I read Helga's story about PRICELINE MORTGAGE, and I couldn't believe my eyes! PRICELINE did precisely the same thing to us! Step for step, the same game, the same people running the scam—Dawn Campbell and her accomplice Stephanie Rossettos et al—everything they did to Helga, they did to us. They don't even bother changing the details of thier shell game! This is their M.O. If you're crazy enough to deal with Priceline, they'll do the same thing to you!
PRICELINE did so much to disrupt our lives that an exhaustive catalogue of all of the elements of their scheme would take ten pages to lay out. Let me simply refer you to Helga's story and tell you that they did all the same things to us; every little trick, delay, bungle, lie, mishandling, and goof-up applies to our story as well. Simply change the names and the dates (our nightmare with Priceline began May of this year, and isn't even close to over).
In addition to everything they did to Helga, PRICELINE failed set up an appraiser. We had to take of that. When the appraiser contacted PRICELINE, they LIED about the closing date so that the appraiser thought he had more time than they did. Still, the appraiser, a professional, got everything sent to PRICELINE in mere days, a full week ahead of time—but PRICELINE missed the closing date anyway, blaming the appraisers! Said PRICELINE: "We let the paperwork sit because we ASSUMED the appraiser would be late. So we figured why bother even trying." PRICELINE then began piling on the penalty fees—penalizing us for their failure to complete the paperwork by closing. (They blamed a worker's pregnancy for their repeated failures to contact us, to complete paperwork as they guaranteed, to do ANYTHING!!!) When they finally got around to sending the closing papers, they sent the papers too late to be used (the closing date had passed). The final closing costs changed every time we spoke to PRICELINE, then changed yet again when we got the papers (which we couldn't use, since the dates were incorrect), then changed again as they charged us another late fee for THEIR incompetence.
There is so much more: getting our email wrong and sending our personal loan information to persons unknown, calling us repeatedly at 4 A.M. I could write a book about our experience with this abominable company. PRICELINE will happily apologize for bungling the closing, and insist that they in no way profit from all the penalty fees they will now be adding to your closing costs. Of course, if anyone believes that line of bull, they deserve to be ripped off.
I suspect that Florida, that great harbor of "bankrupted" multi-millionaires, disallows punitive damages. But if they do not, we PRICELINE victims should consider somehow getting in contact and doing something as a group against this criminal enterprise. They need to be put out of business, and fast.
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