Prom Dress Swindle: BuyQuinceanaraDress.com

David Hannum said of P.T. Barnum's patrons, "There's a sucker born every second."  Ironically, Hannum was the real sucker.  He got swindled into buying a hoax because he really wanted to believe in it. That's when we are the most vulnerable, when we really want to believe something is real.  Con-artists know this.  The desperate are the best, and easiest, marks. 

Evey spring there is a new crop of marks just waiting to be bilked.  There is a ready-made societal-pressured army of desperate teenage girls just trying to fulfill their perfect prom night fantasies.  These are the ready-made suckers primed and perfect to be conned and defrauded. 

This is the dress Jessica wanted so badly.  She had seen it on the internet, but it was priced well over any possibility of buying it.  So she search engined the photo and checked everywhere for it.  She was simply ecstatic when she came across it for less than half of what the other dress shop wanted for it.  This is the site where she found her dress:  http://www.buyquinceaneradress.com/.

It was a real deal at $239.  The site was setup to use paypal, which made me feel better.  There was less than a month to the prom, so we paid the extra $30 to insure it got here on time. Jessica gave the company all her measurements to have the dress altered before it was shipped.  She was on Cloud 9.  The dress was paid for using a debit card.  Jessica printed the receipt and made arrangements for her boyfriend to come up from South Carolina for a wonderful night, complete with extended limo service and a fancy dinner.

As the day drew near, my wife attempted to check on the progress of the dress.  After several broken english communications with someone called Molly Lee (who can be contacted at ordersorder@gmail.com , not that I'm saying to do that.  But if you feel like it, you can do so at the above email address) it was becoming clear that Jessica had been scammed.  And we had been ripped off.  Gailyn's inquiries were responded to with two basic standard replies.  "Molly Lee" didn't even try to answer the emails, we simply got the following non-responses.  The first one we received 3 times.   

Dear,

your dress is well in process.

we will try our best to let you get the dress earlier.

Can you give us several days more?

Thanks ,much !

Dear,

Thanks for favoring our company.

your dress is well in process.

since we are really busy in this hot season,

we'd appreciate that you can give us more time.

Hoping against hope that we weren't going to be stood up, my wife went into serious stress mode and her and Jess began scouring the local stores for a replacement.  All the secondhand shops had been stripped bare of any treasure already.  I mean, who waits until the week of prom to go looking for dresses.  The wedding boutiques and formal stores were outrageously priced, but that is the last resort of the desperate.

Jessica found a comparable dress.  It was one of the last ones left.  We paid the sucker's penalty of full price; almost $500.  But she was happy with it, though there was not time to get it altered correctly to her figure.  She spent the night holding her back erect so the front of the dress didn't collapse.  But she went and had a good time.  Which is good.  She graduates next month and it would have been a shame if the night was a total disaster for her. 

After Saturday, I settled down to get a refund.  We had paid using paypal and I would dispute the transaction, claim that we never received the goods and get our money back.  I went to the paypal site, entered the transaction number and nothing came up.  I searched all transactions.  Buy Quinceanera dress was not listed.  To make a long story short.  The paypal option on the site is a fraud.  We fell for it.  Worse, they now have a valid credit card number.  To date the only charge on the card is for the original $269 order.  We are moving today to make sure that is all that will ever be charged on that card again.

BuyQuinceaneraDress.com is registered with GoDaddy.com out of Scottsdale, Arizona.  Where the perpetrators of this fraud are located is still a mystery.  I have found this same website, layout and information, in other languages, so they could be anywhere.  The world is ripe for the plucking in this digital age. 

My little website doesn't draw enough attention or traffic to make any difference in stopping this particular piece of disgusting *censored*.  But if you happen to come across my little page here - please pass this info on.  I really would like this to be Molly Lee's last profitable season.