I ordered 5 wood burning furnaces for a customer and ourselves for a new wellness center and separate homes in Southwest Missouri. They totaled $42,700 from Rick Fulcher who lives in Farmville Virginia, Arthur Turple and Brian Nadeau. They represented themselves as manufacturers of the "Wood Doctor" outdoor wood furnace.
I did a limited amount of homework on vetting them through Rip-Off.com and found nothing along with the Better Business Bureau. I found nothing. They claimed on their website and on the phone that they have over 400 dealers throughout the USA and Canada and that they were "Good Christian People". I was setting myself up as a local dealer so they said I had to order several units to be placed in my "sales yard". This was the only way to obtain the discount of 30% that dealers get once they are approved.
I ordered them back in November and they said they were ready for delivery on December 1st 2011. I have only one additional email from them after I wired them payment in full to their bank in Farmville, Virginia. That email said that they were sorry for the delay but they were doing everything possible to complete my order.
Unfortunately, all of their phones have either been shut off or the voicemail messaging is full. We have hired private investigators to chase these bad people down and we know that a couple of them are on the run. They are being reported to their local states attorneys as well as the FBI. We have learned of a BLOG that talked about all of the wood furnace dealers (although it was too late) that talks about the Wood Doctor and how many people have recently been ripped off in the last several months.
Arthur Turple is on the run down in Panama in his retirement home with another serial Con Artist preaching the gospel and ripping off more poor panamanians. Brian Nadeau has been their silent partner since 2007 and we are closing in on him as well as Rick Fulcher. We are filing lawsuits against all three of them personally and the wood doctor as a business as well as Creative Energy Solutions which is Rick Fulchers Shell company to receive funds.
If any one has information to their whereabouts or anything else, please use this forum to report additional information. There have been many poor people as well as unsuspecting folks like us that have been taken to the cleaners through these peoples tactics and outright theft.
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