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Complaint Review: MICHAEL DOUTHAT - Roanoke Virginia

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  • MICHAEL DOUTHAT Roanoke, Virginia USA

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Michael Douthat STOLE  $1200 from myself and $700 from my husband for electronics he was providing us with.

The electronics included iphone accessories and iphones, and some tablet devices.

He provided us with 14 iphones in total, that came in one single bulk shipment - but never provided any tablet devices AT ALL .

The iphone accessories were also NEVER provided

 

7 of the 14 iphones were fakes that we traced back to alibaba.com AND DHgate.com - two websites this scammer has ties with.

Calling him and trying to discuss this with him was useless - we were always hung up on

 

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We intitally met Michael Douthat at Happys Flea Market, on Williamson Road, In Roanoke-  where he seemed engaging and had many people exchanging words with him, He was also with a nice looking chinese girl - Who he has pictures with on the Facebook website page we discovered of him. It is the same girl we saw him with that day we met him at Happys Flea Market

 

He was charming we thought, and he seemed intelligent. He also had went to a school in Beijing China - We engaged him in a long conversation , And we talked about our business we were starting - And our EBAY business . He claimed he could help us and offered a deal - We went with it because of his charm .

But , he is nothing more than a rotten little con man -

 

We hope this report serves as a warning for anyone trying to do business with him - If you are offered similiar deals

 

After the deal , He will never answer your calls again !

There is also a similiar incident that involves this gentleman in Roanoke , with a well-established cell phone repair business  - They lost $4000 to this Michael Douthat guy

 

I will not write their names out of respect , But it just goes to show how convincing or/charming he can be .

 

Digging into this individuals past reveals he does have work , And has done translation work , But why he likes conning people ? Still a mystery . 

DO NOT DEAL WITH THIS CON MAN 

 

 

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#12 UPDATE Employee ..inside information

I don't think the report is true.

AUTHOR: Jessica - (United States)

POSTED: Tuesday, April 02, 2019

 Honestly I don't think this report about Michael is true. Michael is a very great man. He was my client at a Chinese Gucci store and he still is occasionally. I know he works very hard for his money and supports his family and does everything he can to be a good man. This report doesn't seen true. I saw the other report about him and the girl who wrote it stated he is actually a very good man. He is a great man in my opinion and has a good reputation. Everyone love him when he comes around.

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#11 Consumer Comment

Another picture.

AUTHOR: ChenGuMin - (China)

POSTED: Wednesday, September 19, 2018

This is a picture of Michael and me together, with the CEO of the company.

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#10 Consumer Comment

He is a positive, uplifting young man, a very good person and has integrity.

AUTHOR: ChenGuMin - (China)

POSTED: Wednesday, September 19, 2018

I am shocked and disgusted with the false information posted on google under this mans English name. I have no personal or very close relationship with *Michael* as he is called here. However, I do own a very large health/beauty product company headquarters in Shanghai, China and Michael has done events with me before. He helped spread the word for the events. Anybody who had any contact with Michael at the events, or any contact at all, would never say anything bad about him. I have only heard good things about him. Even people who do not associate with him on a regular basis and were his old co-worker have said he is a good person. So, there is no bias.

This is the very first time I have ever heard someone associate him with being a scammer. That is preposterous! He is one of the kindest, sweetest and nicest men I ever came across! A scammer and a con man? Absolutely not. That is a laughable accusation and considered harrassment. Whoever write this report on him should go to jail! They really need to go to jail!

I think nobody that meets Michael will believe this report. However, maybe some businessman who met Michael on the internet and has not met him in person yet will believe it and they might cut communication after reading it. This report is also dangerous because there are many gullible people who believe everything they read on the internet without checking facts and do not understand some people lie.

I tell you, if you think perhaps this report is true, go meet Michael and you will feel ashamed that you considered this report is possibly true after you see the kind of person Michael is. People need to understand there are malicious people who want to ruin others reputations because of pettiness. There is also people who are attention seekers who steal pictures off the internet and lie and make up stories about the people in the pictures. You should not believe everything you read on the internet. Check facts, and meet someone in person, face to face, and see how they really are. I judge somebody based on my interaction with them, not based on a report on google like this.

