8551, Report:
#1610
Posted Date:
Jun 29 2000
CA CAL PRIDE OSTRICH FARM SCAM con artist Ted Loeschner & Steve DePressi ....bilked over 15 million from senior citizens and other investors
CA CAL PRIDE OSTRICH FARM SCAM
IN THE BEGINNING was a video advertising an investment opportunity in an ostrich farm, Cal Pride, CP. It was about January 1997, CP was seeking investors. The video appeared on a commercial television station, and was being broadcast in Missouri an...
Entity
CA Cal Pride Ostrich Farm Scam
Categories: Con Artists
8552, Report:
#2412
Posted Date:
Jun 08 2000
ParValu Inc. Rip Off
I testing golf clubs with a 45 day unconditional guarantee return if I was unsatisfied for any reason. I charged $2,272 to my VISA charge card for a set of Carbite irons and putter and Triax woods. I returned the clubs using their prepaid FedEx shipping on 1/14/00. On March 8 I ...
Entity
Mr. Paul Saunders, Pesident, ParValu Inc.
Categories: Sporting Goods
8553, Report:
#1921
Posted Date:
Apr 01 2000
BBB IN BEAUMONT TX REFUSED MY COMPLAINTS AGANST 2 HEALTH CLUBS WHO HAD VERY VENGEFUL AND JEALOUS AEROBIC INSTRUCTORS
i HAD MADE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE OWNER OF WORLD GYM THAT I COULD USE THE AEROBICS ROOM TO PRACTICE DANCING IN. FOR 2 YEARS I WENT THROUGH SO MUCH TROUBLE WITH THE AEROBIC INSTRUCTORS-FIRST THEY USED THE EXCUSE THAT I COULD HURT MYSELF AND SUE THE CLUB. THAT DID NOT WORK, LATER I WAS...
Entity
BBB
Categories: Non-Profit Charities
8554, Report:
#1695
Posted Date:
Mar 28 2000
National Savers Inc. didn't come through
We received a letter in the mail stating that we had won either a trip, $500 in cash, or a new truck. We could have used any of the 3, so we answered the card. We were assured it was not a rip off and that we would receive one of the above prizes, which we did. We won the trip. T...
Entity
National Savers of Indianapolis, Inc.
Categories: Small Business Services
8555, Report:
#1725
Posted Date:
Mar 28 2000
ParValu Golf Clubs scam
I was contacted via the phone from this so called business by the name of ParValu, Inc. They sell golf clubs over the phone.. Their pitch is, these are great clubs you will love them and you can try them for 45 days risk free no obligation. So I figured why not give it a try. I didn...
Entity
ParValu, Inc.
Categories: Sporting Goods
8556, Report:
#1033456
Posted Date:
Mar 28 2000
Indy Sports and Fitness bad for employees bad for business.
Indy Sports and Fitness is a rip off. It all started the summer of 1999. I was an employee and had been one for a year. I just moved to a full time position as a maintenance crew for the softball park. It all started my first check when I was not paid my rate that was guarentee...
Entity
Indy Sports and Fitness
Categories: Health Clubs & Gyms
8557, Report:
#1636
Posted Date:
Mar 22 2000
You're Approved! Guaranteed Credit Card ..Guaranteed to get ripped off is more like it ...Platinum2000/Platinum Discount Membership Club AKA ... Continental Benefits Group
On 27 January 2000, I get a call from a company called Platinum 2000 stating that I was Pre-Approved for a Guaranteed Credit Card with a credit line from $1,200.00 to $5,0000.00 depending upon my credit report. I asked the representative who's name was Mark, if there was a catch t...
Entity
Platinum2000/Platinum Discount Membership Club or Continental Benefits Group
Categories: Credit & Debt Services
8558, Report:
#1615
Posted Date:
Mar 20 2000
CON-PAQ'S MY PC is SORRY - OH!
A week before Valentines Day, My amazing boyfriend told me he was taking me to buy myself a new computer for Valentines Day. The love of my life, Marc Anthony; My Computer, not my boyfriend! I have never had a brand new computer, so you can understand why I am so attached to him. ...
Entity
Compaq Computer Corporation
Categories: Computer Manufaturers
8559, Report:
#1545
Posted Date:
Mar 11 2000
Computer Shack
On March 3rd, 1998 I called in respinse to the materials I received from the Comptuter Shack, 13610 N. Scottsdale Road,
Suites 10-297, Scottsdale, AZ 85254. In a few days i received a 10th Edition of the Computer Products Catalog, the Confedintial
Consumer Electronics Club Catal...
Entity
Computer Shack
Categories: Miscellaneous Electronics
8560, 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