COMPLAINT REGARDING INTERNATIONAL PATENT CONSULTANTS
DATE OF CORRESPONDENCE: January 13, 2005
Name of the Invention Promotion Company: International Patent Consultants
Invention Promoter's Address: 80 East Passaic Ave., Nutley, NJ 07110
Complainant's Name: Debra Laramee
Complainant's Address: 85 Sycamore St., Holyoke, MA 01040
Customer's Name: Karen Kleszczynski
WHAT IS YOUR COMPLAINT?
Name of mass media invention promoter advertised in:
Invention promotion services offered to be performed:
In October of 2002 my sister Debra Laramee received a letter from International Patent Consultants (IPC), this letter indicated that they were interested in "manufacturing" our product. Our product is a baseball hat that serves a dual purpose. It can be worn as a regular baseball cap or with the hair pulled through the top center - heads or tails. The patent is held in the names of Karen Stevenson (Kleszczynski), Debra Laramee and Cindy Demers. Patent number D370334.
We called the number that was provided on the letter and left a voice mail with
a person by the name of  .
We received a call the next day from David Stabile, President of IPC. We made
arrangements to meet at his satellite office located on 76 Dorrace St. Providence,
Rhode Island approximately two weeks later. On the day of the appointment present
from my family were Debra Laramee, Cindy Demers, Roger Stevenson and myself (Karen
Kleszczynski). Representing IPC were, David Stabile, President; ,
,
and
another gentleman with an accent from
England.
It was at that appointment on November 5th, 2002 that we gave David a check in the amount of $2,500; check number 118055. In return IPC was to make a quality prototype for us. Upon approval of the prototype we would then discuss manufacturing and the cost associated with production. During a period of 9 months we had seen several prototypes, none of which were satisfactory. They claimed they understood the vision of our idea and needed money for the inventory.
After discussing with David our need to get the prototype just right he assured us the next one would be it. He also at that time indicated he would need to have the money for the inventory wired to him. We wired $8,450 on December 2, 2003 to Commerce Bank, 575 Kingsland Avenue, Nutley, NJ 07110. This was their business account for IPC. The money wired from another client in the amount of $28,000 to Hong Kong went to an account called Faith's Fortune. Faith is also David and Maria's infant daughter's name. The client did not know David and Maria were married or that they had (adoptive) children together. We knew it as we had several family conversations.
After wiring the money to David we were expecting a final prototype. We eventually received another that was not approved by my sisters. We were becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of quality and service that was provided to us. They used every excuse imaginable to give us as to why they did not return calls, e-mails and why we had not received a quality prototype. We had many conversations with ,
Marketing and Manager of their store Inventor's Korner, formally located at the
Warwick Mall in Rhode Island and also head of the Corporate Office for
Inventor's Korner a sister company of IPC, located at 177 Airport Road, Warwick,
RI. There was also an office at the same address by the name of IPC run by .
These are now closed.
The store was supposed to have our product in it. It closed without our knowledge
in October of 2004. Days before I received an e-mail from David claiming he was
in China saying he could not wait to get the hat in the store. was
an intrigle part of our dealings with IPC. She had even given us her home phone
number. After many, many months and lies from IPC I had finally
called Lisa at her home phone ,
. This call was placed in mid
October 2004. I told her we were tired
of the lies, we were never told the store that our product was supposed to be
in was closed and that the "corporate" office is now reduced to an answering
machine and we do not receive return phone calls. I told her we wanted our money
back. She said she understood our frustration and that she would call corporate.
We did not hear from anyone for a couple of days so I called Lisa back. I left
a message on Lisa's home phone that I would have the police investigate what
we believed to be fraud and not to be surprised to have the authorities knocking
on her door at .
She returned my call and hysterically screamed at me wanting to know how I got
her address. I told her I would tell her when we get our check. She told
me her son was a cop and my response was…"so what?" I got her address from the
Internet Yellow Pages. Later that week Debra Laramee called and
left him a message to give to Lisa to let her know that she (Deb) would be in
the area and wanted to swing by Lisa's office to pick up our belongings
we had given to IPC (several video tapes and a cd-rom with pictures for our hang-tag).
Lisa apparently received the message from and
immediately called Debbie. Debbie told Lisa that she knew she would call because
there was no office
to visit because the office was also closed. Debbie asked Lisa if she was related
to David and she wouldn't answer. Debbie asked her again and she said David was
her nephew.
So IPC is a family run operation and Lisa is just as guilty of stealing money as David and Maria. Lisa's e-addresses, ;
;
;
www.inventorskorner.com; internationalpatentconsultants.com
A week or so after, I receive a call on a Saturday morning from ,
she talked to me for about a half hour. She told me they do not have our money
and that they were broke. They used our money to pay for
employees and business expenses. She told me she had an old car, a very old wardrobe
of clothes and how they lived in a termite-infested apartment. Her family will
not visit because they are sad about their living conditions. She mentioned how
sad it was for her children to have to live this way. She talked about how David
was too proud to admit failure and how she and (David's aunt) were up all night the night before crying about their situation.
My conversation ended
by asking her to send us our belongings.
This was the last we have heard from anyone at IPC. We have since learned by many hours of research that David had the same relationship with many people. We contacted about 6 of his clients and they all had the same story to tell. We learned that David was given $112K from 6 people and provided no goods or services. We learned that a client wired money to Hong Kong. That another elderly client borrowed money from his home to give David $17,000. We spoke to another who had no idea his product was on one of David's websites, www.inventionviewer.com. In our conversations with his clients we had asked if they received a bankruptcy letter from David's attorney as we had. Only one client we spoke to received the letter. David told us that he had approximately 200 clients.
We provided a binder of information to the Massachusetts Sate Police and have left a message with the Massachusetts Financial Unit, Sgt. .
We have not heard back from anyone and we are concerned that if David and his
company filed for bankruptcy what recourse will the many people he stole money
from have? We believe all the people mentioned should be held accountable for
misleading business practice.
David Stable is the owner and president of IPC in Nutley, NJ, owner of Inventor's Korner in Warwick, RI and the owner of the former store in Warwick, RI. His letterhead indicates he has offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, Manchester, England and London, England. We are also aware of businesses in China and Trinidad.
P.S.: We have many names, hone numbers and addresses of David's clients who said we could provide their information to the necessary authorities.
Signed: /s/ Karen Kleszczynski, Debra Laramee, Cindy Demers Date:
January 13, 2005 |
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