I am posting along with my words, my picture and pictures of/with Michael at events he helped me at in my *rebuttal*.

Ripoff report will not allow me to upload my photos.

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#9 General Comment

Michael douthat and the fake ripoff

AUTHOR: jimmy meng - (China)

POSTED: Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Hello my name is Jimmy., i posted a video telling the truth about Michael douthat and this fake ripoff report. It is on YOUTUBE.COM

HERE

 

youtube.com/watch?v=kJsguKCDS1k

 

 

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#8 Consumer Comment

Sounds like the employee who was fired.

AUTHOR: todd15 - ()

POSTED: Sunday, January 25, 2015

Hmm I wouldnt pay this report any mind. To me it sounds like the ex employee who got fired from walmart when Michael was

a manager there.

I am pretty sure when people actually meet this guy in person they will disregard this report. He is a really nice person and

smart. I cant speak to the way he does business but i have heard a friend of mine say he was happy doing business with

him. My friend met him also at Happys.

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#7 Consumer Comment

comment in regard to mike douthat

AUTHOR: nyugeny - ()

POSTED: Friday, September 19, 2014

hi, on the day of monday june 2 2014 i recieved a call at our restaurant. it was very strange. it was a man and he was saying he was looking for mike about something important and he said he knew mike was related to some famous girl in beijing china.      but actually he was not related.     the man was using a accent and he said he would call me back again later .

i got another call from the man and he was using a local roanoke virginia phone number. the man said his last name was LEONARD ....it turned out the man was making calls everywhere with his wife .      even calls to beijing china. searching for mike. this man i think is the same man who posted this ripoff review.        

i am a friend of mike and he does not scam people. he was my mandarin chinese teacher . he is a good man and a good person. the person who called me many times from june 2 2014 to june 8 2014 is i think the same one who posted the ripoff review here.  the man who called me i finaly called the roanoke police department. it was found the man had called many places and was searching for mike because of $1200. and another $700 the same amount of money mentioned in the ripoff article.  ----- to mr. mark peters, its a shame u had been taken for 2 iphone5 phones.

it sounds like u had sincerely believed the phones were real. i think mike probably thought the phones were real as well. u are not incorrect in saYING mike deals in sales. he is a sales man. so u are right. but i think ur talking about him is totally incorrect. and i think u r not right. i will send u a personal message on ur face book . so go look at that. thanks .          

 -------    to mr. or mrs. stph 1, u look like u are mad at him for firing u.     and i do not have anything else to say about any other comments. i just wanted to let everybody know i think the same person who posted this ripoff review is the same person who was calling everyone and trying to find mikes contact information . if u r the same person. . u have no right to post his information here. thats the truth.

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#6 Consumer Comment

Michael Douthat is a scammer

AUTHOR: Mark Peters - ()

POSTED: Friday, September 19, 2014

I am sorry to the person who got ripped off by this scammer. I dont care what others say he is, Michael Douthat is a scammer. Hes a nice dude, but hes the sketchiest person Ive ever met in my life.This is not an isolated incident. Myself and my friends buisness, were also ripped off by Douthat. Douthat sold 2 iphone 5 clones to my friends business, under the pretence they were real iphones. Maybe due dilligence wasnt done, but we were convinced they were real and he was asking a good price. As soon as we found out they were fakes, the very next day, he was as good as gone. He had used 3 different numbers to contact us on. Claiming 1 was his girlfriends, 1 was his business phone, and another was his personal phone. One of the area codes was a 801 area code from SLC, UT. 

All 3 numbers were.. 540 243 2330 540 204 1444 and 801 714 9177

In my case, I was ripped off on a Mac we brought to him to be repaired when he was running an illegitimate business in Roanoke with a chinese business partner of his. He charged us a good price, but it took him a whole week to repair the computer, and he got rude with me on the phone.

