Mi desastrosa y mala experiencia en este Black Friday en Caracas -SPA / ENG-

Hello dear internet friends! I hope you are very well, I was away these last two days since my dad and I tried to buy a new television in this season of Black Friday, which started on Thursday at 7 pm, and I would like to tell you how it went.

On the afternoon of this Thursday, the sales announcements began through instagram in stores like IVOO and Multimax, which are white goods stores in my country, as we saw good offers on smart TVs and my dad had been transferred his bonuses , we decided to go to Multimax at 5 pm with only the money to buy since the night sale began at 7 pm, however when we arrived there was already a long queue so we expected a long wait to enter.

This wait was unsuccessful, since that night they did not attend to all the people, so we returned home at almost 10 pm empty-handed, fortunately we found a neighbor who gave us the queue back to the building in the tail. That same night we agreed to return to another Multimax that is in the square near my house to try to buy a smart tv, at a slightly higher price but still worth it. The next morning we decided to leave early, however when we arrived we had to queue again since there were also many people waiting almost since dawn to be able to buy. It should be noted that on both trips we witnessed how people were rampaging, carrying up to 5 or 6 televisions at once (which is strange to me, since the purchasing power of most Venezuelans is really very low) so another Once our wait was in vain since when it was not long before we entered the televisions they sold out, so we again returned home empty-handed almost at noon.

In order not to be left empty-handed, we made what later was a very bad decision. We searched through the Mercado Libre Venezuela platform for a good purchase option, we got a great offer on a 32-inch Samsung Smart TV and we decided to bid on it, we contacted the seller and after making the corresponding payment of 95 USD to Through mobile payment, the seller defrauded us, kept the money and disappeared without a trace, blocked us from both WhatsApp and the Mercado Libre platform, and they also did not answer our numerous calls, so we had to file a complaint with the CICPC (Corpora de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas) and we were there almost the entire afternoon, from 2 pm until after 8 pm, waiting for them to attend to us and then they took our complaint.

I am writing this post to alert all people, especially in Venezuela, so that they are very aware and do not fall for this type of scam and are aware of each virtual store, since this profile that scammed us is on the platform as Mercado Libre Platinum and With more than 200 positive sales made, so we decided to trust, however, it is more than clear that having an excellent reputation is not a guarantee of anything. We are a little calmer since the CICPC guaranteed us that they would catch the fraudster and we could get our money back, but that the process would be a bit tedious, so who knows how long these days to come will be a bit difficult, however I have the hope that this situation will be brought to a successful conclusion.

Well dear friends this has been all for today's post, I hope you liked it. It was a great pleasure to share with you my very bad experience, and I hope it serves to alert everyone and prevent more people from falling into the hands of these scammers. Thank you all very much, as always, for your attention and support for my work. I send you all a big hug and we will meet again next time.

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