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This editorial document contains and includes our opinions:

NOTICE: TrixiePixGraphics / FakeNewspapers.com was sold on December 28, 2009. This page is hosted by the original owners and creators of that business. While we owned that business we were partially prevented from disseminating personal information about dishonest customers and the details of their fraud or fraud attempts or their outrageous behavior. Now that we are no longer connected with the credit card companies, we can say what we REALLY think of customers who tried to steal from us or who were, in our view, simply insane. For further research we suggest "CustomersSuck.Com".

by John Sampote

 

Cases of Credit and Debit Card Chargebacks, Credit Card Fraud, Theft, Identity Theft, and Other Assorted Nut-Balls.

 

Sample Case HERE

 

Read MORE about this customer HERE

Complaint by Maegan Poland, customer of TrixiePixGraphics / FakeNewspapers.com
Santa Monica, California
Fake Newspaper

Submitted to Ripoff Reports: Saturday, July 21, 2007

When I was still waiting on an order, I noticed that trixiepixgraphics.com posted correspondence regarding one customer that they claim harrassed them. [Note: See the Eileen McDermot file above]. I have no idea what the validity of these claims are, but I found the posting to be unprofessional. What's more, after my own experience with them, I would not be surprised if the woman they claimed harrassed them had an experience similar to mine.

I ordered a fake gag newspaper that needed to look professional. When I got it, the top front page headline had been hyphenated. In my experience, only high school and tiny local newspapers ever do this on the front page. In fact, to make sure it wasn't all in my imagination, I looked up newspaper guidelines at various key newspapers and discovered that hyphenating a headline is a big mistake. I emailed trixiepix and merely stated that the hyphenated headline was not realistic looking. Would there be any way to reprint it without the hyphenation? They responded with a definitive no. They would never reprint something like that. I then emailed back and simply stated that: I've never seen a hyphenated headline before. I had four more orders I needed but I'll have to take those elsewhere.

Here is the entirely unprovoked response that trixiepixgraphics sent me:

"Now, CEASE AND DESIST. We've had enough of you."

Needless to say, I was horrified by the rudeness, expecially since these were the people who had already taken 60 dollars of mine regardless of whether or not the product was of their promised quality. They blocked my IP address, so this was my last interaction with them. Like angry kids, they hurled an insult at me before slamming the door. And they took my money. I did nothing to provoke or merit this sort of behavior. And I can't believe that they would find it acceptable to behave in this way.

When the other woman on their website reported them to the BBB, they sent a letter claiming that she had harrassed them to her local policemen. I have to wonder now if trixiepicsgraphics was accurate in making this claim, or if they are just rude incompetent business owners who like to terrorize their unsatisfied customers.

"Cory"
Santa Monica, California
U.S.A.

Rebuttal by TrixiePixGraphics.com, filed with Ripoff Reports on 12-1-2009:

We see that this complaint was filed in 2007. We were not aware of it until now (end of 2009). We do remember this customer well; she remains the worst customer we have ever encountered, in 12 years of online sales and nearly 30 years of traditional sales. First, her amount was not $60 as she states, it was $49.90, but that's neither here nor there. This woman placed an order for a fake newspaper. During that order process she was specifically and explicitly told, in writing, not to use words in the small headline field which would force a hyphenation. Here's the exact written warning that was supplied to her, cut and pasted directly from our records.

QUOTE: "Hyphenating a headline is "BAD". Unfortunately, we don't choose your headline -- YOU do. And we are loath to change it. Therefore, please consider how your headline might format itself if it's likely to be two lines. We have all kinds of tricks to avoid hyphenating a headline; we can stretch and squeeze the text, move words here and there, but in the end there MAY be times when there is simply no other choice but to hyphenate your headline. You can avoid this by being careful about composing your headline." END QUOTE