I want to back up to the illegitimate business part for a second.... This guy has been known to start illegitimate businesses before. Then they disappear as quickly as they started, after the feel like they have scored enough cash. This is a fact, and it cant be denied if you are a cell phone dealer / electronics dealer in Roanoke / Lynchburg. So many people know about Douthat and his game that it isnt funny. I was not informed in time, nor was my friend and unfortunately we were scammed. He has also been known to lurk around Happys Flea Market and other areas, as this person said in the Ripoff Report, they had met him at Happys Flea Market. Well , I have seen him there. I have also seen him there with his chinese girlfriend, the Zoey girl mentioned. He tries to sell people things that are just simply... fake. I am very surprised Douthat hasnt been arrested yet. But I have heard, as sad as this sounds, that he has law enforcement officers that will back him up. I heard that from credible sources too... If you would like to know whom, please write me on my Facebook page. I will provide my Facebook page below. I dont want to write something here that will backfire on me later about the cops.

Which leads me to something else.... Douthat doesnt just deal with iphones and electronics. He doesnt discriminate. He deals with everything! Fake guitars, fake phones, just fake everything! I have even been told he sells fake jewerly. 

Everyone needs to be aware he deals in Chinese wholesale. He can get things cheap, and if he can convince you, the sucker, to buy his fake products, he is going to make a profit. 

Most people in America know that online chinese websites and chinese products in general are not trustworthy and should be avoided... So when you meet a guy who has a chinese girlfriend... Has lived in China... and speaks the chinese language like Douthat, You should know something can only go wrong!!!

I wish we were more fortunate and knew about him before we were RIPPED OFF.

 

If any one has further questions for me, I will happily answer them. 

My facebook is  

facebook.com/markpetersthecomputertech

My friends business is

facebook.com/ElectronicsToGo

 

 

 

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Michael Douthat :comment from traviswhite

AUTHOR: ccccccc9 - ()

POSTED: Thursday, September 18, 2014

----this is just to make traviswhite comment more visable. there was a problem with coding.-----

traviswhite ORIGINAL COMMENT

 

 

 

Yet another person from Tims fb page........... I just wanna say wow first. I just cant defend someone who was so stupid as you have been...MP4401 whoever you are. This whole ripoff report is jsut stupid. really. wow.... who hands someone so much money for items that theyre expecting to recieve later, first off. The most interesting thing i saw on this page was stph1 and his comment.... stph1, you said Michael douthat was charged with Extortion and Conspiracy to commit fraud? btw, you spelled *commit* wrong, theres only 1 t For the past half hour... i have searched and searched and searched and have not found one shred of evidence or anything that says Michael here was ever charged with any crime at all, in his life. and his gf Zoey zhou? likewise. The only thing I have found is someone with the same name as him, Michael douthat, who was charged with sexual assault/sexual abuse here --

delmarvanow.com/article/20130605/NEWS/306050068/Man-guilty-sex-abuse-church-camp

This Michael douthat and the Michael douthat here are obviously not the same. Thats the only Michael douthat I could find in the whole state of VA that was charged with any serious offenses, and i didnt find anythingabout Extortion or fraud. I think if Michael here had commited something like fraud, he would definitely be in the news.

I looked up your comment about his brother, Christopher douthat. at least that much is true. I am sorry to Michael for his brother missing and I personally think its unfair for you to mention his brother in your comment.... Honestly, stph1, you couldnt make yourself look more like the cookie-cutter disgruntled ex-employee who got fired... really. You are looking for any way to diss on the person that fired you, arent you?

I like your little pictures from your video too. I dont agree with him grabbing at your camera.... I would have knocked him out personally.. if it were me... But Walmart does have a no-picture policy... and it should be enforced... Anyway, I looked up his brother and it seems he hasnt been charged with any serious crimes either. all his brother Christophers crimes seem to be domestic in nature.... stph1, in conclusion, you are just trying to make your old manager look bad. Now i want to say something about MariannaM and her comment.... Your comment really doesnt make sense. Why would you mention his church? What are you even trying to say? I am not getting the link your trying to make... please post another comment and explain a little more. Bahaha I am not really trying to defend Michael here.... He is pretty cool and all, But i dont like him. I dont have to say why I dont like him… I just give crap where crap is due, I really cant give this dude any crap… he hasn’t done anything to deserve to be on ripoff report… Thats that..

