I’m a recycling company based in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. I recently started doing business with Rick Carter from a company called Transplastics Corp. based out of Long Beach, California. I would like to file a complaint and pursue my legal right to seek resolution for payment from 3 containers loaded and delivered at Ensenada Port to our client AMERICA CHUNG NAM (CAN) at the end of april of this year. Our client then proceeded to pay TRANSPLASTICS CORP for sales. This money is then to be given to our providers and vendors that worked on credit.
My current situation with Rick Carter (TRANSPLASTICS) breaches our verbal agreement and worst of all materially affects vendors and local service providers who have no reason to bare any additional or liability as they sold recycled cardboard bales on credit to the company. The business worked like so:
1. Purchase recycled cardboard bales OCC in the Baja California Norte and Baja California Sur area on credit
2. Load transport and deliver material to Ensenada port for trans loading
3. Load and consolidate containers through (COMERCIALIZADORA RIVERA S.A. DE C.V.) local service provider in Ensenada
4. Administration and paperwork for consolidation, customs, booking
5. Payment from client (ACN) to transplastics corp (transplastics invoice involved)
6. Distribute payments to our vendors and service providers that worked on credit
7. Commission earnings per operation to my self and Rick Carter
All tax declarations and payments fees were done through TRANSPLASTICS and all operations in Mexico such as:
getting material, transportation, logistics, payments and administration where done with my company
Since we started working on the project we decided to have an open and trustworthy business relationship, now Rick Carter and TRANSPLASTICS (who was the part that handled all income money) have left my self, our vendors and providers in the black and have not received any information, news or payment date since they sold us material on April 11th of this year.
I would like for TRANSPLASTICS to fulfill their obligation of delivering through me or directly the funds that are owed to the corresponding parties so they can be paid for the material that was purchased and/or the services they provided.
Transplastics
Long Beach,#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Mon, January 02, 2017
A source informed me about this report some years after the event. This report remains the only claim against Transplastics for a reason: We're a solid company that develops business prospects instilling both trustworthiness and transparency in all dealings. The story entered on this site, one that uses falsehoods to forge a story filled with inaccuracies while asserting claims without validity. is just that: A highly reimagined work of fiction. The story also omitted any responsibility on the part of the claimant.
When I met Manuel Rivera, he ran a second-rate recycling plant that operated on the property of his uncle's vacant lot in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, although he sold the business as a sophisticated recycling enterprise. His business went bankrupt due to his failure to understand that, unlike his rich family, no one owes him anything, and that purchase orders must be filled on commodity goods per contract terms and dates, not as an afterthought to parties and carousing. Unfortunately, he wanted a business relationship where he attempted to use Transplastics investment monies to mask his inadequacies while using those same monies for personal purposes. He also ripped me off on our first business venture where he sold material to Transplastics Corp in the following way:
· Solicited American quality PET bottles delivered to the US/Mexican border for crossing.
· Demanded U.S. pricing while assuring Transplastics that the material was first-rate and would cross the border.
· Assured Transplastics that the material would be compacted to fit the crossing container.
· Received payment in 2 cash payments from Transplastics: 50% up front and the balance with pictures as proof—the pictures were falsified. His excuse for the condition of the bottles when they arrived was that he power washed them before sending them nearly 1000 miles in an open, 52’ flatbed rig.
Unfortunately, the material arrived in such poor shape that it could not cross the border. Moreover, he suggested that we park the material at his “friend’s” lot that charged us for storage while we waited for determination by the US Customs. He later suggested that we use another “friend” of his to sort and grind the material to get it across the border. Finally, yet another “friend” bought the material where naturally, since we could never cross the material, Transplastics lost more money. In total, we lost over $2,000.00 in the transaction for the container of PET and never received the full 20-tons of material from the “friend” that processed the material.
Using his greed against him, we entered another agreement to procure OCC—another commodity. I knew Manuel Rivera thought I was a fool at this point so I set-up a chance to see if either he was a complete crook, or simply inept. I wasn’t completely sure, and he is charismatic. Additionally, he did have contacts I wanted to source throughout Baja, California. With that said, a company I worked with needed OCC. I issued Manuel Rivera a purchase order that he agreed to fill in 30 days. Over 3 months later he still hadn’t filled the PO and the price for OCC had dropped. Unbelievably, he still demanded the pricing for the PO that was over 3 months old. So, I agreed, although, this time I made sure Transplastics kept the material and controlled the money. Since, like the first deal, the purchase order went unfulfilled, I kept the material and recovered the money that Manuel Rivera originally stole from me.
I have no regrets for what happened on the second transaction, and believe that I put a dent in both his pocketbook and reputation so that he keeps from thieving from other Americans. To all that read this, do not engage with Manuel Rivera. He’s a young man that has yet to learn responsibility, and his business ethics remain unscrupulous.
PS I’ll refrain from using the name the third-party company that issued the original PO’s to Transplastics since they are not either responsible for the transactions in any way, or ever engaged with Mr. Rivera directly. He purposely used their name to coerce and black-mail them into paying him directly. He failed to do either.