Possible scam or serious issues with radioparts.com (International Radio LLC)

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Gooble Maps: The "RadioParts" sign from 2016 street view on the door of 4015 SE 6TH AVE appears to be gone, but can't read what the sign now says.
The Nienburg address is a small ranch style home.
Wonder if you called the other national name brand customer service desks such as Pryme and Icom to inquire about their on going relations with this dealer, might give further indication of what has happened.
 

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I ordered a few parts from them several times a few years ago, I received them in a timely fashion. Their address was 4015 NE 6th Ave which is technically in Oakland Park, just north of Ft. Lauderdale. I used to live a few blocks away. I had no problem, but they never stocked what I needed, & always had to order them. So I started ordering from Wiscomm who usually stocked what I needed. Too bad the local guy is gone.
 
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I used to not have a problem with them. Always got everything I ordered and I was happy customer. I did usually have to wait also for them stuff I ordered to come in from Motorola did always get it. Now I just ordered the same $1,000 worth of stuff from Magnum Electronics yesterday and I already have my tracking number and it’s on it’s already halfway here with FedEx. Should’ve just ordered from Magnum Electronics and I would’ve had my stuff a long time ago already but oh well I guess. I have ordered through Wiscomm too before and have always had good luck them as well.
 

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I see it looks like his wife or "was" his wife must be Melissa O'Malley from looking at her Facebook.
Please send me a link to her Facebook profile. I cannot view his profile because he blocked me. It is better to share it in private. I am considering asking her directly what is going on.
 

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Registered here just to contribute my two cents to this thread which someone else pointed out to me.
Great, our situations are similar except my amount is eight times larger. Could you please send me all the information you were able to gather in private? It is better not to post it here. I want this thread to remain as constructive, lawful, and helpful as possible for other victims and potential victims. Let’s keep everything proper so no one has any reason to try removing it by any means.
 

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Wonder if you called the other national name brand customer service desks such as Pryme and Icom to inquire about their on going relations

Yes, that’s a great idea. I will bring them up to speed. A business like this should be taken down completely, and its founder should end up running from collectors or sitting behind bars. I will make sure I get my money’s worth so this slick operator can no longer deceive people.
 

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My career of 40 years was as a commercial credit manager. Our clients were large national and multinational construction related firms usually running balances in mid to upper seven figures. However, this is kind of a classic business case scenario.

While this is only a wild guess, I've seen the situation you described evolve perhaps several hundred times. The scenario has all the earmarks of a business failure, suppliers cutting them off from credit usually due to non payment, and stripping them of their affiliation. As employees get swamped with complaints their responses dwindle, become nonsensical, until finally they no longer respond. Eventually they leave, but clients seldom are aware unless someone actually picks up the phone and talks to you. As far as Zendesk is concerned that is only a customer service portal to provide management with tools to track customer service. If management has abandoned the business, for whatever reasons, there is no one who cares what the Zendesk data is saying, or Zendesk has cut them off too. Only speculation.

This is a sad situation, but unfortunately a very common one in all industries where suppliers provide largely unsecured credit lines to their retail outlet clients to make sales easier and products readily available to the pubic.
I had a co-worker who had saved up a zillion points on a GM VISA card. He had enough to buy pretty much a new Camaro. So he found a dealer in Alabama, a short distance from Tallahassee. He went in , made the deal and waited. The car did not arrive, the contacts with dealer got cutoff. He drove over one Saturday and there was a lone worker cleaning the place out. They were going under before he placed the order. He never got his GM card points back . Pretty sad to get ripped off like that.

My dad was a credit manager for Goodyear. One day I needed some tires and my dad sent me to a dealer in west part of Illinois to get some "blems". The dealer told me my dad had saved his business by extending some credit when times were tough. I never forgot that. My dad was not one to share that sort of stuff.
 

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Great, our situations are similar except my amount is eight times larger. Could you please send me all the information you were able to gather in private? It is better not to post it here. I want this thread to remain as constructive, lawful, and helpful as possible for other victims and potential victims. Let’s keep everything proper so no one has any reason to try removing it by any means.
Strangely I don't see an option to PM you. When trying to view your profile it says I don't have permission - perhaps because I'm a new member. If you're able to PM me please do so and I will provide the information I collected.
 

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Hello everyone,

We have gathered evidence that the online store is still operating, continues to accept new paid orders, and immediately withdraws the funds so the bank account remains empty, preventing refunds from being issued.

