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not paying for the shipment moved through my drivers
I am working as logistics manager with CARGO SOLUTION BROKERAGE INC, I reached out Gregory through some portals of importer and custom brokers to get some work. after few quotes, he approved one lane and he assigned me one container for delivery.
He asked me for 30 days payment term, I tried to help him and moved first load with HOLD of my pay. Now its been 90 days, he have not made the payment for the load delivered through my network carrier. He is not reverting back on email, the last response i got was 1 month back on which he mentioned he is facing huge low cash flow and he cannot make the payment in full but can make half of the payment which i agreed to avoid more loss on my pay, till now not even a single buck hit our account which means he is doing this with multiple shippers and brokers at this moment.
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Not making payment after taking services
Scammer's website americanserviceslax.com
Scammer's address 5221 W. 102-nd Street #106-L Los Angeles, Westchester, CA 90045, USA
Scammer's email [email protected] and [email protected]
Country United States
This was my first ever load which i booked for this firm, I am working as a broker, he sent few requirements to me and now he is not making payment of $1300 stating his firm is facing slow cash flow, its been more then 90 days. now he is not even reverting back on emails and calls.
My firm will gonna cut that amount which is paid to the driver for delivery already because they approved credit on the basis of my pay HOLD, I thought of trusting Greg because on the website its mentioned more then 7k projects they have done, They are literally taking services on the basis of registered website with registered address and not making a single payment.
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My company is registered outside the USA, and he informed me that he "did not recognise" the EIN number that the IRS has assigned me and asked if I had a "customs" one. I had not heard of this and he stated I would need a USA based company's EIN to import, and helpfully offered to find one for me. He did and wanted to charge $800 to "set-up" this and then $50 for each ISF filing. This seemed excessive so I asked a services supplier I work with if I could use theirs. They agreed and sent to me, I was quite surprised to see their EIN had the exact same format as mine. I raised this with Mr Gregroy, he claimed that I had sent a different EIN the first time round. This is completely false and the email chains show this. He also stated that I would "always" need to use my supplier's EIN, despite having my own, again completely false.
He then registered me as an importer of record and sent me an invoice for $420. This was not on the quote he sent me, and have never been mentioned to me before. I asked him to resend the quote that had stated this service charge, and he avoided the question. I asked four more times, each time he avoided the question. I asked a final time, more forcefully, and I received I reply to effect that the matter was dropped. I then went ahead with the shipping.
24 hour before the ISF filing cutoff time prior to shipping, he resent the invoice to me, and reminded me that it was close to cut-off time (implying that he would not file unless I paid him). I said to him I would not pay as it was not quoted for, and I was concerned about him charging me for other things in future that had not been quoted for. I also asked him to provide proof that he had done the work as I had not seen any. He said he "could not understand my attitude" and he could not work for free. I restated that I was not expecting him to, but that I need to be quoted, and agree to, any service charges before they are carried out. I also stated that if he would at least acknowledge that he did not quote me for the services we could work something out for this invoice.
This was now after the ISF filing deadline, and I received a message from my forwarder (who had been chasing Mr Gregory for the filing) that he had informed the that he would not be working with me. He didn't even bother to tell me.
I started to panic as I was concerned that I would be hit with heavy fines. As soon as office hours started in California (I am based in China so a big time difference) I spoke to another customs agent who managed to get everything sorted in under an hour.
It turns out that registration process for an importer of record is a quick form that is submitted to the US Customs Service, something I could have done in a few minutes myself. His claims about the EIN number were a straight up lie to try an trick me into paying this company he "found".
Mr Gregory is a crook who looked for any opportunity to take advantage of my inexperience with sea freight importing to make a quick buck. His antics also wasted five weeks, which I could have been selling the products and not stressing about this issue. I'm just glad I didn't pay the invoice and the goods had left which him as the stated import agent as who knows what else I would have been held to ransom to pay, or if I would even have received them.
I did not loose money directly with Mr Gregory, but had to pay my forwarder $55 to change the bill of lading, and lost five weeks in time due to the unnecessary back and forth with Mr Gregory that I could have been selling my products.