On nov 24th and nov27th 2015 I went in to emperor electronics to try to purchase 2 tv,s . I put $136 and $250 down in cash as a deposit and owner Tony said he would special order them. A week went by and what tony had done is put in the orders as already sold and delivered to customer and was able to get $3000 from anerican first and $2,300 from crest financial via their no credit check program and bank account ACH payment method. Only problem is tony got all that cash and the buyer has no goods while the bank thinks the goods are delivered to the buyer. After a few phone calls and a bunch of lies like tony saying the Sony rep broke his hip and is working from home I then googled the store and by luck started to read a report on rip off report and was spooked and realized that I think I'm being scamed. As I read further online on Google I seen a post on modesto bee how tony is a convicted criminal for frauding victims over $200,000 dollars , and he is supposed to be sentenced January 07 2016 per modesto bee report newspaper. Saturday morning 10am December 12 2015 I went to the store with my girl friend and told Tony's wife what was going on and asked for an immediate refund OR product from the showroom floor in the same total dollar amount they had received in payment. She called her husband Tony and he and her said neither is going to happen and I have to wait. I said no and you are trying to scam me and I called law enforcement and I started talking to customers that they were doing the same thing to. By the end the day after about 5 hours at the store and law enforcement involvement I was able to get the $136 and $250 cash back and have the first unlawful loan of $3,000 cancelled . This was mostly done against Tony's wishes as he was in Vegas and his awesome employees helped out. I had to wait for the accountant to arrive to cancell the $2300 loan as he had access the other employees did not have, when he arrived he assured me he would take car of this and he tried his best but he needed a signature from Tony or Tony's wife to authorize the"Autherization of Revision or cancellation " form... And said he would drive to the wife's house if needs be. After a few hours the accountant called said he tried his best but both Tony and his wife refused to sign the form , I was not surprised ... They are doing a street hustle with the face of a lagitamit business. I also realized that there is over 15 customers in my situation so good luck and remember he is intelligent and picks his victims wisely, if you make a big deal u might get your money back if not then he's up in Vegas living the good life lol.. Even if he makes right by 1 customer we must keep in mind there is many customers that don't know what to do or how to handle this situation as Tony gives no paperwork to the customer for the customer has no info about anything. If this has happened to contact me immediately so I can try to help you via the BBB FTC, local Mayor, law enforcement etc.