Complaint Review: Brant Holloway - R&B Studio Design

A guy pulls up to me and my coworkers as we are walking in to a restaraunt for lunch. He says he is looking for directions to a town located a couple hundred miles away. After we show him his route on his map, he starts talking about how he is in town delivering home theater systems to one of the high-end home builders here, but one of the contractors backed out, and stuck him with 2 surround sound systems that retail for approx $5000.00. He said if he could find some one to pay the taxes on the equipment ($429.11), he would unload them and write the equipment off as a "damaged loss", even though they weren't damaged. He even went so far as to say there was a digital projector with it too.

Having researched the cost of the projectors alone, I figured it was the deal of the year. He showed a magazine article listing the hardware with a m.s.r.p. of $4799.00. I told him i was interested, but didn't have any cash on me, and i wanted to think about it a bit more. He gave me his cell phone number and a card with his name (Brant Holloway) and the name of his company (R&B Studio Design) and told me he had a plane to catch in a couple hours, so if I wanted the system to call him back a.s.a.p..

One of my coworkers remebered the name of the equipment manufacturer, so we looked it up on the internet when we got back to work (http://www.genesismedialabs.com/hometheater608.html), and of course everything looked legit. So I called the guy back and told him I wanted one, and asked him where i could meet him. He told me to bring a cashiers check for $432.11, and meet him at a 7-eleven store. The equipment was brand new in the factory box, never been opened. When I got it home and opened it all up, I realized that there was no projector unit anywhere in the box, and the speakers weren't wireless like he said either.

So I got suspicious (a little too late of course), and started digging more into the system on the internet. I found numerous web sites listing post after post about people all over the U.S. and Canada getting scammed in the same manner, and complaining about the quality of the equipment. This is fraud at its worst, and I sure would like to see these punks get what they deserve.

John
West Valley City, Utah
U.S.A.

*EDitor's Comment: Rip-off Report confirms contact info, salesman misrepresentation ripoff