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Michael Douthat

AUTHOR: traviswhite - ()

POSTED: Thursday, September 18, 2014
Yet another person from Tims fb page........... I just wanna say wow first. I just cant defend someone who was so stupid as you have been...MP4401 whoever you are.  This whole ripoff report is jsut stupid. really. wow.... who hands someone so much money for items that theyre expecting to recieve later, first off. 
The most interesting thing i saw on this page was stph1 and his comment.... stph1, you said Michael douthat was charged with Extortion and Conspiracy to commit fraud? btw, you spelled *commit* wrong, theres only 1 t 
For the past half hour... i have searched and searched and searched and have not found one shred of evidence or anything that says Michael here was ever charged with any crime at all, in his life. and his gf Zoey zhou? likewise. 
The only thing I have found is someone with the same name as him, Michael douthat, who was charged with sexual assault/sexual abuse here  --   delmarvanow.com/article/20130605/NEWS/306050068/Man-guilty-sex-abuse-church-camp
This Michael douthat and the Michael douthat here are obviously not the same. Thats the only Michael douthat I could find in the whole state of VA that was charged with any serious offenses, and i didnt find anything about Extortion or fraud. I think if Michael here had commited something like fraud, he would definitely be in the news.
I looked up your comment about his brother, Christopher douthat. at least that much is true. I am sorry to Michael for his brother missing and I personally think its unfair for you to mention his brother in your comment.... Honestly, stph1, you couldnt make yourself look more like the cookie-cutter disgruntled ex-employee who got fired... really. You are looking for any way to diss on the person that fired you, arent you? 
I like your little pictures from your video too. I dont agree with him grabbing at your camera.... I would have knocked him out personally.. if it were me... But Walmart does have a no-picture policy... and it should be enforced...               
Anyway, I looked up his brother and it seems he hasnt been charged with any serious crimes either. all his brother Christophers crimes seem to be domestic in nature....
stph1, in conclusion, you are just trying to make your old manager look bad.
 
Now i want to say something about MariannaM and her comment.... Your comment really doesnt make sense. Why would you mention his church? What are you even trying to say? I am not getting the link your trying to make... please post another comment and explain a little more. Bahaha
I am not really trying to defend Michael here.... He is pretty cool and all but I personally dont like him....  I dont have to say why I dont like him but I just dont. I just give crap where crap is due... But the guy really hasnt done anything to deserve to be on ripoff report. and i cant really give him any s***... Thats that...
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#3 General Comment

Michael Douthat

AUTHOR: MariannaM - ()

POSTED: Saturday, September 13, 2014

I came here from FB too like everyone else. I have known Michael since high school. Hes not a scammer. Hes just really smart and he knows how to make money.

I would agree Michael is a little shady, but look at others. For instance, the church Michael attended for a long time, the Mormon Church, has a current case in Britian for fraud of their teachings and the Mormon Leader has recieved a subpoena to appear in court in the UK.

If you really feel you were done wrong, just go to court with it. Let the law handle it.

This Ripoff report is ridiculous

 

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Michael Douthat

AUTHOR: tgregtgreg - ()

POSTED: Sunday, September 07, 2014

I also saw this on Tims Facebook page.

I have worked with Michael Douthat, and one of my good friends who knew him from his high school has nothing but positive things to say about him.

I am a current manager at the Walmart store he worked at. I have been working at this Walmart location for 6 years. stph1, I honestly would have to agree with Michaels actions And I remember when he fired you back in 2012. He was right to try to turn off your camera and it was not physical assault. Did you not read the overwhelming Youtube comments that were mostly in his favor? Is that why you removed the Youtube video? All Walmart stores have a strict no-picture policy that you were made aware of when you were working at ours. Walmart management has a right to enforce the policy, including deleting the recorded material.

