Company to Avoid: QMS Inc./MacPadd.com

[Guest]

I wonder how long they will still be allowed to use the 'Mac' in MacPadd.

 

[eklipz330]

wow, that's why i never order anything from sketchy sites
...scratch that


that's why i ALWAYS order from newegg =]

 

[Chipi]

You should email the guys at qmscanada.com and ask if they are in any way affiliated with MacPadd, otherwise this Free guy is using them as a front.
Maybe QMS can sue him his... behind 😀

 

[Chipi]

The irony is that QMS Canada deals with "RISK MANAGEMENT;
FRAUD PREVENTION, DETECTION AND RECOVERY" )

 

[jerfle]

Back to the 37 business day processing thing. You have 45 days to dispute a payment with PayPal. Do the math. Thirty seven day processing, 6-7 days shipping. That's 42 days. So he could stall you for the 3 days. What a rip-off.

 

[Maxor127]

Wow, that was funny. I don't understand why some people are so stupid and crazy. You were perfectly reasonable and yet, he wouldn't provide the simple information you requested and actually got mad about it. Why did he call you at all in the first place? And I don't see the point of someone trying to scam people out of money when it's far easier to actually sell the product and deliver it on time. Especially when you're as retarded as him. He reminds me of Mugatu on Zoolander. "I invented the piano necktie... I INVENTED IT!" It's a mouse pad! I'm guessing the site must be somewhat legitimate enough to earn a favorable review from Gizmodo, but still highly suspect and not worth the hassle, and customer service that's so bad that it becomes laughable and pitiful at the same time.

 

[f16boiler]

Just another reason I always pay with my credit card. If the seller doesn't work out, I go to my card company and dispute it that way.

 

[theuerkorn]

Okay, you had your revenge and thanks for warning everyone with this report. I just hope you filed a similar thing with sites that really matter in this regard. BBB and resellerratings.com amongst others.

 

[sykozis]

We need more articles like this. This is a very informative article and can save people a lot of time and money. Companies like this have no right to exist and need that to be made very clear through public means such as this article.

 

[Pei-chen]

I've nothing good to say but ask why you are buying a mousepad from a no-name site. Unless you are intrigued by the MacPadd mousepad for Mac non-sense and refuse to order from Newegg as the Egg is a PC hardware vender.

I hope you guys don’t run a comparison review of GTX 360 and 5870 and told us neither is good because neither can run in a Mac Pro.

 

[christopherknapp]

Best part of the entire dispute:

"I forgot, I am having a drink with my wife"

I nearly crapped my pants laughing when I read that. LOL

What a toolbag.

 

[halcyonnn]

Seriously?

It is obvious they are a bad company. It is also obvious that you are an obnoxious consumer. You called them serveral times over the first 7 days because it was obvious to you that things must have been delayed and you weren't informed. I would love to hear the voicemails that you left them during that period. I am not defending them. I am only condeming many of your actions. You were ready to escelate this while it was still in their time frame to ship.

"During the next 7 days following the initial order date, we contacted the vendor several times with no success. The business number of (519) 429-0126 constantly goes to a voicemail. An attempt to call the vendor on the 30th of October did not yield any success either. Leaving a voicemail to have a rep respond went unheard."

Their site clearly states it takes up to 7 days for the product to even ship not for it to get to you. That is an additional 4 to 6 days.

"Product ships within 3 to 7 business days
USA and Canada allow 4 to 6 days shipping"

So for the love of God, I am all for pointing out companies that are bad. I also think we need to point out when consumers are obnoxious. Let me be the first to congratulate you on being one of those.

 

[Guest]

This is a hardware/technology site. Not a gripe scam site. You know the difference because you linked to one such site in your "article"

Please stop wasting your time complaining and start spending some time writing, oh, and spell/grammar checking. A well-written article would be awesome. I'm at the point where I only visit the site to check the updated charts, but I unfortunately get sucked into a poorly-written piece here and again...

Write about technology.

 

[claudeb]

Lol. ITS "H1N1 resistant!" What a stupid fucking website. "mouse pads are for windows users, macpadd is for the mac community." That was under FAQs on the why we spell it padd

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

"Developed for the iMac and Macbook Pro user community."

Seems like only iTards buy into his shenanigans. He found the appropriate market and focused on it knowing there was an opportunity to scam a little cash.


I'm a PC, and I think I will keep my money.

 

[Guest]

Hmmm.... Instead of going to MacPadd.com, maybe I'll just go to Lowes and get a piece of Aluminum and cut it into a mouse pad. Sounds like a great piece of inventing by a guy who claims to be an engineer.

 

[omnimodis78]

Great article! Thanks for giving us something interesting to think about. I only deal with 3 sites (NCIX, DirectCanada and Kijiji) and while kijiji has its element of risk, at least no money is exchanged until the buyer/seller is standing in front of me. Btw, that phone number ("...The business number of (519) 429-0126 constantly goes to a voicemail." is a Canadian number, in fact, the (519) area code is from my city: Windsor, Ontario.

 

[Guest]

Everybody here's commenting about how this site scams people out of money. But it's not just customer's money that's being lost here. It's also their trust in shopping online. If this would be your first experience with a webshop, would you ever buy in another place?

Thanks for pointing out a fraudulent website.

 

[buwish]

I despise so called "businesses" like the one mentioned here. Thank god for PayPal, as at least you have a chance to get your money back.

 

[eodeo]

great article. interesting to read.

there is about 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance that i would do business with them, before i read this. i guess its a lot closer to 0% now

 

[masterasia]

Please posts updates on this story. I wanna know if he actually is going to sue you guys.

 

[Miharu]

The fact is... you ordered a the wrong place.

Why make an order to the Canada division ?
Look like MacPadd.com is based Ontario but they aren't the main company.

MacPadd.com is probably a small company of least than 3 employes and they order product from macsales.com (US Illinois).

They probably waiting for the article from Illinois and send it back after... so this add a delay of 5-7 days before actualy send the item.

Tracking number are given before use but actualy just appear at CanadaPost when they paid for the shipping.

They could have problem with this order... making delay over 7 days...

The guy just "burst" under lie!

 

[El_Capitan]

I take it there won't be and "Advertorial" from MacPadd...

 

[Guest]

I've ordered from scammers like these before,with similar issues!
Last order which was a scam,was a user who needed 'a verified and confirmed' paypal account, he would ship world wide.
Not knowing that only in few countries Paypal has confirmed addresses. I tried to explain him, but he refused to send the object, or receive payment, calling me a scammer!
He would find a company to do the financial transaction outside of ebay. Due to the issue of a claim filed against me, I returned to that website only 2 weeks later and it let people know it no longer was doing any financial transactions... The site was clearly fishy!

He would file an ebay claim against me for not paying. It is hard to describe, but in the end, Ebay took the claim off of me, because he did not notify about a verified account, and the other payment methode was outside of Ebay, and clearly noted that the site was shutting down.

I hope paypal and ebay makes sure guys like this can never use these services again!

 

[spanspace]

Is his company in Canada or the US? I knwo the FBI has a cybercrimes unit. Canada may have one as well. This guy should be in jail.