OmegaStores.com review: Buyer beware 29

I ordered an electric cigarette rolling machine from Omegasores. It stated that it rolled both kings and 100's. I paid with my pay pal account . When I received the item it did not roll 100s and it was very cheap and a knock off of the powermatic which is the best rated cigarette roller. I paid 84.00 for the cheap knock off. I ordered the brand one after I received the piece of junk and only paid 64.00. I was upset so I emailed Monica and tried to call her to return it for a refund. I received no email or phone call. I called pay pall complaints. They filed a dispute and Monica offered me a refund of 9.95 which I denied. I am waiting for pay pal's decision. When I hear the decision I will post the outcome.

It is a crying shame that the Connecticut AG's Office doesn't go after these crooks, for nothing else, deceptive business practices and shut these people down. The ### who do business as Omegastores cover themselves with their hidden CYA policies, trusting in the trustworthiness of consumers who do not take the time to read the policies before making a purchase, nevertheless, that is what allows them to operate. The customer pays, and pays and pays, the operators of Omegastores never have a cent invested in anything, no refunds, exchanges - yes, you pay shipping and more shipping and you just might get a replacement, then again, you may not.

I am Logan J from above. I hate this company so much and they're such a poorly run operation I just wanted to once again reiterate what a terrible company this is. Anyone defending them clearly works for them. Don't waste your time on this company.

I purchased an electric trike from Omegastores. I have problems with the motor and wheel. I got a replacement but it still does not work. I contacted them multiple times and received email back with "check the connections" and other unhelpful suggestions. The trike was advertised as having a one year warranty but they have not tried to help me figure out the problems, nor told me where to take it to have it looked at. Paula Sallin

We were also "ripped off" by this company. Our complaint to the Better Business Bureau has resulted in compensation for part of our loss. We are currently receiving payments from Monica LL. There are about 39 individuals listed in the Post-Judgement Order which has Monica LL paying out over $32, 000.00 in restitution to unsatisfied customers. I understand futrher information can be requested from the address listed in the comment made by PatW50.
DMJ

I have an update for people that were ripped off from Omegastores.com
take a look.
http://youtu.be/bc473hWQk6U

This company Omegastores is a total rip off

The worst company total RIP OFF I bought a mobile scooter from them it broke down 1 month never got the rightpart sent them a photo . They dont speak to you never answer E mails

Thank you, WarMongrel. I can assure anyone with a complaint that the Connecticut Attorney General's office is taking all complaints quite seriously. I filed mine, and actually did receive a call from that office. They are persuing the consumer complaint case. I highly recommend anyone having lost money to OmegaStores/Monica, LLC do so as soon as possible. Make copies of all your documentation, attach it to a cover letter explaining exactly what transpired, and address it to:

Office of the Attorney General
State of Connecticut
MacKenzie Hall
110 Sherman Street
Hartford, CT [protected]
[protected]

I stated to lady to whom I spoke that even if I don't receive my money back, I would be elated to see a fraudulent supplier permanently put out of business.

PatW50

Thanks everybody for your comments and accounts of past dealings with this company. I was actually considering purchasing 2 recumbent trikes from their site which would have run approximately $5K. Fortunately I am Internet savvy and began searching for a site such as this. So needless to say I believe all of you except Thomas Loopy who left the really contradictive paragraph.

""I found it strange that ex-employees and the competition can leave such a negative marks on a great business like omegastores.com.
The worst is that anybody can leave anything about anybody without proving his/her real identity!"

I agree with PatW50 that Mr Loopy (Fitting Name) is in fact very much connected in some way with Omegastores and the whole business rings of Chinese merchandise. Enough said!

Cmon Mr. Loopy, you state the negative marks on a great business like omegastores are all left by ex-employee's and competitors while in the same breath stating anybody can leave anything about anybody without proving his/her real identity! so of course I have to ask...How Do You Know they are ex-employee's or competitors? But if they are ex-employee's there sure are a lot of them and if there are a lot of them, then maybe they quit because the truth is they could not stand working for a company who entire premise is based on defrauding consumers! But consider yourself lucky I found this site. CT is not very far from me and for $5K I would've paid you a little visit.

