FMW GROUP INC -DEADBEAT company does not pay their contractors. Loomis California

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I am not going to sit here and waste my time with endless rebuttals and arguing with a lying fool. Like they say "never argue with a fool as he will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". With that being said let’s just say this about FMW GROUP INC. and cut right to "THE FACTS".

FMW wants to divert the focus on their doctored-up phone records that they have posted here which is IRRELEVANT and not the issue here. I can easily refute them with fax and call records from my phone service providers, not something made up as FMW did. However, I am not going to waste my time on such a petty issue.

We "FAXED" our invoices in "IMMEDIATELY" to FMW upon completion of each job as we do with all our customers. I began my calls and inquiries only after the checks were not issued to my company in the agreed upon time. In short, after numerous calls and lies from FMW that the checks would always be sent out the following Friday which turned into months. It was only until I threatened to sue FMW and contact PILOT FLYING J (the customer) and report FMW, did they take us serious and finally sent a "PARTIAL" payment.

When I say partial payment, I mean FMW did not pay the accrued "LATE FEES' (clearly stated on all our invoices) nor did FMW pay the complete "BALANCE OWED". They also included a small enclosed statement along with their check that stated and I quote "FMW reduces your invoice by 5% on all calls as a "MARKETING FEE".

REALLY.... have you ever heard of such a ridiculous thing or excuse to steal money from hard working contractors? Not to mention that FMW failed to disclose that detail and intentionally withheld that information when FMW hired my company to perform the work. FMW claims in their letter that it was in their vendor package which was never mentioned and to this date was never given to our company. However, that again is not the issue here. The facts are that our company and numerous other contractors have the same complaint with this deadbeat company (FMW Group). In summary, the facts are;

1. That (President/owner/manager) GREG YOUMAN of "FMW Group Inc." has never once called or returned my calls.
2. FMW Group does not pay their contractors.
3. Only after numerous calls and threatening to sue FMW and report them to the customer (Pilot) did they finally send a partial payment.
4. My first invoice was "FAXED" in 8/7/2016 and partial payment was FINALLY received 2/17/2017. 192 days later which is 6 months 8 days later.
5. My other two invoices were "FAXED" in 9/29/2016 and partial payment was FINALLY received 2/17/2017. 139 days later which is 4 months 17 days later.

In closing for all of those who read this.... don't take my word for it. Contact PILOT FLYING J. They are a huge nationwide company and they are also some of the nicest and most professional people I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Unlike what FMW portrayed them to be, when they first hired me.

When I contacted PILOT FLYING J as promised and reported FMW to them, they stated and I quote "We have received numerous complaints about FMW GROUP not paying their contractors". The person I spoke with at Pilot Flying J also went on to say that "they themselves have problems with FMW and GREG YOUMAN not returning calls and can't get a hold of him".

Pilot said they would contact FMW and told me to follow up with them if FMW had not paid or contacted me in the next 7 days. It was only then did I receive a personal call from FMW a couple days later "stating that they were eager and wanted to get me paid". I received a check for partial payment approximately 10 days later. I got back to Pilot as they had requested and told them what FMW had done. They stated even though FMW had already been paid for the three jobs I did, they were going to cut me a check for the balance owed that FMW failed to pay. "What a stand-up company as they were not obligated to do that"!!! Pilot FLYING J also went on to state "that because of this and countless other complaints they have decided to terminate all business ties with FMW and will no longer do business with them".

In short FMW was fired and black listed by PILOT FLYING J not to mention by my company as well. How foolish to lose such a HUGE commercial account simply because you are greedy and want to rip off your hard-working contractors. This company needs to be held accountable, taken to court, and tried and convicted of their unethical business practices. Unfortunately, most contractors like myself that they hire are out of state and it simply is not feasible to take them to court and they are banking on that. Feel free to verify all this with PILOT FLYING J. I also filed and posted my complaint with the BBB and other media sources where you can also review other complaints against FMW.

The first email we received from this vendor was 2/7/17 pertaining to these outstanding invoices.  

The check was cut and sent that week.  

Looking through our phone records I see no voicemails from the number listed in the vendor file.  In the event emails or invoices were being sent to another email address then the one instructed to be sent to, we are sorry.  Attached is a search listing of both email and phone as evidence.  FMW Group handles 5000+ service calls per year.  I'm sorry for your experience.