Pinnacle Entrtainment - Let's Dance Productions - Pinnacle Entertainment has a website located at entertainersnet.com Alexandria Virginia
One victim who works at a phone company stated that they set up new phones lines across the nation. Each phone line is then forwarded to their east coast (Norhern Virginia) location from which they carry out this scam. They require each victim to send their payments to:
P. O. Box 624
Liberty, SC 29657
It has been determined that the business address is:
3921 Vermont Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22304
Telephone: (703) 370-6221
Many victims have determined that our checks are then cashed - not out a bank - but at corner check cashing facilities. Two are:
"Any Kind Checks Cashed"
Contact: Sheila
298 S. Pleasantburg Drive
Greenville, SC 29607-2539
Telephone (864) 242-2274
and
ACE America's Cash Express
Contact: Walt Evans
5099 Ridgebury Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44124
Telephone 1-800-713-3338
Gary
Baltimore, Maryland
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Sean
Oklahoma City,Oklahoma,
U.S.A.
UPDATE subcontract the work out to other vendors.
#2Consumer Suggestion
Sat, July 09, 2005
This company regularly contracts and receives payment from customers for wedding entertainment, then attempts to subcontract the work out to other vendors.
When they find a vendor, they allow them to perform, then never pays the subcontract.
When they can not find a subcontractor, they many times simply do not show up for the event, and keep the customer's money, blaming it on unforeseen circumstances.
The company uses misleading (internet) phone lines and in many cases, bogus addresses making it almost impossible to track their moves.
The good news, is they HAVE been found.
HAVE YOU BEEN BURNED?
Right now, there is a joint, Texas and FBI investigation looking to file criminal charges against Pinnacle and their owners.
WeDJ.Com has agreed to aid this investigation in any way that we can, in order to protect our members, the general public, and our industry from this companies bad business practices.
The Carrolton Texas Police Department and the federal Bureau of Investigation needs your help. If you have been a victim of Pinnacle Entertainment / Let's Dance Productions, please visit http://www.wedjsupport.com/pinnacle.html and let us know.
This is YOUR opportunity to help protect our industry!
If you or anyone you know has been affected by this company, I urge you to send an email to support@wedj.com providing details of the scam. Together, we can continue to protect the industry and ourselves.
Goes far more than just taking money from Brides and not Paying for DJ subcontractors.
Most of their offices are non-existant, their phone numbers are internet based, and they use virtual offices almost exclusively. The few "real" offices that they have had, they owed thousands (in the five figures), when they abandoned them.
From what we can tell, almost EVERY aspect of thieir business is fraudulant. At this point, it is NOT a case of just shutting them down. The authorities are mounting a major CRIMINAL case against