On November 4, I read this on craigslist in MN. The web address for this is: http://minneapolis. Craigslist.org/csr/229943807.html
Experienced Auction Listers Needed Asap!
Reply to: [email protected]
Date: 11-03,11:10PM CST
Good Day, Welcome to the world of Matrix I.T. Solutions, we are a full service internet technology firm in northern New Jersey. We specialize in networking and network design. We also offer wholesale computers to our clients business to business, we also employ a few employees for the postions of customer service.
What we provide:
A full listing of the items for sale with picture and description and spec sheet.
Your job: To list and sucessfully sale each item over the wholesale price for each item that we disclose for each item prior to u selling it.
On average each item makes 450.00 profit. The company and the salesmen split the profits 50/50. On average our salesmen make 850.00 weekly. We cover all the auction fees and associated fees, out of our profit side.
If u are interested please forward your resume:
* Compensation: 1000.00/weekly
* no — Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
* no — Please, no phone calls about this job!
* no — Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
* no — Reposting this message elsewhere is NOT OK.
229943807
The only was the amount to be made per transaction and week. I applied for the position and then received this email from Kevin Holley.
From: kevin holley
Date: 11/05/06 05:22: 45
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Experienced Auction Listers Needed Asap!
Hello,
I know its sunday mourning really early but i am the owner of Matrix IT
Solutions we are a supplier of
high end computers to sellers on ebay, ubid, ioffer and other sites as well.
What we do is we have a few core sellers who sell our normal dells and
toshiba laptops. But with christmas season fast approaching we are looking
for 2 new sellers to join the core sellers who currently earn on average 800
a week in commisions. What we do is we provide u the seller, with the
listing complete with the pictures and all the tech information. When we do
that we also give u the wholesale price of each item which since we are a
leagal registered company we get very cheap. We would like for u to be the
official seller of our hottest seller apple laptops and toshiba's and such.
Lets say for example that a apple ibook, with a wholesale price of say 500
sells for 1500 on ebay. We split the profits of every penny above the
wholesale price. Then when a customer orders a item and sends u the funds, u take your profits off the top. And send the remaining funds to us wholesale price 50% of the remaining wholesale profits. We drop ship the
item in 2-3 days, but with christmas approaching we will offer 24 hour service to all orders. U get good feedback from the item and we keep making money together. We are a team, we work together and u make about 250
dollars profits from each item and u sell between 2-3 listings at a time.
That being said, we would like to get u listing asap, and at least get u your first order so that u can see the process its something that we are very proud of. If u are interested in getting started asap, shoot back
over a email and i will personally get u great listing and hopefully with the season to make alot of money fast approaching we can grow money together
.
Kevin holley
owner
Matrix it solutiosn
The next day, I received a phone call from Bianca Morgan, who claimed to be in partnership with Kevin. She explained what my responsibility would be and how to list the laptops. I, immediately, did research on the company, Matrix IT Solutions, Kevin Holley and Bianca Morgan. I could not find anything about them or the company, not even with The Better Business Bureau. The only thing I found there was an address, which is 234 Lakewood Dr. Bloomfield, N.J. And the phone no. The first time I called, I got a voice mail with Kevin introducing the company and his name. I did not leave a message. It seemed to be a real company then.
So I finally decided to list a laptop on ioffer.com, but when I wrote Bianca this, she wanted to know if I had listed on ebay. Then was when I listed two on ebay and wrote back that I had.
The auctions went well. They started at $50 on ebay and a pay now price of $1900 on ioffer.com. The one on ioffer sold right away. This is when the nightmare started. I wrote her asking questions from my buyer. She only gave me vague answers. When I wtote her I had sent the cashier's check. She answered right away asking if I had sent my first sale overnight. Before this, it took her days to answer me either in an email or by calling.
One of my auctions was bid on and won by a fraud on ebay who caused the listing fees to sky rocket. I wrote Bianca telling her what had happened. She told me to put in a strke report on this person. I did, and it was found they had taken over someone's account. So ebay credited the fees to my account. Being new to all this, I thought they meant my PayPal account. This is how rotten these people are. When Bianca called me to tell me she had received my cashier's check, she also told me I would have to pay them these fees since they were, in fact, credited to my ebay account instead. I thought my fears had been allayed since she called me, personally. I was wrong.
Before sending a cashier's check to them for the first sale, I was still searching and researching every avenue I could think of, even here at usacomplaints.com. I did not want to take a chance on my customer being ripped off as he had been through something like this beforehand. I still couldn't find anything about them or the company that proved them to be a scam.
A lot of the emails I sent to her were, at best, not answered completely or with reserve. And the call I made to Kevin Holley was never answered. As it turned out, Bianca was just answering my emails to keep me hooked.
In the meantime, my PayPal account has been changed to a limited account so I can't do anything with it until I meet their resolve questions, one of which, is giving them the tracking no of the laptop. I refunded the money to a second chance winner from ebay because I wasn't getting anywhere with getting my PayPal account opened again, and I knew it would take a long time for the restriction to be lifted.
In the meantime, I can't refund the first buyer's money as I don't have it. Furthermore, any of the rest of the fees, from ebay, will come out of my pocket. The first fees I took out of the payment as instructed to do by Kevin and Bianca.
I fell for this scam because I was desperate to help with our expenses. And everything seemed on the up until tonight when I got a final call from my first customer. He was fed up with waiting for his laptop after three and a half weeks. I finally gave him the information I have regarding the name of the company, Matrix I.T. Solutions and Kevin Holley. He did a check and found a letter from someone here.
Now their customer is wanting his money back. I'm out of the little bit of money I did make because I'm refunding whatever I can to him. I don't want to keep it considering what he's been through and I feel it's dirty money. I also am going to have to let PayPal know what has transpired, of how this company is a scam. I don't know if they will open my account or not. I spent hours listing these laptops and I have nothing to show for it. And to top it all off, Bianca Morgan is telling me I have to pay them the fees credited to my ebay account. I'm not sending them another penny!
The addresses I have for this company are, 234 Lakewood Drive Bloomfield, N. J 07003 and 957 route 33 #140 Hamilton, NJ 08690, which turns out to be a UPS Store. The first address belongs to someone else's name, Nippes. The first time I went to the Better Business Bureau, it was said to be under Matrix I.T. Solutions, LLC name with Kevin Holley as the owner and his no. The next time I checked it after sending the cashier's check and receiving the strange email from Bianca) I called 411 and found it to be under someone else's name. Then I went back to Better Business Bureau to recheck it. I couldn't find it again under the company name or any other reference. I went to switchboard.com and found it to be, indeed, under M. Nippes. Here is the phone no for Kevin Holley, 732-586-9272, so you can call it to try to get a refund or to let him know it's out there now and he can't get by with ripping people off anymore. Also, call the Attorney General for the company's area and let them know about this.
I'm going to put this out all over the web and I'm going to contact anyone who has the pictures they send you to list with and let them know it's a scam and to close their auctions, if they can, and let ebay know what's going on.
I'm not just going to sit back and let them get by with their scam.
If anyone has any ideas or if you are a lawyer who can advise me as to what my responsibilities are to their customer who got ripped off, I would appreciate it. I can't pay anything as I don't have any money to do so. Thanks for any help given and for putting this scammer out of business for good and behind bars.
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