8121, Report:
#3948
Posted Date:
Nov 30 2000
Circuit City salespeople lie to sell Extended Warranties!
I bought a Compaq Presario laptop early in 1999, and was persuaded to buy the 4-year extended warranty. It was $299, but the salesperson offered to reduce the price by $100. I was hesitant, but he then claimed that the warranty would cover *everything*, and that the active matrix ...
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Categories: Computer Stores
8122, Report:
#3774
Posted Date:
Nov 05 2000
Fingerhut and fingerhut.com mail order rip off artists
It all started when I ordered a pair of shoes off of fingerhut.com. I completed my order and assumed everything was fine. I thought that fingerhut sent there stuff U.P.S since no other way was mentioned. Well one month later when my shoes hadn't arrived I called and found out the...
Entity
Categories: Mail Order Services
8123, Report:
#3658
Posted Date:
Oct 23 2000
Capital Credit offer in the mail is just a scam!
I received a certificate in the mail, stating that I was preapproved for a 15,000.00 credit line. Being that I am trying to restabilish my credit. I fell for it. The credit card company is Capital Credit, 20331 Irvine Ave E3, Santa Ana Heights, Ca 92707. I am a single mother of one ...
Entity
Categories: Credit & Debt Services
8124, Report:
#3337
Posted Date:
Oct 14 2000
Andy Rodenhiser Plumbing and Heating, Inc Holliston, MA inferior quality work, rude, insulting & discriminatory
I hired this HVAC company to install a radiant floor heating system in my new home. They created so many errors and actually have caused damaged to my new home - I am getting quotes of $8500- $9600. Their faulty installation put a furnace chimney stack in the wrong place, it has pu...
Entity
Categories: Heating, Cooling & Ventilation
8125, Report:
#3139
Posted Date:
Sep 02 2000
Circuit City stalls and stonewalls!!!
On 7-29-2000, we bought a Frigidaire dishwasher from Circuit City Store #4119, 250 Granite Avenue, Braintree, MA 02184-2804. We paid $299.24 up front and were told to expect their delivery team to call us to make arrangements for delivery within two weeks of the sale.
Two week...
Entity
Categories: Audio & Electronics Shops
8126, Report:
#2329
Posted Date:
May 25 2000
Ford Explorer 1997
I purchased a 1997 Ford Explorer with 11,000 miles in November of 1998. Just recently, with only 38,000 miles, the timing chain went and I had to replace the entire engine. The warrantee was 3 years or 36,000 miles. I called Good Brothers Ford of Randolph, MA and Ford Motor Compa...
Entity
Categories: Auto manufactures
8127, Report:
#2151
Posted Date:
Apr 26 2000
Unsettled claims left by United Health Care in Puerto Rico
I requested emergency services at Lawrence Memorial Hospital (Medford, MA) on May 3, 1998. At the time of admission I provided the hospital with my full insurance information and left, assured that they would be billed. A year later I decided to apply for a credit card only to disco...
Entity
Categories: Health Insurance
8128, Report:
#2018
Posted Date:
Apr 09 2000
Boston Kitchen Distributors & George Menhitas Refusal to return deposit money
In the fall of 1999, I visited Boston Kitchen Distributors at their 56 Brook Road, Needham, MA Branch Office to get an estimate for cabinetry for an office that was to be built onto my home. Their representative, Les Bernd (who no longer works there) and I met several times to disc...
Entity
Categories: Furniture & Furnishings
8129, Report:
#1627
Posted Date:
Mar 21 2000
WORKING ASSETTS MY ASS
I recently bought a computer, my first, through Gateway and they gave me one free year of America on-line. When choosing the required access numbers I chose two numbers I can dial with the usual seven digits. They decided to dial a number that was not in my local calling area (the o...
Entity
Categories: Telephone Companies
8130, Report:
#1493
Posted Date:
Mar 05 2000
AAMCO Transmission rip-off New Jersey and Massachusetts consumer Student left with no car thousands to repair auto again
If you are ever thinking of having AAMCO repair your Transmission, think again. Here's my AAMCO story.
I purchased my car in May of 1998 in Toms River, NJ. After owning the car for three months (July of '98), the transmission died. It was still covered under warranty by the de...
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Categories: Auto Repair Service