Hi Guys,

As some of you collect other lines apart from SW,i'm just letting you know to completely avoid buying online from WHO blackpool as they are nothing but scam artists that have ripped a lot of people off!

This is their website:
http://www.whoblackpool.com/

And here are some reviews about them:
http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews168812.html

I live not far from blackpool & if anyone desperately wants anything that they sell,i'm more than happy to go & pick it up for them.Just don't order online!

Mark.

Christ those reviews are pretty dire! Thanks for the heads up Mark!

The store looks like its got cool stuff!!!!

Those reviews are the worst i have ever seen!!!

The will piss the wrong guy off one day and they will go to the shop to hunt them down lol

Cheers for the heads up Mark

This www.whoblackpool.com shop is a thief! I ordered over £100 worth items last Christmas and until now still received nothing, no goods, no refund! Contacted them many times, via email and phone, Spoken to Catherine Simpson and David Simon (owner of the shop) promised the refund it's on the way but they never send anything.
I'm going to take them to the police and trading standards to get my money back.
If anyone lives nearby, I wouldn't mind them going in and smashing the place up for me.

It's just simple theft, I'm surprised they haven't been shut down!

I searched on line and found so many poor people have been ripped off by this horrendous shop! :

http://www.begoths.com/forum/topic6807-0.php?postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=769291c0231f29bad906b9d47a055c16

http://www.ripoffreport.com/hobby-shops/whoblackpool/whoblackpool-who-took-money-4e54a.htm

http://www.ripoffreport.com/Hobby-Shops/WhoBlackpool/whoblackpool-took-money-for-or-pb8fe.htm

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/330130/anyone-got-any-advice-not-recieved-?p=8002927#post8002927

http://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28923

Really sorry to hear what's happened choco_pie!

I don't know how these nasty pieces of work keep getting away with it either. Guess they fulfill just enough orders to keep it looking legit. At least you're spreading the word and helping others to avoid the same problems.

Please let us know how you get on with Trading Standards. Be prepared for some dirty tricks though , make sure you've got as much hard evidence as you can.

Hi banoffee & choco_pie, interesting place to have your first posts. Hi there

Welcome to the TIG Form banoffee & choco_pie!

When you get chance post your intro's in the Who's who introduce yourself thread

http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/vintage-chat-f1/who-s-who-introduce-yourself-here-t33-360.htm

Hey guys,

They're filthy tricksters, I know what they're trying to do because I've seen posts from other people about some of their scams. Whenever i speak to Cathy, she's always like "I promise I'll go downstairs and get your refund processed right now." Then nothing happens until I phone back the next day.
Eventually I gave them an ultimatum by mail saying if the refund wasn't there by tomorrow 1pm I was calling trading standards and the next person they hear from will either be them or Blackpool police. Funnily enough she then phones me the next morning with an offer of a 'cheque'.
This is where their funny business starts.

I want to know why they want to send a cheque out and she says it's because they're 'switching' paypal accounts and the new one isn't ready yet and will take several days - a cheque will be faster. You can smell the bullshit a mile off. She says "I'll send it by recorded delivery tomorrow and you need to sign for it ok?" I DO NOT trust the cheque, she's trying to get my signature on something and she wants me to sign the envelope for some reason. 2 minutes later I phoned her back and told her not to send me anything - if she does I won't sign for it, just turn it away.

Basically they scammed someone else who opened a paypal claim by providing tracking and delivery information of the product he ordered. He lost the case. What did they send him? A receipt in an envelope sent by recorded mail.
Clearly they're trying to pull the same shit on me.
They are crafty scammer! She'd tell trading standards the goods were sent and she has a signature to prove it and I'm lying about everything else.

I do hope they're reading this, checking up on what's happening on the net regarding their store. If so, hiya! I've phoned trading standards and they've begun an investigation into your dodgy shop. Don't bother refunding me because I'd rather take you to the cleaners through legal channels and get my money back that way - I can even charge you for all the phone calls I made through a small claims court, so look forward to picking up the bill on those for me.

Everyone else reading this, don't go near the shop unless you're going there to firebomb it.

Blimey, these guys sound terrible.

Hope you get things sorted out choco!

Lot of bad vibes from that place ive seen loads of complaints, hope you get something sorted m8y

Welcome to the forum Choco & Banofee!

Sorry to hear you've been scammed by these fuckwits!

Maybe you & banofee could contact watchdog about these idiots as they love investigating scum like them!

Hope you both manage to get your money back(eventually!)

Ring daily and report them to trading standards.
I had a nightmare with them over a refund.
Pathetic excuses from Cathy about deliveries due in, inability to refund payments, reasons for not ringing back etc. I can't believe this woman can appear to be so sincere and helpful whilst, in reality, is lying through her teeth and trying to avoid paying back what people are legally entitled to.

Have a look at http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews168812.html - have you noticed that most of the positive reviews have similar errors - poor punctuation and spelling, using lower case 'i', over the top comendation and generally poorly written. Could they all be written by the same person?

There are other issues serious issues that happened after this was finally resolved. These have been passed on to the appropriate authorities to look into.

Best of luck with these people - pass on your experiences - these people don't deserve to be in business. They put buyers off buying online and affect the honest business out there.