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Warning : Fraudulent website - tvsdirect2u.com

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  • is it or isnt it?
    i bought a tv last month, payment taken early this month...no tv. no orde number no delivery date. Father inlaw works for trading standards hes lovin it says watch this space... will keep you all advised, thanks for the previous info and names, made it a lot easier, apparantly many faults such as delvery date promise,selling items not owned, although this has to do some work on this one?
  • waited a month now for a 1 to 3 day deivery costin £20. total £300 for a tv to replace our stolen one. this world is full of scum. paid by debit so not sure if i can get back anyone know?
  • tvsdirect wrote: »
    Hi
    my name is bruce kennedy and tvsdirect is my website .
    Our website is not fraudulant . I would like the people who actually
    have purchased a tv to contact us as all our orders have been procesed
    and dispatched to my knowledge .I Also have purchased the domain names for games gadgets and have all there old equipment
    not that that is a crime .Also we do not take your money until the item is ready for dispatch so any one claiming money has come out of there credit card i would actualy check to see if it has gone . So rather than try to discredit my legitamate company .Iwould contact me first by email
    and i will be more than happy to help.
    Bruce kennedy
    company director

    lets see what Bruce can do then!

    I sent him a PM with this;


    Hello, I paid £419.22 to iwantthatgift.co.uk in August for a TV that never came. A dispute lodged with paypal was decided in my favour. Unfortunately paypal were unable to get my money back from Paul Barrett (director topstock hinckly ltd, also husband to Sharon Barrett the registrant of your 'other website tvsdirect2u.com). On your post on the iwnatthatgift.co.uk website you say -

    "If you have an outstanding order they will be fulfilled (subject to terms and condition s) If you would like to discuss any details on the above or looking for Venture Capital please don’t hesitate to contact me"

    In addition to that you protest that you are not a fraudster as accused in this forum and invite people to message you. So please advise as to how I get my TV or my money back?


    I'll post his reply!
  • Gel247
    Gel247 Posts: 11 Forumite
    edited 14 October 2009 at 3:03PM
    I'm currently taking the 'Secretary' of this company, a Mr Anthony Church, to court. (He tends to be a secretary only, getting someone else to be the director and take the fallout).

    Sharon Barrett lives with Mr Church in Milton Keynes and they did exactly the same thing with gamesgadgetsuk.com , who also took a load of money via Protox but failed to deliver goods. He also ran the inkink prior to that.
    He also scammed a load of people on Amazon under a trader of the same name and recently popped up on Amazon again as a different seller 'Topstock' only to change it to 'Allgoodgifts'. This account has since stopped selling goods, maybe to store up their feedback to rip a load of people off at Christmas.

    He also stopped delivering goods on play.com as the playtrader discount uk, I would post a link but the site doesn't allow it, (MODS, I'm happy to pm it to you to publish).

    Currently Mr Church has 10K worth of stock outstanding to me and that's before solicitors fees of £2500, but hey, I'm in it for the long run.

    Search gamesgadgetsuk in google, in fact search moneysavingexpert forums for gamesgadgetsuk , you'll get a result.

    Also search in google: +Gamesgadgetsuk +amazon

    Scarily enough, it's easy to make yourself appear to have a legit premises. There are places that sell you a drawer in a filing cabinet somewhere and you use that address, you will find the registered address one of many companies at the same place.

    Have a look online, particularly the consumeractiongroup forums, his address and Sharon Barretts address is there for those that want to pop around.

    The house he lives in is worth about 450k and he's 44 years old.

    I strongly urge anyone who bought via this company to contact the place that charged your card to advise them of this information and the police, and trading standards.

    He was also a company secretary to a Mr Neil Barclay at the early part of this year, no doubt he has outlived his usefulness and he's moved onto another sucker.

    If you wish to file a complaint legally against them please contact Paul Stevens at Judge and Priestley in Bromley.

    Mr Church appears to believe that people don't chase refunds after they are ignored long enough and unfortunately in some cases this is true and that's how he makes his money.

    I'd like to add that the number 22 address is correct and that is where all the correspondance from my solicitors is being sent to and the solicitors are getting replies.

    For those that ordered, you will be fed ANY excuse to delay your order, all of which will be lies, lies and more lies.

    As for Mr Church.... you shouldn't of ripped me off.
  • OK!

    I contacted 34sp.com who host all of the websites associated with these scum bags.

    If you've been robbed by them from any of their websites please send an email to - [EMAIL="abuse@34sp.com"]abuse@34sp.com[/EMAIL] - with the details and lets get all of their sites closed down. Just one small step but the quickest way to hit them where it hurts!

    Below is the email I received from them



    We of course take these matters very seriously. We are unable to act upon general Internet discussions, but could look at any specific case, if the person involved contacted us. We would happily liaise between them and account owner to get to the bottom of any issue.

    The best thing to do, would be to contact the appropriate policing department. We would work with them to get to the bottom of any website that was deemed to be acting in a fraudulent matter.

    --
    Stuart
    34SP.com




    If anyone wants all the info I accumulated have along with my story, complete with all their pathetic school boy threats send a PM.

    Also if you were robbed by them and are interested in joint legal action, I'm currently in touch with several other people again please send me a PM.

    FYI Lots of fake addresses involved but ‘22 BOW BRICKHILL ROAD, MILTON KEYNES, MK17 8QE’ seems to be the one to visit[FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]send mail to[FONT=&quot].[/FONT]
  • Gel247
    Gel247 Posts: 11 Forumite
    Can anyone wih a higher power do a domain search to list ALL web addresses associated to Sharon Barrett?

    I think there was something like 30 or so but I had to pay for the priviledge and didn't feel the need to.
  • HI all just told them what i was going to do and guess what, was told DO WHAT YOU WANT MUPPET So here goes, im starting with the inland revenue. Bent company is unlikely to be paying tax and its all traceable to Sharon and her cronies. so I am about to spend as long as it takes! maybe they will give me my money back? Im going to put a few posts with all companies of theres on so the web will pick it up, if a few of us do it then all youll see is fraud warnings on google so if you an lets boot these b@@@@@@@ s offthe net.
  • tvs direc2u are a fradulant site do not buy anything from them
  • Iwantthatgift.co.uk are a fraudulant site do not but anything from them
  • Iwantthatgift and trottersindipendant traders are a fraud site do not buy anything from them
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