8671, Report:
#5084
Posted Date:
May 03 2001
ABC Stereo.com's mail order stereo scam
I ordered a A/V receiver from these scam artists who advertise in electronic equipment magazines like Sound&Vision. They charged my credit card within a few days of the order. I was very naive, and believed them when they said it was on backorder. 6 weeks of various excuses later,...
Entity
Alpha Sound and Vision dba ABC Stereo.com
Categories: Stereos
8672, Report:
#5039
Posted Date:
Apr 29 2001
Budget Foundation inadequate repairs
Budget charged over $3000 for some piers to level my slab foundation. I installed ceramic tile a month later and observed cracks in the tile.
They came out and releveled the foundation some more. Replaced tile for $700. Installed french patio doors. Dorrs quit closing. Budget ca...
Entity
Budget Foundation
Categories: Home Improvements
8673, Report:
#4390
Posted Date:
Apr 09 2001
Parker-Built Homes, Inc Builder Hiding Behind Limited Warranty And Binding Arbitration bad for home owner * UPDATE, Home Builder Warranty FRAUD
Please help me get my money back. With most of the closing paperwork in the market containing a binding arbitration clause, they're unavoidable. I did not realize and was not informed that I was actually surrendering my rights when I signed that contract. ...Builder makes no warran...
Entity
Parker-Built Homes, Inc
Categories: Builders & Contractors
8674, Report:
#4876
Posted Date:
Apr 09 2001
Toshiba's Televisions Need some help...but not a s much as their customer service!
The story is so long it's painful!
The long and short of it is:
Back in January 2000, I purchased a Toshiba 32-inch Cinema Series TV. Everything was great, until about Jul/August when the picture on my TV was not working correctly. I first assumed it was my cable as my TV was...
Entity
Toshiba America Consumer Products
Categories: TVs & VCRs
8675, Report:
#1033761
Posted Date:
Jan 22 2001
Pulte Home Builders Rip-off their own contractors and their customers too
The following letter is one of may contractors being ripped off by Pulte across the country. This subcontractor below was being harassed by Pulte by not paying them for their work. The contractor had reported to Pulte supervisors problems regarding inferior workmanship and other wro...
Entity
Pulte Home Builders
Categories: Builders & Contractors
8676, Report:
#3570
Posted Date:
Jan 18 2001
Don't Buy a Neumann Home
My husband and myself had purchased our new home by Neumann on February 28, 2000. We wanted to move to give our new son a bigger home and larger backyard to play in. This has been our biggest mistake ever!! We were promised our home would be built by May.
They told us there ...
Entity
Neumann Homes
Categories: Builders & Contractors
8677, Report:
#4144
Posted Date:
Jan 07 2001
Pager Company Spam
One of my email accounts doesn't give me all the headers, but the company listed in the text has come up already in a previous Rip-Off Report (also under Wireless Concepts). The number got me a real person, who didn't know anything about being advertised by spam. If we all boycott d...
Entity
Wireless Concepts or Paging America
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
8678, Report:
#4132
Posted Date:
Jan 05 2001
Dear Mr. Pulte: Pulte Home Builders, Everyone we have talked to in our neighborhood is dissatisfied with your company.
Bill Pulte
Pulte Corporation
33 Bloomfield Hills Parkway, Suite 200
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48304-2946
Dear Mr. Pulte:
Based on your brochures and web site information, you appear
to be very interested in customer satisfaction. This is very admirable of a company ...
Entity
Bill Pulte, Pulte Corporation
Categories: Builders & Contractors
8679, Report:
#3333
Posted Date:
Sep 13 2000
University of Florida, U F Foundation, Inc. via Animal Sciences Department ..scam run by Department Administrators corruption
Multi-million Dollar scam run by Department Administrators at the University of Florida Animal Sciences Department through a non-profit intake fund called The University of Florida Foundation; 1980's-
This organization seeks public donations supposedly to fund education throug...
Entity
University of Florida, Animal Sciences Department
Categories: Public Schools
8680, Report:
#3083
Posted Date:
Aug 28 2000
Stony Brook Research Foundation Screwed Hard for work by Dmitry Goldgaber
My parents recently moved from California on hopes that their friend at the time would suply work on agreements that were made over the phone, when we used a lot of money and time to move from CA to NY we soon got situated, after a month of work my parents soon found out all the neg...
Entity
Stony Brook Research Foundation (Dmitry Goldgaber is my Moms and Dads Boss ask for him)
Categories: Colleges and Universities