But one woman doesn't have to worry about tracking her vehicle since she never received it in the first place! Sheree Mae Flowers believes she has been scammed by a car dealer. She told us today that back in June, she gave him $15,500 to bring in a 2015 Chevy Equinox from the US. She has tried to be patient but four months later she feels that she was conned out of her cash - money that she had borrowed from the credit union and still has to pay back. She called us because she says that even if she isn't reimbursed, she wants to make sure that this car dealer doesn't hurt anyone else. Courtney Menzies has this story.

Any consumer's biggest fear when shopping online is being scammed. And for one woman, the nightmare has become reality.

Sheree Mae Flowers desperately needed a car because transporting her sick relative to the hospital every month had resulted in hefty ambulance bills. So she entrusted a car dealer, Byron Arnold, to deliver a 2015 Chevy Equinox from the US for her.

That was in June. It's now October and all Flowers says all she's gotten is excuses.

Sheree Mae Flowers, Victim of Alleged Scammer

"He told me first thing, give him $2,000, that's the first thing I gave him, he told me he ordered the vehicle and he buy it off Copart. And then I told him okay fine, how will you do it? He said pay me and then I will bring it and you give me the rest of the money and I'll need the bigger money to bring it in and pay the duty and then whatever parts, and he said once he done buy my parts, whatever left is his interest. I said okay no problem."

"Then like a week later he came and said he need the $10,000 and I went to credit union and I draw the $10,000. Then from then, like a week later he said the vehicle was on its way. So I wait and I wait, then another week later he said the man that was bringing the vehicle got into some trouble and he can't come and he get trapped at Texas, he can't reach in."

"Then when the vehicle did reach, he was to show me a picture of the vehicle, as you see the contract says a black Equinox, but he didn't show me a picture, just the one he sent me from off the lot. Then the vehicle reach in, he said he need the next- first thing I gave him was $1,000, then after $2,500 and that complete the $15,500 because I have all the receipts. Then he came and said he caught COVID."

And it doesn't end there. The 2015 black Chevy Equinox that's stated on the contract turned into a 2014 white Equinox after Arnold allegedly told Flowers that the transmission on the original vehicle was broken. And while Flowers might have even settled with that, she still hasn't got her ride.

Sheree Mae Flowers, Victim of Alleged Scammer
"He told me until finally he said Ms Flowers I get a vehicle for you but it's at customs but I have no money to take it out so if you could please, like he wants to ask me for more money, I told him I'm not giving you more money because you're already scamming me. If you get my vehicle, you said you could get a vehicle for me for that, I could have looked around at Belize and buy my vehicle for $16,000 and I would know what I would be getting than right now have no vehicle, no money and a loan to pay back and I have a sick [relative] that I have to take care of, no work, I still have to pay this loan and I'm paying back."

And after all of this, Flowers found out that she's not the only person who claims to have been scammed. But while she isn't in a position to give up on almost $16,000, she says she came to the media to warn others not to make the same mistake she did.

Sheree Mae Flowers, Victim of Alleged Scammer
"And if somebody came out and said this, it wouldn't have happened to me, so I come out and say it so it doesn't happen to anyone else because it really hurt when somebody takes your hard earned money and you have to pay it back and they just go with it."

"I nearly think I won't get anything back but if I could stop somebody from feel what I gone through, I don't sleep at night, I have to worry what I will do now, then I could help somebody to not go through that pain, that's a little reward for me."

We reached out to Byron Arnold, who spoke to us at length - and flatly denies that he defrauded Flowers.

He said the vehicle is in country and has been at customs since the end of June.

And he told us a whole lot more in his defence - but insisted that he did not want to go on record when we requested a comment or an interview.