Anyone heard of Kitchen Arts

Conned_by_KA

Yup, had me too. £22 out of pocket, all to save £6 on a toaster. Have reported these crooks to action fraud and will forward my crime number to wham/bob.

Thanks for taking this up Bob and i hope you are successful in recovering some of our cash.

Padstow

Conned_by_KA wrote: »

Yup, had me too. £22 out of pocket, all to save £6 on a toaster. Have reported these crooks to action fraud and will forward my crime number to wham/bob.

Thanks for taking this up Bob and i hope you are successful in recovering some of our cash.

Considering so many have been conned by this non existent firm, I'm surprised that you trust a new member to deal with it for you. I'd rather deal with it myself so I know it's been done. The Finchley road branch should have a photocopy of the I.D presented when the account was opened.
Also I notice there is more than one person posting as spkonissis, the poster who had such a charming conversation with the firm's owner and who was refunded more than they spent. As if!

Conned_by_KA

Padstow wrote: »

Considering so many have been conned by this non existent firm, I'm surprised that you trust a new member to deal with it for you.

I have actually dealt with it myself by reporting to actionfraud. All I have done is shared the crime number. If this is also a bogus offer of help then what have any of us lost other than hope, if we were ever foolish enough to invest any in the offer.

Padstow wrote: »

I'd rather deal with it myself so I know it's been done.

And what would you do differently then, please feel free to impart any words of wisdom.

Padstow wrote: »

The Finchley road branch should have a photocopy of the I.D presented when the account was opened.

Thanks, I must pop in there sometime and politely ask for a copy.


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Terriermanx2

Bought item, unable to contact them whatsoever. Lucky only a few quid..... Learnt my lesson now

margretanddick

I am so mad with myself to have fallen for the kitchenarts.co.uk scam as well. Paid out £192.00 last month for a microwave oven. Got all the usual emails from Ellen Wiltshire and Michael Lucas after inquiring but - you guessed it - the microwave never arrived.
This is a really painful loss for us living on a meagre pensioners budget and I am so cheesed of reading all these posts .. afterwards.
Checked on webutation.net and scamadvisor before and they showed kitchenarts.co.uk as secure site. At least I managed to change that but most probably at the same time the site disappeared anyway.
Have also filed report with actionfraud police and added my crime reference number to the growing list. Thank goodness I did it online and didn't phone them up like others. I know it already and don't need to be told again how stupid I was.
So hopefully I am the last one on this sorry list.

Hockey123

I also bought something from the website £40. website has now disappeared and my emails are being bounced bank.

anyone got any ideas of what I can do?

Padstow

Conned_by_KA wrote: »

I have actually dealt with it myself by reporting to actionfraud. All I have done is shared the crime number. If this is also a bogus offer of help then what have any of us lost other than hope, if we were ever foolish enough to invest any in the offer.



And what would you do differently then, please feel free to impart any words of wisdom.



Thanks, I must pop in there sometime and politely ask for a copy.



I know, the whole things laughable. Theirs more than a few on this thread making up stories I think.

I think you've done the right thing and I wasn't suggesting you call into the HSBC, but TS or the police may like to know of the branch.
No need for your your heavy sarcasm, being extra nice to newbies perhaps should also read, that newbies should be extra nice too.

carlhenry

same here stupid enough to send £20 over 9 days ago and still no goods and no replies to e mails

ian_r_2

The website domain appears to be owned by Americans:

Domain name:
kitchenarts.co.uk

Registrant:
Energy Enterprise Solutions

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
12a Blueberry
Concorde, Concord
VT
05824
United States

Mr_Crunch

ian_r wrote: »

The website domain appears to be owned by Americans:

Domain name:
kitchenarts.co.uk

Registrant:
Energy Enterprise Solutions

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
12a Blueberry
Concorde, Concord
VT
05824
United States

They pinched the company name from a real company but the address is made-up, it is in the middle of nowhere if you try to find it.

I think I have found another website, Lavertons, which may not be all it seems, because it has some similarities to Kitchenarts. I'll start another thread so people can judge for themselves.