A Sherry Tenney and WAFA warning update
If you are unaware of who Sherry Tenney is, I have pinned a post here. But, in short, Sherry Tenney is a scam artist in the fiber arts community that takes money and almost never ships out product. What little she does ship out is covered in feces and infested with various forms of vermin, including moths and ants. Her, and several accomplices, also target and damage and destroy small fiber sellers online. She is also extremely aggressive and has threatened to both shoot and sue people, and brags about the guns she has. She is under investigation from the Pennsylvania Attorney General. She has stolen, to date, $15,000+ USD from customers. This is not counting the amount of money she has stolen from suppliers.
Lawsuit update: to the surprise of no one, no, I have still not been served any papers even though she has threatened to sue me personally. I guess that’s what happens when you ask a chicken to do everything for you. Shit just doesn’t get done.
Sherry Tenney, currently known as Sherry Tennay, has renamed her main FaceBook sellers group from ‘Tenneys Fibers and raw wool buyers group’ to ‘Wool and Fiber artists supplies buyers group and silks too’. She has done this in an attempt to draw in new victims that may mistake her group for the WAFA group on FaceBook. WAFA stands for ‘Wool and Fiber Artists’.
Unfortunately it’s a little more underhanded than that. One of the main parts of Sherry’s scheme over the years has been to purposefully destroy other small fiber sellers. What she, and multiple accomplices, will do is infiltrate a group on FaceBook, message buyers there telling them Sherry will sell better for much cheaper, and then continuously report the group until it is removed from FaceBook. Sellers have reported 60%+ losses from Sherry’s actions, with some going out of business as well.
Sherry is not only now targeting WAFA and WAFA members, at least one WAFA admin is one of Sherry’s accomplices and is working from the inside to help destroy WAFA and financially harm sellers that use WAFA. WAFA is a compromised group that is being targeted the same way Sherry destroyed other groups.
If you use WAFA, or know anyone that does, please pass on this warning. Any seller that they see or are approached by should be researched by looking them up on the Fiber Transaction Board. The FTB has banned Sherry, and all of her socks and accomplices, from the FTB after several incidents she caused. Sherry has enough red flags to her name on the FTB to put a communist march in China to shame.
So, as always, please be careful who you buy fiber from online. Unfortunately there are scam artists out there that only aim to harm the fiber arts community. And, of course, please avoid any physical contact with Sherry. She is to be considered armed and dangerous at all times. She is currently threatening to attend Rhinebeck Wool Festival. If you see her at the festival avoid her at all costs, just turn and walk away. She is dangerous, do not confront her.
