Tony Saunders - Magic Castle Studios scammed me out of $3000 - watch out! Hercules California

September 2010

  Well this is interesting, after a few months of not checking this thread now Tony Saunders wants to sue me? He claims he has no contact information for me? Maybe he should check the 2006 1099 tax form I sent him or the address on the letter he sent me. In this day of the internet he can't find my contact information? What professional businessman has a $3000 client and then conveniently loses all his contact information? What professional businessmen cant produce a single receipt or any verifiable accounting for any of the services he claims to have delivered? Who is the liar here? I filed this report anonymously as a last resort to get justice without any malicious intent. I knew Tony would know exactly who this is and there is no need for anyone else to know anything about me except that I was frustrated in every attempt to serve him small claims papers. I tried his PO Box, (returned refused ), his LLC attorney listed with the California Secretary of State (returned-refused) and at his studio address in Hercules (numerous attempts, including using professionals). I can prove all of this, Tony. I am grateful to ripoffreport.com for giving angry and frustrated plaintiffs like myself an avenue outside the court system.. In the meantime from my point of view and in my humble opinion Tony Saunders (DBA Magic Castle Studios) is at best a totally unprofessional businessmen and at worst a complete fraud. I would advise anyone entertaining the idea of doing business with Tony Saunders to use extreme caution.I have no personal malice against Mr. Sanders, I just want my money back at this stage.Any reasonable person can understand this. Tony, you could even have Ken contact me if you really wanted to settle this amicably, instead of maliciously posting personal information about myself.

November 16, 2110

I got a caller ID today at 12:01PM from 'Private Caller' who hung up as soon as I answered so I dialed *69 and a guy anwsered who said his name was 'Merl' , I said: "is this Tony Saunders" because I recognized his voice and remembered his Dad was named Merl. He then admitted he was Tony Saunders then actually denied he called me after I questioned why he called and hung up. He apparently did'nt understand about *69 so he defaulted to his usual calling me a liar even though this can be proven by checking phone company records. I asked him if he wanted to settle this Ripoff Report thing, he said yes but then got hysterical when I tried to get down to brass tacks rambling on about some woman employee he is sending after me. He chose to end the call by saying:"You are the problem and I am going to get rid of the problem, don't call me here anymore" It was funny he said for me to not call him anymore since it was he who called me a few minutes earlier and hung up (which can be proven) but it was not funny having my life threatened. So now Tony Saunders has stooped to harrassing me and threatening my life. Tony, did you think I would'nt report this to the local Sheriff's Department ? Tony, do not have any of your employees come anywhere near me or step on my property. 

There was a statement posted Wednesday November 25, 2009 by someone pretending to be me!  It was a lie!!! Why would I write such tripe? He stole money from me!   

 It is true that I collaborated with Tony Saunders on a song now being sung..It is true that Tony Saunders used me to write statements, check his e-mails, work his  site..Yes, Tony Saunders is associated with a lot of A-list people..They have never seen this side of him..I was never paid a dime for these service's, what Tony Saunders told me was that we were going to be husband and wife, and it would all come together!  I was never referred to Tony Saunders by any well known producer, unless he's referring to the owner of the adult entertainment site we met on.  

 Tony Saunders is a con-man in every sense of the word..His name should be added to whatever database that scoundrels are listed on. Every woman in the world should have access to it! It is true that Tony Saunders asked me to marry him, and I did accept  his proposal..This smooth talking thief even talked me into investing into some Gold and Diamond market...That was a lie, he took my money and vacationed in France, upon his return, is when he informed me that the wedding would have to be delayed, he's still married and working on his divorce..I informed him that I still had not gotten the folder with the investment information, his statement was, "O'I forgot"..Later I found out the investment was never made, and he said he'd just give me my money back..Need as of this date, I've not seen a dime of any monies owed to me, from his company or him..Tony Saunders is a lying, stealing, cheat! He does use the "I'm a christian" line, a lot! Am I a jilted lover? Yes! But I am also a heart patient, disabled by a massive coronary in 2001..Tony Saunders knew this, and still took advantage of me and my emotions for him...Tony Saunders is scandolous with no morals....

