CCI Scam
I understand that we are not investing in CCI and we never said that I that I keep repeating is the history of CCI, I never mentionanything about TSIG. I keave that determination up to you. I find it very interesting that every time someone posts a negative thing about CCI sosmeone is quick to discredit it. I am convinced that many people on this chat board are CCI plants just smoothing things over. My oersonal feeling about this TSIG thing is that they are honest people trying to make a buck, they have what I consider a great website, unfortunatly for them they are dealing with a crook named Mr. Darrel Piercy.
I still can not belive that he is operational. I thought by now he would be in Mexico or on some island laughing at all the poor fooish investors who gave him thier money.
The way I see it is that Mr. Piercy has very good Lawyers and Accountants who move his money around and protect him. I opened a case with the CA DA office about him last year, he responded to it by saying he would refund the money to us. To date, no money. Words are cheap as well as ink. Darrel once told me that he is not afraid of lawyers, the DA or anyone for that matter. His feeling is "go ahead and sue me" "I have no assets anyway" There are presently two- three if not more judgments on him and CCI, but the lawyers we spoke to said that they can not locate any assets. How convienent. I find this quite strange. He has a lot of protection.
On Monday I will post to complaint number to the DA,a contact person and thier phone number. I just want to verify that it is still open, because as one lawyer put it"Irvine CA is the home of the Scamster" and I want to make sure that Darrel did not happen to close the case again with a stupid letter stating that all is well and good. Keep looking this week because I am certatin that many new suprises will appear. I will slowly and painfully bring it to the surface and expose Darrel Piercy for the true Scamster that he is.
I share with you this link of a newsgroup that I started.
dejanews.com
Please visit it frequently.
Again, everything I have to say is only about CCI, and Mr. Darrel Piercy. I know nothing and say nothing about TSIG.
I share these two post to my newsgroup:
I recently had $600 appear on my credit card charged to various newspapers in the U.S. I called the papers and discovered all the ads were placed for Compact Connection. Needless to say, I'm going to be working with the credit card company to put an end to such activities. I had to cancel my cards after the charges continued to pile up, I was lucky that I was checking it in between billing statements. I had given my credit card to Wax Cylinder and figured them to be the culprit. Apparently not, although I don't know who to trust for sure.
Anyone else have CCI use your credit card to advertise?? Please post!
thanks,
-J
I'm not a dealer, simply a ripped-off CCI customer, notified by Wax
Cylinder of this discussion thread. But I was also a victim of credit card fraud by CCI, as well as a systematic campaign to deceive me about it. Through the course of a half-dozen conversations in which I patiently endeavored to get them to correct what I assumed were innocent mistakes, none of the several CCI representatives showed me good faith -- all I was leftwith were a series of baffling boldface lies and promises that were never kept.
Here's the story in brief, best as I can remember it a year later.
I ran across Wax Cylinder's web page and bought a music card. I then called CCI and used my credit card to order 4 CDs, which I was assured would ship immediately. One of these CDs I was anxious to get ASAP, because it had sentimental value and I intended to give it to my fiancee for her upcoming birthday.
Instead, weeks passed and I received nothing; however, my credit card had been billed for the full $49.95 the day of my order. I tried contacting CCI and was told that my contact was named Alex, but that she was out. When I called back, the phone company said the line was unavailable. At that point I e-mailed my problems to date to Wax Cylinder (which is how I suppose they identified me as a disgruntled CCI customer).
Eventually I located a number through which I reached CCI. I received a sob story about their going with an 800 number provider (?) that had left them in the lurch, leaving them with many customers who couldn't reach them while they set up new lines. CCI also claimed it had had problems with record company or distributer going out of business, so they'd been delayed getting one of my 4 CDs.
I could only sympathize with all their apparent travails, but I expressed the wish that they had sent my other 3 CDs immediately while the fourth was on back order. I also suggested that I shouldn't have been billed for back-ordered product. The rep apologized profusely and told me that these 3 CDs had in fact coincidentally been shipped to me that very day.
A month later, I woke up to realize that I still hadn't received any CDs! That's when I checked my next credit card statement, and discovered that in addition to their original $49.95 charge, they had just billed me for another $499.50 -- exactly 10 times as much!
I called up CCI immediately and spoke to an easy-going rep, who impressed me with his straightforward, can-do attitude. He promised to take care of all the bookkeeping to reverse the mistake -- the credit would appear on my next statement, along with a refund for interest charges.
A month later, I received my next credit card statement -- there had been no reversals of any kind from CCI. Incensed, I called CCI, and got someone who identified herself as a secretary. She said that all (!) of CCI's operational personnel were in a meeting together and were unavailable. She promised to send a memo to accounting, who'd be sure to take care of it.
At this point, I was hardly so sure. It was a Friday, so impatiently waited until I could call back Monday. Furious, in no mood to accept any more bland assurances, I demanded to talk to someone empowered to act on my complaint immediately, or I would go to the Better Business Bureau, take it up with my credit card company, etc., etc.
Pretty soon a man took the line, who identified himself as one of the co-owners of CCI. He very patiently rode out my storm, took total
responsibility, and assured me that he would immediately take care of
everything, refunding my money with interest. We talked for quite some time, during which he listened with interest to my observations about the various problems I'd experienced at CCI. By the end, I felt CCI had some problems, and I'd been incredibly unlucky dealing with them, but at least this guy was trying his best to straighten things out. A con man had regained my confidence.
But, a month later, when my credit card again showed no reversals, I'd had enough. I filled out an affadavit with the credit card company fornon-delivery of merchandise (the $49.95 charge) and a charge that never happened ($499.50). The company promptly refunded my money and accumulated interest, pending an investigation. A month later, because CCI had not responded to their enquiries, the credit card company closed their books on the matter in my favor.
Curiously, a couple months later, I had another bogus billing, this time from a small Indian restaurant who charged my card for precisely 10 times the actual amount of the ticket. Since the restaurant has no connection to CCI, I assume it was a coincidence. The credit card company again reversed the charges upon investigation.
Since then, no problems -- I've been scrutinizing my bills, and I'll look even closer from now on after been reminded of those rip-off artists at CCI.
What a bunch of scumbags! After recounting my long tale of woe, which was INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING AND WRENCHING at time, I feel foolish and credulous. I really presumed that CCI was operating in good faith; later I wasn't sure whether they were incompetent or fraudlent, but the sheer number of folks I talked to, who must all have been "in" on the conspiracy of deceit, made me lean toward the "incompetence" or "incredible streak of bad luck" theory.
But now I know for sure from comparing my own to others' experiences.
And what is so absurd is, that if CCI had been legit and had delivered on their modest promises, I would have done a lot of business with them. Instead they treated me like a mark and a sap, and ended up not getting one cent from me -- just hours of mutually wasted time.
Just to add my two cents, if I did not have any backing documentaion about this whole thing would I waste so much time just to bad mouth CCI for the hell of it. Just think about it.
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