Complaint Review: TechTraders.ca - Tampa Florida

I placed a order with this company for a diaper bag that was over $230, plus a Primp sweat outfit for another $40 and never received any merchandise at all. I saved all of the e-mails that went back and forth between me and the owner of the company...because I was nervouse about the fact that they do not accept credit cards any longer. The owner had told me his PayPal was down and would be working again soon. He was only accepting money orders, bank checks, and personal checks...I sent a personal check and made sure that I put in the MEMO section of the chak the companies name and order number, since I was asked to make it out to the order of Mr. Barakat. When over 2 weeks went by after my bank informed me my check had cleared I requested a refund. I was assured that my order was shipping that day. The site guarantees that you will receive a tracking number once the order ships...I never received one even after 2 requests for the tracking number I was ignored. The owner of the company and the only contact person Sam Barakat stopped answering my e-mails. So I contacted all of the possible authorities, the police, the Atoorney Generals Office, the FBI fraud division, the Federal Trade Commission, The Better Business Bureau, the District Attorneys Office, Google, AOL, my insurance company, my bank, I even filed a small claim...and I am just waiting till I can get down to Florida to have him served by the Sheriff's Dept.. When I contacted the Better Business Bureau they told me that there were 23 other reports filed by different individuals since the company opened 32 months before and that all the these consumers had the same problem, no merchandise was ever received, and no refund was ever issued. They also told me that no issue was ever resolved with this company due to the fact that no phone call, e-mail, or USPS mail was ever answered. The owner of this company obviously feels he can just ignore everyone and commit theft, since that it what it is called when you take money from a individual in exchange for a good or service that was never received. Unfortunatelly for Sam Barakat my most of my family are lawyers, my great Uncle Aaron Britvan is the top adoption attorney in the USA, my cousin Jeffrey Weinbaum is a tax attorney, my step sister Alyssa Lediderman-Gardos is a civil attorney, and her husband my brother in-law is a District Attorney in the Central Islip Family Courts: Howard Gardos...

Needless to say I am going after this company from every legal angle.

I STRONGLY advise you do not put yourself through the inconvenience just to save some money.

Alexis

Holbrook, New York
U.S.A.