Complaint Review: A Bishop Farm

We here at A Bishop Farm would like to point out that the ripoff report titled "A Bishop Farm No Sellers Permit Bouncing Checks Milwaukee Wisconsin" was written by a disgruntled former employee. This person has posted on different forums, always with a different story, and always with the same screen name. We here at A Bishop Farm do in fact have a restraining order against this individual, but laws regarding internet harassment are tricky and ripoff report finds that it is in the consumers best interest to have all the information, good or bad, before hiring any company. We agree and hope that as smart consumers you understand that sometimes these reports are not in fact valid. A Bishop Farm invites anyone to view our many rave reviews on City Search, Yellowbot, ect. or better yet, give us a call at 414-264-1029 and we would be more than happy to answer any questions or concerns you may have.

Thank you, and have a lovely day.

A Bishop Farm
www.abishopfarm.com
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414-264-1029
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I informed Mr. Bishop that I could not continue to have my payroll checks bounce as this was happening on almost every payroll period. I could not afford the fees or the time it would take for me playing roulette every day at the bank to see if there was money available for us to cash checks. Mr. Bishop had bounced so many checks throughout Milwaukee that I could not even take one of his checks to any check cashing place in the city.
This was not the only reason I decided to quit A Bishop Farm though. Several instances came to my attention first being Mr. Bishop was operating on a suspended Sellers permit and a suspended Dwelling Permit. The state would not renew these licenses due to him owing the state 26,000.00 in unpaid state taxes and the federal government 130,000.00 dollars.
Mr. Bishop tried to force me to go to the state offices and put the permits in my name, which I refused to do. The state indicated he was unable to attend the State Fair as a display seller due to his permits being expired.
He then on Aug 12th 08 made me deliver materials to set up at the Kenosha County Fair where he knew the state would not be monitoring his permits. This was the last thing that I did for Mr. Bishop was to deliver his goods to the fair. I was not going to continue to participate with a company that was operating illegally. He was also having me contact customers, set up appointments with them and then he would take their money and spend it on such things as booze, hookers, cars, and old debts with friends. He was also wiring money afar to Mexico and Florida via Western Union to girls he would meet on the internet asking him for money while the customers that he had taken money from would be calling into the office asking when their jobs would be starting.
I would not have any answer for them and all Mr. Bishop would have us do is lie to them and put them off for weeks at a time while he would continue to go out and take more money from customers. Some Customers would have to wait for months at a time; meanwhile they would be calling the office complaining to me wanting refunds. The bank accounts were so in the negative Mr. Bishop could never return the money he had taken from them.
At one point a woman named Sylvia Striedzel purchased a Jacuzzi tub and Mr. Bishop sold her a different tub than the one she thought she ordered. The tub made by Kohler did not have a heating system. He then hired a electrician to put a unauthorized heating unit into the tub which her tub was not rated for. Thus pocketing the thousands he made off her.
I contacted Kohler for advice on the heating unit and they told me that it would void her warranty and should not be attempted as that particular model was not rated for a heating system. Mr. Bishop had the heating element and power system installed into the Jacuzzi tub by a unauthorized tech anyway and failed to inform her of the possible danger and that her warranty with Kohler would be revoked.
He told me she was a stupid elderly woman and I should not have called Kohler. He insisted the elderly woman and would not have known any better. Another point he took 400 dollars from a customer and waited 2 months to give him his tree, he was avoiding the installation of the tree because he didn't want to pay the 100 dollars for the tree so he had me spend weeks to find it cheaper which I couldn't. When he realized the specific tree was over $150.00 he simply made the man wait.
There were many instances like this where Mr. Bishop would cut corners or find ways to cheat customers without them realizing what he was doing. I decided with clear conscious I could not continue to work for A Bishop Farm Inc.
Mr. Bishop continues to this day to take money from people and commit fraud which I can not sanction to be apart of as a employee. When I spoke with the IRS to try to help make payment arrangements with the taxes as Mr. Bishop instructed me to do, Prescilla at the IRS indicated to me that she was very close to seizing all assets and closing the company down. She even went as far as to ask me if he was on drugs which I believe he was.
I came into the office on August 13th and took my computer which I've owned for 3 years, dropped the company key off to Shay Grolich, informed her I was quitting and left.
Mr. Bishop agreed to pay me for 400.00 for the Air Conditioner, and network work I did setting up his internal computer network at the office for him and for my office chair that I left at the office. He initiated a PayPal transfer of the funds to me on the 23rd, then called PayPal and reversed the charges so he could show the transaction history to Unemployment.
He's a very savvy deceitful individual; he will lie directly to your face and walk away with a clear conscious. Mr. Bishop has harassed me and posted nasty lies about me on the internet threatening to tarnish my name but honestly I don't want anything to do with him ever again.
I never entered A Bishop Farm after I left my key on the 13th of August and took my personal property, my computer and my printer; which I have owned since Sept 05. The police also indicated that it was very odd Mr. Bishop waited 2 weeks to call the police to accuse me of entering his property without a key; they suspected he was attempting to fraud his insurance company. Mr. Bishop is quite upset that I listed this letters information in RipoffReport.com and scam.com.
I did see that there was a hearing on the 17th of September. I honestly have no desire to speak to Mr. Bishop and will not be attending, if you decide to give Mr. Bishop his restraining order that would be fine with me, however his only reason for him doing what he's doing is because of his negative feedback on the internet.
Mr. Bishop continues to post harassing statements about me on the internet with images of me in hopes he can provoke me to remove the rip-off reports which will not be possible, it is a permanent record.

Todd Themer is restrained under order 08CV012360 from making allegations about A Bishop Farm. Mr. Themer has a history of making abusive comments about former employers and I would appreciate if this is taken down.

Anyone who has had a problem with A Bishop Farm should contact us at 414-264-1029.