There seem to be a number of companies that I have read on these threads that have eventually given money owed back to clients.
That's a great observation! The very thing that I thought I had come across as well..
Why i can be sure? Your transactions were through bank transfers. On these threads, I came across suppositions that it is normally "more workable" if the deposits were vide DC or CC(debit or credit). For then you could do the so called CHARGEBACK(?!). Mine were all that...
So I took my case initially to MasterCard. They candidly 'shooed' me to the issuing banks. Filed a case with the two different establishments.
Tossed about; then simply dismissed! 'Take it up with the scam company; legally, or otherwise!
With bitterness, I went back with vengeance to MasterCard! How can the banks, whom you have referred me to, refuse to file for my chargeback afresh??
I had a full ONE HR plus debate with them (MC), along the very observations you refer. Companies that have paid back the monies. I think you don't want to know how that conversation ended... That was four days ago.... After ONE FULL YEAR of counter arguments...
I had followed the whole process; invited the scammer to comment on my thread. Zilch! Totally ignored!
Now, that is a situation where I had a very very 'dim' glimmer... opportunity of a chargeback(or at least an imagined one!)
Try and imagine your case now, where bank transfers are involved... On these threads, you will come across submissions that those are 'tougher' to tag.
Hence, my honest offer of 'locus standi' ...
Again, forgive me for being a doomsday prophet. But good luck all the same.
You might come across something that I was not as lucky to...
I rumble such because of feeling for your folks. Who for some uncanny reason knowing you as such, I kind of feel being somewhere around my age bracket.
I lost everything!