Light bulb scammers making the rounds ...

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-223-6371

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-515-5010

Not the brightest bulbs in the room, if you know what I mean :)

But wait there's more ...

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-443-883-8200/2

Thomas Edison will be rolling in his grave when he finds out that his invention is being abused by people with a fused brain.

They deliver to graveyards, and they have a recording of Tom ordering those bulbs -- I can guarantee 100 % that some corpse from that graveyard ordered our bulbs!

LOL

It's Paramount Distribution   Here is the guys cell phone number   410-356-4302    
Call him and jerk with him.  He needs to be in jail.  The post office he uses is PO Box 436 in Shrewsbury, PA.  17361   Just a hop from the border of Maryland.  Why don't one of you scope out that post office and wait until they get their mail/checks and follow him to his office with a baseball bat - for protection and self defense.

Glad I found your posts on line.  Got a call a few weeks ago from the same folks and wound up with a box of 25 tubes for $495. I gave no po number and no credit card info.  Called today to see about sending them back and it is the same story.  It's expensive to send them back.  He was very slick.  Was willing to adjust the bill and split it into 2 payments lol. He still has no credit info or po number and I still have the bulbs.  What should I do with them?

If you never ordered them or were tricked into receiving them, the crooks can take a long hike. Unordered goods are considered a gift and you are not liable for any overdue bills the scammers draft in crayon.

Really this question belongs in one of the number threads. The Wall of Shame is for those who violate the rules of this site only.

On Shill Alert's second link in the first post, there was a link for this supposed company:
Website: usnationalsupply.com
Title: National Supply
Description: _your description goes here_

Domain Age: 3 Years, 37 Days
Website Speed: Very Fast

Owner: Stephen Sprainis
Owner Address: PO Box 255
Owner City: Glyndon
Owner Postcode: 21071
Phone Number: 18885155010
Phone Type: freephone :
Email: (was a gmail one)

Owner Country: United States
Website Location: United States

So let's see-sending stuff you haven't ordered, the fact they're using a P.O. Box...AND there's already a thread going for that number! https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-515-5010 Reeks of scam to me!

That second link is to a defunct company, actually. Paramount appears to be a new company operating in the same fashion.

I didn't know that !!! I received a shipment of clothes from a catalog that I didn't order and I was nice enough to send it back at my own expense. Why didn't I read this Forum. You learn something new here everyday!

"If you never ordered them or were tricked into receiving them, the crooks can take a long hike. Unordered goods are considered a gift and you are not liable for any overdue bills the scammers draft in crayon. "

What kind of paperwork was included with the shipment?
Did it show it was all paid for?

I would be worried that someone had stolen my credit card information, made several orders and have shipments made to different addresses as gifts, and just to taunt me, send an order to my address. Or someone else's credit card information was stolen.

If a dishonest business ships things and demands payment, and the recipient ignores the demand, then the dishonest business has the problem that whining to law enforcement will get them some unwanted attention. If the US mail was used to ship, then their law enforement gets involved as they have their own agents.

I must be dumb or something! I never thought of it that way. It was a shipment from Ann Taylor. I have an account with them but I had not ordered anything. It was addressed to me. It was early December 2014, ie pre xmas. I opened it and found some red and black clothing for a larger size woman. Like red sweater, black pants, red jacket, stuff like that. My first thought was that maybe it was for some woman who wanted them for xmas and she should get her stuff before xmas. So I called Ann Taylor ASAP and they couldn't figure it out. The invoice had my name and address on it. The rep on the phone said maybe if they scanned the barcode of each item it would probably show up who it was for. So I went to UPS and sent it back to Ann Taylor the same day. I didn't want the woman to not get the xmas clothing. I didn't think of the possibility that it could have been a scam. Now it seems it easily could have been.

The unordered merch scam comes typically from an obscure or unknown business name, not one with a high profile like Ann Taylor. I think it was an innocent goof-up. Mail order traffic begins to spike in October, and by December my UPS drivers can barely fit themselves and a lunchbox into their trucks. Technically the plus-size goods were yours to keep, but I might also have considered that someone's gift plan could be ruined.

If they really needed the items returned, Ann Taylor should have sent you a courier label pointing to its own account, making it essentially prepaid. I recall one small business simply gave me its UPS account number.

I agree with Resident47, sounds like a shipping error.
They entered the data for your account instead of the other woman's account.
But I also figure she paid for it, so you were helping the business clean up a mistake one of their employees made.