A request to all affected customers: to help stop this store from operating, please send well documented abuse reports to the following addresses:
This will not help those who have already suffered losses, but it will help prevent new victims. The purpose is to protect others.

Thank you in advance to everyone who finds the strength to take action. I have already done so.
 
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While you probably have a case for this being a failing business avoiding you here, there is nothing too out of the ordinary on corporate bank accounts being emptied nightly especially incoming remittance type accounts. I used to manage a multi national's credit ops and we used lock box remittance accounts to accept and process incoming funds from customers and others. Anything sent to us was accepted into that bank, processed, and the bank account emptied, we referred to it as being "swept" nightly into corporate accounts that were managed by the Finance dept. No checks or payments were ever written against those remittance bank accounts.

Having said that, your experience, and that of others, seems to point to a highly questionable operation. Consideration of a good collection lawyer would be advisable it would seem. Perhaps see if others in like situations can share in the expenses of enforcing collection of what you are owed.

In any case, good luck and hope you are able to obtain your refunds.
 

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I ordered a replacement LCD screen for my Icom ID5100a from them back in early November. Waited a month for them to ship it to my Arizona address. Box came today, and I immediately knew something was wrong. This is what they sent me. IMG_6177.jpeg
 

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I ordered a replacement LCD screen for my Icom ID5100a from them back in early November. Waited a month for them to ship it to my Arizona address. Box came today, and I immediately knew something was wrong. This is what they sent me. View attachment 193597
I’m surprised you even received anything at all.
 

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ordered a replacement LCD screen for my Icom ID5100a from them back in early November. Waited a month for them to ship it to my Arizona address. Box came today, and I immediately knew something was wrong. This is what they sent me.
Hi. What exactly is wrong with the part? The photo isn’t clear enough for me to see the issue. Please describe in words what specifically is wrong.

And yes, the company Icom has been informed that they are engaging in fraud.
 

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Understood. They are simulating activity, and once you open a card dispute they will be able to attach a tracking number to it and win the case that way.

There is more evidence, actually two points, confirming this is fraud. They respond selectively: they ignore me, they ignore my bank, they ignore the BBB, but they reply to certain customers. They also shipped your order just so they would have a tracking number on file.
 

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Understood. They are simulating activity, and once you open a card dispute they will be able to attach a tracking number to it and win the case that way.

There is more evidence, actually two points, confirming this is fraud. They respond selectively: they ignore me, they ignore my bank, they ignore the BBB, but they reply to certain customers. They also shipped your order just so they would have a tracking number on file.
If someone can track it to his bank account where these funds are deposited and make a fraud complaint, his scam will end pretty fast and he will not be able to bank anywhere.
 

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I have 2 Radioparts orders that haven’t shipped, 1 from April and 1 from Octobe. The April Order was International Radio, LLC, the October one was something like RF Scientific, LLC so there was a change on the back end. Both were backordered…the April one was for Mag One CP200 batteries…Moto backordered those for 4 months sometimes, so it didn’t bother me….when I looked 2 weeks ago, product no longer available on Motorola’s website.
The second order from October was for CP200 shells…Radioparts replied today saying they’re backordered and should ship by the end of December….funny thing is that Moto had stock in October, and has stock now, and just shipped me some that I ordered last week….so there is definitely something not right.
 

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Hello everyone,

Here is the current status.

Radioparts.com is not a Motorola dealer and lost that status a few years ago. We are now working with Motorola to shut down their reseller channel by identifying the partner they are buying from and stopping shipments to that source. The only question is which serial numbers Motorola can trace. I initiated this process and it is underway.

Next, we can increase pressure through the manufacturers. You can report the violations committed against you using the following email addresses:
  • For the Motorola brand: partners.na AT motorolasolutions.com
  • For the Icom brand: salescontracts AT icomamerica.com, IcomNorthwest AT IcomAmerica.com
  • To report that they are running a scam business via the Authorize.net card processing gateway: fraud AT authorize.net
And remember: regardless of whether or not you want to help shut this operation down and stop their fraudulent schemes, you must file a chargeback through PayPal within 90 days, and in the case of a VISA card within roughly 100 days (the formal outer limit is about 120 days, but your bank needs time to accept your documents and submit the case to VISA, which can take anywhere from a few days to several weeks).

The most effective way to deal with these scammers is criminal prosecution, although I am not sure that will ever happen. The second most effective way is to have them disconnected from their payment processor. Once 4 to 6 out of 100 customers file chargebacks, the payment processor will usually shut down the merchant account on its own. And that is why your help is especially important to me here.
 
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