Advice for Dealing with a Crooked Company?

[63echo]

I concur with the BBB opinions. I can't think of a single time that I've contacted them that I haven't had a resolution in my favor (provided it was the business's fault to begin with and not my own wankery). I don't know what it is they do, but it is effective.

Call them. It's what they're there for.

Also, is this why you don't want to meet him face to face? http://www.thirdcoastmartialarts.com/Featured_Students.html (February) . He looks like a wide-eyed pansy. I bet you could take him.

 

[Kristi]

Contact the BBB. And tell everyone you know NOT to go there. Bad press is the worst thing for any business. Check his business report. I think there are some free sites out there. Write a bad review on Google -- any place with an address has a review section.

We had a similar situation with Radio Shack about 5-6 years ago. Dad went and got a "new" computer. He gets up and running and I'm checking it out when I notice there are things in the recycle bin. It's supposed to be a brand new computer -- there shouldn't be things in the recycle bin. God knows who owned this thing before us or what they looked at, but I had him box it back up and take it back.

They tried to argue with him that it was brand new, but eventually caved and said the girl that sold it to us no longer worked there and it was a display model in a new box. Dad demanded a new one and they said they no longer had that model. He said he either gets a new computer or he was going to take this to small claims court and to the BBB. They upgraded him to the next model up for the same price. They got scared which leads me to believe they have been in this situation before.

Doesn't hurt to get a little aggressive. I was just covering our butts with what was obviously a used computer. And there should be a discount on the display model if you are going to sell it.

 

[silverbear]

As is often the case, my personal philosophy when it comes to issues like this is best summed up by a bumper sticker:

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives...

Think about it, and thank me later...

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Can he really only offer 10 day?

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I concur with the BBB opinions. I can't think of a single time that I've contacted them that I haven't had a resolution in my favor (provided it was the business's fault to begin with and not my own wankery). I don't know what it is they do, but it is effective.

Call them. It's what they're there for.

Also, is this why you don't want to meet him face to face? http://www.thirdcoastmartialarts.com/Featured_Students.html (February) . He looks like a wide-eyed pansy. I bet you could take him.

HAHA, I just went back to this. I still haven't met the guy because I had to cancel the meeting. Hilarious that this guy is around children after the way he talked to me and my wife over the phone.

What a fraud!!

And, it's not about the money. It's the principle of the computer not working since the day we got it.

 

[63echo]

HAHA, I just went back to this. I still haven't met the guy because I had to cancel the meeting. Hilarious that this guy is around children after the way he talked to me and my wife over the phone.

What a fraud!!

And, it's not about the money. It's the principle of the computer not working since the day we got it.

Heh. I detest two-faced jerks like this. How he has been able to maintain his business while treating customers like that is beyond me.

Did you ever sic the BBB dogs on him?

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Heh. I detest two-faced jerks like this. How he has been able to maintain his business while treating customers like that is beyond me.

Did you ever sic the BBB dogs on him?

No, but I will. I plan on it.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

By The Editorial Board | Friday, May 2, 2008, 02:21 PM

Attack ads are nothing new in local politics, but the bitter ad campaign against incumbent City Council Members Lee Leffingwell and Jennifer Kim, both seeking re-election this month, have pushed buttons all over town.

Rick Culleton, chief executive of Discount Electronics on Anderson Lane and a former campaign treasurer for Jason Meeker, Leffingwell’s Place 1 opponent, has paid for print and television ads attacking Leffingwell and Kim. But Culleton, who opposes the Wal-Mart planned for Northcross Mall - on Anderson Lane - might not be playing by the rules.

Leffingwell supporters have filed a complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission saying the ads are a corporate campaign contribution, generally outlawed in Texas. The ads also might violate Austin’s ordinance limiting individual campaign contributions.

And this week, The Daily Texan, the University of Texas student newspaper, reported that the picture used in one of Culleton’s ads is a doctored version of a photo taken by a former Daily Texan photographer. The photo’s original background, the Texan noted, has been replaced by a Wal-Mart storefront and a dark, threatening sky.

Not only was the photo taken out of context and doctored, its use violates the Texan’s licensing policy, the paper wrote, and possibly state and city election laws. Culleton’s excess also prompted Kim’s opponent in the Place 3 race, Randi Shade, to return his campaign contribution and ask him to cease campaigning for her. Ouch. With supporters like that …
Early voting ends Tuesday and the election is May 10.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/cont...ries/2008/05/02/attack_on_the_attack_ads.html

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Shade: Culleton Support Unsolicited Wells Dunbar Fri Apr 25, 7:37pm , 2008 Tags: City Council Elections, Randi Shade, Jennifer Kim, Jason Meeker, Lee Leffingwell

Randi Shade: Thanks. but …
This statement from Randi Shade on the Rick Culleton-financed TV ads slamming Jennifer Kim and Lee Leffingwell, and supporting Jason Meeker and herself:
"I've been made aware today that Mr. Rick Culleton, the owner of Discount Electronics, has begun airing television commercials which are critical of Jennifer Kim and which advocate for my candidacy. I want to make clear that I have never met with or talked to Mr. Culleton about my campaign, and have no previous association with him. Mr. Culleton did make an unsolicited online contribution to my campaign on Wednesday night, and while I appreciate his support and advocacy, I am in no way involved in his effort and have not received any notification from him regarding any of his independent expenditures."
Not entirely surprisng, as Shade's campaign consultant, Mark Nathan, is also – can ya guess? – Lee Lefffingwell's.
My brain hurts.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/News/Blogs/index.html/objID616750/blogID/