212-697-5200

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This is an Investment/financial services company called Sands Brothers Ltd. with the following contact information:
Physical Address:
90 Park Ave., 39th Fl.
New York, NY 10016-1401
Phone: 212-697-5200
Fax: 212-697-1096

They are into all sorts of financial gimmicks to separate you from your money including high risk/reward investments, receivables/bad debt collections, venture capital financing and "bottom feeder" aquisitions. They have been sanctioned and paid monetary fines for regulatory violations of various Federal Laws such that Martin Sands had to step down as Co-chairman of the company board in 2004. Their phone solicitation tactics are often aggressive and border on harrassment so keep a log of the times & dates of calls and a transcript or tape of what is said during any calls from them that you take. The phone habits of some of their 200 sales/service associates could put money in your pocket from a properly prepared and factually supported law suit. If you do decide to invest with them, be very careful of what you are doing. Dealing with them is only for those who can afford to lose what they invest.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that among the several companies Sands Brothers Co., Ltd operate out of this one office in New York City is a branch of Laidlaw Company, Ltd. of England, which is one of the oldest, if not the oldest investment bank in the UK and America (established in Wales in 1862). The stock and bond investments offered through Laidlaw Company brokerage are for high net worth individuals and institutions and their sales reps could not care less about anyone else who answers the phone. They are after the deep pocket only and have no intention of wasting any time with anyone who is not cooperative in helping them find and/or get to talk to such individuals.
Other Laidlaw offices in the US are:

San Francisco
655 Montgomery Street
Suite 1240
San Francisco, CA 94111
Tel: (415) 836-6000
(888) 866-6116
Fax: (415) 543-5581

Miami
519 Arthur Godfrey Road
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Tel: (305) 534-5111
(800) 966-9666
Fax: (305) 534-7011

Austin
300 West Sixth Street
Suite 1050
Austin, TX 78701
Tel: (512) 236-6980
(866) 688-6116
Fax: (512) 236-8276

They are investment and financial manager heavyweights, and definitly not for us common folks. If you want Laidlaw sales reps to stop calling you, just be convincing about not having a dime to invest. If the call is about a debt or collection action, then it is one of the other companies that opperate out of Sands Brothers offices that is calling you. You never know who you're going to get so unless you have a ton of money to invest, why ever bother answering the phone calls from this number?

Hey Micky,

The fact that they have multiple offices probably means they are a legit operation.  You seem to have something against them, no offense.

The fact that a company has multiple offices in no way guarantees that it is legit. I regret having worked in a similar type of company in the past and it had offices in throughout Asia Pacific: Hong Kong, Philipines, Indonesia, etc, and Latin America: Buenos Aires, Chile, Sao Paulo.

Up front, these type of companies seem 100% legit, start scraping a bit under the surface...

And regarding Laidlaw, they have been constantly calling the law firm I now work at to talk to several of our lawyers. They have BS opening lines, such as "I'm returning his call" etc, and they are without exception extremely VERY pushy, won't ever give you their contact details and usually end the call by just hanging up on you.

So, no, Micky has nothing against them. No offense.

this number keeps calling our office - on the times I pick up, the sales rep is quite rude and abrasive.  Recently I let the call go to VM - when I checked the message, it sounded like the sales rep was either watching a movie or some vide, all I could hear was swearing and abrasive language coming from what sounds like a movie or show.

thanx for the info guys. I got a missed call from that number, when i called back a lady told me it was
laidlaw and co. I thought it was a debt collections agency so in my worst posible english i told her i was returning a call. She told me maybe they got a wrong number so i guess im safe from them now.

Deal with them at your own risk...they have many unhappy customers!

They have taken to calling my cell phone (UK).  I Checked them up on the web, found this site, and just don't pick up.

I am located in Germany.  Andrew Dean has been calling me for months.  I don't take the calls, but he is persistent.  I also was finally called on my mobile, recognizing the number I did not pick up

Just recieved a call from them, and this time THEY hung up....not as if i wanted to talk to them.
They proberbly got my cell number via 'Alibaba.com' or 'made_in_china.com'.

