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Title: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: achab1984 on October 10, 2013, 06:10:21 AM
Do not deal with Vicky Flicker! She just asked about my ponies that I have for sale. I shared all my info with her about them. She said she was going to buy them all. Then she sends me a message saying that she will pay for them after she gets them! I am not stupid! I tell her no way! She wanted me to send the ponies to her with out payment. She said she paid $100.00 for a pony from a guy in the US and he never sent it. Then she sends me a message and says that she does not trust the US. Then don't ask about ponies in the US! Just wanted to give others a heads up! Sounds like she is trying to get free stuff.

Ok I got a lot of red lights with this. If you bought a pony from a Guy in the US. You paying with pay pal, so go and dispute it with pay pal and get your money back.  Red Lights all over the place!

Just wanted to let you all know. 
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: ponylady on October 10, 2013, 06:19:21 AM
Weird. I almost wonder if maybe she is a member here?? It shows she is friends with Saoirse. Which could just be a coincidence but there is another girl also who I am mutual friends with that I still to this day have no idea who she is  :blush: that she is friends with.

Still very weird request  >_<
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: achab1984 on October 10, 2013, 06:26:17 AM
I know, I was like " Cool someone is interested in all of the ponies that I have for sale." But the more and more we talked the more weird that it got.  After I told her that I would not do that , she got upset and said that she did not trust the US.   

She is from the UK, that is about all that I know.  She did send me a friend request, I accepted it but blocked her after she started to get upset cause I would not do that.

I am not trying to talk bad about her, just don't want someone falling for it.  There are some nice and kind people out in this world that might do something like that. Sad :( All around.
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: ponylady on October 10, 2013, 06:42:44 AM
I am sending you a PM cause I want to see if you know who the other gal is I am talking about. I need someone to shed some light on it for me  :blink:
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: Saoirse on October 10, 2013, 06:57:02 AM
Shes friends with me but I actually havent a clue who she is!

She added me a few weeks ago because she was looking for UK people and I said I was In IE, so she added me. I'm inclined to remove her but maybe its just a mis-understanding? I don't know her personally like I say though and have never dealt with her :)
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: achab1984 on October 10, 2013, 07:03:02 AM
I got told from someone else on face book that she tried the same thing them a few days ago. I thought it was weird cause she did not know what I had for sale. But she wanted to buy what I had........ I was confused?
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: Saoirse on October 10, 2013, 07:23:57 AM
I got told from someone else on face book that she tried the same thing them a few days ago. I thought it was weird cause she did not know what I had for sale. But she wanted to buy what I had........ I was confused?

Oh okay in that case its odd..she wants to spend x amount but doesnt know what shes getting?
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: partypony566 on October 10, 2013, 06:23:50 PM
Do not deal with Vicky Flicker! She just asked about my ponies that I have for sale. I shared all my info with her about them. She said she was going to buy them all. Then she sends me a message saying that she will pay for them after she gets them! I am not stupid! I tell her no way! She wanted me to send the ponies to her with out payment. She said she paid $100.00 for a pony from a guy in the US and he never sent it. Then she sends me a message and says that she does not trust the US. Then don't ask about ponies in the US! Just wanted to give others a heads up! Sounds like she is trying to get free stuff.

Ok I got a lot of red lights with this. If you bought a pony from a Guy in the US. You paying with pay pal, so go and dispute it with pay pal and get your money back.  Red Lights all over the place!

Just wanted to let you all know. 

Good grief! Thanks for the warning Avene!
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: Ringlets on October 10, 2013, 08:31:52 PM
:whoa:  :crazy:  :yikes:  that sounds well dodgy! thanks for the heads up! cant remember if anyone by that name sent me a friend request ...
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: achab1984 on October 10, 2013, 08:52:18 PM
Do not deal with Vicky Flicker! She just asked about my ponies that I have for sale. I shared all my info with her about them. She said she was going to buy them all. Then she sends me a message saying that she will pay for them after she gets them! I am not stupid! I tell her no way! She wanted me to send the ponies to her with out payment. She said she paid $100.00 for a pony from a guy in the US and he never sent it. Then she sends me a message and says that she does not trust the US. Then don't ask about ponies in the US! Just wanted to give others a heads up! Sounds like she is trying to get free stuff.

Ok I got a lot of red lights with this. If you bought a pony from a Guy in the US. You paying with pay pal, so go and dispute it with pay pal and get your money back.  Red Lights all over the place!

Just wanted to let you all know. 

Good grief! Thanks for the warning Avene!

Your welcome, she got banded cause I was not the only one that had some issues. 
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: ponylady on October 10, 2013, 08:54:02 PM
They kicked her off FB???
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: babylofty on October 11, 2013, 05:26:56 AM
I'm wondering if this Vicky was on an MLP FB group list, like the one the Arena has, and maybe she got kicked off of that?
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: achab1984 on October 11, 2013, 07:11:18 AM
They kicked her off FB???

It was that pony site that she contacted me one that she got kicked off it. It was cause she tried to do this with many people that were selling.

