Christopher Taylor and I initiated business in June. He claimed to have BlackBerry 8900 phones that would be shipped to me from a company down the street from him. After receiving the invoice and communicating with him on multiple occassions that I specifically needed new phones in the factory OEM boxes, we proceeded with the transaction in which I wired him over $47,000 USD.
After nearly 3 weeks of waiting, I finally received the product. After inspection it was clear (and seeing they were shipped from China) that these were 100% factory refurbished BlackBerrys. I demanded that I be refunded for the product. He told me he would refund in full upon receipt of the items back to him in London. I gladly shipped back the phones to him.
Upon arrival of the units in London, Chris then insisted that he would not refund the original payment back to me. After 3 weeks of not answering calls or emails, I decided that the only way to recuperate my funds were to receive them back and sell them myself. He shipped them back to my warehouse in which I resold them for a loss.
After my customers had bought and received and ultimately sold them to their retail buyers, they found that over 80% of the units were defective in some way. They either didn't charge, didn't turn on, the screen didn't work, etc.
After all of this, Chris claimed that they were brand new and not refurbished. After this whole ordeal, I lost over $27,000 USD and countless hours of headaches returning and reselling the phones for parts or pieces. Chris refunded me $3,000 as a partial refund, but no more.
If you work with Mobile Distribution Solutions, it is not a question of whether or not you will get scammed or defrauded, but rather, when. I suggest you do not initiate or continue business with Christopher Taylor or his company.
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