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Everyone please beware of Country Pines
Embroidery and Trixie Cole in Allegan,
MI. She has a wonderful website for all
kinds of equine embroidery, but....I
sent her $200.00 worth of stuff to
embroider, and a check for $154.00, once
the check posted she dropped off the
face of the earth. I'm not the first one
to have this problem! Beware...
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.Ripped off by Trixie Cole,
Designsbycpe and KT Labradors? Now going by the name of Trixie Cogar.
Reported on December 7th, 2009 For those of you ripped off by Trixie Cogar, fight back. I put a deposit down for a puppy when she had stated on her website that she was located in Michigan. I saved all my e-mails with her. I contacted my bank and filed a fraudulent internet claim. I just received my deposit back!!! __________________________________________
Reported on December 1st, 2009 BEWARE!!!! This woman TRIXIE COGAR ripped me off. I put a $200 deposit down on an AKC lab puppy I never received my puppy or my deposit back. She should be put to a stop. I am going to take legal action Hopefully it will stop her.
__________________________________________ Reported on November 15th, 2009
***WARNING*** __________________________________________
Reported on October 25th, 2009 We bought 2 "AKC" English Labs from Trixie Cogar. We got the puppies and they were full of fleas, coccidia, and strangles. This is a skin condition that is very painful to the puppy. He has to be on steroids. We never received the AKC papers so I contacted the AKC after many failed attempts of reaching Trixie. The AKC informed me the parents of these puppies are not registered meaning the puppies cannot be registered. Well in Trixies favor I'm sure she couldn't take care of this being her father is probably sick and dying! What like the 5th time? He must be part feline! So I paid that scammer $1400.00 for 2 unregistered puppies!
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Reported on September 29th, 2009 "Beware, Trixie Cole now goes by Trixie Cogar and is still ripping people off. She refuses to refund $200 deposit I sent to hold puppy that was never born." __________________________________________ Another case reported: November 2008 designsbycpe I ordered a really neat barrel racing sweatshirt for my daughter as a christmas gift on Oct. 15 2008 and here it is Nov. 13 2008 and no sweatshirt! I have emailed Trixie (which her name should be called Trixster) 3 times with no response. I just got off the phone twice now with PayPal and they said to call her.....so I did. But, wouldn't ya know it, her phone is disconnected! Is that any surprise? So, I have filed a complaint and hope to resolve it soon and get my money back. It breaks my heart to know that people are so dishonest out there and scam others. Someday it will backfire on her. Stacie __________________________________________ March 2008 No word from Trixie Cole regarding my order. __________________________________________ Dec 2007 I placed an order for $79.93, 3 hoodies meant for Christmas presents, for Trixie Cole and never received anything and it's been a month. I should have known something was up because I received NO order confirmation or shipping notification, only my Paypal receipt. All emails went unanswered, and I have just opened a Paypal dispute. __________________________________________ New findings on Trixie Cole (Designsbycpe), and a summery... (I decided to put these updates and summery at the top, my story, from the beginning is below) __________________________________________ On May 28th 2007 yet another victim of Trixie Cole is discovered... "I find it horrid that Ebay / PayPal continued Update: "Because I made my ebay purchase with paypal, I filed
a fraudulent purchase complaint with them. Needless to say, within 1 day, I
received the shipping confirmation for my sticker, and an email that she
enclosed 2 stickers, and received them yesterday in the mail. She seemed to
ignore me until I filed the claim." . Order Placed on March 2005 - I found a person who never received their order from Trixie Cole, who goes by the name of Designs By CPE - Designsbycpe- also goes by Country Pines Embroidery and Country Pines Ranch), despite her extensive efforts which included sending police to her house (police found her looking very well). She was informed it would cost her more money to prosecute Trixie Cole than the amount she lost. She decided not to go that route, she never did receive her order. In March of 2005 Trixie had told the police her father was dieing and all orders were just delayed. It's 2 years later and this person still has not received her order. (This order was not placed through eBay). Online theft in the horse community Order Placed on Jan 17th 2007 - I found someone named Carol who ordered from her through eBay. Trixie had very similar conversations with Carol the day she placed her order, the same way I did. Than she had a very hard time getting their order. Their emails were ignored for a month. They filed an eBay report and a PayPal report. After these reports were filed. Trixie used the excuse "Her father suddenly got sick and was dieing" as the reason the order was delayed, (same reason she gave 2 years earlier). Carol finally did get her order over a month later. This was an eBay order, and I think that Trixie felt her eBay