My little pony- extra for sale site.
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on October 12, 2013, 05:36:45 AM
Thanks for the warning!  :(
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: achab1984 on October 12, 2013, 11:13:51 AM
Thanks for the warning!  :(

Your welcome :)
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: StoryDreamer on October 12, 2013, 11:19:53 AM
Every time you post on that Facebook group, she asks about ponies for sale and where are you. She posted repeatedly "I have money, I want to buy ponies!"
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: achab1984 on October 13, 2013, 02:33:00 AM
She is still in that group? Or is she in a different one?
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: Dewprincess on October 13, 2013, 02:36:50 AM
She "has money", but wants to "get ponies" while keeping the money ;)
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: PrincessOfDarkness on October 13, 2013, 06:06:06 PM
She is still in that group? Or is she in a different one?
She has been removed from the group My Little Ponies - Extras for sale
If you guys have any issues with people from within the group, please feel free to drop me or any of the other mod/admin a message and we'll sort it out as soon as we can, as we all know how terrible situations like this can be to deal with. I am very sorry you, and the others, had to go through this.
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: Rhubarbpie on March 27, 2014, 04:57:50 PM
Hello, sorry for bumping such an old thread, but I have just had a friend request on FB from this person, this was preceeded by her messaging me saying she was the sister on one "Sara Harvey" and asking if I had any ponies for sale.  Sara has been very active on FB pages responding to every post with questions asking for ponies for sale particularly boys and babies.  She claims that she is buying for her daughter, which seems to check out ok, I did sell her a number of G3 ponies and the transaction went very well, she paid by postal order and seemed happy for me to cash it in before I shipped.

So far so good....but I remembered this thread about Vicky Flicker and something about the way they are being kinda pushy trying to snap up all the ponies just doesn't sit right...
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: tinyblondie on March 28, 2014, 10:47:54 AM
Vicky Recently tried to buy ponies from me but offered me prices ridiculously lower than my set price (£2 per G3 all good condition). She wanted to pay £50 for 28 ponies a show stable and a dream castle. I reminded her that i charge £2 per pony so for 28 ponies it should be £56 but I was happy to do it for £50, but that the Dream Castle and Show Stable I wanted to take offers on. She told me that was too much to ask and I asked what she would like to pay per pony. She said between 50p and £1 which is far to low compered to my original price I think -.-

I had some minor trouble with Sara but nothing that set off any alarm bells. Once again I was informed that I was asking too much for the ponies, she didn't send payment when she was due too and kept changing her mind about the order. In the end I cancelled the sale and sold the ponies to somebody else after she failed to contact me for quite a few days even though she remained active on the pages.
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: duckie on March 28, 2014, 10:55:21 AM
I have sold to Sara Harvey, she paid by postal order and at first I was a little hesitant but it all went fine. She even paid a bit extra for postage which she didn't have to do. However I have been told that Vicky is notorious for not paying for items.
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: Lollipop on March 28, 2014, 10:55:35 AM
Glad i dont really do Facebook this girl sounds like a pain in the backside

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Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: tinyblondie on March 28, 2014, 11:41:31 AM
I'm glad to hear Sara is usually a good buyer, perhaps I just caught her at a bad time
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: lisey_baby on March 31, 2014, 06:40:09 AM
Oh no, not again. She's been kicked out of a group I admin for being a time waster etc. We kept denying her requests to join and she tried to add me as a friend and sent me a pm asking to add her. I'm sorry to hear she's been trouble in other places :(. I know people have had weird dealings with her in RL too :/
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: Albirdy on June 15, 2014, 03:38:00 AM
Hi all!

I was given a link to this thread on FB, and I just wanted to share my story with you.
***DO NOT TRADE OR SELL WITH VICKY FLICKER***
I was in her group, "Vickys My Little Pony and vintage selling site", which now is changed to "pony", where I was seeking ponies. She had a couple of ponies I was interested in, so we decided to trade. She sent me a friend request and we exchanged photos of the ponies we were about to trade. Everything seemed fine, she seemed quite nice really, and I sent her the ponies (which were worth about £25 + £9 shipping).
Shortly after another member, Claire, sent me a pm about Vicky being a scammer. I got this really bad gut feeling, but I stayed in contact with Vicky, pretending like I didn't know anything. After a couple of days of silence I would send her a message, but then I found out she blocked me. I couldn't sent her messages anymore or see her profile.
After that I realised the sad truth: I was never gonna see any ponies EVER. I wrote a warning in her group, and a few people saw it, but a few hours later she blocked me from the group, my warning was gone, and instead she wrote a post about ME being the liar (I saw that because Claire sent me a screenshot), and the one who scammed her. I am a very honest person and would never do such a horrible thing!!

So this is just another warning to everyone.. Vicky Flicker is still very active, and she is a SCAMMER! Again, DO NOT TRADE WITH HER! I lost both ponies and money, I wouldn't want this to happen for anyone else.

And thank you guys from the group on FB for the support! I appreciate it so much! xx

Best, Alberte  :)
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: Icecrystalline on June 15, 2014, 04:01:11 AM
Urgh, thanks for the heads up. I'm so, so glad I don't do any pony dealings outside of the arena anymore, especially not on facebook. My Facebook is private for a reason, and I don't put pony things on there, since I don't want some nutter contacting me and scamming me or something crazy. Just glad this has been put up, now I know to stay well away!

Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: achab1984 on June 19, 2014, 05:59:39 PM
Oh my gosh!! I am sorry to hear that others have been having to deal with her! How do these people get away with it all!!???
Title: Re: Face Book Person! Warning!
Post by: Dragonflitter on June 20, 2014, 11:22:33 AM
So sorry to hear that story, Albirdy! :(

Facebook is just a notorious bad idea when it comes to buying/selling. It's just too easy for information to be permanently erased on FB, which leaves no trail of information for us to follow. And there's no repercussions, no 'bad feedback' really, that can be left.

I just recently joined my first FB buy/trade group and arranged a trade with one person, but after I went out and bought the item she wanted and sent her a photo, she told me she changed her mind and didn't want to do the trade. So now I have a toy I can't use. Burned once is enough for me, I won't be doing any more transactions on FB.
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