Jump to content

Beware Of Scam: Stampandstaple.com

terim

By terim
in The Mall

 Share

Recommended Posts

terim Collectors Item

terim

Posted
Posted

I was doing a little research and found a company in Huntington Beach, California, that claims to be selling some of our pens, models are exclusive to Peyton Street Pens.

 

As far as I can tell, they just copy a listing I have on Amazon, and then double the price. I suppose if someone orders it from them, they could always order it from us if we had it. But I suspect they just take the money and run, or ship something else and say they fulfilled the order.

 

Here's a search on "ranga"

 

https://stampandstaple.com/search?type=product&q=ranga

 

We have found several rather clever scams which take advantage of loopholes in the Amazon system!

 

Most of the time, I tell people "If it looks too good to be true, it's probably a scam," but in this case I have to amend that and say "If the price looks too high to be true, it's probably a scam."

 

TERI

Teri Morris, PEYTON STREET PENS

 

Visit the Peyton Street Pens web site.

Instagram for Peyton Street Pens

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Replies 21
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • terim

    4

  • Fuzzy_Bear

    4

  • kestrel

    3

  • pen2paper

    3

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Shaporama Extremely Rare

Shaporama

Posted
Posted

Wow, thats more than double the price! But isn't it great that they will test and adjust any nib before shipping (wink wink to NIvardo)

Link to comment
Share on other sites
terim Collectors Item

terim

Posted
  • Author
Posted

seems to be a Mail Center? there is a phone number.

if they're snagging your photos a desist letter might be a start?

 

Yep, it's a mail drop. No one answers the phone. The photos and descriptions they use are the ones I use on Amazon. These scams usually only exist for a brief period of time before they get shut down, but it's certainly worth a desist letter. Thank you for the recommendation.

Teri Morris, PEYTON STREET PENS

 

Visit the Peyton Street Pens web site.

Instagram for Peyton Street Pens

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
pen2paper Donor Pen

pen2paper

Posted
Posted

 

Yep, it's a mail drop. No one answers the phone. The photos and descriptions they use are the ones I use on Amazon. These scams usually only exist for a brief period of time before they get shut down, but it's certainly worth a desist letter. Thank you for the recommendation

Perhaps file a complaint with FTC? they might disappear quickly, but if not wondering what steps will protect you..

 

http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/emoticon-animal-007.gif~Hi! fountain pen enthusiast here~

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Plexipens Near Mint

Plexipens

Posted
Posted

Contact the local police and report the Mail Center as they are an accessory. A visit by the Detectives will probably get their attention.

 

I hate thieves and scammers .....

Link to comment
Share on other sites
kestrel Collectors Item

kestrel

Posted
Posted

I was doing a little research and found a company in Huntington Beach, California, that claims to be selling some of our pens, models are exclusive to Peyton Street Pens.

 

As far as I can tell, they just copy a listing I have on Amazon, and then double the price. I suppose if someone orders it from them, they could always order it from us if we had it. But I suspect they just take the money and run, or ship something else and say they fulfilled the order.

 

Here's a search on "ranga"

 

https://stampandstaple.com/search?type=product&q=ranga

 

We have found several rather clever scams which take advantage of loopholes in the Amazon system!

 

Most of the time, I tell people "If it looks too good to be true, it's probably a scam," but in this case I have to amend that and say "If the price looks too high to be true, it's probably a scam."

 

TERI

Any photo in your listings that you took or you paid to have taken is copyrighted by whoever holds rights to the image. If they "borrow" one of those photographs from your listing they are committing copyright infringement and you do have legal recourse. If a registered letter doesn't get them to cease and desist a court order and legal action will and the latter can cost the scofflaw a lot of money.

Whoever they are we know they will never provide the level of customer service that you do.

Dave Campbell
Retired Science Teacher and Active Pen Addict
Every day is a chance to reduce my level of ignorance.

fpn_1425200643__fpn_1425160066__super_pi

Link to comment
Share on other sites
mpkandan Vintage

mpkandan

Posted
Posted

I was doing a little research and found a company in Huntington Beach, California, that claims to be selling some of our pens, models are exclusive to Peyton Street Pens.

 

As far as I can tell, they just copy a listing I have on Amazon, and then double the price. I suppose if someone orders it from them, they could always order it from us if we had it. But I suspect they just take the money and run, or ship something else and say they fulfilled the order.

