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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jul 3, 2017 2:30:57 GMT
I didn't know, who Tracie was, until I read that entire thread.
This story (about Tracie) reminds me of years and years ago, on the original pea board. Another lady did something similar.
I think her name was Liz(correct me, if I am wrong). She had a transplant, kidney or liver, I think. Got married. Doctors advised her NOT to go though a pregnancy, which she posted about.
But, she desperately wanted a baby, so she got pregnant against medical advice. She had the baby, then because of the pregnancy needed the original transplant removed, and a new replacement organ surgery. I don't remember the exact reason, perhaps she couldn't work, due to the second transport, medical expenses, etc... Anyways, a fund was created, many, many, many peas donated, a lot of money was raised.
After her recovery, one day she posts Disney photos, from the "trip of a lifetime". The peas were like.....what the hell?? the donations were for medical and cost of living expenses, not a family vacation.
The lady in question then explained, she had the Disney fund all along, but she didn't want to use that for medical/transplant related expenses. The peas were pissed. They gave in good faith, to someone who they thought had no money, and really needed help, and the whole time while accepting generous donations, she had enough money in the "Disney trip of a lifetime" account, that she refused to spend a penny of the Disney money on anything transplant related.
Does anyone else remember this story(or a similar version)?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2017 2:37:18 GMT
Yes I remember that, her name was lizz, username libis.
It's people like her that keeps me from donating to people I don't know.
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Post by Frazzled Mom on Jul 3, 2017 5:08:40 GMT
Yup, got conned big time by that one.  |
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Post by PrettyInPeank on Jul 3, 2017 5:15:41 GMT
I knew her, as she frequented the same LSS as I did. Shortly after I donated, she was talking about opening a scrapbook store. I was really shocked. I thought she was on the brink of having lights turned off, so "we're in talks with buying a scrapbook store" ticked me off. I'm gun shy now.
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Post by PrettyInPeank on Jul 3, 2017 5:18:51 GMT
Oh, and I don't think Liz was scamming people. I believe she had true medical issues and then some financial hardships, but over-embellished the seriousness, and just allowed kindness and generosity to roll in. And boy it rolled in. So much that she could go to Disney and negotiate buying a store.
When I think scam, I think fake persona, fake tragedy, fake illness, all for money.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jul 3, 2017 6:33:07 GMT
When I was recalling the story, "scam" was the first thing that came to mind. Especially after reading the "Tracie" posts. I was like, wait...something like this happened before, on the original pea board. I was trying to recall the situation and the word scam came to mind.
Perhaps "greedy" or "entitled" or "taking advantage", would have been a better choice.
No matter the terminology, what they did, was not right. This type of behavior, speaks volumes for a persons character, or lack thereof.
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Post by inkedup on Jul 3, 2017 7:16:22 GMT
You have the story mostly right. Lizz got transplant #2, and did receive donations after a fellow Pea claimed she needed money for life's basic necessities.
The problem was that Lizz was blogging about how she couldn't leave Target without spending at least $100 each trip, documenting other expensive purchases, and then she let it slip that they had a Disney fund set up.
When questioned as to how they had a vacation find when they were "trying to keep the lights on," she became bratty and petulant. Her dad came on to defend her, and he was quite rude, as well. Both she and her dad were insistent that she really didn't receive much from the Peas, which was shitty in addition to ungrateful.
Lizz said something to the effect of the Disney fund "only" having about $1,000 in it, and claimed it was loose change they'd saved during the previous year. And that it was so small an amount compared to her medical bills (She was on Medi-caid at the time) that they figured "why bother"?
Her attitude was awful. Many of the Peas who donated felt hurt by this, and by the fact that Lizz had never even bothered to thank them.
Lizz provided a "sorry/not sorry," hairflipped out and then scrubbed all mention of these issues on her blog. Shortly after the donations rolled in, she posted on her blog about paying off a vehicle and then another Pea mentioned that she was asking about purchasing a scrapbook store.
