Before trying to sign up with this company, get a BBB report off the web. This company has a very bad record.
The owner of this company Erwin Koltay, has operated this same business under several previous names.
This company offers the opportunity to assemble electronic products at home, but it turns out it's a scam.
Here is an actual report of what this company does to it's contractors:
Retrieved From A Work At Home Scams Web Site On 2/13/07
I didn't know you had so much interest in this scam artist. YES, I am talking about Kevin Koltay. I've been scammed before but this is the first time we had to loose that much. At first it seemed real when I first saw it in classifieds somewhere in the web. They offered an opportunity to work as a recruiter for them to find them people who would be willing to pay them 'non-refundable' deposit. Well so I though it would be a great opportunity to make money on the web. I was fairly new to the internet then. So then my husband got interested and paid $250 deposit and send for that starter kit. Before we even received that kit we told my family in Massachusetts. My brother is a graduate from electronics school and he can disassemble and assemble almost anything that has to do with electronics. So, my father and a brother thought that they finally found a job they could do at home and make 'GOOD' money doing it. They rushed in and paid $500 for both of them.
Then we received our sampler and a kit to assemble first modulator. My husband bought all necessary tools to assemble that kit. First of all the instructions were not clear (I think it was done on purpose to confuse people). Then my husband spent over 6 hours assembling that thing and no matter what he did it would not work. Then he opened up the sampler and compared to see what he did wrong. Later he discovered that some parts that they sent us were different from those that that were on the sampler. We sent that non-working modulator back to ARD and explained the problem about our findings on difference in parts. Also, we asked them to tell us exactly what my husband did wrong. And what we have received??? Well a long letter of explanation telling us how to assemble it correctly, just as they promised to do. Yeah right!!!:-) They sent one line saying that the parts they sent were correct and he should follow their directions they send with kit.
Then my husband spent some more time but this time he took off the parts that were different from the sampler and placed them in his rejected modulator. Guess what??? IT WORKED! We send them invoice asking for more kits. They send us that modulator back saying that it worked "somewhat" but that wasn't good enough for them. When my husband opened it, he noticed that it was opened by ARD and there were some kind of spots that looked like oil spray. Also, it was really clear that they have moved or did something to those parts and then blamed my husband for it.
When we finally realized that we are just wasting our time and money on postage materials we asked them for our deposit back. Koltay started telling me that it is not refundable and they will not return our money back. Then after long and nasty e-mail talk with him I saw that it is not going anywhere. Then I told him that I will tell everybody and anybody I will come across who would be interested in his scam. And since I use to work for a short time as a recruiter for him I had web site and I knew many others who was interested in this.
He finally got scared and sent us our deposit back minus $50 for first kit and sample because it wasn't in original condition, and had me promise him that I will keep my mouth shut. Well I did, for some time and I stopped working for him too. I didn't want to lie to honest people who were looking for honest way to make money.
My brother and father had the same problem with Koltay and since they signed up under me they were blaming me and asking me to talk to Koltay and ask for their deposit back. You know what he told me??? He said that I broke his rules about not signing up any body like neighbors and family members. Now I know why! Lol!!! Six months later they still can't get anything out of ARD.
I wish I would have saved all of the letters I got from him but the problem is I have changed computers since than and didn't care about saving those letters to disc. Sorry! I just hope that someone would have guts to take him to the court and make that looser pay ten times more than he stole from people. I don't care where these money will go just as long as that jerk will pay. Better yet, jail! That is right he needs to spend some time in work camps so that he can lean that if you want to be rich you have to be prepared to work hard. All those who steal will end up in jail sometimes in their life time, he should too!!! Don't you think so??? Oh, that LIAR!!!
Lesley, you can use this e-mail if you want, all I ask is DO NOT post my last name anywhere please!!! And if you know any other way I can help my brother and father to get their $500 back please let me know. Thanks. Lily T.)"
And here's another story.
I bought 2 CD modulator assembly kits (1 for me, 1 for a friend) from "Erwin Koltay" back near August 1997 when his company was called TRDL Engineering Group" for $200 each ($400 total). I received 4 packages during our communications. Two sample CD modulators pre-built and operating correctly, and 2 assembly kits where I was to put together 2 CD Modulators. The parts that I was supposed to use to build a CD modulator were different and substandard from the parts in the working sample. The resistors were different and the condenser wires were shorter than the one's in the sample. We couldn't contact Koltay by telephone as the phone number was always busy, and his instructions in his letters were not to contact him by phone. I sent him a letter asking for a replacement condenser (you can get one replacement part for free). When it arrived it was the same kind of condenser that we already had.
My next observation was that the assembly instructions were vague for a device that was so complicated. After a few steps, maybe step 7 or 9, the instructions said to solder the parts together as in the sample. Considering the sample was in a small package with all the components "jumbled" together and nearly impossible to see, it is my belief that Koltay had no intention of anyone ever completing a CD modulator and having it work. One of the CD modulators samples didn't work at first either, because it came with a dead battery which we had to replace. I tried to ask Koltay for a refund, and he refused. I told him (by e-mail) that I thought his program was fraudulent, and that if I didn't get a refund that I would report him to consumer protection agencies. He replied with angry e-mail which threatened that if an investigation didn't find anything wrong with his operation, that he would hire a lawyer in my city and prosecute me.
Then I tried to get a refund through the Pinellas County, Florida consumer protection department. As part of their mediation, I was to return everything that I received from Koltay. I returned the samples and the modulator assembly kits by priority mail, with delivery confirmation. However that was my mistake that I ONLY used confirmation delivery, because what I didn't know was that they only make public the city, state, and zip code where the delivery was made, the US Postal services doesn't show you what actual street address the delivery was made to, if you use delivery confirmation. My packages was confirmed as delivered, but I couldn't get any written record of the street address that the package was delivered to just the city, state, and zip code... Which matched Koltay's address. Of course, the honorable Mr. Koltay, denied ever receiving anything, so I never got my money back, and he has 2 new samples to use on another "customers.
James
Crosby, Texas
U.S.A.
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