "disappear."

 

I've paid via paypal and its been ages so I don't think PP will be able to be of much help. And I'm not located in USA (I was in M'sia when I paid her) so I have no idea what recourse is available to me. The amount I paid is a large one for me so if anyone can help me I'd be most grateful.

I don't think that she would really want to repay anyone the money anyway, if not we would all have been refunded by now. I really think its now time the authorities come in before it is too late.

I left a comment on her journal as well but it was screened and has now been deleted (as I can't even see my own comment) I think this is terribly rotten of her, not only to not own up but to not give any explanation as well. What is all that cowardice ?

 

There is really nothing I can do being from out of country, and I sent her a money order.

 

Wolfie saidd she was gonna barrage her on IM. So what happened?

oh wow, and look at what she's a member of
http://community.livejournal.com/bad_service/profile

anyone want to rant about her on there? she can't delete posts that are not hers :P
not that it'd do much, of course^^;

 

If someone has her address and could PM me if she still lives in texas I could file a police report. Other than that I don't know what to do..I paid by paypal using a credit card..Im thinking I may call the credit card company if that may work.

 

i emailed paypal but they haven't got back to me yet. hopefully they will soon.
does anyone have her latest address?