Homeland Bulldog

Victim Location 34990

Total money lost $850

Type of a scam Online Purchase

We contacted homeland Bulldogs the other website and email address to purchase a French bulldog puppy that they had listed on their site.

Within a few hours they contacted us back via email in regards to the purchase of the puppy. They let us know the puppy was still available and how much he was available for and they even said that that wasn’t the normal price of the puppy however they had new litters coming in and needed to make room for them that’s why they were offering him for $600 plus a $250 shipping fee. I spoke to Brian in person after he text me with his phone number to contact him we discussed payment option which was a Walmart to Walmart transfer or an Amazon gift card purchase . He sent us several pictures of the puppy and what he claim to be the mother of the puppy and the father of the puppy . After we agreed to do a Walmart to Walmart transfer of $150 the next morning he set up the registration of the puppy claiming he put the puppy in our name and set him up for shipment to our location . By mid afternoon a transportation company contacted us with a tracking of the puppy giving us details of his arrival And his transportation schedule. several hours later we were contacted letting us know that the puppy was being held up in Alabama because the crate he was being shipped in was not sufficient enough and that additional insurance and a purchase of a different crate was required and we would be refunded the full amount of these purchases by the time the puppy was delivered to us . We refuse to make the payment of the additional almost $1500 . We said that it is the sender’s responsibility to ensure the transportation of the puppy and we already paid the $250 shipping fee . we went back-and-forth with the transportation company and the sender who gave us bogus information for several hours into the night . Afterwords they said that they would be leaving the puppy behind the location because they could not hold the flight up. The sender said he paid $500 extra and that we should come up with the rest . We refuse to do so because we felt we were being scammed. After repeated text messages because they refuse to talk on the phone with us they finally stopped communicating and we haven’t heard from them cents and we have no communications that we will be receiving our puppy. Now we are out $850 heartbroken that we will not be taking in the puppy we were promised. We were cheated lied and deceived. Who knows how many people they have scammed but they must be stopped !