NSC Equipment - American Fabrication - Titan Industrial - Ramco Et.al deceptive sales scam, Internet
Fell victim to the Titan Industrial scam. It occured exactly as described by others.
Was approached by a salesman in a white pick-up loaded with 1 of each item offered for sale by Titan Industrial. This helped to support his claim that he was just leaving a trade show. hestaed that his boss didn't want to pay shipping and if I purchased the most expensive item for 5900.00, he would throw in everything else for free.
He had all the sales literature, company logoed shirt, I.D. badge, warranty forms, vehicle placards, North Carolina tags, and even a N.C. accent to lend credibility to his story. (This occured in Maryland). He also called his boss to negotiate a price when I countered his offer.
After being shown sales literature placing the value of the items close to 20,000 dollars, I decided it was a really good value and gave him my credit card which he promptly called in to his boss. He then accompanied me to my house for delivery.
After visiting E-bay to see if there were any of these items for sale to garner an idea of their value, and further investigation on-line, it became very apparent that the prices shown in the literature are a gross exageration, the quality is questionable at best, and that i had been scammed.
I immediately called Discover to see if I had any recourse. The woman in the fraud department that was assisting me asked me if the name of the company was Prolite based solely on the desciption of the events that took place as she had received numerous complaints previously.
Several hours later I found the salesman parked in the same parking lot as before with a new load of equipment. When I approached him he stuck with his story and even gave me the number of his so called boss. When I called him, he also stuck with the trade show story, claimed that he was the president ot Titan Industrial, and that they had an impeccable record and would not release me from the sale.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
mr rik
miami,Florida,
USA
Your mistake
#3Consumer Comment
Wed, June 01, 2011
was showing the guy where you lived. Better get a big dog. He's probably casing in anticipation of restealing and reselling.
Mike
Niles,Ohio,
United States of America
Too quick to judge..
#3Consumer Comment
Wed, June 01, 2011
I am a contractor in Ohio and have been using titan Industrial equipment for years, and I have to say its some of the best equipment i own. I have a compressor, diesel generator and a gas generator and have never had one problem with any of the equipment. maybe he exagerated the total price a bit depending on what models and what other pieces of equipment there were, but if its like the other complaints on here you got about 5 pieces of equipment for 5900.00. Thats right around the price u would pay for them at the store. The way he sold them to you might have been a little shady but Titan makes some great construction equipment. Complaint shouldnt be against titan, it should be against the shady salesman. I know for a fact Titan stands behind every piece of equipment they sell, just call the number on any one of the pieces and u will see. Real sad when people buy things they feel they are getting for free or such a great price then they bash the manufacturer. Its not a Titan Industrial scam, its a independent salesman scam.