Although I agree Michael had been shady at times, He is actually a nice guy and he tends to motivate people around him to work hard. I do not think he should be called a scammer. 

Much of the information posted on this Ripoff Report is misleading. If you search for Michael Douthat in public records and look for criminal charges, you cant find anything. I dont think the claim he was charged with Extortion and the other charge is true in the least. I think that was simply invented to make him look bad. His girlfriend Zoey being charged? Nada. Both Nada as far as I can tell. 

He STOLE money? Hmm How was it stolen if you voluntarily handed the money to him for items you were purchasing? 

I dont know if Michael will ever see this, I dont know how much time the guy spends googling his own name, But if he does see it, he probably wont take it kindly. As a easy-going guy, He might not care but You might end up being sued. It is illegal to post false and misleading information on the internet, you know Tim? If it was indeed you Tim, who wrote this Ripoff Report review. Not sure who actually wrote it, But I know I was brought here from Tims Facebook. Either way, the author of this Ripoff Report review should be careful not to post misleading information like some of what is posted here.

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#1 UPDATE EX-employee responds

This guy is a f*****. Charming??

AUTHOR: stph1 - ()

POSTED: Saturday, September 06, 2014

I saw this on sept 2nd, right about the time it was posted up on Tims Facebook but I havent had time to comment on it. now ill throw in my 2 cents

I never thought Michael Douthat was charming at all. I found him hard to like. He is about 5 foot 10, maybe 5 foot 11....messy brown hair most of the time. He is MAYBE smooth talking.... to be able to steal money.... but hes really a rude f*****. And crooked crooked CROOKED, oh man, is this f** crooked. 

i am an x- employee of walmart in roanoke, virginia nd have been following him for some time. he is the guy who fired me and then physically assaulted me after i started to record him! 

this guy has been charged with EXTORTION and CONSPIRACY TO COMMITT FRAUD on at least 2 occasions, and both charges were dropped, according to the public records. His long time girlfriend , Zoey Zhou, was also charged with a CONSPIRACY TO COMMITT FRAUD but the case had no resolution, according to public records.... 

...the physical assault i mentioned happened when i recorded him on my camera, after he dismissed me. the video was posted on my youtube account until a few days ago when i decided to close my youtube account... In the video he keeps questioning me asking  Why are you still in the store??? Do i have to call the police??? At which point i told him F*** YOU, and he grabbed my camera, tried to take it from my grasp, then quickly let go, which led to him rushing to the back of the store to call police.

In the video, I did not wait for police to come... and i left the store without further incident. 

I would like to add a couple more things to my rebuttal.. 1st, this guy could not get a real woman even if he tried! Seriously, he is just a loser! He sticks to these asian women because (((redacted)))! He power trips and acts as if he is the best man in the world! I cant stand this guy, And i hope one day he ends up in jail where he belongs. He doesnt belong anywhere, Hes not even fit to stay in China... and that is saying a lot!  This idiot just needs to be locked up someplace and someone throw away the key! I have a deep hatred for this individual and thats how i feel. 

2nd,  His brother , Christopher Douthat, has been missing since Oct 2013. I dont know if the part about his brother is really needed, But I thought I would include it anyway. Considering his brother is missing, Does anyone think that it could be because his brother might have also been scamming people? Maybe it caught up to his brother.... Just a thought 

Michael if you are reading this, You probably know who this is by now, And you are a real piece of S**** You deserve the worst things to come to you... YOu were always rude to me when I was working at walmart and you also tried to scam my friend into some strange little business deal you had going on... Then the worst thing you did was fire and dismiss me, and left me jobless for nearly 3 months! 

Thats my 2 cents....

Nobody, i repeat, NOBODY should ever deal with this guy. Please please please direct others here, so they can see this page! Do not be charmed by this guy! Do NOT think you can trust him in your business dealings!

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