8291, Report:
#2445
Posted Date:
Jun 13 2000
Circuit City Frigidaire
Purchased $1,247 Frididaire Refrigerator from Circuit City approx 5 months ago with extended warranty. Right after delivery fridge started making noises. Call Circuit City.. they said it would do that until water was all circulated and the air was out of the lines, about a couple of...
Entity
Circuit City and their Service Center
Categories: Appliances
8292, Report:
#2174
Posted Date:
May 01 2000
The Player's Exchange d/b/a Resorts Exchange Internation of Orlando, Florida
On December 20, 1999, we responded to a faxed advertisement from The Player's Exchange, offering unbelievable savings on vacation packages. After speaking with a representative over the telephone, my wife gave them $698.00 from her credit card. Since then we haven't heard from the...
Entity
The Player's Exchange d/b/a Resorts Exchange International
Categories: Travel Services
8293, Report:
#2144
Posted Date:
Apr 24 2000
Gary Barbera Rip OFF Land in Manayunk, PA
Not only did the salesperson blatantly lie about the amount financed and he induced me into signing alease contract that I believed to be a purchase contract. The finance person had deliberately ripped off the top of the contract to conceal the actual terms.
Then the problems real...
Entity
Gary Barbera Dodgeland
Categories: Auto Dealers
8294, Report:
#1861
Posted Date:
Apr 01 2000
SCREAM 4 : TILE NIGHTMARE
This report is to warn consumers about V & T Installations of Highland, Indiana owned by BILL COSGROVE acting as subcontractor for a company in ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS.
Our salesman was in Arl. Hts. He came out to my condo with tile samples in November '99. The 12 inch tilin...
Entity
V & T Installations
Categories: Carpet & Tile Installers
8295, Report:
#1558
Posted Date:
Mar 13 2000
Peak Potential / SWFEI Product Services ...Medical Product uses tough Attorney tactics in Santan Fe New Mexico
I answer the phones at a radio station in MO.... we are not a hard news station, just the average music station. We do not deal in controversy. On March 6, I took a call from a man named JOHN who was a regular listener and having consumer trouble with a return. JOHN claimed th...
Entity
Peak Potential / SWFEI Product Services
Categories: Medical Supplies
8296, Report:
#1392
Posted Date:
Mar 02 2000
2000 Entertainment/Tom ..rip-off Phone Scam Employment Services
On February 10, 2000, Richard Nickel, contacted an ad in the New Times Newspaper regarding employment as a phone operator. 2000 Entertainment was currently hiring men and women to talk from their home for adult conversation lines.
The ad designates that no experience is necess...
Entity
2000 Entertainment/Tom
Categories: Employment Services
8297, Report:
#1384
Posted Date:
Feb 24 2000
Universal Computers Corporation ...Rip-off Vancouver BC ...You Suck
On August 18/99 my husband and I called Universal at their 1-800 # we had founf on the internet. Universal had a website on the net and advertised affordable computers for people who didn't have a lot of money. They said that proceeds from every dollar funded the Universal Vision ...
Entity
Universal Computers Corporation
Categories: Computer Mail Order
8298, Report:
#1304
Posted Date:
Feb 21 2000
Another Time Share Con
My wife and I purchased a time share with Orange Lakes of Kissimmee, Fl and stayed there for 3 days while on vacation. We were approached by Star Island Resorts to look at their resort and they told us they could give us a better deal. Star Island, Thomas Marchetta and Hank Fernande...
Entity
Star Island Resort
Categories: Builders & Contractors
8299, Report:
#1142
Posted Date:
Jan 15 2000
go-kart engine
We bought an HPV 100 engine from Kart World in Lemon Grove, Ca owner Ron Borges. We were told it was a test engine only that it was brand new we paid $1,300. It was bought a few days before Christmas. Since we are new to go-karting we do not know much and believed him. He did not h...
Entity
Ron Borges
Categories: RV Dealers
8300, Report:
#1017
Posted Date:
Dec 18 1999
beware 2000 S-10 and Blazer owners
I leased a 2000 S-10 Pickup from a local dealer on 11/12/99. I had been driving it a couple of days when it started to smell like mildew. I talked to my dealer and told them I suspected the truck may have been in the floods in North Carolina. They denied that, of course, but the...
Entity
General Motors
Categories: Truck Dealers