She utterly ignored this and submitted a headline which had to be hyphenated. When she received her newspaper she demanded that we reprint it without the hyphen, at our expense. Since that was impossible, we denied her request. She then filed three (3) nonsensical complaints with the Better Business Bureau, until THEY cut her off and refused to accept any more complaints. We blocked her from ordering from us again. She then filed a complaint with the California Dept. of Justice (!) and lied (not an opinion, it's a fact), saying we had threatened her. At that point we served her with a no-contact order, and filed a criminal complaint against her for harassment and for lying to the Dept. of Justice. We have not heard from her since, but she remains prominent among memories we'd like to purge from our consciousness. She has been posting things like this for two and a half years now, all across the net, using whatever name she feels like at any given moment. It is our opinion that she is mentally handicapped; there seems no other plausible explanation. ALL interactions with ALL customers are done through our public forum. You may peruse that database at any time by going to our home page and following the "Ask a Question" link. Every business will sooner or later pick up a nut-job like this. We're sorry that we have finally entered into the ranks of "the initiated". We're thoroughly disgusted by the mentality that acts as this woman has.

[Note that this woman used the fictitious name of "Cory" to post her complaint to Ripoff Reports. In fact her real name is Maegan Poland, of Santa Monica, California. She remains, to this day, the worst customer we have ever encountered.]

[Note: A new instance of harassment has been uncovered on 3-31-10 which will cause another criminal complaint of harassment to be filed against Maegan Poland. It appears we now also have enough documentation to successfully file against her in civil court. We've never seen anything like this woman in our lives. This may, in the end, turn out to be the worst customer ANY business has ever seen. The new owners are at this moment scanning their customer files to see if they have accidentally sold anything to this imbecile. Their opinions of her match ours precisely.

On 3-31-2010 the new owners of TrixiePixGraphics received the following letter from Maegan Poland. They consider it their first instance of harassment. We consider it roughly our eighth instance of harassment:

Here we have this broad (as nice as it gets, Maegan) writing to the NEW owners of our sold business to lie (it's a fact, not an opinion) by stating that we have called her a credit card fraudster, and a thief. In point of FACT, no such allegations have ever been made by us anywhere. --Not verbally, not in writing, not by smoke signal, not by telepathy, not at any time, ever. Perhaps she IS a credit card fraudster and a thief, but if so, we have no knowledge of it and have never once represented her as such. All of our publicly posted opinions regarding this idiot are and have been posted online and are searchable by any competent search engine. Maybe websites maintain archives of other sites; it's an easy task to research those archives to see if we've EVER said any such thing about Maegan Poland. No reader will find it, because it doesn't exist. Maegan Poland has pointedly, specifically and explicitly LIED to the new owners of TrixiePixGraphics for the express purpose of attempting to hurt us and our reputation. She lied also when she wrote to the California Department of justice to say we had threatened her. That lie earned her a criminal complaint; the city of Santa Monica has our complaint on file. We state this FACT: Maegan Poland is a liar. Lies in this context are actionable, and repeated stunts like this may ultimately constitute criminal harassment. This woman's unpleasant transaction with us was THREE YEARS ago, yet she continues to this day to harass, torment, slander and libel us. It's now time for civil and criminal action. We do wholeheartedly believe the woman is mentally handicapped. It seems an inescapable conclusion at this point and after THREE YEARS of this crap we doubt there's a judge in the land who wouldn't agree. The law does not allow for this kind of nonsense to continue forever. The law will stop her, or cause her keeper to stop her. Civil court will force her to recompensate us, or will force those responsible for her and her actions to recompensate us. It's clear to us after three years that this woman will never stop as long as she draws breath, or as long as she goes unpunished. We now have the time and energy to see this through. How ironic it is to note that in accusing us of libeling or slandering HER, Maegan Poland has lied and libeled US. There is, we believe, something seriously wrong with this woman and we urge her to get help before she paints herself into a corner she can't get out of. We have truly never seen anything like this in our entire lives. None of us have. We doubt we ever will again.

The new owners of our company were thoroughly disgusted by this exhibition. We doubt they'll treat this witch half as courteously as we have. They were warned about this woman and her ilk THREE YEARS ago when they first expressed an interest in buying this company, and they've followed her escapades all along. To have her begin harassing THEM TOO is patently over the top.

Maegan: GET. HELP. ANY competent psychologist will agree that you need it.