There was a statement posted Wednesday November 25, 2009 by someone pretending to be me!  It was a lie!!! Why would I write such tripe? He stole money from me!   

 It is true that I collaborated with Tony Saunders on a song now being sung..It is true that Tony Saunders used me to write statements, check his e-mails, work his  site..Yes, Tony Saunders is associated with a lot of A-list people..They have never seen this side of him..I was never paid a dime for these service's, what Tony Saunders told me was that we were going to be husband and wife, and it would all come together!  I was never referred to Tony Saunders by any well known producer, unless he's referring to the owner of the adult entertainment site we met on.  

 Tony Saunders is a con-man in every sense of the word..His name should be added to whatever database that scoundrels are listed on. Every woman in the world should have access to it! It is true that Tony Saunders asked me to marry him, and I did accept  his proposal..This smooth talking thief even talked me into investing into some Gold and Diamond market...That was a lie, he took my money and vacationed in France, upon his return, is when he informed me that the wedding would have to be delayed, he's still married and working on his divorce..I informed him that I still had not gotten the folder with the investment information, his statement was, "O'I forgot"..Later I found out the investment was never made, and he said he'd just give me my money back..Need as of this date, I've not seen a dime of any monies owed to me, from his company or him..Tony Saunders is a lying, stealing, cheat! He does use the "I'm a christian" line, a lot! Am I a jilted lover? Yes! But I am also a heart patient, disabled by a massive coronary in 2001..Tony Saunders knew this, and still took advantage of me and my emotions for him...Tony Saunders is scandolous with no morals....

quote from Saunders: "Lastly 3k is a lot of money but for the services he received I think he got more than his money's worth."  is the meaning of this:  I should be grateful he did'nt rip me off for more  .... ??!!

Saunders cries about how this report "is not fair" ....but denying me my day in court with him was fair in his mind I guess.

why will Saunders not document exactly/specifically what I received for my money?he never showed me a single correspondence from any of the supposed 150 "recording companies" including the "European" companies that "were very interested". 

why did Saunders evade legal service multiple times if he is so confident that he provided "more than his money's worth" ?  is this the action of just a shady businessman or the action of a complete conman who has no proof?  

in the mean time stay tuned for a copy of the original California Superior Court documents (including documentation of all the attemtps to serve him) and the correspondence we had through the mail to be posted at the following URL within the next 30 days :

www.tonysaunders.info   (this URL is for sale at GoDaddy.com)

Saunders had many opportunities to get this right by me but chose to take my money and run... all the rebuttals in the world will only keep this RipOffReport from popping up more and more but he knows exactly how to get in touch with me and settle this fairly if he wants to...Saunders should know only a positive update from me will help sink this RipOffReport to the bottom of the search engines ...

I am writing this as I have just today finished a project with Tony Saunders.  I was referred to Tony Saunders by a well established producer in the industry a few years ago and I felt compelled to write because I have done a lot of work with both Tony and Magic Castle studios.

First I think musicians get screwed because they only get paid once for playing on a cd while the artist in todays market gets contined pay from their projects. Tony asking for whatever to play on his project is his only form of pay for the project. I have worked with Tony on 3 projects now and he has bent over backwards for me when we didn't have much budget and we paid him well on the project we just completed. He works very hard to get the right sound and his bass playing is superb so I know that wasn't a problem.

This guy hangs out with music royalty and we have benifitted from hanging around him. The guy lives good because he has done great work and we hired him to shop a deal for us 3 years ago and we are now completing are second released cd. We paid a lot more for him to shop the project than the complaining party did and we are happy with the results of Tony's shopping.

The studio took us through each step of the original project and we have just completed a project where we paid him 5 figures to complete our project, produce, play bass and arrange a project for us.

The Music business is a business and I think the original complainer about Tony hired him to be an expert for him as the rest of the project was his friends playing on a project. Just to give you a for instance we paid way more per track  to get our project done and when we shopped our project we got over 40 responses worldwide to our projects.

 I would bet the complaining party is a person who is not in the business full time or wanted a quick fix to a project that needed attention. Why else would he hire Tony. We pray for the success of that project and wish you the best of luck with your future projects.

We will use Tony Saunders and Magic Castle studios again and again.

X. Williams

Jacksonville, Florida