Choosing beggar puts in $250 same-day pickup order, then demands to have it all for free: 'She never planned to pay me'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 8, 2025 4:00 PM EST

Desperate times call for desperate measures, but desperate measures do not always pan out. 

In this day and age, who among us has not come into contact with an online scammer or a choosing beggar on the internet? These are the folks who lurk around on sites like Facebook Marketplace, desperately hoping to find the next innocent soul they can cheat, scam, and manipulate. In this instance, we are dealing with an entitled choosing beggar who claimed she did not have the resources fill her holiday stockings with gifts for her kids. An online seller, who shared this story from his own perspective, agreed to help out. After some back and forth, the two agreed upon $250 for a same-day pickup order, an audacious request that was already a generous one to fulfill. 

By the time their meeting approached in which the sale was to be completed, the choosing beggar revealed that she had no plans to pay this guy and instead thought she could appeal to his emotions to get all of her requested gifts and items for free!

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    the last few years I've made pre-filled Xmas stockings, Easter baskets, boo bags etc and sell them on marketplace in 3 sizes, mini 15, standard 25, mega size 50, which includes an additional wrapped gift. I make a decent profit and most people appreciate skipping the shopping, especially single folks who otherwise wouldn't have a surprise stocking.
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    a woman messages me on the 23rd for 6 mega stockings, I spent well over an hour getting details to personalize, and much longer to put it all together. she did ask for a discount which is fine for a big order and we agreed on 250. I let her know they were ready, reaffirmed the price, and we planned to meet up.
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    I had also put together a free mini stocking since she said she likely wouldn't have one herself. we met and almost immediately she says "hey i hope you have lots of Christmas spirit cause my family and I really need it!" I sell on marketplace all the
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    time, I know what's coming next, and I'm sure you do too. wouldn't you know, her family has been through every possible. disaster but her kids are perfect angels but
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    also all have concer, a dingo her baby, etc etc. then she admits she never planned to pay me and figured if I'd already done all the work and knew they "needed" them I'd just give them to her for free. she figured extremely wrong. I put the stockings back in my trunk and drove off. I hadn't even pulled in my driveway before my phone was dinging non stop. she sent me photos of her kids, videos of them
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    crying (when she said I ruined Christmas ) pictures of her fuel gage on E, a nearly empty fridge, screenshots of her bank balance, and more then 30 messages demanding i "do the right thing and stop ruining Christmas" for her kids. she had the
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    nerve to complain that i didn't give her the mini stocking since I'd already planned to give it away free. funny thing was, she came from further than I did and didn't
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    have her kids with her, which means she just had the videos on her phone already. I blocked her after sending one message: "hey, I wouldn't have minded at all gifting to your kids if your need is genuine had you ASKED instead of trying to manipulate. me. you ruined Christmas for your kids yourself if you think the only thing that matters is the gifts. your kids deserve
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    better but it's on you to provide it. kindly go shove yourself up your own Christmas morning my emotions got the better of me wondering if the kids really were going without, and I used an alt account to check her Facebook. stacks of gifts, a free feast, huge amount of gift cards, you could barely see her tree! and of course, complaints about all the charities
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    that provided "the bare minimum" for her kids. scrolling marketplace this morning i find her selling a ton of brand new toys and kids clothes, naturally.
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    I should have taken screenshots but I was irritated and deleted all the messages immediately and blocked her. I hate how the holidays have become a magnet for slime bags like this looking to exploit anyone and anything they can.
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    tl;dr: cb mom places a big order at an agreed upon price then demands it for free, because she and her poor,,poor family deserve it, gets b thurt when told to.... off
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  • Let's be real: there is not enough holiday spirit in the universe to give this lady what she wants at no charge!

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    IDICbeliever 15 hr. ago Your only (though understandable) mistake was not screenshoting everything and outing her to everyone. Scammers should face public humiliation. And as Judge Judy says you can't commit defamation or libel if it's true.
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    Tigre Malabarista 15 hr. ago While I admire you not rewarding this behavior... Please, please, PLEASE... report her to these charities, especially if she's selling items.
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    I transcribe letters for Santa Claus* in a poorer economically town, and read letters of kids wishing for simple toys like crayons and such.
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    They'd love the toys this CB got from the charities. We need to stop grifting. *(laugh if you must but I use this term when I'm typing letters to put in the Letters to Santa edition. Seeing kids' eyes light up with my stories as to why I do it are worth it. Plus, I'm not lying - to a point: the town Santa, who is a member of the Royal Order of the Real Bearded Santas, told me he used the tab to buy toys for some children in poorer families.)
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  • Several members of the online community weighed in with their own thoughts and anecdotes from similar Facebook Marketplace debacles. Keep scrolling below to see what they had to say!

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    threadsoffate2021 · 13 hr. ago Agreed. These people need to be called out and banned from exploiting charities. A lot of folks have stopped giving because there has been too many grifters taking advantage. We need to get rid of the cons and make it safe to give again.
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    bal_swing . 15 hr. ago You're nicer than I am. I would have screen shot the messages she sent me and posted on her page so people in the future know not to donate to her again.
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    5footfilly 15 hr. ago Report her to the charities, marketplace and put her on blast. Consider it a New Year's gift to the potential 2024 patsies.
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    OCDaboutretirement 15 hr. ago Good for you! What an to expect freebies. I no longer believe in any sob stories. Sob stories are like Everyone has one.
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    slowasaspeedingsloth 14 hr. ago Am I some sort of sap for actually paying for all the presents under the tree myself?? Where are all of these magical free presents coming from???
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    pimblepimble · 14 hr. ago 100% chance she doesn't have kids and a reverse image search for them will lead tyou to a stock image website, where she bought the cutest kids around a tree she could find.
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    dbtl87 15 hr. ago I'm sorry she did this. I hope that she is outed some other way for using folks. My sister bakes at home and sells, if someone did this to her I'd be livid as would she.
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  • For more stories like this, check out this post about another cheap Karen customer.

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