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Hello good friends! I would like to share with you all the adventure I have endured in the last 48 hours since successfully winning an auction to obtain my grail doll, Smart Doll Moonlight. It is a tale of sheer dumb luck, poor financial decisions, and most importantly of all, a villainess that rivals the best of what Disney has to offer. Please grab a seat (while supplies last,) grab your dolls, and settle in as I present to you: The Moonlight Saga A bit of background: ebay will let you sign up for email alerts when listings that fit certain criteria go live. As a result, I get daily results for any listing that include the terms "Dollfie Dream," "Smart Doll Cocoa," and "Smart Doll Moonlight", (among other things.) I set this up ages ago on the blue-moon chance that a Moonlight might just come up for sale one day! Yesterday, a Moonlight went up for sale. I don't need to tell you the details of how that went down, only that the result was a positive one for yours truly. After an eternity of trying and failing, hope and despair, I was finally getting the doll that I wanted most. Tears were shed, fraud alerts were tripped, and I was perhaps a bit too exuberant with my celebrations. This would ultimately prove to be, if not my undoing, then certainly my immense inconvenience, as it attracted the attentions of the person I will henceforth refer to as Wack. Wack and I originally met when they put up a discontinued SmD for sale. When they decided to keep her, our conversation veered away from there, but overall I didn't know them very well at all, even if our conversation was amenable. One point of note however, is that they were a fellow Moonlight hunter; at one point they even fashioned their own Moonlight with an ARTFUL spraypaint job on a Kurenai sculpt! This is ultimately why, when I finally got my own girl, I wound up telling them about it. I wanted to celebrate that we both had found ways to get the dolls we dreamed of! Unfortunately, my enthusiasm was one-sided. Rather than excitement, Wack's immediate response to the news was to say they had seen the listing, and that it was a scam. What followed over the ensuing hours of conversation was a concerted effort to get me to cancel my winning bid with the end goal of swooping in to buy the doll for themselves once I was out of the way! Wack was INCREDIBLY insistent that, for my own good, I HAD to cancel the order as soon as possible. For over three hours they messaged me on this singular point, ever more fixated on my "need" to get a refund ASAP. One might wonder why I didn't block them after five minutes of this nonsense, and the best answer I can give in response to that is that I am, regretfully, stupid. Unfortunately for them, I am not stupid enough to take what they had to say at face value. I immediately went to the seller to clarify a few points: If the product photo was stolen, as alleged by Wack If they did, in fact, own the doll they were purporting to sell If they in fact had, somehow, multiple Moonlights to sell (as purported by Wack) If they were ignoring my messages purposefully while, supposedly, responding to this other party Why they hadn't been active on their ebay account in over a year* *Inactive accounts that come back from the dead can often be hacked by, or sold to, scam artists who benefit from the karma of an established account. You... ironically see this in the Neopets community a lot. :I The seller responded to all of this with more grace and decorum than the situation warranted. They immediately offered to send me a timestamped photo of Moonlight to prove ownership, and followed through on that promise not long after, as I explained to them what had prompted my concerns. Putting two and two together, we rapidly came to the conclusion that this was orchestrated by a singular bad actor who wanted me to withdraw my bid so they could buy Moonlight instead! Naturally I responded to this revelation in an appropriate manner. Thankfully, the seller was able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they in fact had Moonlight in their possession with a timestamped photo and the custom message I requested they write. I broke the news to our deviant do-gooder in hopes that they would finally drop the act and relent on their fruitless crusade, but alas, they were in too deep to give up the ghost now! Even faced with reasonable proof that I was dealing with a legitimate seller, Wack refused to back down from their efforts. Ultimately, I was the one to bow out of this conversation by virtue of having better things to do with my time- and by the time I got back to see what else they had to say, they had taken the ultimate step and deleted their instagram account, unfortunately taking their wild claims with them in the process. As a result, I don't have screenshots of some of the wilder things they told me -- like how they were a "personal friend of Danny Choo," and that he was planning a secret rerelease of Moonlight "soon". They said they could get me a legitimate Moonlight from him, so I would have the Culture Japan warranty, rather than buying a sketchy one off ebay. They even offered to trade me their own modded Twilight girl (but never got back to me on how the sprayed joints were holding up.) They lied through their teeth time and time again, but thankfully in the end, I wasn't swayed. Moonlight will be here next week, the day after my birthday. She's coming with some cute gifts (TINY SANDWICH) as well, and I couldn't be happier that it's all managed to work out. I'm very grateful that the seller was patient with me, and willing to be skeptical of the other party in this incident, and more than anything else, I'm thankful for my friends being the voice of reason when I talked this out with them, too. There are good people in this world, in spite of the occasional bad apple. ^^ If I can take anything away from this experience, it's this. If you're concerned about something, ask! People like Wack operate by controlling the flow of information between parties. When you cut out the middleman and address someone directly, you take away their power. Honesty really is the best policy! Moonlight's gonna be here soon, and when she gets here you can expect about three billion photos of her. In the meantime, I'd love name suggestions! And if you've taken the time to read this absolute monster of a thread... thanks! I hope this... whatever this is amused someone! Thanks! ^^