Copies of criminal complaints and court documents will be appended either on this page, or, more likely on Maegan Poland's MAIN page, located at the link below:

Read MORE about this customer HERE

Drop Maegan a note if you like, HERE: m_davenport@rocketmail.com

 

 

 

If your name appears on this list, you may never order from TrixiePixieGraphics / FakeNewspapers again (not even from the new owners).

The following instances include outright Paypal fraud -- this is where a customer places an order, signs for the delivery of that order, then, a few weeks or a few months later, tries to claim they never placed said order. In such cases we verify the IP address of the customer's computer, we verify their signature and address, and we determine beyond all doubt that, indeed, that customer DID place the order and DID receive the goods. Or other cases of problematic customers. In most cases were able to either keep the money we earned, or get it back through the credit card processor. In some cases, some minute technicality in the credit card processing system will prevent us from keeping or retrieving what we earned. Regardless of whether we ultimately got ripped off or not, the customer responsible will never enjoy our products again. And if that customer tries to have a friend order from us on their behalf, our system will still flag their name on the personalization form and cancel the order.

In every single case of fraud we file a criminal complaint against the fraudster. In some cases we're able to actually get criminal charges filed and the thief goes to jail; in some cases not. But even in the latter scenario, the complaint stays on file against that individual forever. All complaints are routed to the fraudster's own local police department, and also to the FBI, since almost all such fraud is committed across state lines. That makes it a Felony.

As time allows we'll post the personalization forms that were submitted to us for each fraudulent order, and we'll post not only the names you see below, but ALL information we have on file about the criminals who have defrauded us (stolen money from us), or who have attempted to. That data will remain posted publicly for the rest of those peoples' lives, for the rest of their friends' lives, and for the rest of their childrens' lives, for all the world to see. We're sick of thieves. It's not politically correct to simply kill them these days, but we can sure as hell expose them. While a fraudster might use a stolen ID to place a bogus order, they will always use their own name to personalize the product they want to steal. We are currently aware of no cases where the name on the personalization form differs from the name on the credit card that was used. And in EVERY SINGLE CASE, the recipient of the product signed for the delivery, yet when we go back to demand the return of that unpaid-for product, we're told in every single case that no delivery was accepted at that address. Remember, WE HAVE THEIR SIGNATURES!

In a few of the cases shown below, we may have blocked the customer not for outright fraud or theft, but simply because they were too problematic to do business with. Those cases are very rare, and it's safe to say that 99.5% of the cases shown below involve customers who simply defrauded us on purpose. Even if a fraudster used someone's stolen credit card, we can't take the chance of accepting that card or any other card in that person's name, again.

The reason you're barred is moot -- the fact remains that if you're on this list (and we have your addresses on file for verification), you will never order from us again, and if you try, we will add another criminal complaint to your FBI file. This list represents about 20% of the blocked customers we have on file; we'll complete the list as time allows.

Do you notice a pattern in this list? Nearly every single case of fraud involves fake pregnancy items. While there's a class of decent, honest customer who appreciates the humor of these gags, the majority of sales go to the world's bottom-feeders. For this reason we are selling off this line of products to a company not even remotely as nice as we are when it comes to dealing with shysters and thieves.

NOTE: Three of the women depicted below actually conspired together as a group, to collectively defraud us. We are paying particular attention to their cases and we will do whatever is necessary, for as long as it takes, to bring criminal charges against them and eventually see them do jail time. All three know who they are. We will never rest until we nail them. Their complete and unabridged files will become "extremely public" at the appropriate time in the future.

 

 

EILEEN MCDERMOTT
New York City
Fake Newspaper

Submitted by : "EILEEN MCDERMOTT", New York City
Last posting: Saturday, December 26, 2009

Trixiepixgraphics.com posted personal details about me on their website because I emailed them with a question about my order. They grew disproportionately irate and instantly blocked my IP address and email address. Do not order from this company. Although I did eventually receive the product and it was satisfactory, the owner thrives on harrassing customers and posting false information about them.

Mizzemm
New York, New York
U.S.A.

