STAY AWAY, STAY AWAY, ***STAY AWAY*** from Pipeline Services.
Their staff and management are complete and utter scam artists. I signed up with them in September 2009. Three weeks ago I processed two transactions to sell a product that my business is listed under. (I am avoiding specifics as I know they troll the web and add small business owners to TMF Terminated Merchant Files to screw their credit up)
They held onto the two transactions, totaling $6,000, and then took $6,000 directly out of my checking account. After calling to complain with them, they asked for documentation to confirm the transactions. I sent all the paperwork - shipping paperwork, inventory, purchase agreements, credit card carbon copies, the works. I even had MY CLIENTS contact them to release the funds to me.
No deal.
They said the paperwork, which totaled over 40 pages and a dozen e-mails, was not sufficient enough. How can it not be sufficient when my clients have the product in their hands, and they have all the proof absolutely possible, INCLUDING THE CLIENTS CALLING TO CONFIRM THE TRANSACTIONS? They said they were going to hold onto my $6,000 as a deposit for 12 months, as well as hold my clients' funds.
My clients initiated charge backs and are awaiting their money back. I am now out $6,000 plus $6,000 in product (with the expectation my clients will write me a check for the products they received). All because of Pipeline Data Processing.
Frauds. Scams. Thieves. Crooks. Pipeline Data, and Vincent in particular - you are on LinkedIn. I have an attorney in Georgia. You are going down.