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OfflineIgnatius
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Warning! Avoid these Vendors!
    #6158555 - 10/11/06 02:27 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I have spent the last two months with two scam artists masquerading as legit lab equipment vendors.  One is

University Scientific as you might know sells a rip-off of the mycodome called the mycogarden.  I didn't order that, but did order some humidity monitors.  When they didn't show up after a month I e-mailed the company.  Right. Fake e-mail addresses which were kicked back from a strange ISP.  Called and got an answering machine.  My VISA rep said, "Yea, they've been reported before."  The worst thing is this - they troll mushroom forums and give glowing reviews of their products and flame anybody questioning the company's legitmacy. :mad:

The other company sciencelab is a shade more legit.  They actually have an e-mail address.  However, their sales rep kept delaying my order - 2 months after it was made - in order to get through the ex post facto window that my VISA card would allow for reimbursing claims.  Again, my VISA rep said this company was on their radar. 

Avoid these vendors, folks!



**I changed the Title of your thread***
-Roadkill


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OfflineSpores_101
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: Ignatius]
    #6158564 - 10/11/06 02:30 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Sorry you lost out there, hope everything works out for you.

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InvisibleStroFun
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: Spores_101]
    #6158886 - 10/11/06 03:33 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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SPORES101_COM said:
Sorry you lost out there, hope everything works out for you.




EBAY has some helpful links about organizations that you can report the companies to if you like.

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OfflineIgnatius
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: StroFun]
    #6158912 - 10/11/06 03:42 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

These companies weren't Ebay or Paypal related.  They were straight Visa transactions.  Kudos to Visa for reimbursing me.  :thumbup:


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OfflineSchwip
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: Ignatius]
    #6158988 - 10/11/06 04:00 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

wow that second link

they must have put allot of work into scamming people if thats the case....

they got a very healthy stock of different chemicals(some of which they need permits to sell)


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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: Ignatius]
    #6159048 - 10/11/06 04:28 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

University Scientific has had a bad name around here for a long time!~
We have many posts about this scam site in here.

This is the 1st time I have heard anything about the sciencelab.com


thanks for the info!~


tc


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Brainiac said:
PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.


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Offlinepsyborg
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: Roadkill]
    #6159381 - 10/11/06 06:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Thanks for the heads up. Almost used university scientific.

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Offlinemushnoon
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: psyborg]
    #6159712 - 10/11/06 08:24 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

hehe im helping a noob recover from their mycogarden failure.


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OfflineSpores_101
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: mushnoon]
    #6159984 - 10/11/06 09:28 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Should have bought a www.mycodome.com

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OfflinePanamaFred
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: Ignatius]
    #6161742 - 10/12/06 11:22 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

well I just put in an order for university scientifics mycogarden, hopefully these guys arent a bunch of scam artists like ya'll say, will report back with the conclusion.


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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: PanamaFred]
    #6162092 - 10/12/06 12:51 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

They are. Cancel your order. GEt your money back.

I've had first hand experience helping a friend who bought the same thing.

Their instructional DVD is a straight rip of Mycodome's online videos, even. They will not answer customer service questions (stupid support ticket deal, my friend still has a ticket open, after over 3 months). They may not include everything that's supposed to come with the kit. The mycogarden doesn't even fit together right, so it's impossible without all sorts of jerryrigging to retain humidity upon fruiting.

It's a cheap bucket based TiT incubator with a stupid plastic dome for fruiting. Seriously, PM me if you want and I'll tell you how to make the same thing for 15% of the price.

CANCEL YOUR ORDER AND SAVE YOUR $$$! Build your own, preferably, or buy a mycodome. There's a reason they're not a sponsor.


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OfflinePanamaFred
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: mrsage]
    #6162795 - 10/12/06 04:10 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

godam i should have searched mycodome on this site. univ. sci. just looked pretty reputable and I was led there through Ralphster, who seems trusted around here. any ideas on how to cancel this order,? phone wont answer and apparently their email is bullshit? thanks


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OfflinePanamaFred
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: Ignatius]
    #6162818 - 10/12/06 04:16 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

correction, apparently ralphsterspores.com and ralphstersspores.com are 2 different sides. it was not the authentic ralphster who led me to this faulty product. cant be spreading lies.


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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: PanamaFred] * 1
    #6162920 - 10/12/06 04:52 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Yes the other site was bought by the parent company of University Scientific and run to take advantage of folks that got the spelling wrong. Another example of fraudulent (IMO) activity by 'em.


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OfflineSporecloud
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: mrsage]
    #6170156 - 10/14/06 09:41 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

They are a long running scam the owners name is Sean and he is a real asshole he was selling spore syringes for 80 dollars and up for just one a few years ago and he also uses makes up websites with names very much like legit vendors sites to throw people off

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OfflineMycoKris
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: Sporecloud]
    #6170360 - 10/14/06 10:58 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

sporebank . c o m comes up if you type in ralphsterspores . c o m in the address bar, thet sell the mycogarden


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OfflineSpores_101
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: MycoKris]
    #6171253 - 10/15/06 09:43 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

University Scientific.com
Sporebank.com
ganja.com

There are so many of their sites its hard to keep up. I had the unfortunate opportunity to meet these scammers (before I knew) out in Jamaica at their "farm". They seemed nice and were very welcoming and even convinced me it would be a good idea to work out a drop shipment arrangement. I agreed to drop ship my products to their customers for a lower price. Well, a month and half later they still hadnt paid me, stole my product manufacturing techniques, and started distributing crappier versions of my stuff. They even used the same pics!
At the time I had owned Ralph's store when he decided to leave the business, those bastards tried to get me to sign over that name to them right there on a desk in my suite. I knew something was fishy then but I still didn't back off like I should have.

Anyway - I was incredibly pissed and vowed to tell everyone I could about these assholes and their business practices. So, here ya go.

The guys who have been screwing with you are:

[Edit: Personal Information Removed - Please DO NOT Post such information on our public BB]

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Edited by geokills (10/16/06 09:15 AM)

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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: Spores_101]
    #6171321 - 10/15/06 10:07 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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SPORES101_COM said:  But watch out because he is also a retired lawyer.




As if we needed any more dirt to know they're fucking scumbags.  :crazy2:


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OfflineRogerRabbitV
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: Ignatius]
    #6171486 - 10/15/06 11:10 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Ignatius said:
  Kudos to Visa for reimbursing me.  :thumbup:




Which is exactly how to handle it.  Visa charges the merchant an extra $25 to $50 each time they do a charge back, ensuring the sloppy merchant gets spanked.  They either fix the problem or go out of business, but you have to complain to the credit card company when you get jacked.
RR


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Invisiblethedudenj
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Re: Warning! Avoid these two vendors! [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #6175519 - 10/16/06 03:32 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

wow my friend ordered jars form university scientific and says he wont get em from anywhere else is this something new he ordered last almost a year ago. and in this case does that make sporebank bad too they are affiliated


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