REBUTTAL by TrixiePixGraphics.com, filed with RipOffReports on this date

Title: Second Worst Customer We've Ever Encountered
SUBMITTED: Saturday, December 26, 2009

This is a customer who has conspired (documented) with one Maegan Poland of Santa Monica, California, who has filed the other complaint against us on this website using the fictitious name of "Cory". Both complaints were filed nearly three years ago, but since RipOffReports doesn't see fit to see to it that any company is notified of any complaint, this is the first we've heard of it (end of 2009). This customer's name is actually "EILEEN MCDERMOTT", from New York city. She had ordered a fake newspaper. The order was immediately processed, printed and shipped. She was sent the tracking number. Immediately upon receiving her tracking number she emailed us to lament that we "must be thieves" because, in her opinion, no business could ever process an order so quickly. We assured her that we were most assuredly not thieves, and that her order would arrive early, exactly as her tracking number indicated, and would be perfect. So she replied to insult us even more. We endured several more exchanges like this, but finally we'd had enough and we blocked her from contacting us again, and from ordering again (ever). In response, she opened a new email account to further harass us. We threatened a criminal complaint and civil action -- she countered by telling us she had every right to harass us as much as she desired, and that nothing we could ever do would stop her. We then filed a criminal complaint with her local police department, which became a public document, and that seemed to have settled her down. She did receive her product, early, and perfectly made, which she admits to in her complaint. So what, then, IS her complaint? She was, in our view, simply a nasty, insulting New York broad (our choice of adjectives here is conscious and considered), and she has been accustomed, her entire life, to being rude, obnoxious and insulting (we call it "The New York Syndrome"). She was amazed and incensed, then, when someone (us) stood up to her outrageous attitude. THAT is the essence of her beef. We strive to do business with decent human beings. We will not do business with, nor tolerate contact from, society's pigs. We have no more-polite assessment of this woman than that. She remains our second worst customer ever, in 12 full years of online sales and nearly 30 years of direct retail sales. She is second only to her co-conspirator who filed the other complaint on this website. These two women caused these problems within about two days of each other, and have been causing problems ever since. We will never knuckle-under for this type of behavior. We will always meet it head-on. Every interaction we have with every customer is posted publicly in our question and answer forum, available by link from every one of our 2800+ web pages. Note: The only customer who we ever considered to be nearly as bad as either of these two is now in a mental institution for the criminally insane.

 

 

Kerry Degross
New York
7-12-2009
Fake Pregnancy Tests (2)

 

 

Jennifer Falls
Forest, VA
Fake Pregnancy Papers

 

 

Jacqueline Wabara
132 Swaythling Close
London N182QQ
United Kingdom
07861 219 057
jacqueline_Kalu@yahoo.co.uk

Payment Method: PayPal

Full File

ORDER DETAILS:
Item: FPB - Fake Pregnancy Bellies
Quantity: 1
Description: Fake Pregnancy Bellies, one size fits all - more or less
Price (each): $16.95
Item Total: $16.95

Item: Fake Ultrasounds  FC-50 & FC-101
Quantity: 1
Description: Fake Ultrasounds, Versions FC-50 and 101
Price (each): $16.95
Item Total: $16.95

This customer filed a dispute stating that she never received her order. When a customer files a formal dispute, it goes into our "credibility file" with Paypal. It takes us 30-60 minutes to dig up all the documents to dispute the dispute. It makes us angry as hell. And it causes you to be blocked from ordering us forever, as Jacqueline wabara has been blocked. Here's her comment which opened the dispute and set in motion all of this BS:

From Jacqueline Wabara to Paypal:
12/16/2009 09:29 PST - Buyer: I have not received the goods that were ordered over 3 weeks ago They were needed by today for a special party .Very Dissapointed

From TrixiePixieGraphics to Paypal:
This is absolutely outrageous and this customer has been placed on our public list of blocked customers. Her own local post office has been trying to deliver this to her since 8:26 am on DECEMBER 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!! This customer could not be bothered to contact us before filing this dispute. She could not be bothered to even run the tracking number she was sent! Here it is AGAIN! CJ235222737US. We are so sick and bloody tired of customers who pull this kind of crap. It's ALWAYS the company's fault, right? Never, EVER the customer's fault. We're bloody sick and tired of it. This damned woman needs to go to her own local postal office and PICK UP HER ITEM -- assuming, that is, that they haven't shipped it back to us. This is a personalized item and cannot be restocked or resold. We are SO sick of this crap that we are fully willing to retain an attorney in the UK and file suit against this customer in court, in the UK, and make it damned public, just to send a message to other customers who would consider pulling such a stunt. We are really, truly, completely disgusted with this kind of nonsense. Please REVERSE this dispute immediately. We filled her order properly, we shipped it early, her own service has been trying to deliver it to her. We can do everything except FORCE these people to accept delivery of their orders. We simply have no way of doing that. We are really, really pissed. This entire account will be posted on our "Blocked Customer" page by the end of the day. This crap has GOT to stop. Contacting us politely would have cleared this up! Checking her own tracking number would have cleared this up! But this woman couldn't be bothered to do either! My GOD we are angry! Here is the detailed tracking data for the last time:

