Chris Monteiro, knowingly, ripped me off with a completely fraudulent ad on Craigslist for a Power Bob-o-Pedic Bed. Here are his ads verbatim - there were 2:
"I have a queen size Bob O'Pedic bed in excellent condition. It is only a year old, slept in by my mom, who has become ill and now needs a hospital bed. This bed retails for almost $1500.00, if you want a great comfortable bed and to save yourself a bit of money, contact me!!! Bed comes with remote, head and feet raises and it is a total massaging bed. Bed frame is heavy and you must remove."
"Bob O'Pedic power massage bed, queen size, only 6months old. Not slept in very much and no longer needed. Every feature works, the head and feet go up and down like a craftmatic bed. It is also a full massaging bed, comes with remote control. This bed goes for 1200.00 brand new, save yourself some money. It is the Bob equivalent to Temp-a-pedic. If interested, send an email or call Chris
When I went there to see the bed it was disassembled, on edge, in a room full of furniture. There was no space available to set up the bed and test it out or even insect it very carefully. I should have insisted. Chris seemed to be a decent person. He told me he was taking care of his mother who was sick and whose bed it was. He showed me paperwork, an invoice, for a queen Power Bob-o-Pedic bed. Again I should have been less trusting.
He did help to carry it out and load it on my truck. I paid him $600 for the bed. It was only when i got home and set it up that i realized that it was not a queen bed at all but a Full size bed and it only the head raised up. Notice that he advertised that everything worked. Specifically that the head and the foot raised up and that it was a Queen size bed.
I called him, which was the last phone call form me that he answered. He tried to tell that it was a Queen size bed because it fit into a queen frame. I got no where with him by explaining to him that a queen bed is a standard size 60'x80" and a full bed is only 53"x74", both shorter and less wide.
I still had yet to put the mattress on the bed at this time. When i did i discovered that the the bed was actually a FullXL, 53"x80". I could have lived with this had the mattress he sold me gone with the bed but it was a Full size mattress on a Full XL bed frame, 6" inches too short for the frame.
I had tried to test the remote and the bed mechanism before i bought the bed. There was a problem with the foot section. It didn't work at first but then the motor ran momentarily and he told me that it would go up because the foot was hitting the floor (it was standing on the edge). When I got home and discovered that it wasn't working i looked at it closer and found that the ram for the foot section was broken and the screws were missing so it couldn't have happened during my moving it. It had been broken and someone had tried to fix it.
He commented that his cousin refinished used furniture and sold it which was why there was so much extra furniture in the house. I suspect that the thing is a scam from start to finish. I think he knew that the bed was broken and that the mattress was not the correct mattress for the bed frame.
The paperwork that he gave showed, upon closer inspection that his mother had ordered a Queen bed with no mattress, a Fullxl bed with a FullXL mattress and a Full mattress no frame. There were multiple invoices with multiple addresses, including the 14 Beechwood Ave address. I have no idea whether all of the beds were delivered but there is no way that he could have not known that the mattress didn't fit the bed. If that was the mattress delivered with the frame it would have been noticeable immediately by the installers. The invoice showed it was delivered and set up by Bob's Furniture.
In short he sold me what was advertised as a 6 month old, completely functional, Queen size adjustable bed that turned out to be a broken Full XL size bed with a too short, Full size mattress. When i called him on it he stopped taking my calls and wouldn't even help get the ram fixed under warranty.
Chris Monteiro is a liar and a cheat. He cannot be trusted. He has shown himself to be capable of blatant lies in order to sell things on Craigslist.
|