Complaint Review: Christine Stewart

I read this article about Christine Stewart and thanked my stars that I didn't take her check!!!!! She responded to my ad for my tennis bracelet (worth $7500) I was only asking $2200. She wanted to come to our house and look at it. We had been warned to meet at a neutral area. We met her at Arby's in Hixson. She was driving a black Volvo and came with a rather thin guy. We didn't know if this was her husband or son. She said she was from East Ridge.

They started telling us a story of how she lost her bracelet. It was insured and they had just received the insurance check for $4,000. She was excited that if she bought our bracelet, she would still have some money left. She tried the bracelet on and handed us a check. We said no. We would meet at her bank on Tuesday, since today was Sunday and tomorrow the banks would be closed because of Labor Day.

She said she worked at Memorial Hospital in Unit 1 and would get us the cash by cashing her check at work and we could meet her Tuesday at the hospital with the bracelet. Well, we took her telephone number (which turned out to be bogus) and she never called. When I called the number that I saw in your article, her mother answered and said that she didn't have a telephone, but she would give her the message.

The bad thing is she said "please, please don't sell it to anyone else." So we turned down other calls because it was already sold. Why would she do that knowing she wouldn't get the bracelet?

Cathy
Hixson, Tennessee
U.S.A.