Complaint Review: Lane Boland - Lebanon Indiana
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- Lane Boland 300 Purity Drive Lebanon, Indiana United States of America
- Phone:
- Web: http://distribustore.com/
- Category: Bait-and-Switch
Lane Boland distribustore.com, Will Robbins, checkstandprogram.com, Chris Simeral Distribustore and Lane Boland a complete fraud Lebanon, Indiana
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: CSP is correct
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: CSP is correct
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: We are not affiliated with Lane, Chris or Distribustore
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Distribustore Hoax Report
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Bold Lie
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I feel pretty foolish for allowing this scam to happen to me but my only
hope in sharing my story is that others aren't conned into doing
business with the likes of Distribustore, LLC, Lane Boland or Will
Robbins. I'm told they go by other business namessuch as http://checkstandprogram.com/ and http://distribustore.com
Basically, I received a really smooth and friendly sounding email
out of the blue from a lady (I won't mention her name because I don't
even know if she really exists or is a pseudonym for one of Lane
Boland's boiler room crew). The email consisted of only a couple of
short paragraphs and eluded that her company, www.distribustore.com, could have my product placed on the shelves of Walgreens as well as 2,000 convenience stores nationwide.
I reluctantly replied to the 1st email and was initially comforted
by the reply I received in return that detailed how Distribustore's
"program" worked. It stated that I would basically need to pay a $10.00
fee in order to have my skin care product placed in 300-500 convenience
store locations as part of a test before performing a national rollout.
The email went on to request that I reply to schedule a call with
the sender. I foolishly complied. I was then directed to call in to a
conference call line on a predetermined date and time.
However, when I called, I was met by a man claiming to be from England who
proceeded to prescreen me to see if I qualified for the Distribustore
program.
Silly me, I felt so relieved when I was accepted into the program.
Apparently, anyone who is willing to write a check is accepted into
their program.
Then there was the 3rd call that was scheduled to
take place with an apparent sales manager named Chris Simeral. That guy
came across as a total clod and sounded like he might have even been
drinking prior to our call.
Chris Simeral further screened me for my ability to pay and then once again congradulated me for making it into their program.
Then came the call with Lane Boland. This guy was polished and came across
as a slick salesman. He seemed to have an answer to all of my questions.
Come to find out, the answers he provided to me were not factual.
For example, Mr. Boland stated that I would be the only product that
Distribustore would represent within my product category. During our
nearly one hour phone call, Lane Boland assured me of complete
representation for my product and that his sales team had personal
relationships with district managers within the Walgreens corporate
realm.
After gaining my confidence, lane boland mentioned his partner's
name, Will Robbins, multiple times during our conversation. He stated
that Will Robbins had a personal relationship with a huge national
distributor.
I was then directed to send approximately $10,000 of my product as
well as a hefty check to cover a set up charge to them in order to
initiate the placement of my products in the stores of my choice.
Unbeknownst to me, they had already secured a similar arrangement with a product
owner trying to sell a product very near to mine. I was told that my
product didn't sell enough during their test period and that I would
need to pay more money if I wanted to run further testing.
All of this happened in a calculated manner with many promises being
made along the way. Unfortunately, as a result of working with Lane
Boland and Distribustore, LLC I have lost not only nearly $10,000 worth
of my product that I had to take out a loan to deliver but also the
additional monies that I paid to be a part of the Distribustore
"program".
Any product owners reading this, please be VERY CAREFUL if you are
considering working with the likes of Lane Boland, Will Robbins,
Distribustore, or any of their aliases.
And please consider sharing this information with your facebook friends, professional
organizations or anyone else that may benefit from my unfortunate
experience.
I also hired a online background research company to look into
Distribustore's dealings. Contrary to what I was told by lane Boland,
their sales team apparently has no established relationship with store
owners or managers. The documentation revealed many discrepancies in
their program while one document in particular contained profane
language outlining their entire sales program.
I also discovered that distribustore.com was only created on 12/15/2012 as reflected below by doing a whois.com domain search.
Registration Service Provided By: LAUNCHPAD.COM, INC.
Domain Name: DISTRIBUSTORE.COM
Registration Date: 15-Dec-2012
Expiration Date: 15-Dec-2013
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#5 REBUTTAL Owner of company
CSP is correct
AUTHOR: Lane Boland - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, February 11, 2013
Melissa,
Will is correct. My team at Distribustore formerly worked under CSP before parting ways to establish our own business using www.scoredealz.com to better ensure sales of our clients' products, ensure successful test launches and set them up for future vendor accounts with much larger firms.
CheckStand Program is an organization of integrity that believes in honest and transparent business.
Our two firms never control your product. Your product leaves your warehouse and goes to the distributors' warehouse. What we do is bring products and distributors together.
In essence, our two firms use a similar business model. Where Distribustore parts with CSP is in what we do after your product hits the distributor's warehouse.
First--your product is promoted using the "Groupon of Convenience Retail"--Scoredealz to essentially presell your product and ensure a successful test launch.
Next, as an added control, Distribustore's Direct Sales Team receives a roll up of retail addresses displaying one's product within 30 days of receipt of goods from the distributor and passes this along to you.
Additionally, the DST calls no less than 25% of the retail managers listed and surveys them to answer the questions "who is buying your product" and "how fast is your product sold".
If you wouldn't mind posting your contract with Distribustore, your cleared check and your freight receipt--I'd like to clear this up for you.
