Pie Crimes

Today is Thursday, but Jeanne was suspiciously quiet about a blog post this week. In all fairness, we’ve worked hard this week and while we endeavor to get her away from PJP a few days each week, it’s been impossible as busy as this week has played out. So, I’m here dropping by with two quick things:

If I ever suggest again that we are doing a pie tasting for 100 on a October Thursday, please drive to PJP Nifong and run me over.

And speaking of pie tasting, we had a call yesterday from a person who said they were planning to purchase a ticket from someone selling their pie tasting ticket on Facebook. She wanted to double check that the person actually had a ticket. And in fact, that person selling their ticket was not listed on our ticket holder list. Odd, right?

But by this morning, we had several other customers emailing that they had purchased tickets from people on Facebook and wanted to know what time they could pick up their pies. Except none of those sellers existed, had no tickets, and all had fake Facebook profiles. WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK?

Once we learned that legitimate customers had paid these scammers, we called the Columbia Police Department and asked for advice. They dispatched a detective, who became involved and was able to contact everyone impacted and work with their financial institutions to dispute the fraudulent charges.

We worked quickly to accommodate those people who bought false tickets because it isn’t fair they can’t do the tasting because some people are awful humans. We very much try to treat others as we would like to be treated and I can’t guess at how disappointing it would be to buy a fake ticket to a fun event, so we are happy that we could make it all work.

BUT SERIOUSLY.

Who in the world trolls Facebook to create a scam to a PIE TASTING? GAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.

But to the scammers, please know that karma for pie crimes is terrible. You heard it here first.