djepick
Chatsworthq,#2Consumer Comment
Fri, December 11, 2009
First, let me start by saying that I have made numerous attempts to retract my rebuttal #2 for months now, including emails, faxes and phone calls to even Mr. Ed Magedson himself to no avail.
Secondly, I want to apologize to Mark Balelo for my rebuttal as well. I let my anger get the best of me and should've thought long and hard before sitting down to type out the rebuttal and submitting it not knowing that I wouldn't be able to retract it later on.
My comments were over the top and very PERSONAL, much of which didn't even have to do with the business transaction in question and again I apoligize to Balelo and to ALL that have been affected by my remarks.
That being said, I want to let everyone who reads this know that Balelo has MORE THAN MADE UP TO ME the things I accused him of in my earlier rebuttal and has GONE OVER THE TOP in making me happy and making things right with me.
It was all a huge mis-understanding on my part and instead of continuing to try and make things better and communicate with Balelo, I chose to get angry and attack him personally which was very unprofessional of me.
I personally have had many excellent transactions with Balelo, Inc. and can personally recommend him as an upstanding businessman who is truly fair and honest.
Again, to Balelo and to ALL affected by my previous rebuttal, please except my deepest apologies and regrets for not thinking before posting as I was not in the right mind set.
Thank you
djepick
Chatsworthq,#3
Sat, September 12, 2009
You know, I wasn't going to let my bad experience with Balelo Inc. get to me to the point where I posted anything negative about it or him until I read his claim here. Then I decided that if I can help one person not go what I went through with him, then it's worth it. After stumbling on to this site and seeing this claim by him about getting ripped off, that was the icing on the cake.
I think it's ironic (more
like hypocritical) that you are complaining of being "ripped off"
when you yourself have ripped people off including myself on a pallet of gaming
systems. I especially like how you baited the pallet with a high amount
(about double than normal) of supposedly higher end systems than what would
normally be on a pallet only to find that not only were they not the higher end
gaming systems, but broken and incomplete worthless garbage lower end
systems.
I especially love the fact that after spending $20K dollars with you, on decent
deals prior to this one (I will be honest and say the first few deals we're
fair and honest) only to set me up for the final deal that was more $$ than
the previous deals combined. How convenient and coincidental. It made me
feel real good that your crew of workers the night before were trying to charge
me $1000 MORE than I paid a few months earlier for the same exact pallet
of systems too. Maybe they were hoping I was an idiot and they could skim
that extra $1000 to keep for themselves. I know that they know the prices
of the pallets. I know that they know what I paid for the previous pallet
too as they were there. I could see being off a little on the price but a
grand?!?! If anything, the systems were going down in price at that time
not up. Then after some phone calls to you back and forth between your
guys there which by the way, would talk really low or walk away from me when
talking to you about the price so I couldn't hear the conversation. That
was a very unprofessional touch and really made me upset and not want to do the
deal I might add. Then you told J***** that you would go a $1000 lower
and give me the same price you did the time before. Wow, what a deal and
favor you agreed to. You agreed to do the deal for the same price we did
on the previous deal. I was so pissed at how I was treated by C**** and
J*****, that I walked out without spending a dime. Keep in mind, this was
all after you were supposed to meet me personally at the warehouse to do the
deal but left for the day and told your crew I was coming in. Then the
next day you called me (after I left you a message the night before explaining
how the previous night went and that I was not happy with the way it was
handled) and assured me that it was a mis-communication and this and that and
to come back in and you would take care of it. Well you took care of it
alright. Flipped me onto a different pallet of higher end gaming systems
for much more money and supposedly had twice as much of the top of the line,
high end model gaming systems on it. It was conveniently placed up front
near the roll up door so it would catch anyones eye as to how many high end
models that were "supposedly" on it compared to the other ones
there. Which believe me, was a red flag warning to me that something was
fishy about it in the first place (should've listened to my gut feeling) as to
why you would sell that pallet for the same price as the other ones that had
far less higher end systems on them. I even asked you why and you said
that you would do it for the same price because of what had happened the day
before and that you would give me a deal. Lucky me.
