I ordered a Dyson vacuum on June 18th and paid using Paypal. After making the purchase I sent an email asking when my order would ship so I could gauge the delivery time but never got a response. I followed up with another email on the 19th and instead of a response my order changed from "awaiting fulfillment" to "awaiting shipment". I then sent another email asking which carrier was being used and what shipping method however the email failed with the standard no recipient message. I went to the website and found it was down and the shopping cart service that was used from bigcommerce.com was also down. I attempted to use the email that was listed in the paypal account that I submitted my payment to but that too did not work. Some additional investigation uncovered that this seller kitchendeal as listed in paypal turned out to have had a previous site called thekitchendeal.com and it turns out they where doing the same thing as lynkmart.com. I have contacted Paypal and opened a claim to get my money back as this was clearly a scam. The unfortunate thing is that had Paypal not listed them as verified I probably wouldn't have made the purchase. Using paypal may have provided me some protection but IMO they should have been aware that this seller was using them for fraudulent activities since I was able to tie both thekitchdeal.com and lynkmart.com back to the same paypal account.
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