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The delay:
The thread grew very fast with posts of everyone's excitement and praise of it finally being delivered . . . but as it turns out . . . it had not been delivered.
Cue despair and a sense of let down! Oh well, the mission was not a total failure.
Gizmo_Gun did an awesome thing by calling and seeing what was up.
Thanks for doing that . . . my dear wife.
So it came down to, FedEx could not deliver it, because they number they are trying to call him on is fake.
They can't have him pay the taxes if they can't find him right?
At this point, we sat, and so began, the many days of Regulatory Agency Clearance Delay. For about 7 days, right about the same time in the morning, the FedEx tracking page was updated with Regulatory Agency Clearance Delay.
With no emails from the scammer, we thought it was over. Our ringer was to sit in the purgatory of FedEx customs for ever.
Sometime around this point my title was even changed to Regulatory Agency Clearance Delay.
With this information in mind, a new email was in order
From: MyNameIsJeff mynameisjeff@bootsix.net.
Sent: Tuesday, May 04
To: 'scont06@yahoo.com'
Subject: Package cannot be delivered!
Hello!
I received a call from FedEx saying that they are unable to get a hold of you to deliver the package. I really need payment for my laptop, so the sooner you get it and approve of it, the sooner the escrow can release my money to me. They said that they will have to charge me to hold it if they cannot deliver it. If that is the case, I will just pay to have it sent back.
Do you have another phone number? I was going to try to look you up by address maybe, but I don't think that will work, so I thought I'd ask you first! Please respond as soon as you can! I am very eager to complete the transaction!
Thank you!
Jeff
I had hoped this would do it. And it did. He next day he replied:
From: Gianluca scont06@yahoo.com.
Sent: Wednesday, May 05
To: MyNameIsJeff
Subject: Re: Package cannot be delivered!
Hello
I call to fedex and he tell me tomorow or of friday will send me the package to my address.
The money is ready in my hand to pay the taxes. What insurance do you put for this?
I will email you when I will pick up the laptop. Thank you and sorry for this incovenience.
Gianluca
There were a lot of posts from a lot of excited people. The thread had come back to life.
Not long after out last email, I received this:
From: Gianluca scont06@yahoo.com.
Sent:: Thursday, May 06
To: MyNameIsJeff
Subject: Re: Package cannot be delivered!
Dear sir,
Today I have made the payment for the duty taxes. I went personal to Fedex and made the payment. Everything now is ok and they told me that they will deliver it to me tomorrow or latest at 10 o'clock in the morning on Monday.Sorry for this delay but Fedex told me that this is the best they can do.Anyway they will deliver it till Monday aftrenoon and will be fine. Next week we can finalize the deal.
Thank you for your patience and hope to be ok now.
