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Old 04-25-2014, 07:33 PM   #1
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Specialty Suspenion is Not an authorized Porterbuilt dealer. We have ZERO order history with them. If anybody has an open order for Porterbuilt products through them, PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY. Sales@pbfab.com
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Old 04-28-2014, 11:49 AM   #2
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Re: Please Read. Possible Fraud

More details regarding Specialty Suspension:

We were recently made aware on one of the forums that there was an individual that had been waiting “8 months” for one of our production kits. He had stated that his builder had told him that we were giving them the runaround and were unable to deliver the product.

I was able to get in touch with the individual to discuss the details of the order in an attempt to rectify the situation. After discussing the details of the order, we were able to determine that there had not been an order placed by his builder. He mentioned that his builder had ordered the parts from one of our distributors.

I was able to get in contact with the builder to try and find out more details. He purchased three Porterbuilt front kits and one rear kit from Specialty Suspension back in October of 2013, and had not yet received his parts. However, Specialty Suspension never placed an order through us for these parts, as a matter of fact, Specialty Suspension has never ordered any parts through us. We did some more searching in our email data base and found that Specialty Suspension had sent us an email looking for a quote on Dec. 3rd 2013. We sent the quote over on the 4th. We then received another email January 28th 2014 asking to place an order for one front and one rear to be shipped to the builder in question. We were asked to provide them with a total before processing the order. We sent the requested information the 29th and never received a reply, and the order was never processed.

When I told the builder that we had zero order history with Specialty Suspension he was very surprised. He provided me with emails that he was forwarded by Specialty Suspension that were supposedly from Porterbuilt apologizing for the delays and making several excuses. He forwarded me the emails. To my surprise, Specialty Suspension had created an email account to impersonate us, and forge emails from Porterbuilt, to send to their customers. The extent and thought that went into it is alarming. Specialty Suspension used our name and reputation to defraud a customer, and then threw us under the bus and drug us through the mud.

I wanted to share our experience in an effort to warn others who may be thinking about doing business with this company. If they were willing to do this to one of their good customers, they will be willing to do the same thing to anybody.
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Old 04-28-2014, 09:23 PM   #3
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Re: Please Read. Possible Fraud

Thanks for bringing this issue to light.
What a deal.

I suggest all board members to deal with our Board Vendors or Porterbuilt directly,... to order Porterbuilt parts.

Nate,... can you please post a complete list of your "Authorized" Porterbuilt Dealers for us?
I would hate to see this happen again.
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Old 04-28-2014, 11:22 PM   #4
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Old 04-29-2014, 01:28 AM   #5
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Never heard of them....but if you wanna knock on some doors;

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Old 04-29-2014, 02:02 AM   #6
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Probably another shop that uses the rob peter to pay paul method.I hope they do the right thing and give the guy back his money.
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Old 04-29-2014, 09:02 AM   #7
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A very unethical company that will soon come up with "growing pains" excuse. Stay clear fellas, they burned us as well. Specialty suspension will NOT deliver.
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I have placed a copy of this thread in the Vendor Review area.
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Old 04-29-2014, 12:08 PM   #9
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They are on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/#!/specialt...nsion/timeline

I am shocked a business would handle themselves in such a way. As big as the car community is, it is actually a pretty tight brotherhood and stuff like this doesn't go un-noticed!

Hope this cripples them.
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