Last month I bought a pendant and necklace heavily discounted from a major box. It wasn't expensive, but it was 78% off.
I decided to donate it to an auction being held by a person LD who rescues cats. I kept the jewelry in my possession and was going to mail it to the winning bidder.
The auction goes live and when it ended LD's daughter ended up being the highest bidder. The daughter didn't even bid with her own Facebook username. LD bid on behalf of LD's daughter.
Supposedly the daughter should have paid LD the winning bid, but I have no way of knowing that.
I was Paypal'd the money for the shipping $3.
I do realize that since I had donated the jewelry technically it wasn't mine any longer, but I do not like what happened.
How do I prevent this from happening in the future?
I did not say anything this time, but the whole point of my donating the jewelry was to get money for the rescue effort not for someone to end up with something they liked essentially for free.
I decided to donate it to an auction being held by a person LD who rescues cats. I kept the jewelry in my possession and was going to mail it to the winning bidder.
The auction goes live and when it ended LD's daughter ended up being the highest bidder. The daughter didn't even bid with her own Facebook username. LD bid on behalf of LD's daughter.
Supposedly the daughter should have paid LD the winning bid, but I have no way of knowing that.
I was Paypal'd the money for the shipping $3.
I do realize that since I had donated the jewelry technically it wasn't mine any longer, but I do not like what happened.
How do I prevent this from happening in the future?
I did not say anything this time, but the whole point of my donating the jewelry was to get money for the rescue effort not for someone to end up with something they liked essentially for free.