WARNING: Do NOT order from calsound.com

WARNING: Do NOT order from calsound.com

Hello all, so after having used the internet for many years to order various products and all my DJ and musical equipment as well as all my PA gear, I was just ripped off by this site. To put it in perspective I have used many dozens of sites and spent many thousands of dollars over the last 3-4 years.

Now www.calsound.com enters

Here is the story. On March 26th I place an order for a odyssey S4 flight case and an American DJ galaxian lazer. I receive no e-mail confirmation of my order, but my credit card is charged the next day. I am curious at this, but don’t think too much about it as I have an account on their site that I can look at. Two days later I get an e-mail from the site asking me to fill in extra forms since I am getting my items shipped to Michigan, and I live in Ontario and have a Canadian address for my billing and American for shipping. This is fine, I have seen this before and fill out the forms including a photocopy of drivers license and credit card front and back, as well as a signature.

A week goes by, no information about when or if my order has shipped. I decide to call the customer support line to find out what the deal is. Both items were listed “in stock” at the time of purchase. The lady I speak to says they will be shipping tomorrow (April 5th). I go along thinking okay great! I wait, no email, my status on the site does not change. I call back on April 8th, the same lady says the items have shipped yesterday, April 7th. I find it odd that I did not receive a confirmation email or tracking number, and that the status on their site still says processed. But okay, I’ll wait. The whole next week nothing. No emails, no tracking numbers. I call back a few times to the site, I talk to a guy now a few times, and he says that they show up as shipped and that he will get in touch with the shipping agency and get back to me. He never does

Now a week and a half later I still am trying to call and email this site. They now will not answer the phone, I am unable to get through to them, none of my emails are returned. I have been ripped off and my money stolen.

I contact my credit card company, and they say I have to wait at least 1 month after charges have been put on my card to file a fraud charge. So now I wait.

This has been the most frustrating experience I have ever had with an online web site, and I have used them all/ebay.

NEVER USE www.calsound.com

They will rip you off and steal your money

sorry to hear that, hope it gets sorted!

Thank you. I have re bought the lazer from amazon and placed an order for the DJTT S4 bag :slight_smile:

I’ve had problems with that site as well. There customer service is some of the worst i’ve ever seen.

Did your items ever arrive? What did you go through?

That sucks, i’m sorry to hear that. I would personally never buy from any other site other than the few I trust which include guitarcenter.com, djtt.com, and amazon.com.

I’m not even worried about credit card fraud, but more so of identity theft.

Sorry to hear that! Thanks for the heads up!

but dude.

theyve been online since 1996 bro

bro didnt you see bro?

sometimes shit takes awhile to ship. maybe wait more than a week before crying foul. no wonder they’re screening your calls lol.

Never got the stuff I ordered. I was extremely patient with the company as well. I simply told them in one phone call when I got ahold of them that I was ready to sue, contact the BBB (Better Business Bureau), and file multiple fraud charges. Took about 2 months total for me to get my money back.

Hope you get everything sorted out with them.

A friend of mine had a similar problem with this website and came to me asking what he should do. After a lot of research we found out they were actually bankrupt and have been scamming people for a while now. Some new guy bought calsound a few years ago and it quickly failed and this business is actually done out of some guys garage. He has no intention of giving people the products he “sells.” Steer clear of this place because my friend only was able to get his money back after we sent them a letter from a lawyer with intent to sue.

Look at some of the other responses on this forum post, looks like it is indeed a scam site. I really hope I can get my cash back through my CC company, I do not want to get lawyers involved.

Can you possibly point me in the direction of this information? Or even send me a pm with it. How did your friend go about getting a lawyer to get in touch with them?

Calsound was/is operated by Sean Green of Chula Vista, CA. It was never a scam, Mr. Green is just bad at business. He ran a brick & mortar music store called Calsound in San Diego, CA that Mr. Green purchased as a running business. He closed the store and just ran calsound.com as an online store. There is a lot of info online about all this as well as California business licenses. He has a lawyer so good luck.

DJ Skoosha helped him run the store and is likely the female you spoke with on the phone.
http://www.myspace.com/skoosha

Sorry my info is too late to help you.

Don’t do crazy stuff people!

Wasnt that california sound and lighting like 15yrs ago?