I get an increasing number of calls from those guys, selling "investments"...so now i quite reflectory just hang up, when i realize who it is.
Rude, but they waste my time, again and again.

I am embarrassed to admit that I worked for Sands Brothers. This company does not have good intention (trust me). I suggest anyone to run when receive a call from their sales force...they're full of Sh*****t.

I just got a call from that telephone number, someone said Hi and then my name. Then the call was over, just like there had been some dicfficulties wth the connection. I guessed this was one of these nasty numbers and checked from the net and found these messages. I will never phone to them or answer to their calls after this.

I answered a call from this number on my offices main line, they asked for someone with my same last name just a different first name, I told them there was no one here by that name, then they said my name, and they transferred me to someone claiming to be from a financial institution. I told them I wasn't interested and to take me off their calling list.  What the heck?

Man says he is calling from the office of Paul Glazier and wants to speak to my husband, who's name he knows.   Caller is very polite and well spoken.  After reading the comments here - more calls will be ignored.  Thanks.

Laidlaw really doesn't know when to lay off, does it? I have had nearly 20 phone calls to my land line in the office but a missed call to my mobile today while at home has pushed me over the edge. So I called them and firmly requested to be completely taken out of their system. I was polite and reminded them that it was only counter-productive for their sales force to waste their time and eat away at morale to reach an annoyed person who has repeatedly asked to be left alone. I have never shouted at them or lost my temper yet today the woman I was transferred to in "Compliance" became testy with me about my removal from the system. She claimed that I could only have my phone number removed and not my name. She hung up on me when I repeated the request to be taken completely out of their system. UNBELIEVABLE. What an unprofessional operation -- a bunch of desperate snake oil selling losers. Where is the dignity of these people and how on earth can they actually make any money?

You seem to have a very loose notion of what constitutes a 'legit' operation. So by your logic, having multiple locations makes an organization legit? I think we can all come up with many shady organizations with multiple locations that are far from legitimate. Does Micky seem to have something against Laidlaw? You bet. So do I or I wouldn't be wasting my time to find the phone number and a site that tracks the activity of these corporate pests. Try getting 20 calls at work from these guys and then one on your mobile and tell me you don't 'have something against them.' Get real.

A person named Craig Bonn l has been left message for my boss.  I have been my boss's assistant for nearly a decade and I know a real call when I hear one.  After seeing this his number is in the trash, as I would never trouble him with this.  And they always ask for his mobile too, rude.

I used to work for them too for about a month. They are an investment advisory business called "Laidlaw" and are trying to get in touch with "accredited" investors who are worth more than a million dollars or make more than two-hundred thousand dollars per year (USD). They will try to put your money in equity securities, impress you with the return, and then use your accredited status to get you into private securities offerings. Therefore if you earn less than those amounts they simply won't speak with you. In fact, some investors with them do see pretty substantial returns as this is the only good way to suck them into continuing to invest in the private deals. However, they don't actually have real "investment analysts," and some of the individuals making the decisions on which stocks investors' money will go in are made by individuals without a college education. They often aren't good calls.

When you receive a call, the background noise is actually other individuals making the exact same calls to other investors. They purchase sources of information on wealthy investors (mostly doctors, lawyers, businesspeople and entrepreneurs) - both in the US and UK - and have junior people call about 600 or 800 numbers per day. If the person they desire to speak with answers the phone they will transfer to a senior individual who will then seek to sell financial products. They're good salespeople and you might get a return on your investment but I would be very wary of doing business with them. I wouldn't be surprised if they change phone numbers as a result of this "800notes" message board.

i made the mistake of dealing with craig and his associates
dont know anyone else who has a 100% success rate at losing every penny
they get paid by the firms their clients invest in, not for investment returns
run, run fast, and dont look back
send them every penny you never want to see again