You can tell TDW Closeouts is desperate for more customers to cheat and scam. It's getting harder for them to mislead potential customers when there are so many blogs and honest reviews exposing them.
In the past month they have released over 100 short videos on their Youtube channel! It's sad that they would rather waste all this money on false advertising than saving themselves the trouble by being honest from the beginning. In some of these videos they claim that they have "many happy customers from around the world". Do they expect people to believe that not a single one of these happy customers has ever taken the time to post a review? Who would believe that when every review that can be found on the internet is negative? It's clear TDW hasn't put much thought into these videos.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Three Chances
The following customer made three attempts with TDW Closeouts and was misled and lied to in every case.
Posted August 8th, 2014 on Better Business Bureau:
Posted August 8th, 2014 on Better Business Bureau:
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
$10,820 Worth of Scrap Metal
Posted June 9th, 2014 on Better Business Bureau. If you've read any of the other complaints about TDW then this one will sound familiar:
Thursday, February 6, 2014
F Rating to B??
If you take a look at the Better Business Bureau TDW now has a B rating. The Better Business Bureau deletes reviews older than three years and considers the complaint "resolved" if the person doesn't respond after the initial posting. You can still see their previous rating on Google's Cache page from January 30th. Somehow TDW went from a F to a B in less than two months.
New Complaint, Same Scam
What most of these complaints have in common is that the customer was promised closeout/shell-pulls but instead received damaged returns and salvage. If you contact TDW Closeouts the owner would completely deny ever making these guarantees or promises. Have a look at the latest complaint on BBB:
"Was told merchandise was discontinued stock and shelf pulls. It was not on 1/7/2014 we went to tdw. Told sales person we did not want returned merchandise, we were told we were buying discontinued and shelf pulled merchandise. $1100 for one pallet. We unpacked the pallet to find store returns, broken, and stained and incomplete merchandise.
When I called to complain, I was told that yes, the pallet contained returns. Even though we told them while we were there, we were not interested in returns. Now they said yes, there are returns in that load. It was all junk, much of it was thrown out and we repaired what we could. Not a chance of making our money back. While talking to them, they just kept asking the same questions over and over no matter how many times I answered them. I got the impression they considered me a nuisance. I would never do business with them again, under any circumstance."
"Was told merchandise was discontinued stock and shelf pulls. It was not on 1/7/2014 we went to tdw. Told sales person we did not want returned merchandise, we were told we were buying discontinued and shelf pulled merchandise. $1100 for one pallet. We unpacked the pallet to find store returns, broken, and stained and incomplete merchandise.
When I called to complain, I was told that yes, the pallet contained returns. Even though we told them while we were there, we were not interested in returns. Now they said yes, there are returns in that load. It was all junk, much of it was thrown out and we repaired what we could. Not a chance of making our money back. While talking to them, they just kept asking the same questions over and over no matter how many times I answered them. I got the impression they considered me a nuisance. I would never do business with them again, under any circumstance."
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Posted October 7th, 2013 on Ripoff Report:
"We read reviews before we visited TDW but thought going in person we could avoid being ripped off, thinking they ship out the worst. We were wrong. These people are really good at what they do. Ripping people off. We purchased for pallets for a total of 3200.00 and we were adament that we needed new merchandise, we were told many times they guarantee less than 10 percent of the items were returns and 90 percent was shelf pulls. What a lie. 99.9% of the junk we received was opened with parts missing, or it used, broken nasty. They are masters at arranging the pallets so that the items look new, this would be why you cannot look into the pallet, from the outside it looks great. he front of the box is perfect and the back completely missing. Is that a big wheel I see on top of the pallet, yep, except it is missing the big wheel and the seat, some kid will have a lot of fun with that. One of the pallets was a walmart toy pallet I found maybe two items that worked, they were out of the package and I was able to give them to my child, one was doll the other a vtech reader the rest of the pallet incuding the fancy big wheel found their way to the dumpster. I also purchased 3 carson pallets with a lot of keurigs, matress pads and comforters. All of the items were opened, gross used mattress pads. More to the dumpster. The real find was hidden inside the center of the last pallet was the nastiest, stinkiest used comforter that had been returned, why wouldn't you just throw that away? Well it was a great space filler I guess. If you decide to buy from TDW make sure you save some of your money to pay for the disposal of the items you receive."
"We read reviews before we visited TDW but thought going in person we could avoid being ripped off, thinking they ship out the worst. We were wrong. These people are really good at what they do. Ripping people off. We purchased for pallets for a total of 3200.00 and we were adament that we needed new merchandise, we were told many times they guarantee less than 10 percent of the items were returns and 90 percent was shelf pulls. What a lie. 99.9% of the junk we received was opened with parts missing, or it used, broken nasty. They are masters at arranging the pallets so that the items look new, this would be why you cannot look into the pallet, from the outside it looks great. he front of the box is perfect and the back completely missing. Is that a big wheel I see on top of the pallet, yep, except it is missing the big wheel and the seat, some kid will have a lot of fun with that. One of the pallets was a walmart toy pallet I found maybe two items that worked, they were out of the package and I was able to give them to my child, one was doll the other a vtech reader the rest of the pallet incuding the fancy big wheel found their way to the dumpster. I also purchased 3 carson pallets with a lot of keurigs, matress pads and comforters. All of the items were opened, gross used mattress pads. More to the dumpster. The real find was hidden inside the center of the last pallet was the nastiest, stinkiest used comforter that had been returned, why wouldn't you just throw that away? Well it was a great space filler I guess. If you decide to buy from TDW make sure you save some of your money to pay for the disposal of the items you receive."
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Comparison of Reviews
Better Business Bureau Rating: F
Negative Reviews
BBB: 30
Thewholesaleforum: 1
Scamexposure.com: 3
Freeadvice.com: 1
Scamtop.com: 1
Scam.com: 1
Complaintsboard.com: 1
Pissedcustomer.com: 1
Yahoo: 5
Ripoff Report: 23
-When searching under "TDW Closeouts": 16
-When searching under "TDW Discount Warehouse": 3
-When searching under "TDWCloseouts.com": 4
http://tdw-thediscountwarehouse.blogspot.com: +50
http://tdwcloseoutsscam.wordpress.com: +10
Total negative reviews I could find so far: +120
Positive Reviews
Thewholesaleforum: 1 (Claims they know someone who has bought from them)
Negative Reviews
BBB: 30
Thewholesaleforum: 1
Scamexposure.com: 3
Freeadvice.com: 1
Scamtop.com: 1
Scam.com: 1
Complaintsboard.com: 1
Pissedcustomer.com: 1
Yahoo: 5
Ripoff Report: 23
-When searching under "TDW Closeouts": 16
-When searching under "TDW Discount Warehouse": 3
-When searching under "TDWCloseouts.com": 4
http://tdw-thediscountwarehouse.blogspot.com: +50
http://tdwcloseoutsscam.wordpress.com: +10
Total negative reviews I could find so far: +120
Positive Reviews
Thewholesaleforum: 1 (Claims they know someone who has bought from them)
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