I just had exactly this happen when I said I was looking for interline rods. A person gkgstorageinc said to contact
[email protected]. " I haven't seen him on here for couple of days. You can reach him via email-
[email protected] ,he has a few of them, plus he's a dealer...straight up Great Guy!!" I had taken the bait, and was making a run, deep under the boat. He asked for a shipping address, which I sent. He quoted $65 a rod, including shipping by UPS. That was the first red flag: UPS does not ship to a PO Box, and is prohibitive to ship where I live. I asked how to pay, and Micropedes45 said he accepted Venmo. When I went to the Venmo payment, it was a woman's Venmo.... "my wife's account" he replied. Ok, I thought. I entered the dollar amount into Venmo for the rods, and when Venmo asked me for the phone number for confirmation, I asked for Micropedes45 for the phone number. He said his wife had never heard of such a thing, and sent me a photo where I could click on "skip confiirmation" - which is located on the Venmo scree below the phone number confirmation request (which, remember, he said he'd never heard of). I said sorry, can't send money without the confirmation, and he said ok, thanks, and that was that.