Elite Savings

Has anyone here any experience of Elite Savings?
The idea would seem to be that they act as a broker between consumers in the UK and manufacturers in the far East and so forth.

So far so good- however to save money (and they are ever so cheap) if you spend the time to dig through the web-site you find that shipping is 35-40 working days.

Which is a long time.

Googling for them brings up a long thread on Money Saving Expert which shows that most people choose to ask for a refund when they find out about the long shipping time- and then get charged 10% plus £0.50 as a handling/admin fee.

It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that this is how the company is designed to make money- purely from cancellation fees.

My question is should they be able to retain 10% plus £0.50 when one asks for a refund?

And if the answer is no how would one go about requesting/enforcing the return of this 10% plus £0.50?

(The £0.50 is the killer here)

try something cheap like the iphone @ £15 and see if it come through after 30 -45 days and see.

the sketchy english, the fact they haven't even changed the deafult Zen Cart text
the " likelihood" of getting ripped off is high.
10% transaction fee? not even paypal rip people off this much.

Yes, now suppose a purchase has been made with a credit card how would one go about getting a full refund?

The charming chap behind this scam is apparently called Paramveer Takher.

Result of WHOIS query:

 Domain name:
     elitesavings.co.uk

 Registrant:
     Ms R Kaur

 Registrant type:
     Other UK Entity (e.g. clubs, associations, many universities)

 Registrant's address:
     1st Floor%%2 Woodberry Grove
     Finchley
     London
     N12 0DR
     United Kingdom

 Registrar:
     TUCOWS Inc [Tag = TUCOWS-CA]
     URL: http://domainhelp.tucows.com

 Relevant dates:
     Registered on: 01-Jul-2009
     Renewal date:  01-Jul-2011
     Last updated:  23-Feb-2010

 Registration status:
     Registered until renewal date.

 Name servers:
     ns5.lunarbreeze.com
     ns6.lunarbreeze.com

 WHOIS lookup made at 22:16:32 06-Aug-2010

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There you go. If you have any problems go round and poo though his letterbox.

Google maps suggest that to be a Christian Centre- I'll ask Tynan to go round and desecrate through the letter box.

There you go. If you have any problems go round and poo though his letterbox.

read that mmoneysaving experts thread.. address is not real, company address is most likley a company register address that 500 other sketchy companies use

The "Most" real of the addresses associated with Paramveer Takher, or whatever they are really called would seem to be the one in Kingston.

Any forum members in Kingston who fancy a defecatory mission?

Yes, now suppose a purchase has been made with a credit card how would one go about getting a full refund?

so.... what did you buy?

MoneyBookers.com looks to be abit of a scam it's self, I work in ecommerce and haven't ever seen them as a recommended payment processor before and if you google them you will see why, they are basicly a very dodgy paypal style organisation.
Because of the way the payment is processed you are going to have abit of fun trying to make a claim. Best thing you can do is fill in a charge back form with your bank.

It was my cat, James, he was tempted by the low price on an HTC Legend.

I have advised him to tell Barclays that he has been informed that the organisation is fraudulent and that he wishes to reverse the transaction.

What evidence etc should I recommend that he give to Barclays to ensure that the transaction is reversed?

that darn cat...
there is no evidence only speculation at the moment, usualy it only works if they can't prove you made the order or it wasn't shipped/recived. Which they will be able to do. You will be able to get your money back but proably not until the 40days or so that it says it takes to ship your order and it not turn up. But just call your bank and explain the situation they are usualy happy to help and you err your cat won't be the only customer.

looking at the moneybrokers set up the guy is onto a good scam, moneybrokers do charge the 7.9% however that is the insurance amount for a chargeback, he keeps the full amount less the 7.9%. As long as he withdraws the money before they lock his account for scaming.
https://www.moneybookers.com/app/help.pl?s=m_fraudcontrol

guess I'm setting up an account with moneybrokers and a new store tonight, htc phones you say.

Mr Paramveer Takher is known to Barclay Card, they have refunded people who have been duped by him previously- I am hopeful that they will do the same in this situation.

Given the information on the web about him could one legitimately claim that as 100% of his previous websites have been fraudulent you believe this one to be, hence asking for the refund?

Forgive my ignorance here- is a chargeback when the credit card company asks for the funds to be returned?

Forgive my ignorance here- is a chargeback when the credit card company asks for the funds to be returned?

yes asks well more demands the money returned.

previous post yes if he is known then they should sort you out.

I have advised James to contact Barclaycard with dispatch.

It would be nice to be able to visit some mild evil upon Paramveer Takher, who here has the skills to find this person?

Make sure Ed has access to his D-Lock this time though.

Ho hum

I have paid £290 to elite savings for an htc desire on 1st september

i now see they are a fraud

i paid with paypal and have just started a dispute under their resolution procedure.

does anyone know if paypal will refund the money?

elite savings website has gone down and they are not responding to email

certainly NO ONE should buy from them

Does anyone have the correct address for the guy behind this scam?

Behold a pale horse