I can certainly attest to the fact that omegastores.com aka Monica LLC is not run as an honest business. Not only did they keep the machine, which broke in less than two months, I had sent back for repair, but also kept my check for $12.50 which I paid for return of the machine. Whoever took to receiver out of the hand of another employee, was rude. I did not have the opportunity to explain the problem with what was sold to me, and I was shouted at "I will take care of it.", and he hung up the telephone. All other calls went unanswered, plus, an email demand was made for more money from me. I, too, contacted the Connecticut Attorney General, and any still waiting on what the outcome will be if any. I am almost convinced that those same machines are being recycled through distributors, such as amazon.com, which is why they are no being returned to the rightful owners, while stealing the return money paid to those thieves.

I think this person above works for omegastores. He writes just like the person that respond to my email, in broken words. Their is no Complaint dept, just someone in the warehouse, or the cleaning person that responds to the emails. Out of all the emails I sent they responded to two, after which they say, make sure you are sending your email to the right Dept.or you may not get a response. That is why I say theirs on Dept. for complaints, just the warehouse. You can call [protected] and place an order, but you can't complain to that person. First email, listed 7 things that were wrong. Well they only responded to two. I order the lithium battery, got Lead-acid # 6-DZM-12 and I had no front suspension. Reply Our records show you got the right package. Sec. email I sent pictures. Reply Yes, your bike has the shock, do not you see it in the picture. Please tell me what do not you see means, All I see is a front for and a seat with two little springs for my suspension... As for the battery, they said I had 10 days to notify them of having the wrong battery. The battery's are in a battery box. It was not until into lithium battery, how much longer the charge last and the weight. But anyway they wanted me to send the battery back, which cost hundreds of dollars for their mistake. I just like to get my 400.00 back. That is when the email STOP... The way the bike was packed in the box when I received it, I could tell it came from china.Could not save the box because of the way it was packed. Looked up electric bikes and scooters from china, the only way one can buy them is in bulk, which is probable why is so hard if not impossible to get parts. I see alot of complaints from people who tell with omegastores and getting Parts. This bike is very heavy, so with no suspension and the battery box being make of plastic and the batteries are heavy, I see the box the next thing to go. If nothing else, their AD on line is total a total scam...They got me for $750 for package's I did not get. OMEGASTORES & CozyBike TOTAL FRAUDS See my Post Run-away Money...

In response to the following from Thomas Loopy:

"I found it strange that ex-employees and the competition can leave such a negative marks on a great business like omegastores.com.
The worst is that anybody can leave anything about anybody without proving his/her real identity!
Can you imagine yourself when someone is searching for you on Google and you face yourself a lot of garbage?
This is what happening when someone is leaving negative marks about omegastores.com!"

You certainly must have some sinister ulterior motive and a great deal of time on your hands to run around all over the Internet doing an extremely vain attempt at damage control for omegastores. You are falsely accusing people of lying because they are disgruntled ex-employees or the competition. This is not the only website with legitimate complaints against omegastores you have posted the same exact false words.

From what I am reading, my suspicions of running a high level money scam by omegastores Monica LLC and all their other ailiases are quite justified. Their personnel attempted to dupe me as well, and requested a blank electronic check in order to return the machine for which I had paid $12.50 to have returned. How many people didn't know, until after the sale, that the so-called warranty was only 30 days? What I purchased broke less than 30 days after their misleading warranty was up?

They falsely advertise "the best warranty in the industry", plus, "Customer service is our top priority." Neither adverstised claim is true. Other companies selling the same type products offer a year on new products. Some offer up to two years like Black and Decker on at least some of their products. Two years is the best warranty on products running under $100.00. Now they have the machine for which I paid $89.97 in 9/2012. They have $12.50 supposedly for returning the machine repaired or replaced or as is when "out of warranty" back to me. No one at the company will honestly discuss any of this with me by email or phone.

I am contacting the state of Connecticut attorney general because higher level fraud may be involved when keeping the machine and the $12.50 (which my bank shows as cashed by the company), doing a quick fix only to break again after the 30 days which is probably what they count on happening, and reselling those machines to others on the fraudulent pretext of "new machine" and "best warranty in the industry".

When someone demands a blank check while holding hostage someone's rightfully owned property, and keeps the $12.50 shipping without shipping back the product, that goes far beyond a low level fraud scheme. If they are distributing or redistribuing under false pretext through some major middle distributor, such as Amazon.com, that is a near ideal way to illegally keep those machines owned by others, resell them, and still make a great deal of profit on selling still owned by others machines. Amazon may not know what omegastores is doing, if omegastores is using Amazon.com, themselves, or anyone else to do that. Amazon.com advertises the same machine at $46.50 advertised by Amazon as new not used or "refurbished". They sell those products for first party distributors for a percentage of the selling price.

