Complaint Review: Target Corporation

 I found a bargain price on a new Schwinn bike on target.com and placed an order. Payment was made by Paypal but I did not receive a confirmation of the order from the supplier, only confirmation of payment by Paypal to a Chinese company only identified by Chinese characters, no alphabetic name. After 5 days I asked Paypal to withhold payment but did not receive a response. After another 7 days I received a small package from BFE Corporation with tracking number containing a 50 cent whistle.

I sent a photo of the package and contents to Paypal as well as a certificate of return of the whistle to BFE and asked paypal for a refund. After 6 email exchanges, Paypal has not cooperated.  I also contacted Target by phone and by email to two different departments. Target is not willing to help and continues to list third party ads on target.com that are clearly fraudulent. Target is complicit in this scam.

I advised Target on June 11, 2020 of the scam on target.com but as of June 22, 2020 they are still listing cheap Schwinn bike ads using a variety of names including  Eho Lin, Street Wear, Best Bike, Degatus, Barthin, Bestboro, Crossnary, Spaceit, Better-of, Beineshop, blackdoo, ojcommerce, ceneza, goodee, threduo, Fullbeauty, Stadium Allstar, Buya.com, Favourhut, Sasneaklab,favourhut, Boours, Breakaway. The names on the ads change daily but it is clear to me that it is the same company.

The heading above the listings states “Sponsored Ads”. That implies to me that Target still supports the ads even though I advised them on June 11, 2020 that the ads were coming from a criminal enterprise.