The Better Business Bureau issued a scam warning. How to protect yourself & get your money back.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — ’tis the season to look online and find outdoor decor. When one of my WFMY News 2 co-workers found these ads on Facebook, she hit the buy button. It wasn’t that the product wasn’t delivered, the issue was that it was….miniature.
For $40, she thought she was getting an outdoor nativity set that was shown in the pictures as being about waist-high on an adult. As it turns out, it was about knee-high.
The issue of big holiday decorations being ordered but then being delivered in miniature size started becoming an issue around Halloween and the Better Business Bureau issued a scam alert.
“You find the perfect holiday decoration through a social media ad or the internet and the pictures look great the website looks legitimate and it’s the dimensions you’re looking for, but when the package actually arrives it looks nothing like what you ordered. It’s usually a cheap miniature version of the item that you ordered,” said Lechelle Yates of the Better Business Bureau.
The first step of course is to go to the company, but Yates says most of the consumers who have made complaints to the BBB received no response from the company. Others got responses…