 

Here's a search on "ranga"

 

https://stampandstaple.com/search?type=product&q=ranga

 

We have found several rather clever scams which take advantage of loopholes in the Amazon system!

 

Most of the time, I tell people "If it looks too good to be true, it's probably a scam," but in this case I have to amend that and say "If the price looks too high to be true, it's probably a scam."

 

TERI

Thanks a lot Teri for finding this Scam.

 

Regards,

Kandan.M.P

Ranga Pen Company

Link to comment
Share on other sites
terim Collectors Item

terim

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Thanks a lot Teri for finding this Scam.

 

Regards,

Kandan.M.P

Ranga Pen Company

 

All you have to do is write them and say they don't have permission to sell your items, and they politely reply and remove the listing.

Teri Morris, PEYTON STREET PENS

 

Visit the Peyton Street Pens web site.

Instagram for Peyton Street Pens

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
randumbum Dipped Only

randumbum

Posted
Posted (edited)

I sent the contact email a link to this discussion, today I received two email back:

The First:

Hi ,

Thank you for brining this to our attention. We are very sad to hear that you are perceiving our company in such a manner, and I can assure you your comment will be escalated and not over looked.

We take our customer satisfaction, reputation, and online presence very seriously and will certainly find a way to avoid occurrences such as this in the future. I am escalating this ticket so someone in the management department can look into this and get back to you immediately.

Sincerely,

Suvojyoti

The second email:

Hello [removed] ,

Thank you for writing us about the products listed on our website. We understand that you have asked us to remove these products from our stores inventory. We take your complaint seriously and have removed all related products upon a thorough search of our inventory. We are constantly innovating our platform to improve the ways we detect and prevent potentially infringing products from reaching our marketplace.

If you see anything else of your concern, please let us know and we will take actions promptly.

Sincerely,

Casey

The link to their Ranga listing 404s now.

Edited by randumbum

In order of receipt: Noodler Charlie, Jinhao X750 M, Charcoal Lamy Safari EF, Platinum Preppy F, Platinum Preppy EF, Lamy 2000 EF...

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Parker51 Collectors Item

Parker51

Posted
Posted (edited)

This is when it would be great for a white hat to go and trace down who is doing this, empty their accounts, all of them and make their machines into anchors.

Edited by Parker51
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Plexipens Near Mint

Plexipens

Posted
Posted (edited)

I asked them why they were being deceptive in their listings and they got all huffy, denied, and then said they would look into it. No Rangas at all in the search results now. But, over 9,000 hits on "fountain pen" ....... they are a mystery, to be nice ...

 

A website under 6 months old ...... private registration and seems to be hosted in Canada by IP ..... Hmmm....

Edited by Plexipens
Link to comment
Share on other sites
pen2paper Donor Pen

pen2paper

Posted
Posted (edited)

Not a lawyer, but filing a complaint with FTC, and state trade commission's may be appropriate.

They crossed a lot of boundaries using someone else's photos & commissioned products (edit to add & long standing good reputation), for state, interstate, international, and INTERNET gain.

Edited by pen2paper

 

http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/emoticon-animal-007.gif~Hi! fountain pen enthusiast here~

Link to comment
Share on other sites
inkstainedruth Ancient Artifact

inkstainedruth

Posted
Posted

The cynic in me wonders if the "cease and desist" letter will actually do much good -- especially after reading all the posts about the flurry of fake sites selling pens for way under their market value and then disappearing after they get their hands on the money.

Crooks are crooks. :( And I see an awful lot of street vendors when I go to NYC that are selling "pashima" scarves for $5.... And I think of the vast number of phone calls I've received for "there's a problem with your Windows machine", dubious charities, "You've won a trip to either Orlando or Las Vegas", etc. The worst ones recently are from people purporting to be technical recruiters, wanting to tell my husband about a *great* job -- which turns out (when pressed) to be halfway across the state -- if not halfway across the country. And of course you can't tell until you answer the phone whether it's legit or not -- just thinking "oh I don't recognize that number" isn't enough. Not to mention all the email I've gotten from people claiming my Apple account is about to be suspended (those go directly to Apple's fraud department), "You've inherited..." (a variant of the "Nigerian Prince" scam), etc. The latest is "Your Netflix account is about to be suspended!" (fascinating, because I don't HAVE one); Netflix was more than happy to let me know where to forward THOSE to, and the online chat person was going "You didn't click on any of the links, did you?" (and of course my answer was "Duh, of *course* not...."

