Thebiglot.com - Longwood Industries Inc
Thebiglot.com aka Longwood Industries Inc. Telemarketing rip-off!

Received a call from a person stating they saw my ad in a local newspaper of a vehicle I was selling and was told the local newspaper was not a place to sell a vehicle. (This call was picked up by my voice mail and saved) and was promised I would sell the vehicle fast and get the price I was asking.

I returned the call and asked to speak to the gentleman who left the message on my voice mail. I was told by the woman I spoke to that she could help me. I asked several questions concerning their company and told the woman I would check them out and get back with them as I was not ready to spend 89.95 to sell my vehicle.

I checked out the website www.biglot.com and looked at the vehicles listed on their site, specifically the vehicle I was selling. I decided that the site was legitimate and I liked the guarantee and placed an ad online and paid the $89.95.

In the first week I received only 1 email. It was from a scam artist wanting to send me a $7000.00 check and send him the difference of the price of the vehicle. This is the only email I have received as of 08/23/04

I decided to try lowering the price of the vehicle. There is a hit counter on the ad and I noticed that before I reduced the price the counter was at 35. After I lowered the price I noticed the counter went to 295 within 2 hours but still no email. I again lowered the price of the vehicle to a ridiculous price of $1,500 for a 4000.00 vehicle. The hit counter went to over 500 in under an hour and and still no email! I knew something was wrong. I decided to test the "Ask seller a question" link on the ad page. I filled out the form and hit the submit button. I received the following error:

We're sorry, there has been error sending your email to the customer. Please call our
Customer Service Dept at: 1-800-430-1965 ext. 4

I called the customer service and was told they were not aware of an problem but they would look into it. I decided to follow up with an email to their technical support - web@independentsystems.com. I received an email stating:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
Web@independentsystems.com

Link to my ad on www.thebiglot.com - http://www.thebiglot.com/ad_auto.Asp? AI=270156&MK=Ford&MD=Taurus&PN=1&YL=1998&AT=1

I tried asking questions on other ads placed on the site but got the same error. I am a sucker: (

Company: Thebiglot.com - Longwood Industries Inc
Country: USA
State: Virginia
City: Roanoke
Address: The Big Lot! P.O. Box 1671
Phone: 8004301956

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