feedback was at stake. The beginning of this story is so similar to mine. The difference in these two stories is, I didn’t order with eBay, so could not affect her feedback rating and waited too long to file with PayPal. I was giving her the benefit of the doubt, thinking something happened to her since my friend got shirts from her before. Carol had paid for her order and had conversations with Trixie about her order a month and a half AFTER I placed my order. Looking at the dates, Carol was emailing and getting a response from Trixie at the same time I was emailing Trixie. Trixie ignored me, ignored my order. I had sent her a message using the eBay form, and many emails through PayPal along with the 3 other email addresses I found that she uses. I even had my friend who had recommended her email her about me. Trixie responded to her, "order was delayed because of her father". Yet she never emailed me and at the same time was selling to others. Wonder why she did not email me with the dieing father story? If it were true would she not tell all her customers. Oh but I didn't order through eBay and waited too long to get money back with PayPal. Read full story with this customer. There are others who ordered through eBay that have not received their order or have received it months later (you can see this by looking at her eBay Feedback. Trixie Coles eBay feedback One man said. "I just received it on Friday (April 13th 2007). 1 month for 2 stickers! I will not order from her again. The package when opened reeked of smoke. Good Luck!" April 14th 2007 - I noticed Trixie took her eBay feedback link off of her personal website. I am still looking to talk to others who have not received their orders or who have had trouble getting their orders from Trixie Cole. My conclusion is, she is eventually sending orders to eBay customers because she realized she cannot get away with ripping them off, eBay would eventually kick her off. However she is not giving this same attention to orders shipped through her website. I have not received my order and I found someone in 2005 who has not received their order despite their extensive attempts. She's been using the "Dieing Father" excuse for at least 2 years now. Is her father dieing? I don't know. Why is she choosing not to email me back with an explanation of a lack of my order? It's been 4½ months. I don't know this either. Is she a scam, or does she just have poor business practices. I don't know this either. __________________________________________ If you have had problems with an order with Trixie Cole Send us your story. __________________________________________ On December 1st 2006 I placed an order with Designs By CPE - Designsbycpe- (designsbycpe . com also goes by Country Pines Embroidery and Country Pines Ranch), a website selling personalized Dog Breed, Horse Breeds, Donkey, and Mule shirts, run by a lady named Trixie Cole. I ordered 6 shirts totaling $138.48 USD. They were to be Christmas presents for my 9 and 12 year old daughters, who are horse lovers, and enjoy riding their horse and pony in fun show rodeos. Christmas came and went, no shirts; in fact New Years, and Valentines day came and went as well, and still no shirts. I had a conversation on the day I ordered the shirts with Trixie. She assured me the shirts would be on their way, and then I never heard from her again. (Update below, heard from her once 3½ months later, still no shirts) I emailed her several times with no response' since she was so nice the first day I ordered them, I gave her the benefit of the doubt and waited. I kept emailing her, no response and actually started to worry that something might have happened to her. I contacted a friend of mine who referred me to her site. My friend had ordered shirts from her and was happy with her order. My friend decided to email her a "Hello" message, and low and behold, Trixie answered back! She was alive! And than I started finding others who paid for an order with Trixie and never received their order. I spoke to someone who said, they sent the police to her house regarding her order, Trixie apparently answered the door, looking very well, explaining to the officer, the order was just delayed. Now I am wondering, if the order is simply delayed, why not email back and just let your customer know? Instead we are all left believing we have been burned, internet fraud, and maybe we were. At this point it sure seems like a scam. I found this post on a Yahoo message board from a person who ordered something from Trixie and never received it. Notice the date, this was posted on March 14th 2005! I spoke to this person and to this day, Trixie has not made good on this person's order. See the post online . . I ordered the shirts via PayPal. PayPal does offer a resolution center, however you have to file within 45 days of the payment. Since Trixie appeared to be so nice, I believed her to be honest, and although I didn't get a response to my many emails after the day I placed the order, deep down I thought something must have happened to her. Wondered if she was even alive. I waited too long. When I tried filing with PayPal I got this back "This dispute closed because it was opened for more than 45 days after the transaction date or did not meet other filing criteria." PayPal Transaction from the shirt order placed on Dec. 1st along with the first conversation I had with Trixie Cole...