Attempted Delivery Abroad, December 02, 2009, 8:26 am, GREAT BRITAIN
At Foreign Delivery Unit, December 01, 2009, 11:53 pm, GREAT BRITAIN
Out of Foreign Customs, December 01, 2009, 12:00 pm, GREAT BRITAIN
International Dispatch, November 21, 2009, 3:27 am, ISC SAN FRANCISCO (USPS)
Electronic Shipping Info Received, November 17, 2009

The following was sent to Jacqueline Wabara on 12-16-09:

As a result of your fraudulent Paypal dispute, you have been blocked from ordering from us FOREVER. Your own postal service has tried to deliver your item beginning two weeks ago. If we have the SLIGHTEST problem getting our money back from Paypal, we will immediately hire an attorney in the UK and file a lawsuit against you for the disputed amount. We will also file charges of fraud against you.

Do not EVER try to order from us again.

Do not EVER try to contact us again for any reason. We will consider such contact a form of criminal harassment and we will INSTANTLY file a criminal complaint against you.

NO business needs or wants customers like you.

NOTE (12-20-09): This woman is apparently refusing to respond to Paypal's inquiry. That means our money is still frozen by Paypal. We're now beginning the process of researching attorneys in the UK who are geographically close enough to this customer to file both a civil suit and attempted fraud complaints. She has been notified both by us and by Paypal that her order arrived on Dec. 2nd, yet she still will not release our funds. Few things in life enrage us like customers of this sort. If the file on this case becomes much larger we'll move it to a new, dedicated page of its own. By God this crap makes us angry.

 

 

Joanna Samford
aka Dorella Strickland
aka Joanna Lynn Samford
aka Marianna Denise Mitchell
aka Olivia Ramsey
Georgia & Florida
4-08-2009
Fake Ultrasounds, Fake Pregnancy Papers

 

 

Stephen Holian
Connecticut
2-01-09
Fake Pregnancy Papers

 

 

Sarah Giron
California
3-16-2009
Fake Pregnancy Test (1)
Fake Pregnancy Papers (1)
Fake Ultrasounds (6)

 

 

Rhonda Larry
Michigan
01-21-2009
Ultrasounds
Fake Pregnancy Papers

 

 

Bonnie Snyder
New York
3-16-2009
Fake Pregnancy Bundle (many other orders)

 

 

Trishia Queen
Colorado
04-09-2009
Fake Pregnancy Papers
Fake Pregnancy Tests

 

 

AISHA TAQYIYA BOLTON
North Carolina
03-25-2009
Fake Ultrasounds
Fake Pregnancy Papers

 

 

Shavonn Williams
New York
03-10-2009
Fake Pregnancy Bundle

 

 

Renee Gravunder
Wisconsin
05-08-2009
Fake Pregnancy Test

 

 

Alexandra Briguglio
Illinois
01-11-2009
Fake Pregnancy Test
Fake Pregnancy Papers

 

 

James G Clyburn
South Carolina
10-14-2008
Fake Pregnancy Bellies
Fake Pregnancy Tests
Fake Pregnancy Documents

 

 

Melissa Enriquez
California
08-12-2008
Fake Pregnancy Tests

 

 

Odessa Paul-Dennis
William Wendes
Texas / Illinois
09-27-2007

 

 

Casey Fuller
Oregon
05-22-08
Fake Pregnancy Test

 

 

Amanda Versace
Pennsylvania
12-16-2008
Fake Pregnancy Papers