Hawalili Scam
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After receiving many advertisements from this vendor, mostly selling Hawaiian style shirts for men (I live in Florida where they are a staple garment), I decided to purchase a few items. The pricing was right and the styles attractive. However, when I went to the shopping cart I noticed that shipping costs were somewhat excessive, but I dismissed it as just part of the overall pricing policy. Reluctantly, I didn’t do an internet search on the vendor to gauge the experience of other buyers. When I did, after the actual purchase, I was not pleased:
- The apparel “shop” is actually in China
- It appears that garments are not even made until you place an order, and after your PayPal account is charged (a violation of Visa/MC rules)
- The high shipping costs represent air freight from China to the U.S.
- The site seems to employ an army of internet trolls posting phony “reviews” online to counter their selling practices
- Three weeks later, nothing received
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Fraud & Phishing
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I've seen it many times on Youtube. I got sucked into a Facebook post for Artistic prints, same scam, beautiful pictures totally wrong sizes, not a thread of cotton in this polyester junk. only got part of order. fought and got a refund from credit card.
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I conducted transaction number 2PC72902[Removed. Phone #s not permitted]in the amount of $100.91 for 5 shirts that were then shipped from China. I returned 3 of the shirts according to the rules of the seller in July 2021. The package was returned to my house (in the US) in February 2022 with an indication that it was refused. Although the original transaction was more the 6 months old, I disputed the transaction with Paypal. Because the package was refused by the seller and took months to be shipped back to me, Paypal claimed it was beyond their six-month limit. Paypal did not lay any accountability to the seller for refusing the returned product. If a Chinese company realizes this fact, than they can use that to their advantage and continue to refuse packages of returned products from US buyers. And, Paypal will not compensate those US Buyers. These are the circumstances for my invoice number HBBFF00066853.3511: I will refrain from any future purchases whereby the shipping instructions dictate a return address in China.
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Hi, thanks for posting to our Community! I'm sorry to hear that you've had trouble with a purchase being outside our dispute window. While we do recommend working with the merchant to resolve an issue with a purchase, filing a dispute at that time will also help to ensure that we're able to help if something goes wrong. We do keep track of merchant complaints, whether we can dispute a transaction or not, and if we see a pattern of activity that is inconsistent with our company values and policy, we do remove those parties from our platform. I'm sorry things worked out this way, but I hope that helps to clarify how we work.
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So how many complaints before you guys FINALLY stop doing business with these crooks?
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totally agree. I don't get scammed very often. this one got me ordered4 shirts. 1 was good. 3 were junk. i turned ithem into a donation. not even good enough to use as a cleaning rage. material was not cotton. it's cheap thin nylon. ridiculous. shame on anyone who allows them to adveritse. this is a one hundred percent scammer.. don't even think about ordering. they will disappoint you
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I learned another lesson. I thought paypal was a preferred place to make a payment but I have learned credit cards are safer. Paypal isn't what I thought it was. I won't be using it again for making any payments.
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