In February of I purchased along with my daughter and son-in-law 60 vending machines from Vendstar here on Long Island. They recommended Vending Dreams to help us locate our Machines.
At the end of March VD started to locate my daughter's machines. A locator named Paul Keiper did my daughter's machines. He did not allow Jen[my daughter]to go in with him because he said it was too many people and he got more yesses if he did it himself.
Never having done this before, we thought he knew what he was doing, so we deferred to him. Some of the locations were based on a return trip to place the actual machines in a couple of weeks. Well when Jen went to place at the specified time that Paul told her, she was told that the locator was told no at that time and he took a business card with him.
So, liar, thief, take your pick. When he came to do my 30 machines, a short time later, he did the same thing. He also stole machines and told me they were from a friend of his who was selling them for $65, so I bought 10 of them for $650 plus a locating fee of $25 per machine for a total of $900. After this I found out that he was a fraud. Jim Ellis was aware of this and he did make good for those machines for me.
The problem is that now after many phone calls, I still need 23 machines placed, which Jim Ellis has already been paid for. It has been 6 months since I purchased these machines and I feel that both me and my charity have lost a significant amount of potential revenue. I don't know if anyone can help me, but i have written to our NYS Att. Gen. Office for some advice on how to handle this.
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