Complaint Review: Sizelove Creations

Valerie Hawk Hoffman has been trolling our online global handmade marketplace, etsy.com, for many months, soliciting a slew of sellers for free samples with promises of a huge order to follow.  She has asked for approximately $40 worth of free samples per seller, including handmade soaps, foods, hand screened tees (she asked one seller to send her 8 tees in size medium as a free sample), trail mixes, spices, clothing, knitwear, one-of-a-kind handmade dolls, jewelry, candy, and many other items.

She lures sellers by stating she intends to place a huge paid order--as gifts for 40-50 of her influential clients at $40 per person--subject to review.  She claims she will return all samples to a seller if the purchasing dept. of her company decides they will not buy the massive order.  She tells the sellers to check a box on her website http://freshherbsandteas.com if they want their samples returned.

The problem is she does NOT return any samples (which are worth about $40 per seller) nor does she return any emails that are sent inquiring about the samples.  In other words, the sellers send expensive free samples of all kinds of things and never hear from her again.  It's all a big con to get as much FREE stuff as possible.

Etsy is comprised of indie artisan sellers from all around the world who make a few hundred a year if they are lucky.  There are over a million sellers.

If she gets turned down for a sample, she defames sellers on different web blogs and sites, including this one ripoffreports, writing extremely nasty things about the seller and his/her goods, calling the stuff horrible, badly made, etc. sometimes without even having seen the seller's products (like she claimed on this website).

Why take advantage of all these starvin' artists?  Who knows.  Most of our sellers are women with young kids.  It is utterly shameful.

She has received tons of FREE stuff to use for herself. 

The person who filed this false complaint is none other that Valerie Hawk Hoffman. Ms Hoffman is a serial scam artist and had been arrested and convicted in Connecticut for credit card fraud. Google her name. She also has history of false reports defaming those she has already harmed and falsely rebutting her fake herbal company's complaints on this very site.

The rip off report filed by lily aka Ardeen previously on Etsy as a buyer.  No longer as Etsy has removed this buyer FreshCorp for improper actions.

I am attaching her conversation with me from yesterday and how much she adorned my products.  She just needed a Free sample to get approval for a large order.  I was curious about this and went to the forums.  I found several listings for freshcorp as a scam and a fraud.  So I thanked the forums and declined to do business with Ardeen of FreshCosp.  Please see the conversation below.
Hi! Love this necklace! You are very talented. I am with the Purchasing Dept of Fresh, Inc. We do a gift each year for our larger clients. We have our Annual Appreciation event each year in February and wanted to know if we could order 50 of these for that program.

If you can do this production level, what would be the wholesale pricing? Please send a sample off today as this will be a large order so the managers of course will want to see what it looks like so I can get approval and a deposit check off to you. How much of deposit do you require for large orders like this? Look forward to working with you.
Hope you are having a peaceful day. www.freshht.com
Please send sample to:
Fresh Inc Purchasing Dept
869 Summer Harbor Rd
Winter Harbor Maine 04693

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