Then, Balelo would get pissed off at me for calling concerned about how
terrible the breakdown was of these gaming systems that previously were ALWAYS
really clean, complete and hardly had any issues with them. He would
brush me off and tell me not to worry, he would take care of it/me and do what I
could with what was on the pallet. About a week later I called him again
and got attitude and he actually raised his voice to me and was upset as to why
I was calling again and he told me not to get upset and it would be
"ok" he was handling it. So I backed off at HIS request and
trusted his word. Then, as the weeks passed into MONTHS and not one call
from Balelo, it was painfully obvious he wanted me to just go away and
disappear and not be bothered. After a few months I decided to contact
Balelo again and find out what the deal is/was and he tells me he's still
waiting for his supplier to make the deal right and send replacement
systems/controllers/etc. and that many other customers of his got burned too
and they're just as upset about it. Yeah, I'm sure they are.
Especially if you gave them attitude as to why they're calling you concerned
about how terrible the pallets of gaming systems are/were and 4 months later,
your trying to still string them along with some BS story about how you're still
waiting to be compensated for those previous pallets from your supplier.
Honestly, why would you be so upset at customers and get attitude with them
calling you concerned with the pallets that had obviously been gone though and
stripped of HDD's, controllers etc (either at the return center or your
warehouse) when you already had our $$ in hand? If there was supposedly
compensation coming from your supplier to try and make it at least somewhat
right for you and your customers and you already had our $$, then what did you
have to lose? Well, besides customers what did you have to lose?
Funny thing is you had at least 5 other pallets of the same gaming systems when
this happened and didn't want to make it "right" then and
there. You also received a lot more shipments of gaming systems shortly
after this incident and never gave me a call or ever tried to make anything
right. Yeah, I watched Ebay and Craigslist.
Then, you suddenly stopped receiving gaming system pallets or selling gaming
systems and accessories pretty much all together.
Why can't you just admit there will be no "making anything
right" and there is no "compensation/replacement systems or
controllers" that you and more importantly "I" are waiting for?
No supplier is or was going to send you anything and they sure aren't going to
send anything 5 months after the fact now are they? If by some weird
chance they would actually do that which I doubt they would in the first place,
they would've done it soon after the problem had occurred. Who knows,
maybe they did and you sold off that inventory too and made even more $$ off
us.
I thought Balelo was honest. I thought I could trust him. He
definitely works his butt off and works hard to be successful and makes a lot
of $$ doing it too but at what cost?
The very last thing I have to say about Balelo is the worst of all. To
me, it is far worse than any of the pevious things mentioned before and shows
the type of honesty and integrity that he lacks as a human let alone a
businessman. He uses/used his little daughter as a tool to try and drive
sales, receive higher feedback on Ebay (better DSR's mean more Power Seller
discounts) and when you're moving 100's of thousands of $$$ on Ebay those
discounts are HUGE, and tug at the heart strings of REAL caring
people/customers. You see, Balelo had/has this story about his daughter
and how she was born with an undeveloped liver and she has had all of these
procedures which accumulated a lot of doctor's bills. Until recently,
(not sure if he finally got a conscience or Ebay told him he couldn't have her
story on there anymore or what happened) even his Ebay store was under his
daughters name and had her sad story there for all to read with pictures of her
and everything. He claimed in the story that his daughter's medical
problems were the reason for the Ebay store and how he hoped it would help pay
for some of her medical bills. He would (not sure if he still does or
not) also send out a one page color letter with every shipment with her story on
it and ask the customer to please leave 5 star feedback in all categories to
keep his DSR's high so that he could continue to receive seller discounts to
help out his daughter and be able to pay the bills.
The sad, disturbing sick thing is that the story is NOT true and 100% a
lie! She is completely 100% healthy and has never had any procedures done
due to an under developed liver. Again,
I don't know that he still sends out the letter or not because I now see his
Ebay store has changed so maybe Ebay said to stop using the story on the
letters too or who knows. The point is though that he did do it and for
quite a long time. He is very well off and makes a ton of $$ doing what
he does. He definitely doesn't have any medical bills to pay off for her
fake condition that was totally made up and even if there were a medical
condition, trust me he has more than enough $$ to cover any medical bills a
hospital could throw at him.