___________________________________ Trixie gave a partial refund explaining that she had a shipping special of $7.00 and wanted me to receive it. Because of this partial refund, when I went to request a refund from PayPal, PayPal came back saying, I already received a refund from this seller. Yeah, $13.70 of the $138.48. -----Original Message-----
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___________________________________ I had responded to the partial shipping refund with: -----Original Message----- Sharon wrote:
Thank you Trixie! You were highly recommended, my
friend ___________________________________ Trixie Responded back with From: Trixie Cole [mailto:countrypinesmi@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:29 AM To: Sharon Subject: RE: Your payment has been refunded Hello! The same with the Dark Grey T-shirt. Have a great day! Trixie www. designsbycpe . com ___________________________________ From: Sharon Oh no, lets not do an orange on a pink T-shirt. Honestly I don’t know what colors I want. I have a 9 year old who is more girly, she likes pinks, purples, her favorite color is green, but she will wear grays and blue’s, not sure if she would wear black And a 12 year old who
likes dark blue’s, grays, browns, black etc…. I don’t think the 12 year
old would wear hot pink or pink. So how about you pick what looks
right. I don’t want them to clash and I can’t see the design against
the different colors. I will like what you pick so long as it does not
clash and bug out the eyes. And if I pick it just might clash and bug me
out. So the smaller T more with a girly look and the larger with a tom
girl look. ___________________________________ From: Sharon Oh and thank you for pointing out the color clash LOL My 14 year old would have never let me live that one down. Sharon ___________________________________ From: Trixie Cole [mailto:countrypinesmi@yahoo.com] Hello, Trixie ___________________________________ From: Sharon Sounds great! Thank you! :) ___________________________________ And that was the last I heard from her for 3½ months ___________________________________ From: Sharon Hi Trixie, Thank you, Sharon ___________________________________ From: Sharon Hi Trixie,
___________________________________ From: Sharon Hi Trixie, Just wondering about the status of the shirts I ordered. I still want them even though they didn’t make it here by Christmas. Please email me back. I would like to at least hear back from you that they are still coming since I paid for them. Thank you, ___________________________________ From: Sharon Hi Trixie, When can I expect these shirts? Thank you, Sharon ___________________________________ From: Sharon Hi Trixie, I placed an order back on Dec. 1st. I have sent several emails asking the status of my order. Please reply to this email letting me know if I will still be receiving my order. (This email contained the PayPal receipt) I continued to email her, with no reply back... However, I was told she will email my friend back, same email address. My friend asked her about my order, she told my friend her father was ill. If this is true, why not email me back? By looking at Trixie Coles eBay feedback, there are others who have not received their orders. Seems on eBay she sends some their orders and not others. She just never answers them back and never ships the product. I suppose if you order from her you have a hit or miss chance of actually getting your order. Wonder how she decides who actually gets their orders? I found another on a message board. Searching on the net, I have found 4 email addresses Trixie uses and I have emailed them all countless times with no response. Yet, she is there, answering other people's emails.... Have I been scammed? Sure seems like it... . Update:3-19-07 I continued to email Trixie the following every single day to all three of the working email address I found on her. Hi Trixie, I just wanted to email to see if you were still going to ship the shirts? I am copying and pasting our conversation from before about the shirts to refresh your memory. See below. If you do not plan on shipping the shirts please refund my PayPal Account $124.78. The order was placed on Dec. 1st 2006. Please respond Sharon I knew she was around because she was talking to my friend via email and people were leaving eBay comments. She was talking to them. (I should have ordered through eBay and maybe she would have cared to answer me or ship my shirts or in the very least email me back). My friend asked her about me a few times, she said her father was sick and she was catching up on orders. However in the threre months she never bothered to email me and tell me this. I started emailing her daily refund reminders through PayPal. After 3½ months I received this... From: Trixie
Cole [mailto:countrypinesmi@yahoo.com] Hello! Thanks a bunch! I'll double check, I think those went out, but will check into it asap for ya! Thanks, Trixie From: sharon Hi Trixie, Thank you! Yes, please do let me know if they shipped and when.
