Complaint / Review
String Art A Division Of Lattimer Marketing
Lattimer Marketing. Dean "String Art" Lattimer still ripping people off twenty years later! Stevenson, Connecticut

I was just surfing the internet, looking for rip-offs and scams, and came across several others who have been scammed by Dean Lattimer.
I suffered Lattimer's fraudulent schemes almost twenty years ago. I was out of work and running out of unemployment, so I got a magazine that had a lot of "Work at Home" classifieds in them. One which sounded interesting was a kit to make your own "String Art" at home, to resell.
So I ordered a "kit" from Lattimer String Art in Bellefontaine, Ohio, for something like 19.95. A few weeks later, I got the "kit" - one piece of badly-xeroxed paper with a barely-decipherable diagram and instructions on how to make a piece of string art to resell back to the company for profit.
So, the scam wasn't the ordering of the "kit, " which I did get. The scam is the project itself. According the the convoluted instructions, the project had to be made on a certain type of wood, with hundreds of certain types of pins hammered into the wood, and the string art made by wrapping a particular type of craft thread around the design - SIX TIMES!
At this point in the reading of the instructions, I laughed, and realized I had been scammed. Obviously NOBODY could make these complicated and ridiculous little craft projects, and the amount of supplies and time needed to make one would completely negate the few dollars that Lattimer was supposedly offering to buy them from me.
I returned the "kit" for a refund, but I never really expected to get my money back - and I never did.
I can guarantee you that Lattimer never bought back ONE of these String Art pieces from anyone - even if somebody actually went ahead and made some, and sent them in, I am sure Dean just tossed them in the trash and laughed his head off. Hey Lattimer, if you are reading this, respond with a list of folks you actually bought String Art from! We are waiting...
So the real scam here isn't non-delivery of an advertised item. The scam is giving out false hope to someone out of work. To me, that is worse that tacky - that is evil.