I sure hope the TM30t log splitter I ordered and paid for will be without the nightmares addressed here. In fact when I purchased it they said a price of 979.50 however added 62.17 for tax after I committed to buy, first time I've paid tax on an on-line order.

I certainly agree with nearly all this comments .And I am certainly not an ex-employee! I also ordered a trike and chose layaway, giving them $100.00 for a down payment. Within 24 hrs of the initial order, I sent them an email, trying to cancel it. No reply. Made about a dozen phone calls trying to reach someone. No way. Even the address given on the website for their warehouse is not valid. Mr. Loopy, there is no excuse for the way this company operates. And it shouldn't matter "if you are nice to them" there should be a policy, clearly stating terms, including cancellations and returns. I noticed on May 10th their e-mail service stated their e-mail was under maintenance, and they could not be reached until May 13th, but they answered very promptly on May 11th when I asked for my deposit back, and asked for verification that they removed my bank information from their database.They did not address my concerns, and instead gave me the address of www.omegastores.com/layawaypolicy.htm. That information was not offered when I ordered the trike, and still gives no real terms of the layaway agreement. The layaway page has been changed, so has the address of the business (all within the last three or four days). I also have been in contact with the State of Connecticut's AG's office (Who did respond right away) and also the Business Licensing Dept for Connecticut and was informed this company, as a general business, does not have a business license in Connecticut. With all of negative comments and concerns, and the amount of money many of these products cost, does anyone wonder why all these people have concerns? It seems this company has put layers upon layers of protection around them to avoid accountability when something goes wrong with their suppliers, or their products. And as far as "anybody can leave anything about anyone without proving his/her real identity" why can't their customers get the real information about them? It's a two way street in commerce, Mr. Moody. And yes, I am still in contact with the appropriate regulatory agencies in Connecticut to get this resolved in a satisfactory way.

03/12/2013
ordered electric bike and after several e-mails and a phone call was able to get a tracking number. When I got hold of UPS freight was told that the bike would be delivered as a tail gate delivery. As we are two 70 year. old men would be UNABLE to lift carton off of semi trailer at 260 pounds. Requested a lift on trailer to have it set on ground so we could handle it. To my suprise Omegastore does NOT provide free shipping the additional $132.00 that UPS charged was deducted from my checking account WITHOUT MY CONSENT.Don't understand what FREE shipping means apparently OMEGASTORE does not. You have no recourse to recover to money, do not do buisness with this company they are not to be trusted.
not satisifed with the way this company does business Ron Hardt Montello wi.

I found it strange that ex-employees and the competition can leave such a negative marks on a great business like omegastores.com.
The worst is that anybody can leave anything about anybody without proving his/her real identity!
Can you imagine yourself when someone is searching for you on Google and you face yourself a lot of garbage?
This is what happening when someone is leaving negative marks about omegastores.com!

Bad merchant! AVOID! Tried to buy parts for EC69 cigarette machine - original parts made from cheap plastic that cracked.
Filled in the online order form only to find that they didn't tell the shipping cost and that I was asked to post ALL my bank acc. info on line - WHICH I WILL NOT DO (& neither should you).
E-mail contacted omegastores w/ request to order by phone [the way they took the original order] or mail w/ Credit Card (below). Today's Blow-OFF reply follows:
On 9/20/2012 5:00 AM, omegastores@comcast.net wrote:
http://www.smokedepot.org/parts.htm
To: omegastores@comcast.net
Thanks for the come-back! -- That "PARTS" link should probably be on your web page.
I want to order one of the C69 Injector modules @ $9.50 + shipping but I WON"T put my Bank info on the internet!
Give me a phone # where I can order w/ a CC - or the process of ordering & paying by mail.
Thank you -- ch
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Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 3:36:23 PM
Subject: Fwd: 3rd Req Re: cig roller parts
3 more days w/o reply -- PLEASE, provide requested info!
Also Left message @ Phone:[protected] (monica llc)
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Hello;
Sorry but we cannot do that way.
Regards, omegastores
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If that is acceptable customer service to you - have at it, but I've had enough! ch

I order a electric mobility scooter form these people on [protected] and didn't get it until [protected], upon unpacking it and pluggin it in to be charger I found out after 3 and half hours of charging that the charger wasn't any good, so I contacted them over it and thaty told me to send the charger back to them this took tow months recieve a new charger, then after riding it 6 time the rear end rolled up under the scooter and the brakes locked up on it and almost caused me to get hit by a car thaat was behind me, I work to get it tothe side of the road in a mans driveway and got down to see what the problems was, and I found the the whole rear end had broken away from the monting brakets, so Icalled one of my friends that had a trailer to move to the house, and when we got it here I look at it further and found that the brakes in it was made form allumin and had broken all to pieces, so i call Omegastores and left a message for Monica and two days later i recieve a email from her telling to send the scooter back to them for repairs, so I check to see what it would cost me tosend the scooter back to them and found out that it would cost $689.90, I live on Disdability and can afford that so I took the parts off that was broken on it and ship them to Omegastore, and here it is the end of July and I still haven't gotten my new partds as of yet, they won't answer my fphone calls or return any of my emials to them. so Icontact a lawyer over it an she told me to give them a chance to repair the scooter and I told her I have, and she told me to try once more so I have and still now responce from these people in reguards to my scooter.I paid $2060.00 for this scooter and buy the law they should repair it or replace it, but has done neighter. I would advise anone that want to buy anything from these people not to do so. They are nothing but a rip off company and needs to be put out of bussiness. Everyone tha tis one this list needs to get together and contact a lawyer about it and see what we can get done about them ripping off people like us, If you agree you may cantact me @ evortisch@yahoo.com or call me at [protected] and I will give your information to the attorney that I hire to take the case form me, I am not going to let them get away with what they have done to me, I hope that you don't either.The also told me tht the scooter was weather resistant, (WaterProff)but after recieving it and reading the manule on it I found out it isn't. They jsut lie toget our money and then it is like we can't do anything about it.

Ordered a Cigarette Maker Machine, top of the line, so it was stated. Paid and received machine and within 3 days, it broke. I contacted them, and returned item and requested a replacement and not a credit. They sent a replacement and charged my credit card without informing me, additional shipping. The 2nd machine arrived, went to use it and it didn't work at all. I fully advise ANYONE who wants to purchase this item, purchase it locally! I truly believe this outfit sells rejects!

I put a etrike on layway and sent them $50.oo even though they never returned any of my phone calls or emails! I thought about it when I tried repeatedly to get in touch with them! They made no contact with me what so ever! I decided to send them an email to inform them that I wanted my money back! They sure sent me an email real quick in response to that! I told them I wanted my money back because I only sent the money order about a week before I decided I didn't want to do business with a company that has no contact with their customers! I made a complaint to the better business bureau and it's still not resolved ! The company (omega stores) called me and spoke to my husband to tell me they don't do refunds on layaways !My husband got cut off right in the middle of a sentence! Great customer service? What a a joke! Don't do business with this company, they are rip off artists! I'm still waiting to get my money back! Oh and also they are not a member of the better business bureau, that's another reason to be not do business with them!

I too ordered a e-trike from Omegastores and was treated the same way only I didn't get my trike and was afraid I wouldn't get my money back. No response from them except for a generic email that my order was in process and would be delivered 7-10 days after my check cleared. What a lie. Thanks to my bank they filed a complaint and retrived my money back after I cancelled the order.

Update on my previous post; the battery arrived. I really like the bike, gets me around town as well as a car. Only problem I see is that when you pedal it, it don't seem to pedal right, its as if you were pedaling a 10-speed bike in 1st gear all the time. One thing that I did learn when dealing with this company, if you are nice and courteous to them, they will go more out of their way in helping to get the situations resolved. I plan on having mine looked at, and hoping this last me a long time, because I am loving it!

SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM! AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
I bought one of their electric bikes and it came damaged. I contacted them and they said the "new" model was coming out and to return mine, and they would mail me the "new" model when it came out in a few weeks, and in the meantime, I would send back the damaged bike. The "new" model was the SAME one. Once again the bike came DAMAGED! I called them and just wanted a refund at this point. They do NOT know how to pack even! The owner of the store took their phone off the hook to avoid answering my calls! I ended up stuck with hundreds of dollars down the drain!

THIS COMPANY IS A RIP OFF.

I had an electric bike on layaway thru Omegastores. I paid it off, the bike was sent a couple of weeks ago. There was NO BATTERY! When I called the only number that I had for the "company", no answer. I emailed the guy. He did call me back within in the hour. I was told that the battery ships seperately, by UPS, & usually on the same day as the bike. He said he'd contact UPS. I haven't heard anything back from him, even tho I emailed him asking for the tracking number. I hope that I'm not getting ripped off. I'll wait another week or so, then I will take some sort of action.

You are totally full of ###. Complaining about something like this (they did not have the item in stock, and they did not charge you either) and calling your senator? You have too much time on your hand, and you must be a stupid ###.