From: sharon Hi Trixie, Did the shirts ship and if so, when? Do you have a tracking number? Thanks, From: sharon Hi Trixie, Just checking to see if
my order shipped and when? If so do you have a tracking number? From: sharon Hi Trixie, Did my order ship. Please answer back…. Sharon From: sharon Hello, are you still around?? I haven’t heard back as to whether my order was shipped???
From: sharon Hi Trixie, Are you going to ignore me for another 3 ½ months? I mean really, do you even have shirts to send? Or are you scamming me? Sharon 3-22-07 Sent PayPal Refund Request From: sharon Trixie, Are you a scam? Or do you really sell shirts? I ordered my shirts as Christmas presents back on December 1st 06. It’s now March 22nd. My kids will be outgrown them by the time I get them, that is if I will ever get them. Are you for real? Do you really sell shirts?? Sharon 3-23-07 Sent PayPal Refund Request From: sharon Do you have any intention on shipping my shirts?? If not please refund my money. I would like them before my kids grow out of them and were pushing 4 months here. That’s WAY too long for an internet order. Sharon From: sharon Trixie, Is this why you’re
choosing not to ship my shirts? http://designsbycpe.com/Message2.htm because you have a dispute with
your PayPal account? Well guess what, that’s just not my problem. I sent you
money; you got the money, if your account later blocked the money from you,
that does not mean you don’t owe me the shirts. An honest person would make
good on their orders, even if they somehow lost the money that was sent to
them. The point is, you own me the six shirts I ordered or $124.78. You can
ignore me all you want, but I am not going to go away until you send me a
refund or my shirts. Are you an honest person? From: sharon Hi Trixie, Am I correct in assuming you have no intention on sending me my order? 3-26-07 Sent PayPal Refund Request From: sharon Hi Trixie, Please refund my PayPal
Account $124.78. The order was placed on Dec. 1st 2006 and its
now spring. I don’t believe you have any intention on shipping shirts.
Wonder how many others you have ripped off? I found a few others you scammed
on the net, message boards etc. From: sharon Hi Trixie, I just wanted to email to see if you were still going to ship the shirts? I am copying and pasting our conversation from before about the shirts to refresh your memory. See below. If you do not plan on shipping the shirts please refund my PayPal Account $124.78. The order was placed on Dec. 1st 2006. Please respond
From: sharon Since your obviously not going to send me any shirts, can you at least have the decency to refund my money? How honest of a person are you? You must feel really good about yourself ripping all those people off. Nice…. You owe me $124.78. Sharon Update: 4-14-07 Still no shirts From: sharon
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:25 PM To: 'Trixie Cole' Subject: RE: My Order Hi Trixie,
I didn't get the
order, so apparently they didn't go out. So what's the status? You going
to just keep ignoring me? you already crushed two children who didn't
get their Christmas presents. I placed this order on Dec. 1st of 06.
