Business Supply Center
US PIRATES PREYING ON UNINFORMED BUSINESS OFFICES
This company is really quite sophisticated and waits a year between contacts with you. They quote "have bought" your debt with a previous company you may even have unfortunately done business with ONCE and then make up dummy invoices that they can't prove you even received--THE ONE RECEIPT YOU HAVE THEY CLAIM MEANS YOU SIGNED FOR ALL THE PACKAGES--which we ALL KNOW IS NOT THE CASE.
Then they put a "legal team" on you who are truly scary. The FTC and BBB has been notified of this company, but they need to be shut down and prosecuted. I intend to do just that. but whatever you do, don't give them any names of equipment you own or people in your company.
They will hound you until you die I think. But they are sophisticated fraud artists.
IBC - BSC BS!
We have had toner scammers calling here for years. We are a great target because the business intentionally has alot of turnover.
I kind of enjoy it actually. If I get the call, I like to mess with them. I managed to keep a lady on the phone for half an hour one day while I went to "check" the model number several different times and kept giving her numbers that did not exist. I like to *** into the phone too.
Good stuff. Right back at ya scammers! haha.
Several times though, my employees have made the mistake of giving out our copier info, even though each phone has a notice about this. Inevitably, I get the *** ink and the subsequent outrageous bill, which I never pay.
When they call about the bill I play *** and tell them I never received a bill, or I never received any ink, or that I am Sheriff Beauford T. Justice and I will sue them blind, or I cry, or...well you all have some imagination.
The law is so totally on our side with these idiots so have some fun with it!
Business Supply Center toner scam
The receptionist assumed it really was our regular supplier, whom we've already prepaid for all toner we'll ever need so she said go ahead & send it. We received a few toner cartridges but it was not from our dealer, rather from some company we'd never heard of called Business Supply Center in Westland, Michigan. The toner was substandard--not the genuine brand our supplier always sends--and also the incorrect product number. It was not what we were expecting.
We wanted to send it back but they don't take returns.
Then we received an invoice from them. It claimed that we owe them an outrageous sum of $459.85; a price grossly overinflated for that phony product. We called our real supplier who said they have no affiliation with Business Supply Center.
Our account rep informed me he had heard of this outfit; they were pirates who always moved around, usually waiting a year between periods of activity. He'd heard horror stories. It would have been good to get a warning that their customers were being scammed by independent suppliers acting as pirates. Nevertheless we shouldn't have to pay because our purchasing officer never actually placed an order for that particular toner.
We filed a report with the FTC and the BBB.
If they threaten us we'll report it to the Attorney General.
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Hey Ripped off, What makes you think that they pay any taxes! If you steal from you I am sure they steal from our government too!
Do you have a number for them? They tried to scam us this morning, and I want to make sure that they don't send any junk.
Freaking Toner Pirates, they give the honest vendors a bad name.
Order away and don't pay, that may be the only way to run these guys out of business, you know the local authorities won't shut them down, they like the sales tax revenues these idiots pay.