If you're gonna buy fakes at least buy them from the sites that charge like $75 shipped for a bred IV. That way you don't have to e-mail stalk people down in Hong Kong or China when you get ripped off. Paying a huge mark up for potential garbage is not worth it IMO. The only exception should...
Got the tracking # e-mail this morning, but the actual tracking number is from a 2011 delivery (already delivered). Never seen that before, do they usually figure it out and send a corrected number? Weird.
It sounds like you did everything right, and you still got scammed. How can Paypal allow this to happen? I noticed in the post you didn't send signature confirmation, but it doesn't look like that would have mattered. It looks like sellers have zero protection against a scam artist.
If you don't mind answering
1. How much $$ do you estimate you spend per month (on average) for new kicks?
2. Do you usually buy from one or two primary sites, or do buy from all over?
3. Where the heck do you store them all? I run out of space in closets etc...
4. Do you try and wait...