1221, Report:
#4940
Posted Date:
Apr 17 2001
Bernard Haldane Associates: Hold on to your wallet
I am a qualified (BS, MBA, Proven track record of accomplishment) professional with a documented salary in excess of $130,000. I was looking for a shift in my career from contact administration to marketing.
So I have been talking to ex-military and other friends and contacts whe...
Entity
Categories: Employment Services
1222, Report:
#4823
Posted Date:
Apr 01 2001
Jeanne Burgess/ Sound Exchange IRS scam
I had some problems with a 1997 tax return and a friend heard of a group called Sound Exchange that helped people get out of tax troubles. I met a woman by the name of Jeanne Burgess who claimed she was the state director for the group she said she could help me get out of my tax pr...
Entity
Categories: Clubs & Organizations
1223, Report:
#2899
Posted Date:
Aug 21 2000
PRESTIGE GOWN SERVICE/WORLDWIDE GOWN-FLUSHING/BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Consumer rip-off , 40+ BBB complaints
On June 2, 1998, I sent my wedding gown and veil to Prestige Gown Service (now known as Worldwide Gown) to be cleaned and preserved. I sent my gown and veil to this company because their tag on the inside of the gown instructed me to do so. The tag states CLEAN BY ZURCION METHOD ONL...
Entity
Categories: Cleaning Services
1224, Report:
#2954
Posted Date:
Aug 16 2000
Taken to the Cleaners by Prestige Gown Cleaners / DBA WORLDWIDE GOWN more like World Wide rip-off - over 40 victims and counting
I sent my wedding gown to be cleaned and preserved by a company in New York called Prestige Gown Cleaners in Flushing, NY. There was a tag attached to the receipt of an evening gown I purchased at a dress outlet store (no longer in business), stating that the garment I purchased sho...
Entity
Categories: Cleaning Services
1225, Report:
#2935
Posted Date:
Aug 15 2000
Shoddy Sears Roebuck
In April, 1996 I filed bankruptcy and Sear Roebuck & Co. was one of the creditors included in this filing. Sears forgave a portion of my $2073.77 balance that I had with them. They let me keep all most everything that I had bought at Sears but if I wanted to keep the washer/dryer, ...
Entity
Categories: Department & Outlet Stores
1226, Report:
#2900
Posted Date:
Aug 11 2000
PRESTIGE GOWN CLEANING
PRESTIGE GOWN
When I looked up prestige in the Collins English Dictionary, I found something interesting. The root of the word via French from Latin praestigiae is where prestidigitation comes from which is juggling, tricks and slight of hand. It's also apparently related to pr...
Entity
Categories: Cleaning Services
1227, Report:
#2804
Posted Date:
Aug 09 2000
Prestige Gown Cleaning Service/Worldwide = A whole lot of grief
I sent my wedding gown to Prestige to be cleaned in July 1999 shortly after my wedding. The reputable bridal salon I purchased the dress from recommended Prestige. Once Prestige received my dress, I was told it would take four months to clean. A year later, I still do not have my go...
Entity
Categories: Cleaning Services
1228, Report:
#2396
Posted Date:
Aug 07 2000
Taken to the Cleaners by Prestige Gown Cleaners/DBA WORLDWIDE GOWN
Prestige gown cleaners, now doing business as WORLWIDE GOWN CLEANING
I sent my wedding gown to be cleaned and preserved by a company in New York called Prestige Gown Cleaners in Flushing NY. There was a tag attached to the receipt of an evening gown I purchased at a dress outlet...
Entity
Categories: Cleaning Services
1229, Report:
#2758
Posted Date:
Jul 28 2000
Thinking of buying an appliance at Circuit City? Read this and you'll think again.
May 1999 I purchased a Maytag Refrigerator at Circuit City Carpentersville IL. I was specifically looking for the Refrigerator that was rated Number One by Consumer's Report, and was sold an out of box Maytag MTB2156BEW for a price of about 780 dollars. I was told (twice) by the s...
Entity
Categories: Audio & Electronic Retail Stores
1230, Report:
#2023
Posted Date:
Jun 13 2000
Prestige Gown Cleaning Flushing New York Wedding Dress rip-off
My wife sent her wedding dress to a company called Prestige Gown Cleaning to have it cleaned and preserved. The cost was appoximately 400 dollars to have this done to her dress. The company had told my wife that the dress would be done in 6 months.
It is going on about 9 or 1...
Entity
Categories: Cleaning Services