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I approached the website to potentially purchase a kitten. The cat was listed at $600 which seemed low compared to other similar cats from reputable breeders. They quickly emailed me back and we went back-and-forth while I asked questions and they answered them once we got to the point where I felt OK with telling them we would take the cat they requested full payment upfront for $900, which would have included transport of the cat from their location of “San Diego” to our home in Ventura County. Despite the short distance, the price of the transport didn’t change from what they listed as interstate delivery fees, which I thought was also very strange. Because they wanted the entirety of the payment upfront and that delivery fee didn’t change for short range deliveries I became suspicious and I reverse image searched every single image associated with their “customer reviews.” The result of my search found the same images they had used for their customer reviews were associated with other social media profiles in people’s names that did not match the names they had associated with the review. One of the reviews even had a photo of Taylor Swift, which was the tipping points for me in terms of suspicion