Mantis Auto Consignment and Sales MantisAuto Consignment and Sales Watch out - Craigslist Scam Nationwide - headquarters in Florida Internet
It's the standard craiglist scam..... here's my story... good deal on a boat, emailed them and didn't hear back for a few weeks. Then contact claiming email was sent to junk file, so please provide email address. Contact started, she stated that she was selling it through a warehouse company called Mantis Auto consignment and Sales... they offer free shipping, 7 day return guaruntee, she also said it was housed in Sacramento. All i had to do was wire transfer the $8500 and they would ship it. Too many red flags during the entire process, there was no way I was going to wire money without a product in hand. A couple of things to note: emailer actually used fairly good grammer and spelling, website looked very believable. After a couple of email exchanges, pressure was put on to register and buy... like I have many people interested, first one to register will get a great boat, I'm in the medical field, email address was a .school and so-on. I started researching scams and found this exact scam using other names, such as "Dimarco" and "Vinton"..... I'm writing this because reading others it looks like some folks lost a lot of money... beware... btw, I did not wire any money, zero loss... I did enjoy emailing them back though.. be careful out there..
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#5Author of original report
Fri, June 16, 2017
Steven/Steve/? Thanks to you replying, you proved to us all you're a scammer..... and thanks to Bill for providing the technical proof. I sleep very well at night and thanks to your well written reply, I'll sleep even better.
Bill
Springfield,Missouri,
USA
Mantis Auto Consignment and Sales Scam, No Legit Here
#5General Comment
Fri, June 16, 2017
Ok Stephen...Why are you so defensive since you're just a member. Of course you're not affiliated with the company right? Your foul language and lack of proper English quickly diminishes your credibility.
So you have been a member since 2012? Impressive considering the website was created on June 3rd. Oh wait sorry it was founded in London in 2009as stated on the website. Google must be mixed up when I run a publication formula into the URL. Not sure where they come up with 6/3/17. My bad.
This has to be legit right? I mean we got Christian England, the race car driver at the helm. Plus, the company is verified throught the Florida Department of State Division of Corporation. Just take a minute to enter the document number L12874128756533214 to verify. search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/ByDocumentNumber. Looks legit...
I was skeptical of you Stephen but the more research I do, the more legit the website must be. My bad. Can't believe all these people out there trying to tear down poor Mantis Auto...
Steve
Atlanta,Georgia,
USA
The author of the post above was paid to create a fake story about MantisAuto services. They are paid for other dealers to denigrate Mantis.
#5Consumer Comment
Fri, June 16, 2017
How comes that Mantis Auto is a 5 start company since 2009 and now sundely, appear a few perons and all are filling out negative feedback on beside of their services.. Who's paying you to do so? Who's behind this fake stories?
How can you sleep knowing you were not a victim and you are just paid to denigrate a company?
How much do you receive for that?
This is a legitimate business operating all over the USA, stop with your bulshit opinions.... completely unfounded.
Present some real proof. Show people you have been scammed not give a human opinion that is paid to do that.
People, don't trust in thjis guys, have bought from Mantis Auto and was completely satisfied. These are just people paid for other dealers to denigrate Mantis Auto. Any smart person understand the report posted by this person is totally fake.
Stephen
California,USA
Mantis Auto Consignment and Sales is legit, no scam here
#5General Comment
Thu, June 15, 2017
Why people are so crazy to post such bulsh**s? Only because the company terms doesn't meet their requirements? Do you know that by using a website, you accept their terms? Who foreced you to do that? NOBODY and probably you becamed frustratted because of that, right?
I am a member, using their services since 2012 and never had problems before people like you (probably you are all together) created these posts. What a coincidence that since 2009 when the company started to operate in the US, there was no complaint on beside of their services and sudenly, appear a few in 2, 3 days. Do you work all together?
What company has paid to to fill out this fake story?
People like you should be cached desreve to be public and not anonymus behind a website.