Startup Essentials Major RIPOFF, Swindlers, Con Artists, Fraud Ripoff Dallas Texas

I, too, was swindled into believing that this company had honest intentions of helping me to build not only a website but to help me build a business as well and to provide me with thousands of dropshippers. I was conned into signing a lease that eventually sent me a laptop from A-1 Leasing. Their address is as follows:

A-1 Leasing, LLC
2007 Eastern Avenue SE
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49507

I was swindled and conned by Scott Mayes and he led me into believing that this special laptop had special software preinstalled that would help me to build and to maintain a website and this special laptop would also help me to maintain financial records as well using their special preinstalled software.

Upon receipt of the laptop, I immediately noticed it was a plain ACER laptop that had no special software. It had the normal Windows-XP Home Edition installed and nothing else. No special software for web-building and no special software for financial support.

I then logged-in to their website and searched their site for these so-called thousands of dropshippers. I searched first for normal items such as shirts, pants, shoes, socks but came up with no dropshippers. I then contacted their support and was told to enter "Apparel" into their search and it gave me a few dropshippers but nothing what I was expecting. Their dropshippers were not for main brand clothing. In fact, I'd never heard of their so-called brands. The pictures of the products look extremely cheaply made.

I then decided to search for what I was really wanting to sell, computer parts, but the search only came up with 1 dropshipper and this 1 dropshipper could only provide me with computer items that were soon becoming obsolete and rarely needed. I complained to them about their so-called thousands of dropshippers. I heard nothing from them concerning this.

I then noticed that the laptop was running slow so I looked into it and found that this so-called special laptop was running Windows-XP on the fat32 file system instead of the recommended ntfs file system. I then noticed that the laptop was upgraded from the Win98 software to the newer Windows XP. This made me very suspicious since Startupessentials told me that the laptop was new, never been used. The lease payment was for $139.99/month for 48 months. It then struck me that I was leasing an out-dated laptop for a total of $6719.52 after 4 years and that I could have bought this so-called special laptop for less than $900.

I also noticed that the laptop had no antivirus and no spyware software and no word processing or financial software such as quicken, microsoft money, or quickbooks. The laptop they provided me contained only the bare operating system, nothing else. No Special software as they claimed.

I quickly contacted my attorney and was told to ship the laptop to A-1 Leasing since they owned the laptop. I was also told to close-out my account at the bank since startupessentials had my account numbers as well as my social security numbers. I did as I was informed by my attorney. I then wrote startupessentials a letter informing them of my being swindled and how they swindled me. I have a receipt showing they received my laptop and my notice of cancelling their so-called lease.

Startup Essentials continues to harass me from time to time by emailing me questions concerning the return of the laptop. I've provided them proof that the leasing company took receipt of the laptop and have also provided them with the tracking numbers as well. They continue to harass me monthly.

Rick
Vincennes, Indiana
U.S.A.