Buyer Beware or you will end up like me... $4353.25 on a credit card. Saw the cookware at a Virginia Beach Convention in Virginia.
They stated that we could cancel within three days if we found we did not like the product.
After reviewing the web blogs about this company we sent our Fedex cancel form the next day.
In april I notice that I have been charged the amount and the items start coming in. They said they never received the form. I noticed that my husband has sent the fedex to Jeff Hinkleman their representative. Jeff who has our information failed to tell us what we did wrong and did not notify the company.
The company said as long as they have the FEDEX number it is okay.in the mean time my husband has the fedex paper but is out to sea. He comes back for a week and a half. I call them they say they can't help me call next week. This goes on like this for months.
Now to today I get a new story. I am told by Steve on the phone that he cannot help me the only person that can is billy and he is in the hopsital. I ask for another manager, but that cannot be done.
I am told they would not be able to help me. I ask for billy's title he says "customer service" no anyone knows that there has to be more than one and if that guy is in the hospital there must be a replacement.
I ask for his full name it is William Shultheis. I then ask to be transefered to his voice mail. That cannot be done. Steve is know aggetated yells at me then hangs up.
I call back and get Naomi. I ask if her company is small she says no. I ask for their CEO's name she said no he cannot help me. I said I only want his name. She refused she gave me Tom Waslh the business managers name. I ask for his e-mail she said just go to the website which it does not have any. I ask her again she said no. She then hangs up on me.
I have called the federal trade comission and made a complaint. If you are having issues make sure you file a complaint. With engough complaints they can then do something about it. I have contacted my credit card company and they are trying to see if they can help me out. The people at both the FTC and VISA both agree that they are not operating properly.
I have this debt now and with no recourse from this company stay away!!!
Nicolann
norfolk, Virginia
U.S.A.
From: "David and Kimberly Jordan"
To: "'Paulette'"
Subject: Fw: Yellow Shirt
Date: Thursday, September 14 11:02 PM
Mom,
A really neat story I thought you'd enjoy.
This came from Shelley!!! I haven't heard from her in years!!!
Something tells me that maybe Cass, Shelley and I might start reconnecting again. Wouldn't that be something?
Love ya,
Kim
Original Message
From: Shelley LaCarte
To: Becky Todd ; KAREN SMITH ; Michele Schwerha ; Susan LaCarte ; dana lacarte ; Jordan Family E-Mail ; Anna Marie Axton
Sent: Thursday, September 14 9:18 PM
Subject: Fw: Yellow Shirt
Hi, all. You can skip the "forward to everyone or suffer doom" part at the end but enjoy the story... It makes me want to start a tradition but with what?
The baggy yellow shirt had long sleeves, four extra-large pockets trimmed in black thread
and snaps up the front. It was faded from years of wear, but still in decent shape. I found it in 1963 when I was home from college on Christmas break, rummaging through bags of clothes Mom intended to give away. "You're not taking that old thing, are you?" Mom said when she saw me packing the yellow shirt. "I wore that when I was pregnant with your brother in 1954!"
"It's just the thing to wear over my clothes during art class,
Mom. Thanks!" I slipped it into my suitcase before she could object. The yellow shirt be came a part of my college wardrobe. I loved it. After graduation, I wore the shirt the day I moved into my new apartment and on Saturday mornings when I cleaned.
The next year, I married. When I became pregnant, I wore the yellow shirt during big-belly days. I missed Mom and the rest of my family, since we were in Colorado and they were in Illinois But that shirt helped. I smiled, remembering that Mother had worn it when she was pregnant, 15 years earlier.
That Christmas, mindful of the warm feelings the shirt had given me, I patched one elbow, wrapped it in holiday paper and sent it to Mom. When Mom wrote to thank me for her "real" gifts, she said the yellow shirt was lovely. She never mentioned it again.
The next year, my husband, daughter and I stopped at Mom and Dad's to pick up some
furniture. Days later, when we uncrated the kitchen table, I noticed something yellow taped to its bottom. The shirt!
And so the pattern was set.
On our next visit home, I secretly placed the shirt under Mom and Dad's mattress. I don't know how long it took for her to find it, but almost two years passed before I discovered it under the base of our living-room floor lamp. The yellow shirt was just what I needed now while refinishing furniture. The walnut stains added character.
In 1975 my husband and I divorced. With my three children, I prepared to move back to Illinois. As I packed, a deep depression overtook me. I wondered if I could make it on my own. I wondered if I would find a job. I paged through the Bible, looking for comfort.in Ephesians, I read, "So use every piece of God's armor to resist the enemy whenever he attacks, and when it is all over, you will be standing up."
I tried to picture myself wearing God's armor, but all I saw was the stained yellow shirt. Slowly, it dawned on me. Wasn't my mother's love a piece of God's armor? My courage was renewed.
Unpacking in our new home, I knew I had to get the shirt back to Mother. The next time I visited her, I tucked it in her bottom dresser drawer.
Meanwhile, I found a good job at a radio station. A year later I discovered the yellow shirt hidden in a rag bag in my cleaning closet.
Something new had been added. Embroidered in bright green across the breast pocket were the words "I BELONG TO PAT."
Not to be outdone, I got out my own embroidery materials and added an apostrophe and seven more letters. Now the shirt proudly proclaimed, "I BELONG TO PAT'S MOTHER." But I didn't stop there. I zig-zagged all the frayed seams, then had a friend mail the shirt in a fancy box to Mom from Arlington, VA. We enclosed an
official looking letter from "The Institute for the Destitute, " announcing that she was the recipient of an award for good deeds. I would have given anything to see Mom's face when she opened the box. But, of course, she never mentioned it.
Two years later, in 1978, I remarried. The day of our wedding, Harold and I put our car in a friend's garage to avoid practical jokers. After the wedding, while my husband drove us to our honeymoon suite, I reached for a pillow in the car to rest my head. It felt lumpy. I unzipped the case and found, wrapped in wedding paper, the yellow shirt.inside a pocket was a note: "Read John 14:27-29. I love you both, Mother."
That night I paged through the Bible in a hotel room and found the verses: "I am leaving you with a gift: peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give isn't fragile like the peace the world gives. So don't be troubled or afraid. Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really love me, you will be very happy for me, for now I can go to the Father, who is greater than I am. I have told you these things before they happen so that when they do, you will believe in me."
The shirt was Mother's final gift. She had known for three months that
she had terminal Lou Gehrig's disease. Mother died the following year at age 57.
I was tempted to send the yellow shirt with her to her grave. But I'm glad I didn't, because it is a vivid reminder of the love-filled game she and I played for 16 years. Besides, my older daughter is in college now, majoring in art. And every art student needs a baggy yellow shirt with big pockets.
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