Complaint Review: James Crumwel Of Madison Wellesley Associates

I was contacted many times over the last 3 years by James Crumwel to sell me rare stamps. I was to hold these stamps for an auction coming up in the near future. He stated his company would always guarantee the purchase price of the stamps & when they were sold they would take a 10% fee of the sales price.
I have been putting these stamps in my safety deposit box to save for a rainy day or my retirement. I will say every time he called me he asked me if I had the stamps in a safe place & not to handle them without gloves which I assured him I did!
Well it is raining out & when I tried calling James I get a voice mail just saying to leave a message. I started checking on my stamps & the 1st stamp (Babe Ruth 1983) I checked on that he told me these were the only 2 in existence are actually worth about $1 each.
I started checking on my inverted Elvis Presley sets that I was told there were on 12 sets in existence. I saw them on e-bay for just under $300 for 2 stamps which there are 8 stamps to a set.
The other stamps I have I cannot even find any info about them. They sure look rare & authentic!
I have spent 17K to 20K and I would certainly love to get a piece of these creeps.
I consider myself a pretty savvy business man & I was totally trusting of them. I got to say they were smooth.
The payments made to them show up on my credit card as Collectibles & IP-ISS Collectibles from Houston Texas.
I wish I would have checked them out. I am still going to file something with my credit cards but I know my time is past getting any money back.
I think this guy also worked with Alexander Coral from Hampton Collectibles 780 Worthshire Street, Houston, Texas 77008 Phone (disconnected)888-509-7454 ---Fax 866-837-8508


Dave
Sarasota, Florida
U.S.A.