TVaddicts.tv, ultimatedvdshop, tvbox, dvd avenue

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Deborah
Country: United States
There are several internet websites which I believe are scamming the public. Those sites are known as TVaddicts.tv, ultimatedvdshop, tvbox, dvd avenue, to name a few. All these are affiliated and called "sister" sites.

I was going to order a dvd set and found large price discrepancies among all these sites for the same item! I tried to call the phone number posted on each of these sites (which by the way is the same number for all of them), and was met with an answering machine no one every picked up, or I was cut off, or I left messages and have sent emails receiving no response at all.

Why would I ever trust these sites enough to order anything from them when they don't even have someone answering their phones? And on top of that their live "customer service" chat person can't even help. I suspect they are in another country since their written English skills seem to be lacking. I don't want some unsuspecting consumer to get burned using these websites.

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    logan keith
    what was your experience? i hope i didn't get ripped.
    e-mail me. wickiddesign@gmail.com
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    Kelzoey
    Thank you thank you thank you to all of you. I was stunned that even though no where else in the world had NYPD Blue the complete series this guys did. I just felt there was something fishy. They are now trading under dvdinc.tv and when I searched for complaints on that nothing. But when I looked through their policies page I saw a reference to dvdglobe and found this site so I was saved. Once again thanks everyone for sharing the info...
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    jordan
    I bought a rocko's modern life dvd from mytvshowdvd.com and it never arrived, I sent an e-mail asking about it and the company said they would look into it, I sent another a week later and they didn't reply. The e-mail address doesn't work anymore and the site doesn't exist either, I lost 47 dollars, but luckily I paid on a visa gift card instead of my debit card. I'll never get that money back, but at least they don't have my personal info, lets see those [***] withdraw from a set amount.
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    Carol, almost fell for it !
    Boy, did i almost get suckered into this scam ! i have been looking for the 1980's tv series "Flamingo Road" for a long time. finally posted a request for anyone who knew where i might find it on wikianswers. About two weeks or so later i recieved an email " try tvaddict.tv".
    well, miracles do happen, they just happen to have it, the last item listed on the page, gee isn't that a little funny ?
    i checked for a phone number or address nothing, only an email address. so instead of giving out my credit card number i used a safe card number provided by my company specifically for internet shopping. TV ADDICT.TV DENIED IT ! said i was a high security risk & my order was denied but i could call a 1-888 number & discuss it with a represenative. I called & got a recording that number 280-7123 was not available. So I went online again & poked around. Sure enough i found all their sister sites listed above. they never answered my call & when i went to go back into the website my access was denied ! i saved myself $119.00 for the dvd set plus another 25.99 for customs, shipping & handling. A total of $144.99 i would have been suckered out of !
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    Carol
    ya, i thought it was also very strange that no one else in the world had the tv series dvd "flamingo road" but mysteriously after i posted a request on wikianswer, bingo there it was ! din't know about this site then but it's on my favorite list now.
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    granny janney
    Thank you all so much for this info, I was about to order too, I am so sorry you have lost money to these scammers and I hope you can get it back through your bank.
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    john
    Thanks for all the info...man, am I glad I found this site...saved a huge headache. I got ripped off once before with a bogus magazine subscription...same deal...take your money and vanish.
    By the way, for those of you interested in NYPD blue (the whole series-12 seasons) the torrents can be found for these for free. Someone recorded them, pretty decent qaulity, and is sharing them with everyone. Thanks to the one who did this, I got to enjoy the entire series. Good luck.
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    Louise, fell for it!
    Well, I too fell for the tvaddicts.tv scam. I feel so naive now not to have checked them out first. I've just been wanting to buy Picket Fences for so long and when I had a good work bonus come in recently I decided to treat myself - and then saw a couple of other series' I wanted. All up it came to $267 Austalian. Got the delivery quickly, so thought all was well. Put the first DVD in and it was like watching it on an old tv back in the 80s with a bad antenna. At this stage most of them seem to work, but The Practice set won't even load. I complained quite strongly to them via email and they offered a full refund or just the refund of my shipping so I could keep them. I've reported them to Mastercard to look into, but thought I'd better reply. Surprise, surpise, the website no longer exists. I've learnt my lesson the hard way, but will be putting this site into my bookmarks from now on. I feel so stupid, but I was sooo looking forward to getting them - been looking at them for 2 years! Hopefully at least I might be able to watch the bad quality ones. Thanks for all your great info.
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    Wiser in Texas
    My sympathy to all who got ripped off. I almost did but fortunately a friend who also planned to make an order grew suspicious that TVADDICTS offered so many TV programs not offered anywhere else and while investigating found this site.
    SPREAD THE WORD PEOPLE!
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    Malaysia
    How i wish i came upon this site before i made any order .
    I placed an order for "THE NANNY" on 8 Dec 2009 but was rejected due to security measure.
    But on 12 Dec 2009 I received an email informing me that my order has been successfully processed and will be shipped out shortly.  Within the same day another email received stating that the order has been shipped and my credit card was charged and i was given a tracking number to track the shipment.
    The number could not be tracked and emails to them with reply, they are having technical problem, to wait for a few working days, the order will be delivered.
    Now one month later I still have no delivery and all my emails to them
    was ignored.
    As I'm not from the USA, (by the way I'm from Malaysia)I've no ideas how to go about making a police report on these.  I just want to alert others of these scammers and i think the relevant authority should shut down these phoney websites.
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    Kingdom of Denmark
    They got me to here in Denmark in the fall 2009. For about 500 dollars.
    And my tracing also ended up in china. I recived some of my order on time, but all of it was pirated and some of the discs contained something i did'nt order. I have tried e-mailing and calling, and there is aparently nothing i can do to get my money back.
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    joyalisascammer
    hi, yes, the scammers who are behind those sites are scammers and they have no remorses. they live a great life and buy luxurious things all the time. they need to be put behind bars. i reported them to the federal police. they operate from Montreal, Canada. his name is jason joyal.
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    joyalisascammer
    Montreal Men Charged in International DVD Piracy Ring:
    http://www.cmpda.ca/press/en/CMPDA_RCMP-Montreal-arrests.pdf
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    truthmessenger
    Montreal Men Charged in International DVD Piracy Ring:
    http://www.marketnews.ca/content/index/page?pid=4891
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    FBI
    call RCMP (canadian police) and FBI.
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    Cinnabar
    Your site came up when I goggled tvaddicts.tv.  Wow!  Thanks for all the information.  I have been wanting to order Star Trek DVDs (all variations), but have extremely limited funds.  Thank you for saving me from being ripped off!  I am disturbed that there is a connection with eBay listed.  I have been told that things there were absolutely reliable and safe.  Any further information?  Thanks,
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    TVAddicts operates from Russia!
    It's mainly those Russian criminals who are behind this all. Of course some Canadians can be involved as well but take the fact into account that Canada is a welfare state unlike poor, crime-infested Russia where these internet scams aimed at affluent societies are common. If you go to http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/tvaddicts.tv/postid?p=3741657 you'll see that tvaddicts.tv is operating from Russian Federation. If that link didn't work, go to http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/ and submit "tvaddicts.tv" for testing.