There are a few buyer feedbacks under his Ebay Seller ID: Balelo that
even mention that they hope his daughter gets better or that they hope she's
doing well. Rumor has it that even a few kind hearted people have
actually just sent Balelo $$ without even buying anything or winning an auction
after reading her story on the Ebay store site which had his contact info and
mailing address. Some other feedback from customers actually criticizes
Balelo for using his daughter's illness as a way to receive positive
feedback. Can you imagine how they would feel if they found out the story
wasn't even true to begin with?
I have absolutely nothing to gain from sharing this story to be honest and it
took quite a while to type out but it'd worth it to know that it could help
someone else out there from dealing with this person.
You know, I wasn't going to let my bad experience with Balelo Inc. get to me to the point where I posted anything negative about it or him until I read his claim here. Then I decided that if I can help one person not go what I went through with him, then it's worth it. After stumbling on to this site and seeing this claim by him about getting ripped off, that was the icing on the cake.
I think it's ironic (more
like hypocritical) that you are complaining of being "ripped off"
when you yourself have ripped people off including myself on a pallet of gaming
systems. I especially like how you baited the pallet with a high amount
(about double than normal) of supposedly higher end systems than what would
normally be on a pallet only to find that not only were they not the higher end
gaming systems, but broken and incomplete worthless garbage lower end
systems.
I especially love the fact that after spending $20K dollars with you, on decent
deals prior to this one (I will be honest and say the first few deals we're
fair and honest) only to set me up for the final deal that was more $$ than
the previous deals combined. How convenient and coincidental. It made me
feel real good that your crew of workers the night before were trying to charge
me $1000 MORE than I paid a few months earlier for the same exact pallet
of systems too. Maybe they were hoping I was an idiot and they could skim
that extra $1000 to keep for themselves. I know that they know the prices
of the pallets. I know that they know what I paid for the previous pallet
too as they were there. I could see being off a little on the price but a
grand?!?! If anything, the systems were going down in price at that time
not up. Then after some phone calls to you back and forth between your
guys there which by the way, would talk really low or walk away from me when
talking to you about the price so I couldn't hear the conversation. That
was a very unprofessional touch and really made me upset and not want to do the
deal I might add. Then you told J***** that you would go a $1000 lower
and give me the same price you did the time before. Wow, what a deal and
favor you agreed to. You agreed to do the deal for the same price we did
on the previous deal. I was so pissed at how I was treated by C**** and
J*****, that I walked out without spending a dime. Keep in mind, this was
all after you were supposed to meet me personally at the warehouse to do the
deal but left for the day and told your crew I was coming in. Then the
next day you called me (after I left you a message the night before explaining
how the previous night went and that I was not happy with the way it was
handled) and assured me that it was a mis-communication and this and that and
to come back in and you would take care of it. Well you took care of it
alright. Flipped me onto a different pallet of higher end gaming systems
for much more money and supposedly had twice as much of the top of the line,
high end model gaming systems on it. It was conveniently placed up front
near the roll up door so it would catch anyones eye as to how many high end
models that were "supposedly" on it compared to the other ones
there. Which believe me, was a red flag warning to me that something was
fishy about it in the first place (should've listened to my gut feeling) as to
why you would sell that pallet for the same price as the other ones that had
far less higher end systems on them. I even asked you why and you said
that you would do it for the same price because of what had happened the day
before and that you would give me a deal. Lucky me.
Then, Balelo would get pissed off at me for calling concerned about how
terrible the breakdown was of these gaming systems that previously were ALWAYS
really clean, complete and hardly had any issues with them. He would
brush me off and tell me not to worry, he would take care of it/me and do what I
could with what was on the pallet. About a week later I called him again
and got attitude and he actually raised his voice to me and was upset as to why
I was calling again and he told me not to get upset and it would be
"ok" he was handling it. So I backed off at HIS request and
trusted his word. Then, as the weeks passed into MONTHS and not one call
from Balelo, it was painfully obvious he wanted me to just go away and
disappear and not be bothered. After a few months I decided to contact
Balelo again and find out what the deal is/was and he tells me he's still
waiting for his supplier to make the deal right and send replacement
systems/controllers/etc. and that many other customers of his got burned too
and they're just as upset about it. Yeah, I'm sure they are.
