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  • Report:  #55718

Complaint Review: Purity Medical Products - Placentia California

Reported By:
- Duluth, Minnesota,
Submitted:
Updated:

Purity Medical Products
187 W. Orangethorpe Ave Placentia, California, U.S.A.
Phone:
714-524-1890
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I work in the Purchasing department of a medical facility in MN. Several times (often about once a week) someone from Purity called claiming our regular shipment was to be delayed and asked for approval to send a substitute. I never gave such approval and always transferred the call to the correct buyer. The buyer eventually told me that these people are scam artists and not to take calls from them.

I started simply saying, "I'm sorry. I don't show any record of your being a vendor of ours. Do you do business by another name?" The caller always hung up.

Apparently they got the name of someone in another department and sent some syringes, claiming she had ordered them. I investigated and discovered that this employee was not even working on the day she supposedly placed the order. I confronted a rep by the name of "France" and demanded a Return Authorization.

They claimed they had a tape of the sale, but then I pointed out that we have evidence that they cannot possibly have made the sale to the employy that they said they did and that our company policy states that no orders can be paid for without a Purchase Order Number to verify that it was placed by an authorized buyer. I also pointed out that it is a Federal crime to alter or forge a tape recording of a telephone conversation.

They sent the return authorization and I haven't heard from them since.

M N

Somewhere in, Minnesota
U.S.A.


3 Updates & Rebuttals

Michaela

Duluth,
Minnesota,
U.S.A.
Incoherent Response

#2Author of original report

Fri, February 09, 2007

As you can plainly see, the rebuttal to this complaint did not address the problem. No return authorization was ever provided and substitution was never an issue- we didn't order the products from them to begin with! We sent the stuff back to them anyway and the invoice was never paid. In fact, they had people calling our offices and harassing us for a week until I threatened to get the law involved. (Next time you make harassing phone calls, turn off the Caller ID!) Medical offices, please be sure to alert your staff of these scam artists. Instruct them to give NO information to these people, not even a name. Simply say "Not interested" and HANG UP! What obviously happened was that they got a number for a department, got a name of an employee, and then claimed she placed the order. The fact that they could not produce a purchase order number and the employee in question was not in the office on the date the order was supposedly placed are pretty good evidence that the order never existed.


Barbara Mitchell

Placentia,
California,
U.S.A.
Request Approval to Send Substitute

#3UPDATE Employee

Tue, June 17, 2003

Purity Medical Products makes it a practice to call a customer if our supply of a specific product is less then what the customer requested prior to the ship date. As a courtesy, we do call to offer a substitute rather then have the customer out of stock on crucial product. The customer is never under any obligation to accept a substitute and we dont ship substitutes without the customers approval. Purity Medical Products prospective customers are identified and qualified by various means, including past purchase histories, previous requests for information or purchased databases. Each call that is made from our telesales department is tape recorded. This is a common practice for companies whose main source of contact with customers comes telephonically. These tapes are kept a number of years and used to verify information as well as training tools for new employees. We have no desire to forge or alter these tapes, because this serves no purpose to anyone. I am happy that France was able to get the Return Authorization to you and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Director of Customer Service


Barbara Mitchell

Placentia,
California,
U.S.A.
Request Approval to Send Substitute

#4UPDATE Employee

Tue, June 17, 2003

Purity Medical Products makes it a practice to call a customer if our supply of a specific product is less then what the customer requested prior to the ship date. As a courtesy, we do call to offer a substitute rather then have the customer out of stock on crucial product. The customer is never under any obligation to accept a substitute and we dont ship substitutes without the customers approval. Purity Medical Products prospective customers are identified and qualified by various means, including past purchase histories, previous requests for information or purchased databases. Each call that is made from our telesales department is tape recorded. This is a common practice for companies whose main source of contact with customers comes telephonically. These tapes are kept a number of years and used to verify information as well as training tools for new employees. We have no desire to forge or alter these tapes, because this serves no purpose to anyone. I am happy that France was able to get the Return Authorization to you and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Director of Customer Service

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