On the night of May 31st I made an offer on the Cartier Santos 100 XL Choronograph item # 320377997669 to Steven Furman, pitt6101983 is the ebay username, and we agreed on $3,400. It's the watch that my father who has 4th stage lung cancer really like and I would like to buy it for him but i can't afford the full-price. It's something I would like to do for my father. I have not seen him since I left my country and it's 7 years now. I'm planning to visit him for the first and maybe last time.
I told Mr. Furman that paying through paypal is the best way for both of us but he refused and said that he didn't want to pay the fees (said he just lost his job).
In the morning of June 1st he called me asking if I could give him a cashier check and deposit for him in NYC so he could send the watch out and promised me that i would get the watch in the morning of June 2nd. I did buy the cashier check and deposit for him. A few minutes later he said the bank would release the fund on the fund on the morning of June 2nd and told me he would send the watch out on june 2nd instead of June 1st as we agreed.
June 2nd in the morning he sent an email saying he sent the watch out and i should get it by 10 am on June 3rd. He gave me the tracking number from Fedex. I kept checking and calling Fedex all day and night until the due arrival time has pass (Fedex said the number doesn't exist in the system and it is possible that the package was not shipped). And all this time the bidding on the item was still going on and he never end the auction (i suspected that I might have been in a fraud) I called Mr. Furman letting him know and he said he had no idea what was going on. I also suggested him to end the auction since he agreed to sell me the watch but he never did.
On June 3rd i contacted citibank, the bank i bought the cashier check from, to stop a payment but the check has already been cashed. Later on that day (june 3rd) he sent and email saying that Fedex Kinkos he went to the day he claims he sent the box doesn't have any record but he filed a complaint. He took a photo of the customer slip from the air way bill to show me that he actually sent the box. But the picture including nothing but only the tracking number so it could be from just any unused bill. I asked Mr. Furman to retake the picture to capture the whole air way bill and I never got an answer.
June 4th, I emailed him and called him to make sure that everything was ok and I would get the watch. Mr. Furman said that he has no idea what was going on and he didn't seem to worry that his watch might have been lost. He sent me an email earlier in the morning said that he got a call from Fedex kinkos manager asking him to go in at 5pm. And I asked him about the situation if unfortunately i don't get the watch and he said we will figure it out when the time comes. Each time he told me he would go to Fedex Kinkos I always tell him to call me while he is there but he never did.instead he chose to send a short email. Around 6pm on June 4th I got an email from Mr. Furman saying that he just got out from Kinkos and found out that one of the employees there stole the watch and got fired. Mr. Furman said he promised the guy not to press charge him if he brought the watch back that night (again Mr. Furman didn't follow the guy back to his place to get the watch but instead just left kinkos and chose to believe that the guy who just stole the watch and got fired would be gladly to give him back the watch) Mr. Furman said in the email the night before saying that he would be going to Kinkos in the morning to ship the watch out to me. I asked him in the email the night before about the whole situation because things didn't make sense. He never answered.
Morning of June 5th, I called mr. Furman twice and left a message once to call me back, again he never did. I emailed him saying i'm wondering if everything is ok. An hour later Mr. Furman emailed me back (Mr. Furman never called me discussing about anything after he recieved the money) saying the guy he claims stealing the watch never returned and Mr. Furman at the time at the police station (where he should have been the night before in my opinion if the whole story was true). Mr. Furman said short in the email "we will figure out the money situation but I need the watch back first" I have been calling Mr. Furman but he never answered my calls and my emails also never been answered. The auction on the watch was going on until it ended. I have been trying to contact ebay to put a warning or inform the winning bidder. I'm afraid that another person might fall for it.
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