So u/Confident-Ganache-83 shared their story over on r/Scams about an online jewelry store called Whyms Awe. They placed an order on October 3 for over $400 through Affirm's installment plan. The site promised shipping within 1–3 days and delivery in 6–9, and claimed the business was based in Texas — zero hints about any international shipping.

A week goes by — total silence. The buyer tried asking for a status update, then tried to cancel, but the seller just wouldn't respond. So they opened a dispute with Affirm, attaching screenshots of all the attempts to reach the store. And here's the kicker: only after the dispute was opened did a 17TRACK number suddenly pop up in the order. The tracking status showed the recipient's city and a "delivered, signed" mark, but no exact delivery address. The OP said they were literally sitting at home by the window during the supposed delivery window, and their Ring doorbell camera — which caught motion before and after that hour — never recorded any courier stopping by. Didn't matter: Affirm denied the dispute anyway, citing the seller's "proof of delivery".

Some important details came up in the comments. humangurl_ reported the exact same thing: she ordered a $200 necklace, the tracking said delivered, but the package never actually showed up — so she had to dispute the charge with her bank instead. And when someone chimed in that this might just be a bad business, seedless0 dug into the site's history and pointed out that the store most likely never existed at all: Wayback Machine snapshots show the domain used to host some random Chinese placeholder site, the address listed on the current page points to a regular residential house, and the domain itself was probably hijacked quite recently.

The technical details back up those suspicions: the whymsg.com domain is handled by registrar Gname.com Pte. Ltd. with Chinese DNS servers, and archived copies confirm there was Chinese-language content on it before the ownership change. It's a textbook fake delivery tracking setup — sellers feed fake or borrowed tracking numbers to aggregators and payment systems to formally close out disputes.