A 65-year-old woman in Singapore paid $65 for 6 sets of dentures online, only to receive children’s toy teeth instead, and the seller then became uncontactable.
According to Shin Min Daily News, 65-year-old Luo Tailan saw a post on Facebook last month promoting dentures for sale.
The post offered a “buy three get three free” promotion which Luo found cheap and enticing, with the Facebook post stating that customers who bought three sets of upper teeth dentures will get three sets of lower teeth dentures for free.
Luo then bought 6 sets of the dentures for $65, planning to use one set for herself and give the other two away to her sister and friend.
She was then told to comment on the post with her name and address to arrange for the delivery, and her parcel then arrived about 2 weeks later and she paid the fee after it was delivered.
Luo then opened her parcel wanting to wash the dentures before use, and just as she was about to put them on, realised that the dentures were nothing more than just children’s toys, similar to the fake teeth used for Halloween costumes.
The toy teeth that she received are made of plastics while real dentures are made of either acrylic or a combination of metal and acrylic.
Making matters worse, the seller then became uncontactable and Luo couldn’t confront the seller to demand for a refund of her money.
She then had no choice but to leave comments on the Facebook post about the fraudulent seller and warned other netizens from buying from them.
The advertisement post by the seller was subsequently taken down by the seller.
Luo said that it’s “despicable” for the scammer to trick the elderly, and lamented how senior citizens like her don’t have an income and money for them is hard to come by.