Scams?

We had a couple show up at our club with an email indicating the husband
had bought a glider ride through an online company devoted to thrill
event sales. The email indicated they had contacted our club, talked
with our president, and made an appointment for a flight at 1:00pm. No
such contact had been made, we did not recognize the name of the
company, and we called the whole endeavor into question.

The husband called that company, which wanted to pay us via their
company credit card. We don't take credit cards and we refused to talk
to the company. They then told the husband that they would refund his
payment and we suggested he refuse payment of that fee when billed by
his card company. He was happy with that when we told him that our
charge would be $99 instead of the $175 he had authorized on his card.

Apparently there are at least two companies and maybe more making these
third-party sales on line. I have heard that at least one of them is a
scam and I would be reluctant to accept any such arrangement unless it
were made through SSA.