Thanks for the advise. I am used to ordering from legit companies from north america. As for alibaba accepting bitcoin, no they don't. However on this companies website they say that they do accept bitcoin. which is why i decided to contact them via skype. In hind site i was a complete fool. I am more than sure that this company is working with the scammers , if not they would remove the skype contact information from alibaba. I have reported it to alibaba. I don't think there is anything else i can do. i know the police are absolutely useless with these cases especially since i paid in bitcoin. I'll learn from this and move on. really crappy they do this just before christmas. I hope karma comes to them.