So I recently placed an order about 9 days ago with a vendor shipping from the EU to the US. The vendor required FE for shipments out of the EU which I was alright with because he had good reviews and no one else is selling his product for anywhere near his prices. After ordering, I received a message from him saying that he was having trouble with his PGP and asked me to send my address through privnote. At first I told him that I didn't feel comfortable with that but eventually I caved and sent it. After not hearing anything for a couple days, I messaged him asking what the status was. After a couple more days I sent another message, to which I received a reply with a tracking number and was asked to FE. I entered the tracking number into the provided site and after translating it through google, the tracking page showed under the address, a 5 digit number (which I assume is supposed to be the zip) and United States. This is not the zip that I sent with my address. I sent a message asking about this and I was told not to fill in the zip code and to only enter the tracking number and that the address on the package was correct. I messaged again saying that this is what I did and asked again why it would say the wrong digits under the address. I have not heard back a day later. I just checked his recent review from the past week and while almost all of them were positive, one was negative stating that he was a selective scammer and that he received fake tracking info and that the order was never shipped. I'm hopeful that this is just some kind of misunderstanding especially because he is the only vendor selling the product in bulk at reasonable prices but I'm beginning to have serious doubts. Thankfully I still have not finalized yet.
Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated
I'd cancel if I were you, scammer or not he sounds like a shitty vendor.
Although, he sounds like a scammer.