I stopped donating to strangers because of this. It's one story my spreadsheet will never forget 😂
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Post by dasmith2 on Jul 3, 2017 10:24:01 GMT
You have the story mostly right. Lizz got transplant #2, and did receive donations after a fellow Pea claimed she needed money for life's basic necessities. The problem was that Lizz was blogging about how she couldn't leave Target without spending at least $100 each trip, documenting other expensive purchases, and then she let it slip that they had a Disney fund set up. When questioned as to how they had a vacation find when they were "trying to keep the lights on," she became bratty and petulant. Her dad came on to defend her, and he was quite rude, as well. Both she and her dad were insistent that she really didn't receive much from the Peas, which was shitty in addition to ungrateful. Lizz said something to the effect of the fund "only" having about $1,000 in it, and claimed it was loose change they'd saved during the previous year. And that it was so small an amount compared to her medical bills (She was on Medi-caid at the time) that they figured "why bother"? Her attitude was awful. Many of the Peas who donated felt hurt by this, and by the fact that Lizz had never even bothered to thank them. Lizz provided a "sorry/not sorry," hairflipped out and then scrubbed all mention of these issues on her blog. Shortly after the donations rolled in, she posted on her blog about paying off a vehicle and then another Pea mentioned that she was asking about purchasing a scrapbook store. I stopped donating to strangers because of this. It's one story my spreadsheet will never forget 😂 That is just really screwed up and sad  for all those peas who helped her out |
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Post by OntarioScrapper on Jul 3, 2017 19:00:09 GMT
Anyone who thinks $1000 is "loose change" doesn't need money donated.  |
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Jul 3, 2017 19:19:32 GMT
This is why when I donate, if it's not to someone I know, I apply the same idea to this as loaning money or gambling. I don't loan out or gamble with money I can't afford to lose. I gave $5 or $10 to the fund set up for Amanda's family after she passed and while it would be sad if I were to have found out that wasn't real, I was vested enough to feel good about contributing but not so much that I would have felt betrayed or anything if it ended up being a situation where someone tried to take advantage of people's sympathy.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Jul 3, 2017 23:47:32 GMT
There was another scam on the nsbr board to. I think it was someone named ladystars or something like that. There are way too many trying to get something for nothing. It's sad because now when I hear s sob story I assume it's a scam unless I know them personally and know the facts.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 4, 2017 0:08:56 GMT
I understand what is meant when someone thinks a scam is when everything is made up, but for me it becomes a scam when the original information becomes untrue. When someone is posting their utilities are going to be turned off, and then they have enough money to go to Disney and continue to collect money or fail to say, "hold up, folks, you've been too generous. I've got my utilities on and so I'm going to give this extra money to xyz charity." That never happens, but for me, that is when it becomes a scam. Don't keep your poor pitiful poverty story up for donations when you have things under control.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jul 4, 2017 1:23:43 GMT
I remember there was a ladystars "scam".
I don't recall all the details, but I do remember, that she claimed to find a a rolling scrapbook tote full of all the latest and greatest scrapbook supplies in some odd location, like the woods...in the middle of nowhere or in some old abandoned house, or something like that. I think she claimed it was a miracle.
I think there was some sort of diamond ring involved?? Or perhaps, that was someone else?
Does anyone remember what exactly happened, with ladystars? It's been so long ago, I can't recall the whole story.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 4, 2017 2:31:10 GMT
I don't recall the ladystars saga in any detail, but I do recall that someone had their entire rolling tote full of supplies stolen from their car I think at a CK Convention. Or maybe she had it on the curb to load in her car and it was stolen. Again, I forget the details but I know it happened.
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 4, 2017 3:21:55 GMT
I was so sad when the truth came out on this. I enjoyed her posts and seeing her layouts. If I remember right, when questioned, she said she was doing this for her son because of all the medical issues she had been through. They needed a family vacation. EXCEPT she had said she didn't know how they would keep the lights on AND her son was under the age of three. A trip to Chucky Cheese would have made him ecstatic, an indoor trampoline park; you don't need Disneyland to make a toddler happy.
I think she mentioned it would be a wonderful memory for everyone; he won't remember.
