6301, Report:
#1031104
Posted Date:
May 17 2000
The Pool Depot uses BAIT and SWITCH to scam $7,000 from honest people
The following happend to me during the summer of 1997. To date, the Pool Depot still has not refunded my deposit. My experience happened in San Antonio, Texas, but this company does business nation wide by advertising on local television stations.
The Bait:
We can install a pool...
Entity
Categories: Pools & Saunas
6302, Report:
#1031105
Posted Date:
May 17 2000
The Pool Depot uses BAIT and SWITCH to scam $7,000 from honest people
The following happend to me during the summer of 1997. To date, the Pool Depot still has not refunded my deposit. My experience happened in San Antonio, Texas, but this company does business nation wide by advertising on local television stations.
The Bait:
We can install a pool...
Entity
Categories: Pools & Saunas
6303, Report:
#1929
Posted Date:
Apr 09 2000
Bronco Construction of North Royalton Ohio and Westview Concrete of Olmsted Falls Ohio ..driveway rip-off
After we had our driveway installed about 6 months passed and we noticed that it was flaking off. We contacted the company that installed the driveway, Bronco Construction, and were told that it was not their fault that it must have been a poor grade of concrete.
We contacted ...
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Categories: Builders & Contractors
6304, Report:
#1861
Posted Date:
Apr 01 2000
SCREAM 4 : TILE NIGHTMARE
This report is to warn consumers about V & T Installations of Highland, Indiana owned by BILL COSGROVE acting as subcontractor for a company in ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS.
Our salesman was in Arl. Hts. He came out to my condo with tile samples in November '99. The 12 inch tilin...
Entity
Categories: Carpet & Tile Installers
6305, Report:
#1710
Posted Date:
Apr 01 2000
CONCRETE Construction BY BILL MOORE never finished the job Fulton MO
I hired Bill Moore of Concrete Construction From Fulton Mo.Callaway County in June of 99 to build us a home it was to be unfinished and we are finishing it, He neglected at the time to tell us it was going to be a when I feel like it job, After several months DEC. it was done enou...
Entity
Categories: Builders & Contractors
6306, Report:
#1815
Posted Date:
Mar 28 2000
Bad Bricks
I contracted with a company to have work done on the outside of my home. The type of work to be done consisted of removing an existing retaining wall and to install and build a new retaining wall made of brick. They also were to concrete a walkway &step. The work was completed in a ...
Entity
Categories: Builders & Contractors
6307, Report:
#1795
Posted Date:
Mar 28 2000
RE: COUNTY CONCRETE
ON FEB 25, 2000 MY HUSBAND PAID $840.00 CASH TO A PAUL E FLECHER, THE PRESIDENT OF COUNTY CONCRETE. THIS WAS A DEPOSIT ON THE INSTALLATION OF CONCRETE AROUND THE POOL AREA. THE TOTAL COST WAS $1659.00. MY HUSBAND TRIED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH PAUL FLETCHER ON AT LEAST EIGHT TRIES OVER...
Entity
Categories: Landscape Companies
6308, Report:
#1711
Posted Date:
Mar 28 2000
Concrete Construction By BILL MOORE
I hired Bill Moore of Concrete Construction From Fulton Mo.Callaway County in June of 99 to build us a home it was to be unfinished and we are finishing it, He neglected at the time to tell us it was going to be a when I feel like it job, After several months DEC. it was done enou...
Entity
Categories: Builders & Contractors
6309, Report:
#1566
Posted Date:
Mar 14 2000
WOODSIDE Homes Inc. Tells You one thing and BUILDS Another!!!!!
Welcome to our hell that has been going on for the last 6 months due to Woodside Homes unethical and illegal practices.
They promised us and 10 other home owners privacy and a desert view BUT instead they built an 8 foot wide concrete public sidewalk in our backyards. We are for...
Entity
Categories: Builders & Contractors
6310, Report:
#1518
Posted Date:
Mar 08 2000
No refunds here ..curious tv.com
Dear rip-off repoters,
My credit card number was taken and used to access a nudity sight on the internet (BLASTH.com). I found this out on my monthly bank statements. I called the company on this right after I noticed it. That was sometime in late Dec. or early Jan.
I am owed...
Entity
Categories: Internet
6311, Report:
#1473
Posted Date:
Mar 04 2000
Labor Department Fines Pulte Homes $37,750 For Child Labor. Thirteen-Year-Old injured Twinsburg OHIO
U.S. Labor Department Fines Pulte Homes $37,750 For Child Labor and Federal Workplace Safety Violations Following Injury Of Thirteen-Year-Old At Twinsburg, OH, Construction Site
Two agencies of the U.S. Department of Labor have fined Pulte Homes of Ohio, Solon, Ohio, a total of $3...
Entity
Categories: Builders & Contractors
6312, Report:
#1459
Posted Date:
Mar 03 2000
Superstition Park Apartments - Unethical Garbage Dump
I am writing this report to warn others about Superstition Park Apartments in Tempe, AZ and the unethical agents and management who run it.
When I first moved to Arizona, I knew from past experiences that I wanted an apartment with solid walls, so I would not be disturbed by neig...
Entity
Categories: Realtors
6313, Report:
#1358
Posted Date:
Feb 22 2000
Home Improvement Scam?
Dear Mr. Magidson,
The following letter is from Mr. Haywood Galloway. He is a custodian at the elementary school in which I work. He has been having a problem with getting some work done at his house. I read the article Peter Ortiz wrote about you for azcentral.com. and though...
Entity
Categories: Home Improvements
6314, Report:
#1306
Posted Date:
Feb 21 2000
Beware - D.R. Horton Homes cannot complete home
D.R. Horton Homes (in Phoenix) has provided the worst built, worst supported home we have ever seen.
We bought our new home in August of '98, and as of this writing (02/21/00) it still is not finished. We were encouraged to move in a few days prior to completion in March of '9...
Entity
Categories: Builders & Contractors
6315, Report:
#1079
Posted Date:
Jan 06 2000
BJ's Wholesale Club New York Changes refund policy on generators over New Year.
Date: 12/24/99
Place: BJ's Wholesale Club, 3303 Crompond Road, Yorktown Heights, NY.
Purchase:$499.99 Generator 1167501140
Mode of Payment: Mastercard
Purchaser: Club member
Merchant #67461100760
Like millions of others did before the New Year, we purchased a generator at B...
Entity
Categories: Department & Outlet Stores
6316, Report:
#1076
Posted Date:
Jan 05 2000
Terrible Contractor
To whom it may concern,
On November 20, 1999 I hired Mr. Joe Gaskin of Gulf Construction-Panhandle, Inc. to make renovations to my home. The project involved turning a large window in the kitchen into a sliding glass door, turning a window into a door in the master bedroom and ...
Entity
Categories: Builders & Contractors
6317, Report:
#518
Posted Date:
Nov 21 1999
The Home Repair Rip-off that comes knocking at your door
The Setup: A worker is working on a home down the street. He
knocks on your door and tell you that he notices a problem with
your roof/chimney/siding.
He tell you that he can repair it for you for just the cost of labor, since he'll have left over material from the job he's ...
Entity
Categories: Home Improvements