Swaplifter Update

So I finally received my items back from Moschino000/c0ryan, who swaplifted me over a month ago...

I am not pleased.... I sent her two items that were BRAND NEW... and they are now returned to me in obviously used conditions. To be honest, seeing these items kind of repulses me... and I want to get rid of them as soon as possible.
No I am not swapping, sorry.

I'm going to sell these items to serious buyers -- please email me with a serious/reasonable offer...

Items for sale:

Select Sheer Loose Powder in discontinued shade NW15

Description: WAS brand new, but the sticker has been peeled back and replaced. Picture available upon request.

Retail value: $21USD
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Rare and discontinued MAC 180 kabuki brush

Description: WAS brand new, but the swaplifter has sloppily painted a layer of nailpolish over the word "MAC" and "180". There is also a chip at the bottom handle of the brush that the swaplifter CLAIMED was sent to her that way -- but it certainly was not. There IS a bit of a crack however that is barely noticeable (and that I was aware of before the swap) at the base of the bristles. So small that I don't think photographing it would pick it up. Picture available upon request.

Retail value: estimated at $45USD

Again, serious buyers only -- please email me and make your offer (also please take into consideration paypal fees + shipping = ~$5-$7 USD).

Thanks everyone!

Swaplifter Update

I just tried to call the number that Yuko found for us and there was no answer unfortunately... it is 9am in Huddersfield... perhaps they're still sleeping... but it's 4am for me.. and I stayed up all night pretty much to get in touch with SOMEONE so i'm a little disappointed... but... It looks like our emails to the police department are working and something will/might be done... thank goodness...

Here is an email I received (and those of you who emailed probably got as well):


Ok people, thanks for your communication.

All your emails have been received and forwarded to myself by my Sergeant.

Let me assure you that you don't need to resend the email.

I will try and visit the address over the next couple of weeks to establish
why this has happened and speak with the suspect.

I will keep you all updated via email.

Thanks
Dan

Swaplifter Update

I sent my email to the local police department of ZOE HAIGH and got a response... this is what they sent me:

Dear Sandy,
Thank you for your e-mail. I have passed it on to the Lower Calder Valley NPT who cover the area where Zoe Haigh is said to live. They should contact you in due course.

Andrew Carlin
PS 1061
Halifax Central NPT

My email:

I am part of an online community that barters cosmetics items sent through postal service. I have recently encountered an individual who had agreed to "swap" or trade cosmetic items with me and we had agreed to send each other's items at the same time. Our communication and agreement took place on Wedneday, June 3, 2009. I sent a cosmetic facial brush (retail $60USD) and a loose face powder (retail $25USD) in exchange for what I thought was going to be 3 of her cosmetic items. To my understanding, there has been many victims who have suffered the same fate and lost many valuable items to her at approximately the same time. She has since deleted her account (username: moschino000).

The information that she provided for me is:

Zoe Haigh
15st Albans Avenue
Ainley Top
Huddersfield
HD3 3RX
UK

Although i'm sure that this is quite far fetched and there is probably nothing that can be done, it is reassuring to know that you have this information in the event that this individual takes her actions a step further and commits a more serious crime.

Thank you for your time,
Sandy Chow

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Like I said in my previous post... send in your emails and lets hope that something will and can be done.

Swaplifter: Send a Report

I cannot believe the amount of girls this bitch targeted and swaplifted from (and all at the same time).... here is an email address to her local police department.... it's highly doubted that much can be done, BUT if we all ban together and send them an email each explaining our situation, the amount we lost -- give as much detail as possible -- lets hope that she will AT LEAST get a knock on her door and be warned that she's been outted and know the situation...

what burns the most is that she's sitting at home with a huge haul smirking at all the ppl she fooled... #$*(#$*@#$%(

calderdale.npt@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk

send your emails!!

SWAP LIFT ALERT

The story:
So buzzfuzzbunny told me about a pretty sweet swap she was doing through MUA a couple of weeks ago.... coincidentally I too was in the process of a pretty sweet swap myself...
Now almost two weeks later, she confimed to me that she was swaplifted and that the user had deleted her account... she also sent me her name and address so that I won't fall for it in the future.... lo and behold... the name and address looked rather familiar to me... and I realized -- CRAP! I must've been swap-lifted too!!!!! Both buzzfuzzbunny and I lost quite a bit in MAC products... and we're livid....

Her username WAS Moschino000 -- but she may have made a new account by now to lure new victims... so for all your ladies out there thinking about swapping... beware of sending out anything to this person and address:

Zoe Haigh
15st Albans Avenue
Ainley Top
Huddersfield
HD3 3RX
UK

Do me a favour ladies and pass this information around! I personally don't care if I'm violating her privacy, because she violated not only mine but several MUAer's trust -- if you look up her username in the boards.. she's swaplifted MANY ppl.... @!*$#!&@(#*!#!($&!*$&

Make-Up Alley: Swapping

I am so super excited about this, I just HAD to share!!!
If you are a make-up junkie (and if you're on this blog then you most likely are), then you have heard of http://www.makeupalley.com/.

This site is great because you get peer reviews of almost any product you can think of, as well as give reviews of your own. In addition to reviews, there is a swap section which is much like ebay, except rather than paying with money, you exchange (slightly) used make-up that you don't use anymore or didn't work for you, for something else that the other person isn't using anymore (also known as bartering).

So I'm not much of a swapper myself -- if you check my profile, you'll see I've only been awarded 4 tokens (like feedback with ebay), which is the number of times I've swapped (plus my swap list and wishlist are very limited). I rarely swap, because I tend to just give away make-up I don't really use anymore...

Anyway... so I decided to swap recently because I was on the hunt for So Ceylon and Petticoat MSFs... they aren't available at MAC locations anymore (nor on the website)... and I found this incredibly sweet swapper (who happened to live in the province -- they are usually from the States and unwilling to swap internationally). I swapped my ONE PlantLove palette with her TWO MSFs... and the fact that she even agreed to that was awesome...

here comes the other positives:

- It came the very next day after she shipped! (expresspost)

- Both MSFs were awesome and came as described (VERY lightly used)

- She included extras that were OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!!

(2 NARS single eyeshadows and because NARS orgasm blush was on my wishlist, she included a HUGE palette that not only came with the blush.. but 4 other eyeshadows, an ADDITIONAL blush and lippies)

WWWOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!

I was super excited because it was completely unexpected...

(I was home alone so I was totally screaming!)

again.. i swapped ONE palette.. for these AMAZING full-sized items... she is so awesome.

Her MUA is ambriel <-- pls go check her out and say hi... =]

OMG... enough rambling... here are the pics: