Lucky Star Goldens
Reviews and Complaints

As of this week, Tessa has repaid my entire deposit. It sounds like she is on a good path for her personal and professional life now and I wish her the best of luck in her future.

Tessa has over $500 of my money as well. I paid her a deposit in March to create a website for my biz. She agreed to have it up and running by the end of May, but one excuse after another and I all I have is a domain name worth $10. Most people do require a deposit to start work on a website and or hold a puppy, but most people also deliver the goods as agreed upon for the deposit. I even met with Tessa Kriesel in person to make sure she existed and discussed my project with her... I think we should all go in and pursue a group legal process to get our deposits back for the puppy scam and the website dev't scam as she will continue to do this to others who do not look for these complaints. Call me at my other biz at Rustic River Trading Co. in Emily, MN - [protected] - Laura; leave a message if I am not there and I will get back to you.

She took our money as well!

Tessa repaid my website deposit. She paid me $250 about a year and a half ago, and this week she paid me another $276 which was the remainder of my deposit.

Everyone a part of this litter is receiving refunds and Laura has agreed on a settlement for partial refund even though more hours were done to her project than what had been paid for to ensure the situation was resolved.

Norman Family - please call me at [protected] Laura Odegaard - leave a message if I am not there. There is a sizeable group of us working together to resolve this.

I hired Tessa Kriesel of Lucky Star Goldens/Tessa Kriesel Designs in early March to develop a website for my business (her other business is supposedly web development). I gave her a $540 deposit and all I have so far is my $10 domain registration which she gave me only after I posted a complaint on this website...My e-commerce website was suppose to be up and running per our agreement by the end of May, but it has been one excuse after another including her child in the hospital, and has been a lot of extra work on my part to attempt to get her to reply, respond, do work, etc. Unfortunately I cannot believe anything she tells me since it has been promise after promise to deliver work to me and basically lies since she has not come through on anything. She recently told me she would stop work on my project and send me a disc with what she has done so I can have someone else complete my website. I want my money back, not her work, which I expect to be useless if anything at all at this point. If you would like to pursue the legal process with me please google my place of business, Rustic River Trading Company for the phone # and call me - Laura - leave a message if I am not there as I do travel for my biz a lot. Not sure if I can post a phone number here or I would. I think we have a better chance of getting our money back if we try as a group as Tessa is obviously pulling scams in multiple businesses and the attorney general does not like that.

I am also going through the same thing with Tessa and I have not receieved any money back and until yesterday she was still in contact with us and now she is not responding to anything. How did you go about getting your deposit back? I completely agree as well that she has been dragging us along this whole time.

The Norman family, I too went through the same situation with Tessa Kriesel, hoping to receive a puppy in July 2013. I agree with everything you said in your complaint and feel the same way. I wanted to let you know that after numerous emails and one bounced check we finally received a full refund today through a money order. I would continue to email, write complaints, call or contact authorities until you receive your refund. She guaranteed you a healthy puppy and you did not receive one and she still has your money, which is illegal. I am glad you found a new trustworthy breeder with healthy puppies and wish you the best of luck with your refund.

Parvo can be fatal, especially in puppies. It is also very contagious, however it is very unlikely that all 10 dogs of a litter would become infected. You are being lied to. I am a vet in White Bear Lake, MN btw. I hope you get your money back.

Tessa did repay my deposit after I posted on this forum. I am very happy she did the right thing and have no further ill will. I retract my previous comments, including calling her a "###". Tessa indicated she was having a bad year and I for one accept that. I wish her the best in her future endeavors.

Matt Becka, I never took a deposit from you. I messaged you. If you truly did send me a deposit please email me proof. However, I haven't been doing any freelancing since this post nor have I don't business with anyone named Matt.

Matt Becka - I have no clue who you are and never did I take a deposit from someone with the name of Matt. Please email me per my message and we can resolve it, IF that is the even the case. Which I highly doubt it's true.

Is it too late to get in on this? Tessa Kriesel agreed to develop a website for my wholesale business and never followed through. I gave her a deposit of $250 and never heard anything from her. I also followed up and she gave me the run around on deadlines and work completed. I have pages of emails backing this up... It was a mess and I ended up dropping it because I didn't have time to pursue in small claims, but it sounds like Tessa is a grade a ###.

Sounds like Tessa is broke as a joke if it takes her several weeks to come up with $276. A job would help. Tessa you are pathetic.

Dennis Hase has since been refunded.

I already refunded everyone's money and I am not STEALING anything! I had a litter that passed away at 5 weeks old due to Veterinarian error and at that point already had a lot of money and time invested in the moneys. I lost over $10, 000 on the litter and I did repay the deposits back within the 1 year period that my website clearly stated. I have never had such a tramatic litter for the buyers, puppies and myself. I did everything to my best of my ability financially. As for Laura, she is being refunded as well EVEN though I did complete for $500+ in website work for her. However, she says she was not able to use the files so I am refunding her anyways.

She will never learn her lesson and if they just keep slapping her on the wrist she will continue to scam people. I know this as I took her to court in 2007 for stealing my identity. She received (if I remember straight) 20 days in jail and 21 on house arrest. Contact Dan Gardener out of Cass/crow wing county courthouse as he is the one who assisted me with my identity theft case. She is a sad excuse for a human being and doesn't know what honest work is!

I am Dennis Hase, Wanda Hase's husband. Tessa posted a note Aug 27-2013 saying we were refunded.
TOTALLY NOT TRUE AGAIN.
Does this creature ever tell the truth. I honestly want to see her in prison for defrauding Wanda and I, and all of you honest hard working good people.
My phone is [protected] I am sure that putting all of our documents together and organize our efforts, we can put Tessa in prison for a long time.
Everyone should take each piece of correspondence with Tessa, the breeder with the mail and Vets. (emails, letters, photo copy of checks, etc.) and scan them into a pdf.
Give the pdf a file name with the date of the correspondence and your initials. Then we all forward our emails to each other, followed by all the files.
We will organize them into a time line which will show her fraud, lies and extent of her scamming business.
When completed will issue to the D.A. and press for criminal charges with Otter Tail County's District Attorney David Hauser in Fergus Falls Minnesota.

Tessa Kriesel stole $500 from my wife for a puppy she claims she had. She is a flat outright liar. Do not trust her. my wife tried to buy a puppy from her to surprise me at the time when our 12 year old yellow lab was dying from cancer. What kind of person does that ? I will tell you -Tessa Kriesel. She is a thief and should be in prison. There are many out there who were scamed by this person. PLease file criminal charges with Otter Tail County's District Attorney David Hauser in Fergus Falls Minnesota. You can also take her to small claims court "Minnesota Conciliation Court" - find info. online. Her maiden name is "Pollock" check that out also. most people don't even know this complaint board exists. Think of how many others there may be ? Read her bold faced lies above about never returning a deposit. She is a thief !

Tessa re-paid my entire website deposit. She paid me $250 about a year and a half ago and another $276 this week which was the remainder of the balance of my original deposit.

T. Mitchell - Please call me at [protected] - Laura Odegaard - leave a message if I am not there. We have a group of us who have lost money to Tessa who are doing something about it. Thanks.

Add me to the list of people taken by Tessa Kreisel of Lucky Star Goldens. What's most shocking to me is I have a puppy from her litter born in 2012. Everything was perfect with the whole process, pictures were updated weekly, web cam was on and I actually got my puppy without issues. When I heard her dog Brandy was having another litter I sent my deposit and ultimately final payment and no puppy was ever able to be picked up. I live in Michigan so I had a shipper that was to pickup my puppy. Tessa cancelled 2 times and the third time she actually made up lies the whole time and had my poor shipper agree to meet her in St. Cloud at 3:30 to pickup the puppy. He arrived and she was no where to be found and I haven't heard one word since. The puppy I got from her in 2012 you can see on her facebook page and on the main page of her website...her name is Gigi. She even used her picture on the puppyfind.com adds. I would never thought this lady could do something like that to anyone especially someone that had dealings with her in the past. I had no reason to think I wouldn't get a puppy since my last dealings with her the first time were fine...big mistake. I have pages of emails with her, texts with her and the shipper and copies of the checks I sent her. Not sure anything can be done since I live in Michigan. I have sent the info to a collection agency and can hope for the best. I have no doubts now that this litter was never even born. Tessa is a horrible person. As a breeder myself I am amazed that she did this to me since we've had dealings last year that went perfect. I am shocked to learn it wasn't only me.

Tessa you are a loser and I hope you pay for what you did to all of us.

I would also consider contacting the U.S. Attorney's office for the federal district where Tessa lives. It sounds as though she has used the phone system, U.S. Mail and internet to carry out her fraudulent activity in several states, giving rise to numerous potential violations of federal statutes for wire and mail fraud. Her organized efforts to scam individuals might even give rise to federal RICO claims. The poster who suggested banding together to bring your stories to the attention of the authorities was right on the money. Sadly, individual claims of fraud for amounts of approximately $500 aren't usually enough to get the authorities to spend already limited resources to investigate and/or prosecute. However, if there are 10+, 20+ or more such cases, its more likely the authorities will assign the time and resources needed to stop this woman from victimizing others. With regard to the federal authorities, the U.S. Attorney's office may not face the same type of budgetary constraints as local DA's. Again, I would encourage all victims to organize and then reach out to state/local and federal authorities. Good luck to you all.

I just found out that the current ongoing fraud case in the system for Cass County is #13169. When you call the sheriff's office in Cass or in Ottertail or the Attorney in Ottertail you can give them this case # to reference in their system. Tessa's last known address in the Cass County system is the one in Backus and that is where she was convicted of Felony Identity Theft, so it is important to contact the Cass County Sheriff so they can build a case to turn over to the Attorney there and potentially work with the Ottertail sheriff and attorney as well to prosecute.

Was wondering why the amount which seems to come up all the time is $500. Minnesota law states anything over $500 is a felony UNLESS more than one victim is involved Minnesota stat. 609.527, subd.3 Let's get the list of victims together. check out the website for an overview of the law. Max. sentence is 20 years + $10, 000 fine http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/idtheft.pdf

I am Dennis Hase, Wanda Hase's husband. Tessa posted a note Aug 27-2013 saying we were refunded.
TOTALLY NOT TRUE AGAIN.
Does this creature ever tell the truth. I honestly want to see her in prison for defrauding Wanda and I, and all of you honest hard working good people.
My phone is [protected] I am sure that putting all of our documents together and organize our efforts, we can put Tessa in prison for a long time.
Everyone should take each piece of correspondence with Tessa, the breeder with the mail and Vets. (emails, letters, photo copy of checks, etc.) and scan them into a pdf.
Give the pdf a file name with the date of the correspondence and your initials. Then we all forward our emails to each other, followed by all the files.
We will organize them into a time line which will show her fraud, lies and extent of her scamming business.
When completed will issue to the D.A. and press for criminal charges with Otter Tail County's District Attorney David Hauser in Fergus Falls Minnesota.

Tessa -
You are an outright liar - how can you even look at yourself in the mirror? You have not issued a refund to me and have strung me along for months promising it was in the mail. As of today, only 1 person has received a refund and sooner or later your fraudulent activity will catch up with you! It is time you are stopped - I just can't believe it has taken this long and we will put an end to your "Scam Artist" activity.

Tessa you say EVERYONE has been issued a refund? I have not seen a dime how can you say everyone has been issued a refund when I olnly know of one person who has actually gotten one and that was in July?

Tessa informed me after I called the Cass Count Sheriff's Dept. on Monday that she had sent me a CD of the work she has completed for my website, but I never got the CD. The Deputy called Tessa for me and she also immediately emailed me links, user names, and passwords for the first time to my website, but I cannot open the website to see what she has done because it is not complete and I need to be a web developer with a special program to do this. So, I have to hire a new web developer to open what Tessa has just now finally sent me (website was suppose to be up and running by June 1st), to see what Tessa has actually done that she is calling work...I did terminate our agreement after Tessa would not respond in an appropriate manner (refused to call me after telling me over and over that she would to talk about the status or details of my website project) or timeframe (sometimes for weeks and then tell me she did something that she actually did not do, over and over and over) or deliver any work to me and I requested she return my deposit, but she would not return my deposit. What I understand is going on in my own situation is that I paid a supposed professional web developer to develop a business website, train me to add my own products and other content, and have it all up and running by June 1st. That did not happen. I still do not have a CD of the work either. I feel this does have to do with the litter of puppies since it is the same person, Tessa Kriesel, who according to the Cass County Deputy I spoke with confirmed that Tessa was convicted of Felony Identity Theft in 2007 and is on supervised probation until 2017, who owns a puppy breeding business and a web development business who has made people upset enough to go and take their own valuable time to post these comments about her and her 2 businesses. Dennis Hase, please call me at [protected]. I have a list of people who have not received deposits or puppies from Tessa. thanks!