Very respectfully,
Lane Boland
lane@distribustore.com
#4 REBUTTAL Owner of company
CSP is correct
AUTHOR: Lane Boland - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, February 11, 2013
Melissa,
Will is correct. My team at Distribustore formerly worked under CSP before parting ways to establish our own business using www.scoredealz.com to better ensure sales of our clients' products, ensure successful test launches and set them up for future vendor accounts with much larger firms.
CheckStand Program is an organization of integrity that believes in honest and transparent business.
Our two firms never control your product. Your product leaves your warehouse and goes to the distributors' warehouse. What we do is bring products and distributors together.
In essence, our two firms use a similar business model. Where Distribustore parts with CSP is in what we do after your product hits the distributor's warehouse.
First--your product is promoted using the "Groupon of Convenience Retail"--Scoredealz to essentially presell your product and ensure a successful test launch.
Next, as an added control, Distribustore's Direct Sales Team receives a roll up of retail addresses displaying one's product within 30 days of receipt of goods from the distributor and passes this along to you.
Additionally, the DST calls no less than 25% of the retail managers listed and surveys them to answer the questions "who is buying your product" and "how fast is your product sold".
If you wouldn't mind posting your contract with Distribustore, your cleared check and your freight receipt--I'd like to clear this up for you.
Very respectfully,
Lane Boland
lane@distribustore.com
#3 REBUTTAL Owner of company
We are not affiliated with Lane, Chris or Distribustore
AUTHOR: Owner of Checkstand Progran - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, February 10, 2013
Hello Melissa,
This is Will Robins, owner of the Checkstand Program. I am very sorry to hear about your experience and I wanted to clear up a few things regarding your statements above.
- Checkstand Program is not affiliated with Lane, Chris or Distribustore in anyway shape or form. Lane used to be an outside sales rep for our company, but we have parted ways a long time ago and I think that is why you may have heard Lane also uses the alias name Checkstand Program.
- We do not represent a skin care product line in our portfolio.
- We do not accept any product in our program whatsoever. Our clients ship their product strait to our distribution team, who in turn distributes their product to the convenience stores. Our clients are also provided the name of the distributor, address, contact name and phone number in which they are shipping product to.
I wish you would have called us and spoken to be about this incident before you went ahead and posted such a false and horrible claim using our name.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me at 501-860-5535.
Sincerely,
Will Robins
#2 REBUTTAL Owner of company
Distribustore Hoax Report
AUTHOR: Lane Boland - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, February 10, 2013
Melissa,
I humbly ask you to post an image or link to an image of the cleared check and freight receipt for our alleged business together to prove your complaint.
I will declare you can not.
Your knowledge of our product selection process and the fact that we only care one product brand per category indicates to me you are either a former employee or a product who was declined.
It is true we only carry one product per product category. It is equally true we do not carry a skin care line that you may or may not represent. If this is Jeff from Art's and Mary's Chips, we withdrew our offer to you because a competitor of yours offered us a better deal and a signed contract before you decided you wanted to work with us.
Melissa, I suggest you get your money back from your investigator. He must have missed our biggest distribution partner Purity Wholesale Grocers. PWG is a billion dollar firm. Our point of contact there is Steve Crouppen and you anyone may reach him by contacting me at lane@distribustore.com for his personal contact information or you may call him at 561-994-9360.
S/he must have also missed two other distributors I consistently work with:
Sierra Madre Distirbution-Fernando Trejos-479-685-5942
Conrad Wholesale-Joe Halula-814-536-5391
For a complete listing of all our distribution and district store managers, please email me at lane@distribustore.com
Anyone wishing to speak with a massive success story of Will Robins, Anthony and me, please speak to Kurt Van Time from JackPot Shots at kurt@jackpotshots.com
.I do consider this libel and after officially arbitrating via this website, we will seek to recover damages for lost business and the cost to restore this firm's reputation on the web.
We will also include in the suit anyone who reproduces this false report before arbitration is settled.
Very respectfully,
Lane Boland
lane@distirbustore.com
909-556-1023 Distribustore.com
"Expand Your Brand"
#1 REBUTTAL Owner of company
Bold Lie
AUTHOR: Lane Boland - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, February 10, 2013
Melissa,,
I humbly ask you to post an image or link to an image of the cleared check and freight receipt for our alleged business together.
I will declare you can not.
Your knowledge of our product selection process and the fact that we only care one product brand per category indicates to me you are either a former employee or a product who was declined.
It is true we only carry one product per product category. It is equally true we do not carry a skin care line that you may or may not represent. If this is Jeff from Art's and Mary's Chips, we withdrew our offer to you because a competitor of yours offered us a better deal and a signed contract before you decided you wanted to work with us.
Melissa, I suggest you get your money back from your investigator. He must have missed our biggest distribution partner Purity Wholesale Grocers. PWG is a billion dollar firm. Our point of contact there is Steve Crouppen and you anyone may reach him by contacting me at lane@distribustore.com for his personal contact information or you may call him at 561-994-9360.
S/he must have also missed two other distributors I consistently work with:
Sierra Madre Distirbution-Fernando Trejos-479-685-5942
Conrad Wholesale-Joe Halula-814-536-5391
For a complete listing of all our distribution and district store managers, please email me at lane@distribustore.com
I do consider this libel and after officially arbitrating via this website, we will seek to recover damages for lost business and the cost to restore this firm's reputation on the web. We will also include in the suit anyone who reproduces this false report.
Very respectfully,
Lane Boland
lane@distirbustore.com
909-556-1023
Distribustore.com
"Expand Your Brand"
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