Help- I Was Robbed!
#16
Posted 23 June 2008 - 08:40 PM
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#18
Posted 23 June 2008 - 08:50 PM
Or get put in jail? Or both?
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#19
Posted 23 June 2008 - 09:05 PM
veinamin said in spanish sounds like a "b" beinamin... can easily be mistaken for benjamin... that MIGHT be how he go his name... good luck with that... i feel like i was part of National Treasure or something... lol
#20
Posted 24 June 2008 - 06:57 AM
#21
Posted 24 June 2008 - 07:05 AM
Hmmm... and the "B" and the "V" are right next to each other on the keyboard. Could just be a typo from long ago.
George, I'm so sorry to hear about this. We've got a broken TV you can have if you'd like!
Seriously, this guy clearly has a long standing tradition of doing this. I wonder how he is still in business anywhere... under any name?
#22
Posted 24 June 2008 - 07:07 AM
I plan on calling BBB tomorrow but will it do any good? Does anyone have suggestions? I blame myself, should have known from thier attitutde. UGHHHH!
I lucked out a while back when some other repairer gave me a runaround - he filed for dunno which chapter, but, his son blurted where all the stuff was - with another repairer and I could pick it up from him.
But, would like to know how this thing ends up with you.
#23
Posted 24 June 2008 - 07:09 AM
>$500 = grand theft
Genesis 49:16-17
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#24
Posted 24 June 2008 - 07:09 AM
smells like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a duck, acts like a duck...probably is one...
ps: replace duck with crook
#25
Posted 24 June 2008 - 07:11 AM
It's strange that it's typo'd and misspelled exactly the same way by two entirely separate governmental agencies (County versus State).
Anyways, going with the National Treasure theme, Goodfellas should look in the Book of Secrets (craigslist) to find his TV, but hurry because I suspect Ed Harris has already put in a bid.
#26
Posted 24 June 2008 - 10:27 AM
I plan on calling BBB tomorrow but will it do any good? Does anyone have suggestions? I blame myself, should have known from thier attitutde. UGHHHH!
If the place did go out of business your first duty is to try to contact them. Is there a new number on the door etc? If not you should file a police report. This doesn't mean they're going to get your TV back but it just establishes that you reported it. If they have gone out of business you aren't going to get anything from the BBB (really BBB can only help if the company is a member). You should check the county filings online (I think you can still see them online) to see if they file bankruptcy and submit a creditor's claim.
However, in most cases companies like this just go out of business and disappear. You just end up being one in a long line of creditors.
-robert
#27
Posted 24 June 2008 - 10:30 AM
He may not be a criminal or being fraudulent; his bills may have just exceeded his ability to pay them. It’s nothing criminal it happens with businesses all the time. There is risk in business and when you leave property with someone you accept that risk. Hopefully you'll get the TV back but its probably still in pieces.
-Robert
#28
Posted 24 June 2008 - 10:49 AM
-Robert
Yeah, but they're GoodFellas' pieces. You don't string somebody along and keep their stuff. That's fraudulent. If you can't stay in business, you offer an apology and give the customer a chance to pick up their property.
#29
Posted 24 June 2008 - 10:56 AM
Except that this guy has done this on several previous occasions. And if he was an honest business person, he wouldn't be giving customers the runaround; he'd be up front, he'd take and respond to calls, etc.
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I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~ Edward Everett Hale
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank
#30
Posted 24 June 2008 - 11:05 AM
-Robert
My last coversation with this guy was very clear, I told him I just wanted the TV back. No harm No foul. He was so RUDE! I've attempted to pick TV up but he is never open. This guy is a scam artist. You simply do not treat people like that! What if I did that in my business? You want what? Meatballs? I tell you what you can do with the meatballs!
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