It's now April 19th 07. So what's up with this? You at least owe me an
explanation. Unless of course your are indeed a scam artist and in that
case I suppose you'll just keep ignoring me. You know, there are only so
many people you can rip off before this will all catch up with you.
Sharon
4-21-07 I had someone else email Trixie at countrypinesmi@yahoo.com and she responded to them. She's around Sent this Via PayPal 4-21-07 This email confirms that you sent a money request for $124.78 USD to countrypinesmi@yahoo.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Money Request Details ---------------------------------------------------------------- Amount: $124.78 USD Subject: My Shirts Note: Trixie, It's now pushing 5 months and I still have not received the 6 shirts I ordered. The shirts were to be Christmas presents. You had told me I would get my order by Christmas. These shirts are for children and they are going to outgrow them soon and we have not even received them. I know you're around and I know your getting my emails. What I don't know is why you don't respond to me or care about my order. The only think I can come up with is, you're a scammer. If your not, and you have some other good reason for ignoring my order than you really should email me back and tell me what is up. I have been keeping track of our correspondence and my order status etc… and am going to warn others about you and your business practices because I don't feel it is right that you can totally ignore an order and keep the money. If you have some type of personal problem it would have been nice if you would have explained your situation to me, and I would have waited patiently for my order. I have been holding off and giving you the benefit of the doubt too long and am going to start filing on every fraud and scam website on the internet and I am afraid on these sites, once I file, I cannot retract my story. I feel going on 5 months for 6 shirts is long enough. I am requesting a refund, for the 4th time. I will accept the shirts as well. Starting Monday I will start filing. Sharon
(The email below is responding to this email...) From: Trixie Cole [mailto:countrypinesmi@yahoo.com] Hello! Thanks a bunch! I'll double check, I think those went out, but will check into it asap for ya! Thanks, Trixie
From: Sharon Hi Trixie, So what’s the status of my order? It’s been almost 2 months. Your ASAP is extremely slow….
I have not heard back..... Story from a customer who placed an order with Designsbycpe (Trixie Cole's company) on Jan 17, 2007, a month and a half after I did. So at the exact same time Trixie Cole was ignoring my requests to know the status of my order, she was taking yet another order.... I paid on Jan 17, 2007. She had emailed several times that day giving me all kinds of options and color choices. I told her I needed them by Jan 29 for a Stock Show event for my little girl and she said no problem. At first, she answered every email within minutes. She had a barrel
racing sticker and I asked if it could be made into a shirt. She replied
immediately and told me what sizes she had available and even that it could
be in hot pink lettering to match my daughter's tack. Once I finalized
everything, I paid with PayPal and sent the list of everything I had bought
to make it easy for her to package up. Usually with eBay, stuff arrives
within 5-7 days on average. My daughter was at that mailbox daily looking
for it. After two weeks I checked to see when she shipped it and I asked for
shipping tracking number. No answer. I emailed again. No answer. My daughter
thought she may have a computer problem and so we gave it a few days. I
looked at her feedback list and she was getting feedback from recently
shipped items so I knew she was shipping out THEIR stuff. I kept emailing
and telling her how she has hurt a little girl and she stole money from a
little girl.... No Answer!! I waited and then emailed a few days before Jan
29. No reply. I emailed 2-3 times again that day. I emailed daily for a
week. Finally, I filed a report with PayPal and Ebay. I think she only
answered as "Cindy" once eBay started looking in to it. PayPal has a money
guarantee so they can deduct it right out of her PayPal account so I knew I
would get the money but it may take a while. You can read all of her
feedbacks and see when they purchased and when they leave feedback so it's
obvious she gets the emails and is just ignoring them. After filing with
Ebay and PayPal, and a few more emails telling her that a 10 yr old was
crying her eyes out because she didn't have those shirts for her event, we
get this email from Trixi Cole's email address on February 20th, 2007. ( a
month after paying) _______________________ 8-16-07 - Still no shirts from Trixie Cole
You can read more stories at: Stories of People Getting Scammed over the Internet
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