Especially if you gave them attitude as to why they're calling you concerned
about how terrible the pallets of gaming systems are/were and 4 months later,
your trying to still string them along with some BS story about how you're still
waiting to be compensated for those previous pallets from your supplier.
Honestly, why would you be so upset at customers and get attitude with them
calling you concerned with the pallets that had obviously been gone though and
stripped of HDD's, controllers etc (either at the return center or your
warehouse) when you already had our $$ in hand? If there was supposedly
compensation coming from your supplier to try and make it at least somewhat
right for you and your customers and you already had our $$, then what did you
have to lose? Well, besides customers what did you have to lose?
Funny thing is you had at least 5 other pallets of the same gaming systems when
this happened and didn't want to make it "right" then and
there. You also received a lot more shipments of gaming systems shortly
after this incident and never gave me a call or ever tried to make anything
right. Yeah, I watched Ebay and Craigslist.
Then, you suddenly stopped receiving gaming system pallets or selling gaming
systems and accessories pretty much all together.
Why can't you just admit there will be no "making anything
right" and there is no "compensation/replacement systems or
controllers" that you and more importantly "I" are waiting for?
No supplier is or was going to send you anything and they sure aren't going to
send anything 5 months after the fact now are they? If by some weird
chance they would actually do that which I doubt they would in the first place,
they would've done it soon after the problem had occurred. Who knows,
maybe they did and you sold off that inventory too and made even more $$ off
us.
I thought Balelo was honest. I thought I could trust him. He
definitely works his butt off and works hard to be successful and makes a lot
of $$ doing it too but at what cost?
The very last thing I have to say about Balelo is the worst of all. To
me, it is far worse than any of the pevious things mentioned before and shows
the type of honesty and integrity that he lacks as a human let alone a
businessman. He uses/used his little daughter as a tool to try and drive
sales, receive higher feedback on Ebay (better DSR's mean more Power Seller
discounts) and when you're moving 100's of thousands of $$$ on Ebay those
discounts are HUGE, and tug at the heart strings of REAL caring
people/customers. You see, Balelo had/has this story about his daughter
and how she was born with an undeveloped liver and she has had all of these
procedures which accumulated a lot of doctor's bills. Until recently,
(not sure if he finally got a conscience or Ebay told him he couldn't have her
story on there anymore or what happened) even his Ebay store was under his
daughters name and had her sad story there for all to read with pictures of her
and everything. He claimed in the story that his daughter's medical
problems were the reason for the Ebay store and how he hoped it would help pay
for some of her medical bills. He would (not sure if he still does or
not) also send out a one page color letter with every shipment with her story on
it and ask the customer to please leave 5 star feedback in all categories to
keep his DSR's high so that he could continue to receive seller discounts to
help out his daughter and be able to pay the bills.
The sad, disturbing sick thing is that the story is NOT true and 100% a
lie! She is completely 100% healthy and has never had any procedures done
due to an under developed liver. Again,
I don't know that he still sends out the letter or not because I now see his
Ebay store has changed so maybe Ebay said to stop using the story on the
letters too or who knows. The point is though that he did do it and for
quite a long time. He is very well off and makes a ton of $$ doing what
he does. He definitely doesn't have any medical bills to pay off for her
fake condition that was totally made up and even if there were a medical
condition, trust me he has more than enough $$ to cover any medical bills a
hospital could throw at him.
There are a few buyer feedbacks under his Ebay Seller ID: Balelo that
even mention that they hope his daughter gets better or that they hope she's
doing well. Rumor has it that even a few kind hearted people have
actually just sent Balelo $$ without even buying anything or winning an auction
after reading her story on the Ebay store site which had his contact info and
mailing address. Some other feedback from customers actually criticizes
Balelo for using his daughter's illness as a way to receive positive
feedback. Can you imagine how they would feel if they found out the story
wasn't even true to begin with?
I have absolutely nothing to gain from sharing this story to be honest and it
took quite a while to type out but it'd worth it to know that it could help
someone else out there from dealing with this person.
Mark
Los Angeles,#4Author of original report
Wed, December 10, 2008
I just got a call from a Robert who lost $70,000 USD by entrusting LIQUIDATION LINKS. They should be put out of business. DO NOT WIRE MONEY TO THIS COMPANY, THEY ARE FRAUD!!! Mark B. and Mike L