1, Report:
#472172
Posted Date:
Jul 22 2009
Royal Burgundy International The company promised a net income of above $80,000 while in reality we collected only $200 in 4 months. Longwood, Florida
I am one of the victims of Royal Gourmet Coffee distributorship offer... I bought 40 accounts in the Syracuse, NY around the holiday season in '08. The company promised a net income of oover $80,000. The company also promised I could sell 4-7 bags of coffee a day in each store. In ...
Entity
Royal Burgundy International
Categories: Door to Door Sales
2, Report:
#460385
Posted Date:
Jul 13 2009
Andi Kendall, Angela Black, 2Sisters Gourmet, Royal Gourmet Coffee, Morgan Bremner, Market Amerika, FirstRoaster.net 2Sisters Gourmet took my money, gave me displays and a ton of coffee and their locator took my money and 3 months later still has not secured ANY placements; Huntington Beach California
I paid $15,400 for a 20 route display package. 2Sisters delivered all 20 displays and 4,000 small bags of coffee and 740 big bags of coffee. The coffee came from the roaster (www.firstroaster.net Lenny) and 200 small bags were unprofessionally re-labeled with white address labels th...
Entity
Andi Kendall, Angela Black, 2Sisters Gourmet, Royal Gourmet Coffee, Morgan Bremner, Market Amerika
Categories: Business Consulting
3, Report:
#417233
Posted Date:
Jan 28 2009
Royal Gourmet Coffee, Royal Burgundy International, Steve Bryant, Gordon Byron I fell for a scam. I never dreamed something like this would happen to me. Longwood Florida
My experience is very similar to the report filed by Pat from PA. I signed up for 20 locations and also used Evans consulting for finding locations.
The intial contact with Royal Gourmet Coffee was very positive and they made the business very enticing. I did receive all 20 disp...
Entity
Royal Gourmet Coffee, Royal Burgundy International, Steve Bryant, Gordon Byron
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
4, Report:
#402167
Posted Date:
Dec 17 2008
Royal Gourmet Coffee - Evans Consulting Coffee bages looks like it was chewed on. Evans Group wants to offer me money to void my contract. Longwood Florida
Coffee when delivered, alot of packages had holes in bags and some looked like it was chewed on. Evans Consulting just told me that Royal Coffee went out of business. Evans Consulting gave me only 8 good starting places instead of 10. Now that it is christmas time, Evans Consulti...
Entity
Royal Gourmet Coffee - Evans Consulting
Categories: Sales People
5, Report:
#401238
Posted Date:
Dec 14 2008
Royal Burgandy International fraud, deception, non-fulfilling, lying, embarrasment, cheating, Longwood Florida
After inquiring about an opportunity in my local paper I was told that there were better opportunities in my area. My first contact was Chris Hughes, who at the time was very helpful. He then put me in contact with Bill Porter who also was very helpful and promising. After numerous ...
Entity
Royal Burgandy International
Categories: Franchisors
6, Report:
#398040
Posted Date:
Dec 05 2008
Royal Burgundy International - Royal Gourmet Coffee - Steve Bryant Scam Ripoff Longwood Florida
I thought I was buying into a business opportunity but right after I sent my money I felt like it might not have been such a good opportunity. Royal Gourmet Coffee and Steve Bryant took more than three weeks to deliver my product. Before the three weeks I called Steve Bryant to ca...
Entity
Royal Burgundy International
Categories: Attorney Generals
7, Report:
#394505
Posted Date:
Dec 04 2008
Royal Burgundy International, Royal Gourmet Coffee, Gordon Byron, Bill Porter, Steve Bryant Steve Bryant Took my money & ran! Made false promises and vanished into thin air! Sold me a bill of goods. Longwood Florida
I am about to be sick. This was my first business venture, and it appears I've been taken for everything I put into it, roughly $30,000.00, which I could hardly afford to lose.
The reps at Royal Gourmet were extremely helpful and easy to get in touch with at first, when they w...
Entity
Royal Burgundy International Inc., Royal Gourmet Coffee Co., Gordon Byron, Bill Porter, Steve Bryant
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
8, Report:
#393252
Posted Date:
Nov 20 2008
Royal Gourmet Coffee, Steve Bryant, Gordon Byron, Vincent Pastone, Sent them $14,250, I did get most of my shipment of coffee and displays, but they have not communicated in awile. I noticed on the BBB that they filed to disolve the company on 11-7-2008. Longwood Florida
Sent them $14,250, I did get most of my shipment of coffee and displays, but they have not communicated in awile. I noticed on the BBB that they filed to disolve the company on 11-7-2008.
AA
Ann Arbor, MichiganU.S.A.
Entity
Royal Gourmet Coffee, Steve Bryant, Gordon Byron, Vincent Pastone
Categories: Consignment Stores
9, Report:
#392536
Posted Date:
Nov 20 2008
Royal Gourmet Coffee - Steve Bryant - Gordon Byron - Dave Evans - Matt Dillon Sold scam coffee distributorship closed business took money Longwood Florida
This company took $14,000 (+$3500 for locators, so $17,500 total) from us and many others to start a coffee distributorship. The company then quickly dissolved after sending first shipment of coffee. The owners of the company then vacated their residence.
This company was a scam...
Entity
Royal Gourmet International Coffee
Categories: Gourmet stores
10, Report:
#392858
Posted Date:
Nov 19 2008
Royal Gormet Coffee I have bought into the business and have only received display racks and no coffee as of yet. Longwood Florida
I am reporting that I too, fell for this scam. It has been 1 mo. since I paid for my distributorship and have only received display units and no coffee. I have tried to call Royal Gourmet Coffee and now their phones are out of order. Dave Evens Consulting told me I will be getting m...
Entity
Royal Gormet Coffee
Categories: Franchises
11, Report:
#389666
Posted Date:
Nov 10 2008
Royal Gourmet Coffee Continental Gourmet Coffee, Coffeeman, Twin Peaks Coffee FRAUD SCAM RIPOFF Continental Gourmet Coffee, The Coffee Man, Coffee Distributorship Took my money for coffee distributorship but didn't deliver. Longwood Florida
This is a long running organized crime scam run from SOuth America. They have scammed thousands of people promising turnkey businesses. DO NOT send them any money!
Madscientist
Towson, MarylandU.S.A.
Entity
Royal Gourmet Coffee
Categories: Franchises