Helene
Elgin,#2Consumer Suggestion
Fri, October 20, 2006
If you still have your cancelled check, take it to the District Attorney's office in the county where you live and FILE charges of THEFT on these people. I think it would be FRAUD! You paid for a service. They not only did not provide the service but the cashed your check and user the money and they have refused to give you refund. They were NOT entitled to keep your money unless... Better read any papers that you got from them, especially if you signed anything and make sure that somewhere in tiny print there was NO mention where you agreed to pay a "consultant fee" or reimburse the person from CPI Security for coming to your house and making an evaluation of your property. Or anything that gives them any reason to keep your money should they not provide you service. Don't stop at the District Attorney's office! Some agency in your state is responsible for licensing all security companies, alarm companies, security consultants, etc. and you need to find out who that would be and call them up and FILE A COMPLAINT on CPI Security! They might not even be properly licensed to do business in your state as a security company. TURN THEM IN! You also need to file another complaint for FRAUD on CPI Security with the attorney general of the state where you live and write a letter to your state representative and state senator and tell them what CPI security did to you and see if they can enact legislation against companies who defraud peopel like you. You MIGHT be able to sue them in small claims court and get a judgement against them. Don't just sue the company, sue the salesperson or whoever it was who came out and talked to you and everybody who is involved with them! Make them file for bankruptcy and put them out of business! Permanently.