    Russia might be getting richer little by little but the process will take long and my rough guess is that as long as Russian are generally significantly poorer than the so-called West, there will be lots of crime in Russia, partially directed at Western consumers. To say it in a nutshell, some Russians try to take advantage of the internet so as to scam "starry-eyed," naive Westerners. This site, tvaddicts.tv, is just one of their sites dedicated to stealing credit card numbers.

    /Greetings from Europe
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    Cara
    I was just about to order Boston Public for my husband.  I was so excited, because he's wanted to series for years and we haven't been able to find it anywhere.  I'm glad I dug a little deeper and found all of your comments.  No order, no regrets!  Maybe I'll find it someday...
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    SUZE
    After not receiving conf within 16 hrs looked up reviews and was disgusted by what i read, cancelled charge to my c/c, having c/c number changed as well. I despise lowlifes
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    Tom Greenlaw
    May I ad another rip-off outfit, Planet DVD Store.com. Here's my story. I was an addict of the old TV series, The FBI, when it was on TV back in the 60's and 70's. I was thrilled to find it available on DVD. It seems the company above used the promo from another company to sell pirated copies. The original ad had three boxes with the full 9 seasons. Mine arrived in two boxes,some other series pictures and the disks are awful! Half don't play, many are unwatchable, quality is poor on the best of them. I complained and they sent me replacements which have identical problems to the originals they sent. I should have been wary at the half price offer. Also $20. for postage. These companies should be shut down!

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