I almost made a purchase online last week. I say “almost” because I stopped the order short before releasing payment from my Paypal account. Although I try to source purchases locally there are many things that are either more convenient to purchase online, much less expensive or just plain unavailable. In this case it was a sports jersey that I saw through a Facebook ad. The price was half of what I had seen this shirt for on the official team site and it advertised free shipping to boot. The website looked professional with secure encryption and they had a multitude of products for sale at great prices. My question about the product was even answered promptly by a fellow named “Jason” from their customer service department. I browsed the site for a while before making my selection and customized my order with my favourite players number on the back. A couple of clicks and my order was placed, all I had to do was check my email and login to Paypal to complete the payment. This is where it started to look fishy as ultimately I was instructed to release funds in U.S. dollars to “Pang Loo”. Now this in itself would not be so suspect if his contact info was a generic web based email address. At this point I started to question the authenticity of the product as well given the inconsistencies I was seeing. Sending someone
In the end, I did not buy the jersey and hopefully saved myself some aggravation (and possibly 48 dollars!). Maybe I would have received a great deal if I had gone through with the purchase but visions of trying to track down Mr. Loo with desperate unanswered emails to nowhere seemed all too possible. Granted Paypal does provide some recourse for fraudulent transactions but I had no interest in going there. Although I purchase a few things online this experience just confirmed what we should all practice when doing business, online or in person. Buyer Beware.
by Tim FairhurstBiz X Magazine
Monday, January 24, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
See You at the Movies?
Last years filming in downtown Detroit of the latest instalment of the Transformers movie franchise may be the start of something big for not only Detroit but Windsor as well. The respective cities skylines, Ambassador bridge and wide variety of backdrops make for an attractive place to shoot movie and television productions. With a proposal to build a movie studio in Essex county being worked on right now as well could this area become Hollywood North? The success of the Windsor International Film Festival has established an interest amongst Winsdorites as movie buffs. Big budget movies being filmed in our own backyard? It is rumoured that parts of the next Batman flick are going to be shot in Detroit. Would you spend the time to be an extra in a film?
by Tim FairhurstBiz X Magazine
by Tim FairhurstBiz X Magazine
Sunday, January 2, 2011
New Years Day Fizzle?
Well, New Years has come and gone again for another year. Windsor and Essex County residents celebrated in style, partying at bars, restaurants, clubs and halls. The family event held at Lanspeary Park featured free skating, music and fireworks and was met with great success. Hats off to AM800 for sponsoring the event and to Arms and Heidi for a fantastic job in hosting. The placement of New Years eve on a Friday meant that New Years Day would be on a Saturday. Party on right? Well it seemed that everyone must have still been in recovery mode because the downtown area was eerily empty for a weekend evening. It seems that going out on New Years Day night was not in a lot of people’s plans. I did talk to some folks that were attending the Maroon 5 concert at Caesars but for the most part it was a pretty quiet day. What was your favourite thing to do on New Years Day?
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