Alaska Fishing Excursions - Mike Bianchi
Alaskafishingexcursions.com beware! Fishing excursion fraud. All talk, once you send money. No action or contact

I was planing a trip to Alaska and wanted to do some fishing for a day near Anchorage. I had contacted several places about a day trip for 2 adults. Since we were flying in we needed transportation from our hotel to the fishing site. This proved to be difficult, everyone seemed to want you to travel to them and no one offered any pick-up or drop-off service. I was refered to Alaska Fishing Excursions by one of the other fishing guides and was given the phone number and website for Mike Bianchi at Alaskafishingexcursions.com; I reviewed the website and it looked professional and sounded great, so I called and spoke with Mike and we discussed the trip and other things and he even said that for an extra $100 he would drive the extra hour back and forth to come pick us up and drop us back off at the hotel. He wanted me to send him a non-refundable deposit of $225 via check in the mail for just half of the fishing trip. He wanted my email address so that he could send me more information. He then sent me an email a few days later with infomation and also asked me some additional questions about wader sizes, food on the trip etc... I responded back via email to him with answers to his questions and also asked a couple of more questions of my own. After about 2 weeks later, I had not gotten an response back via email acknowleding receipt of the email or the check I had sent to him in the mail. I thought that maybe he didn't get my email, so I resent the email and also asked if had gotten my check because it had not been received by my bank yet (I thought maybe got lost in the mail). A few more days went by with no response, so I called the contact phone number (supposed to be his cell phone). No answer but I left a nice voicemail asking him to call me to confirm the trip and if he had gotten my check and/or email. A few more days passed with no response back. I called again and left another voice mail... No response. So I then emailed and left another voicemail advising him that since he could not contact me back with regards to payment or trip confirmation, that I was cancelling the trip and that I placed a stop payment on the check (Cost me $35). It is now still 2 days before the fishing trip and I have not gotten any type of response or acknowlegement from him or his company. Seems like a... Send me your money and then no contact scam to me... Fortunately he didn't cash or deposit my check... Which is what is weird... His loss.

Company: Alaska Fishing Excursions - Mike Bianchi
Country: USA
State: Alaska
City: Wasilla
Address: PO Box 877442
Phone: 9073512381

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