441, Report:
#35396
Posted Date:
Nov 17 2002
Rip-off Dogg Digital speakers, Eli Audio of Seabrook, NH Beware of con artists selling speakers from vans at traffic lights! consumer fraud ripoff Seabrook New Hampshire
I was in Tilton, NH on business when a blue Astro van pulls up next to me, the driver asking me if I would like to buy some speakers. We pull into the parking lot of a local supermarket and he begins to tell me his story, which I find is identical to many others who were conned.
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Entity
Dogg Digital, speakers Eli Audio of Seabrook, NH
Categories: Stereos
442, Report:
#32910
Posted Date:
Oct 19 2002
AMD aka Advanced Marketing ripoff misleading advertisement for envelope stuffing from home Elk Grove California
I mailed in $89 to A.M.D to register in their home mailer program.This program claimed that after simply stuffing the first 50 envelopes according to their instructions you would not only earn $5 per envelope but that they would refund double your start up fee.
I received a packa...
Entity
AMD aka Advanced Marketing
Categories: Computer Marketing Companies
443, Report:
#27621
Posted Date:
Sep 10 2002
Washington Mutual ripoff overdraft charges Vacaville California *UPDATE .. refund after I filed this report
On August 9,2002 a local supermarket charged me twice for the same purchase causing my checking account to be overdrawn. By the time I discovered this error Washington Mutual already charged me $21.00 for the overdraft. I immediately contacted the supermarket and they are now checki...
Entity
Washington Mutual
Categories: Banks
444, Report:
#23666
Posted Date:
Jun 29 2002
Audiofile Bought an Audiofile ripoff HT 5 PRO Surround Sound System off street Altamonte Springs Florida
Today in front of my local supermarket, a guy gets my attention from his Ford Explorer SUV & tells me he's got some speakers to give away. I was thinking that they were free so I was interested. The guy pulls over into a parking spot & gets out. He's somewhat tall & talks real fast ...
Entity
Audiofile
Categories: Corrupt Companies
445, Report:
#15686
Posted Date:
Jun 05 2002
Southwest Supermarket BK Rip Off Phoenix AZ
Something occurred to me today as I was reading an article about Enron and Arthur Anderson. Several companies that did or currently do business with Arthur Anderson are scrutinizing that relationship in the wake of the Enron debacle, and with good reason it seems.
As more and ...
Entity
Southwest Supermarket
Categories: Grocery Stores
446, Report:
#11145
Posted Date:
Jan 09 2002
Another sleezy trick from Household Finance
Two years ago Household Finance purchased my mortgage from another lender. At the time I was a single dad raising my two boys and my step-daughter. The first thing that I thought was strange was how they use long, impossible to remember, account numbors on all thier accounts, yet ea...
Entity
Household Finance
Categories: Mortgage Companies
447, Report:
#7998
Posted Date:
Nov 20 2001
Dogg Digital Speakers, Digital Audio 2002, sold from a car or van
I just ran into the hoodlums who have been the subject of so many other scam reports on this sight; Seemingly expensive speakers worth all of 10 cents. Two young white males flagged my car down in a supermarket parking lot and tried to sell me a pair of high quality digital speakers...
Entity
Dogg Digital Audio
Categories: Stereos
448, Report:
#4008
Posted Date:
Dec 09 2000
Capital One Financial Corporation opened a different account in my name that was completely fraudulent
I had 2 cards;visa and m.c. . I paid them off but they kept adding charges and wouldn't close them. An elec. payment was made to them but they have no record, when my bank does. Csr's hang up when I try to get help from them. A fraudulant account was opened in my name, that I found ...
Entity
Capital One Financial Corporation
Categories: Financial Services
449, Report:
#2665
Posted Date:
Jul 15 2000
Wells Fargo Bank (OF COURSE!!!)
I've been a customer of WFB for 15 years on and off. When I first started banking there, it was because my bank (Crocker) had been bought out, so basically it was banking under duress. I soon changed banks to Barclay's. It too was soon bought out by WFB. I decided to just keep W...
Entity
Wells Fargo Bank
Categories: Banks
450, Report:
#395
Posted Date:
Dec 14 1999
Shrinking Products
For almost forty years I have been protesting the failure of grocery manufacturers to make full public disclosure when downsizing or shrinking their supermarket shelf product. As an Institutional Food Buyer in the sixties and seventies, I saw almost the entire supermarket shelf inve...
Entity
All Grocery Manufacturers
Categories: Con Artists