SOS, Inc- SCAM Paducah KY

On Thursday, September 26, 2013, I received a phone call from Paula Knight.  She our CEO (called him by his first name) said she should speak to me about supplies.  She stated she owned an office supply store and needed to move to take care of her ailing parents.  (She implied our CEO knew her parents which made me comfortable speaking to her.  I unfortunately did not verify that with him.)  They were trying to deplete their inventory before they moved.  She spoke very quickly and began asking if we used certain supplies. She quoted prices she could sell them to us in gross amounts. 

Upon receiving the supplies, I realized something wasn’t right because we received more than anticipated.  We packed everything up as we weren’t comfortable using the supplies without knowing the cost.  I called the phone number on the packing slip and reached a voice mail asking about an invoice. I left a message and a gentleman returned my call.  He said he couldn’t tell me what prices I was quoted; it was a COD order (although we did not pay for the on delivery.). 

In the meantime, I priced everything through (((cmpetitotr's name redacted))) so that I’d have something to compare to when I was invoiced.  We didn’t receive an invoice with the product until November 7, 2013.   The cost from SOS was $2508.73.  Comparable product and cost at (((redacted))) would be $1886.83.

 On November 7, 2013, we shipped all the supplies back via UPS.

Lesson learned:  stick with your routine.