full story!<\/a><\/p>\nLast November, I bought two autographed K-pop posters from members of my favorite band.<\/p>\n
They were listed in my country\u2019s main Facebook selling group for the fandom, and the seller authenticated them with enough proof that I was comfortable buying.<\/p>\n
This is where it gets tricky\u2026<\/p>\n
I spent a couple thousand dollars on them as a gift to myself for graduating with my Master\u2019s and landing a \u201cbig girl\u201d job after interning all summer to secure it, which kept me from traveling like I wanted.<\/p>\n
A few weeks after posting them on Instagram, I got a message from a girl, \u201cAna,\u201d from another country.<\/p>\n
She claimed the posters were stolen from her by her ex-roommate, who sold them to me without her consent, and demanded I return them immediately as stolen property.<\/p>\n
She sent a picture of the posters with a timestamp showing early February 2025, saying her ex-roommate had stolen over $10k worth of rare merchandise from her.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s INSANE!<\/p>\n
Ana was really confrontational, implying I should\u2019ve known they were stolen because she posted about it a lot on social media. But I don\u2019t follow her country\u2019s side of the fandom.<\/p>\n
I live on the other side of the world and don\u2019t speak the language.<\/p>\n
From what I gathered, her ex-roommate, Maria, came to my country for graduate school and sold the posters here to people who were unlikely to have seen Ana\u2019s posts.<\/p>\n
I asked Ana if she was going to pay me back what I spent, but she said no, insisting she shouldn\u2019t have to because the posters were stolen.<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t want to lose his money!<\/p>\n
I told Ana I was sorry to hear about her situation, but I wouldn\u2019t be returning the posters without being reimbursed for the full amount I paid.<\/p>\n
I offered to send her screenshots of the listing and details of the PayPal transaction, but I wasn\u2019t going to give up the posters based on her word alone, especially without compensation.<\/p>\n
I also mentioned that, while I sympathized, this could potentially be a scam between her and Maria to get both the posters and the money. There have been elaborate scams in the K-pop buy\/sell community before.<\/p>\n
I told Ana that if the posters were truly stolen and worth thousands, she should file a police report in her country and handle it that way.<\/p>\n
He did his research on the account\u2026<\/p>\n
I checked with my brother, who\u2019s a lawyer, and he confirmed I\u2019m in the clear to keep the posters.<\/p>\n
Since I bought them in good faith, I\u2019m not liable, and I\u2019ve only done something wrong if I knew they were stolen at the time of purchase.<\/p>\n
He also said if Ana takes legal action against Maria in her country, and wins, it\u2019s very unlikely the authorities would pursue me in my country for such a (relatively) low-value case.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s been getting a lot of inquiries\u2026<\/p>\n
Since all of this happened, I\u2019ve had to make my Instagram & TikTok private because Ana sent what I can only describe as \u201cflying monkeys\u201d into my comments, attacking me and calling me a thief.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s gotten pretty stressful, and now I\u2019m being bombarded with messages from strangers telling me I\u2019m in the wrong.<\/p>\n
Some people are outright calling me an AH for not returning the posters. So, am I?<\/p>\n
YIKES! That\u2019s a weird situation!<\/p>\n
Why wouldn\u2019t Ana try and contact her friend first?!<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s find out what people on Reddit have to say about this one.<\/p>\n
This user thinks this might all be a very huge scam!<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s right! This user knows this might be a scam.<\/p>\n
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This user believes Ana would have taken action is they were actually stolen!<\/p>\n
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This user knows this story doesn\u2019t add up!<\/p>\n
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This user thinks this guy is 100 percent correct!<\/p>\n
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Something here is a bit fishy!<\/p>\n
If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don\u2019t hold up their end of the bargain.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pexels\/Reddit Buying and selling online can sometimes get you in unwanted situations! This guy shares how he thinks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[31636,5136,156,1452,232,300,157,111,139,69,131395,1319,11224,4744,3010],"class_list":["post-401706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-aita","tag-drama","tag-entertainment","tag-issues","tag-jobs","tag-money","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online-business","tag-picture","tag-reddit","tag-stealing","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}