If It's Too Good To Be True...

*UPDATE*(See bottom of post)*

My 16 year old son just recently became interested airsoft guns and has a group of friends that want to have airsoft wars where they go out and hunt each other down. I don't exactly find this intriguing or safe but I realize I can not protect my baby forever (the BBs are plastic, I hope). So, a couple of weeks ago my son asked me to go online and order a Ghillie Suit and a Ghillie Gun Wrap for him. He gave me his brand new debit card (he is proud of that card) and I began my online journey, trying to find him the best deal. Let me say, I was clueless at first, what was a Ghillie Suit? A Ghillie Gun Wrap?

Well, it did not take long to figure out that it was a camouflage outfit that makes one look like a Saskatchewan, an Abominable Snowman, a tree, a bush or whatever scenery you need to blend in with (see photos below and at the end of the post).


He wanted his suit to be in the Woodland colors to match our Arkansas foliage. By the way, these suits are not cheap, even though they are pretty much just yarn, burlap leaves, string, or thread tied, or sewn, onto mesh or netting shaped like a suit. There are several options for Ghillies, such as a poncho version, pants and top separates or combo, long jacket, sniper suit (less bulk on the tummy), buttons or zippers, ready-to-wear or a kit that you put together and customize to your liking. My son works part-time, but hard, at McDonald's so I tried to save him a few bucks. After many hours of searching I finally found a website (Gotitstation.com) that had reasonable prices, free shipping and seemed legitimate so I placed the order, with a grand total of $92.27.
Here it is two weeks later, no package yet, no tracking number, only the two receipts I received after placing the order. One of those receipts is from Gotitstation.com support and the other is from PayPal, which said I made the purchase from Flex Sporting Goods. I have emailed every address I can find and called every number I can find. Funny thing is, Gotitstation.com's number is disconnected, yay me *sarcasm*. Oh, and their website is gone now. I feel like an idiot! I finally found this Flex Sporting Goods on Facebook, no luck there yet but it has only been a couple of hours, they don't answer their phone but they do have an answering machine (or voicemail) that sounds like a joke.
I feel horrible about this, I should have placed the order at Amazon for a few dollars more. Now I will have to do it all over again, this time I am paying. Hopefully the bank or PayPal will help us out on getting his money back. Lesson learned, again, if it is too good to be true, it probably is!

*UPDATE*

After the original post, I received a reply via email from Flex Sporting Goods, they said PayPal had put a "freeze" on the funds so they [Flex] had not received the payment, nor could they issue a refund. I contacted PayPal, they said the funds were not "frozen", or on a hold of any sort, and the seller had received the payment. PayPal was able to link my son's debit card, with the transaction, to my Paypal account and then opened a dispute with the seller. They sent the seller an email describing the dispute with the options of sending the order or issuing a refund. If the seller decided to do neither and/or did not respond, a refund would be issued automatically in 11 days. Well, yesterday was the 11th day and Paypal promptly issued a refund of $92.27 the full purchase amount. WOO-HOO! GO PAYPAL!