And in a bound, a pair of Bernie's Mittens are free if you buy two pair - and on sale! Go to the Jen Ellis website HERE. It is jenellis.co rather than .comOh oh...Right away this doesn't look right.
If she's having a Vermont Teddy Bear company making the mittens, then "Fully Authentic Made by Jen Ellis" would be incorrect. vermontteddybear.com is going to be the maker.
So it isn't actually Jen Ellis - it is nasmas.com and also appears as Tysica on some pages. This is "The Home of Plush Toys" with a mailing address listed as Express Lane, Casper, Wyoming. No such street shows up on the google map - not the company, the address - nothing.
Reddit was on to this scam before February with this post HEREon Fake Bernie Sanders mittens scammers. Scroll down through the post and it is full of demented postings - I've warned you...
So I get my accelerated education on scamming: I hadn't realized how many scammers there are in online shopping. An Australian government website at https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams/buying-or-selling/online-shopping-scams. explains this. One can find out the top 10 Canadian Scams, or look at the Little Black Book of Scams which lists all the varieties out there.
I reformulated the search and found vtdigger.org i-dentifying the scam sites of Bernie Sanders mittens. Here's the article on the scams HERE. There just seem to be so many.
I am amazed at where the trail leads some days. All I wanted was an update on the total $ raised for charity and I find out that according to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, fake cottage rentals, puppy sales, online loan fraud and a host of other scams have cost Canadians at least $37,447,790 by October 2020.
A project I am working on right now is an explanation of the criteria for judging front yard gardens. People have asked for comparisons of excellent gardens and lesser ones. But whose gardens can you use for the "poor" gardens? That is a delicate and difficult area.
So I'm looking through Buffalo Garden Walk front yards to get the comparison images. It is always fun to find the outstanding examples - like this one - a wonderful focal point on a Summer district cottage front door. It is beautifully framed by symmetrical pots of red coleus plants, matching the red flowers in the basket on the door.
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