LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Do you have a Stanley drinking cup or two? They were the hot gift over the holiday season.
Consumer reporter John Matarese has a warning about scams popping up everywhere.
Just when it seemed the craze over Stanley drinking cups was starting to slow, prices continue to rise on eBay. Now a woman has been arrested for stealing dozens of the coveted cups.
Police in Roseville, California arrested a woman for stealing 65 of the cups from a store worth about $2,500.
Thanks to TikTok and Instagram, demand for the insulated cups shows no sign of slowing.
Long lines, limited editions and a frenzy online are evidence of the collectible cup craze.
But with so much hype, you need to watch out for fakes and scams.
Amy Wiebell is among a growing number of scam victims.
"I had come across the ad on Facebook," she said.
It appeared to be an ad from Dick's Sporting Goods, which showed Stanley cups on sale for less than half price.
"They were advertising the 40-ounce Stanley tumbler for $19 apiece," Wiebell said.
She couldn't believe her luck and ordered five of them. "I felt like Oprah! I was like you're getting a Stanley cup, you're getting a Stanley cup. I even got one for myself!"
But it was all a scam. The ad was not from Dick's Sporting Goods at all. Her debit card was hit for almost $100.
It was a copycat ad scam similar to ones that tricked thousand of people last year to fake closing sales at Bed, Bath & Beyond and Bye, Bye Baby.
Last year, Sydney Joyave told me the scammers got her.
"They had amazing deals going on, for going out of business," she said.
"I was fooled all the way through, I put my credit card information in. It wasn't until my bank called and reported a fraud and didn't accept the charge that I knew something was amiss," Joyave explained.
The Better Business Bureau has been flooded with complaints the past few years about fake ads on social media that often copy a real store website with current details.
Wiebell and her friend Candace Cecil are going to look at any discount ad much closer now and will only pay for a credit card -- never debit.
"We work hard for out money, and for some people that may have been their last little bit of money," Cecil said.
So if that Stanley cup deal is so much better than you've seen it anywhere else, be suspicious.
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