Warning about DVD scammers

[Titanmen]

Did you research them or ask for referances before sending them content?

They tried the same scam on us, but we asked for referances before we would send them any samples. When they didn't reply we knew they are not serious.

Ask for industry referances or examples of their work before sending content to anyone. If they are reputable they will already be working with others in the industry or will have examples of their current work.

[Paco]

JakeCruise - I am sorry to hear about your dealing with the low-lifers, and would like to thank you for the notice/heads-up.

:thumbsup:

[gaybucks_chip]

Actually, it's worse than that. We didn't get stung by them, but what these people have done to several others is place large orders (500-1500 pieces per title), pay for the order with a credit card, and then, a month later, report the card stolen.

We got an email from them about a year and a half ago. We first contacted our distributor, since we're exclusive for resellers with our distributor. He explained the above info (he'd been burned on it) and I then asked around and found a couple other people that had been suckered by the same scam.

So I had a little fun. I asked them for details. They responded with the most unlikely bunch of answers (Oh, we're such-and-so company, we've been around forever, but we don't like working with distributors because they just rip everyone off and never ship product...) and I then asked about how they sold their product, how they'd acquired their mailing list, what the company name was, etc. and got some response with info that still made no sense.

When I responded back that no one in the business I could find had ever heard of this company, which seemed strange given that they claimed to have a million *BUYERS* (that was the claim to us), and that a company of this size wouldn't have even a perfunctory website... well, I got one more response to the effect of "I hope you'll not worry about these little details and let us give you an order... we'll pay with a credit card."

I offered that we'd sell for that large an order only with a wire transfer. The response I got back was "Well, we can't do that. Sorry you're not interested in taking advantage of this great opportunity, I guess we'll just go to your competition."

They emailed again about a year later, under a different company name, apparently oblivious that they'd contacted us before. I think they prey on smaller companies that are hungry.

[Squirt]

Sorry to hear that happened Jake.

Thanks for taking the time to post a public warning, it will help others protect themselves :thumbsup:

[Jasun]

Yeah, those people tried to hook me in too.

I smelled a rat when I saw the HUGE bulk orders they claimed that they'd make. Just seemed WAY too good to be true.

I took a look at the email and asked them how customers ordered the DVDs.

"Oh, from the emails", they said.

"But you can't order a DVD from an email.. you'd have to go to a website to place an order, woudlnt' you? And is this a gay or straight mailing list"

"This is both gay and straight", they said.

this went on for an hour or two (if they really were this big they'd NEVER had gotten back to me that fast) and I just stopped responding because I could tell it was jus bullocks.

Sucks you got sucked in.

At least you just lost one copy of each DVD.