Ringleader...

[hessink33]

I've been ordering from Ringleader for years. I've never had a problem with any of their services. Of course they messed up one or two orders but they fixed it immediately and they had great service. Maybe if you guys spent more time on sellling more jewlry, instead of making a webpage and a "movement", and whining about your competitors, your business would be doing better. Big deal if they are using similar names to make a profit. Thats how the business is, you have to do whatever it takes to make money. I guess you can't handle people with better marketing skills than you, so quit your pregnant doging and whining and get back to work. It is survival of the fitest.

[Caveat Emptor]

One thing I think you're missing out on is the fact that this site and this "movement" are non-profit.
Its not pitched to anyone. Its not marketed in any way, shape or form. Its a reference tool for those who were ripped off by a company and the many masks they try to fool the public with.
We get no rewards from doing this. Its strictly for the hard working, small business owners who suffered financial losses to come together and see the that it really wasn't just "an honest mistake"
If you had positive experiences with this/these companies, than good.
I can gaurantee this. If we opened a section for people who had good experiences with these companies....it would be a ghost town, just taking up space on here.

Our position in this matter always was and will contnue to be a middle ground. We are tired of hearing about hard working small business owners losing their money and getting left with horrible quality jewelry and than never getting any sort of relief in the matter.
On the same token, we'd love nothing more than to hear that this ISNT happening. Believe me, it'd be a hell of a lot less stress on all of us.
We'd love to talk more about this though, what shop are you with?

[swagg]

im going to assume that this post is legit, and im going to assume that you're a tattoo shop, or a piercing shop owner because this is a forum for those people, to talk to the same people in the same situation. which you dont really seem to get by your post that's clearly geared toward down talking a sponsor

let's say that if your name was...simon and your shop name was...garfunkel ink.

and i live 45 minutes away and i call my shop "garfinkel ink" and i go under the name "simon" when my real name is jefferson and i just rape people on pricing and i've never even picked up a machine until now.

2 weeks later people are calling your shop saying "you f**king not a very nice person, you ripped me off and i have an infection the size of TEXAS where a tattoo should be!!!you're a f**king insult to the tattoo industry" and then you get bricks thrown through your window, and now everyone in the country think's that you're the shop that doesnt use clean needles, and are the worst scratcher around.

now tell me why this is "cool" with you, whoever you are on the behalf of ringleader.

[tracie529]

Well, let me tell you one more story,ok? I was called not once but twice in the 2 days by "Razor Blaze" A.K.A. Ringleader and asked to order these unbelievable deals. This I did because as you said, I've never had a problem with them in the past. A week later my order arrives and inside the nice little Fed-Ex boxes was thin wire used in crafts twisted to look like CBR's and Nose Screws. $ 200.00 WORTH OF WORTHLESS JUNK. I still thought some mistake had been made so I called the toll free number listed on the invoice. Hmm disconnected. I try one more thing, I call the Chamber of Commerce in their area, the address listed on my invoice comes back non existing for a business. So that's 0 for 0. I was always told if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck must be a duck. So if it smells like a scam, acts like a scam, then it must be a scam.

[thegoodluckcharm]

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