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Post by houston249 on Jul 4, 2017 3:37:40 GMT
Ladystars... She did spell Thursday, Thrusday. The mispelling was a ladystar trademark. Not by her design, she just always spelled it wrong. The following is hazy. If I recall right she had a group of friends on the board, sort of an exclusive thing with pet names on the board. She needed money to provide Christmas for her kids and everyone chipped in to help. She was outed when another pea caught ladystar and her husband bragging on another message board about how they scammed the peas into providing Christmas for their family.
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Post by andreasmom on Jul 4, 2017 5:08:10 GMT
I think the ring was after she claimed her/ her friend's garage door/car had issues and she wqs responsible for it?
Can't remember her pea name.
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Post by Elsabelle on Jul 4, 2017 5:39:31 GMT
I joined Two Peas the day Lady Stars imploded. It was crazy.
The pea with the ring...was that Punch Drunk Pea? I'm not sure but that name rings a bell with me.
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Post by cycworker on Jul 4, 2017 16:46:41 GMT
I remember Libis. I always had mixed feelings about that situation. Part of me understands why she did need that Disney trip. Life's short. Transplants fail. I'm not saying she handled if perfectly. I just also have some empathy for her.
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Post by inkedup on Jul 4, 2017 19:51:09 GMT
This is why when I donate, if it's not to someone I know, I apply the same idea to this as loaning money or gambling. I don't loan out or gamble with money I can't afford to lose. I gave $5 or $10 to the fund set up for Amanda's family after she passed and while it would be sad if I were to have found out that wasn't real, I was vested enough to feel good about contributing but not so much that I would have felt betrayed or anything if it ended up being a situation where someone tried to take advantage of people's sympathy. I never donate money I don't have. Doesn't make the entire situation less shitty, IMO. |
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Jul 4, 2017 22:52:03 GMT
This is why when I donate, if it's not to someone I know, I apply the same idea to this as loaning money or gambling. I don't loan out or gamble with money I can't afford to lose. I gave $5 or $10 to the fund set up for Amanda's family after she passed and while it would be sad if I were to have found out that wasn't real, I was vested enough to feel good about contributing but not so much that I would have felt betrayed or anything if it ended up being a situation where someone tried to take advantage of people's sympathy. I never donate money I don't have. Doesn't make the entire situation less shitty, IMO. Not everyone is like that, though. I've seen too many people put themselves in a bind loaning money to people that they couldn't afford to lose and then get upset when the person never paid them back only to do it again for another person with the same result. It definitely doesn't take away from feeling taken advantage of for being lied to, but at least practically speaking, you are only upset over having your good heart taken advantage of rather than adding insult to injury by struggling to help only to see the person you helped living it up. |
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Jul 7, 2017 13:18:52 GMT
I don't remember that scam but I remember a few others on YT.
In one a lady apparently scammed people on YT and then faked her death. I remember at the time she was quite a popular you tuber and ppl were upset she "died". The hubby put up a yt vid at the time not a face to face one just words on a screen and I remember thinking hmm this seems like bs. The last thing a hubby would do is inform yt followers of a spouse's death. Turns out she faked her death and someone called her out on it on yt. She apparently rose from the dead and resurfaced on yt with a new name lol.
Another scam on yt involved a young child dying and someone had set up a thing where scrappers sent in mini album pages and this you tuber was going to present the pages in an album to the parents. I remember popular scrappy peeps on yt doing vids showing their pages and crying. Apparently the person made it all up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2017 13:41:27 GMT
I don't remember that scam but I remember a few others on YT. In one a lady apparently scammed people on YT and then faked her death. I remember at the time she was quite a popular you tuber and ppl were upset she "died". The hubby put up a yt vid at the time not a face to face one just words on a screen and I remember thinking hmm this seems like bs. The last thing a hubby would do is inform yt followers of a spouse's death. Turns out she faked her death and someone called her out on it on yt. She apparently rose from the dead and resurfaced on yt with a new name lol. Another scam on yt involved a young child dying and someone had set up a thing where scrappers sent in mini album pages and this you tuber was going to present the pages in an album to the parents. I remember popular scrappy peeps on yt doing vids showing their pages and crying. Apparently the person made it all up. There are some really sick people in this world. |
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for all those peas who helped her out