There are already warnings on the news about "fake" charities claiming to be collecting money for Hurricane Harvey victims. Those sorts of people are just vile -- preying on the goodness of kindhearted people in the midst of a tragedy. :angry:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Fuzzy_Bear Vintage

Fuzzy_Bear

Posted
Posted

Any photo in your listings that you took or you paid to have taken is copyrighted by whoever holds rights to the image. If they "borrow" one of those photographs from your listing they are committing copyright infringement and you do have legal recourse. If a registered letter doesn't get them to cease and desist a court order and legal action will and the latter can cost the scofflaw a lot of money.

Whoever they are we know they will never provide the level of customer service that you do.

Only if the pictures were registered with the copyright office.

Peace and Understanding

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Fuzzy_Bear Vintage

Fuzzy_Bear

Posted
Posted

If I could get those prices for my pens, I'd sell em! $116 for a Parker Vector pink! $42 for a 4.5oz of Noodlers ink! Platinum Preppies for $9

 

$479 for a Safari!

Peace and Understanding

Link to comment
Share on other sites
kestrel Collectors Item

kestrel

Posted
Posted

Only if the pictures were registered with the copyright office.

No need to register. Technically no need to write copyright and your name on the image, either. In the U.S., at least, the second you capture the image it is yours. So saith my stock agency and my stock agency's lawyers. I have had images misappropriated twice and won both cases. Neither image was registered or marked as copyrighted. All I had to do was provide the original negative/transparency to prove ownership.

Dave Campbell
Retired Science Teacher and Active Pen Addict
Every day is a chance to reduce my level of ignorance.

fpn_1425200643__fpn_1425160066__super_pi

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Fuzzy_Bear Vintage

Fuzzy_Bear

Posted
Posted

I understand that about copyright. But you get more than just lost profit and lawyers fees, you get what I call punishment money as well. I am a photographer as well.

Peace and Understanding

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Fuzzy_Bear Vintage

Fuzzy_Bear

Posted
Posted

I also contacted Fountain Pen Revolution and they had their products desisted. Same problem of stealing copyrighted images.

Peace and Understanding

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Most Contributions

    1. amberleadavis
      amberleadavis
      43844
    2. PAKMAN
      PAKMAN
      33553
    3. Ghost Plane
      Ghost Plane
      28220
    4. inkstainedruth
      inkstainedruth
      26724
    5. jar
      jar
      26101

  • Upcoming Events

  • Blog Comments

    • Shanghai Knife Dude
      Links to web pages or articles about Chinese typesetting, signwriting, etc.

      By Shanghai Knife Dude · Posted

      I have the Sailor Naginata and some fancy blade nibs coming after 2022 by a number of new workshop from China.  With all my respect, IMHO, they are all (bleep) in doing chinese characters.  Go use a bush, or at least a bush pen. 
    • A Smug Dill
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By A Smug Dill · Posted

      It is the reason why I'm so keen on the idea of a personal library — of pens, nibs, inks, paper products, etc. — and spent so much money, as well as time and effort, to “build” it for myself (because I can't simply remember everything, especially as I'm getting older fast) and my wife, so that we can “know”; and, instead of just disposing of what displeased us, or even just not good enough to be “given the time of day” against competition from >500 other pens and >500 other inks for our at
    • adamselene
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By adamselene · Posted

      Agreed.  And I think it’s good to be aware of this early on and think about at the point of buying rather than rationalizing a purchase..
    • A Smug Dill
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By A Smug Dill · Posted

      Alas, one cannot know “good” without some idea of “bad” against which to contrast; and, as one of my former bosses (back when I was in my twenties) used to say, “on the scale of good to bad…”, it's a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Whereas subjectively acceptable (or tolerable) and unacceptable may well be a dichotomy to someone, and finding whether the threshold or cusp between them lies takes experiencing many degrees of less-than-ideal, especially if the decision is somehow influenced by factors o
    • adamselene
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By adamselene · Posted

      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o

  • Chatbox

    You don't have permission to chat.
    Load More

  • Files






×
×
  • Create New...