voiceofreason
North Carolina,#2General Comment
Tue, May 24, 2011
If your business has an issue with a vendor you buy merchandise from, that ought not be YOUR customer's issue. YOU need to provide YOUR customer, or his heirs, restitution. Getting YOUR money back from where you bought the scooters is YOUR problem, not the customer's.
Agnes
Long Beach,#3Author of original report
Tue, May 24, 2011
What you told ME Steve, is my father would receive checks, from your company to pay him back. This was a brand new scooter that should not have needed any parts or repair and was to be shipped to him direct. The bank, because it was a debit not a credit card, said the original company is now defunct. This Catalina company is a company used by Your company. Easy to pass the buck and not take responsibility. How is it that other customers were able to get theirs?
GoSMD
Queen Creek,#4UPDATE Employee
Tue, May 10, 2011
Yes you are correct. Let me clarify this. There is a company called Catalina Treasures that we have been ordering this scooter from him for over 2 years. At one time we were doing about 10 a month. His name is Scott and he has both scooters that are owned by you and me respectfully(see pictures of the scooters in front of our office. Those are it and the red one is yours). Both scooters you see on our website are in his possession in LA. He will not give them to us. The reason why is because he wants us to pay over 2k just to fix them in parts. Both scooters were in our showroom for purposes of having people test drive them locally in Arizona. They had a few issues and they did not run anymore so we had Scott pick them up. Well, he will not fix them even though they are under warranty. This one of the many problems that we had with Catalina Treasures. He will not fix any ideas that are under warranty or after the warranty unless you pay a ridiculous rate for parts and labor. We are all at his mercy and he seems to thrive on it. He also over charges based on the actual price of these scooters and he has no loyalty to his dealer network. He piggybacks off our great search engine clicks and poaches our customers when we sent them to his LA location to test drive these scooters. Since we are under new ownership as of November 1st, 2011, there is not much I can do. I told you NUMEROUS times to do a chargeback with your credit card company and you will get your money back. Right now the old owners and new ones are out the 2k that we spent on these scooters that are in Catalina Treasures and he is unwilling to ship it to you and the orange one back to us. This is the dilemna that we are in. I hope you under stand and let us know when the chargeback is complete so we can write this order off and pay for the chargeback over time. This is what the new owners are doing to keep the cash flow positive. My name is Steve and I am just trying to get you the money back. Since we have ousted Catalina Treasures, we have a great and very honest group that is importing this scooter in from China and we have had no problems since. We all believe in Karma and the greed that Scott has shown us is something that we hope will put him out of business because he is doing it for all the wrong reasons.