Laserderm confusion?

I wouldn’t get my hopes up about Today Tonight resolving the issue.

1. How often have you seen a story featured in Canberra?

2. How often have you seen a story when the wrong-doing person/company actually pays up? They usually dodge bullets and escape any involvement.

That said, it really sucks that’s this has happened to you, and keep us up to date with how it all goes!

Maybe they need a tip off that this story is being ran on here?!

Please tell your friends my story…….. I don’t want these people to succeed with their business when their old business ripped people off… This should never be allowed to happen!!!

Well fellow readers, I’ve just sent this story via email to Today Tonight. They will regret the day they ripped me off!!!

Surely there is an investigative journalist out there whose bosom would heave at the prospect of chasing down these ne’er do wells with a camera.

I agree, but unfortunately, the company has just disappeared. I don’t have anyone to sue at the small claims court. Both new companies, the Belconnen store and the new Day Spa, both denie having any links to the previous business. It’s as though the business was beamed deep into outer space…….

I’ve been told so many different stories, I’m not sure what to believe. I was hoping that someone on here may have had dealings with these people, may know the name of the owner.. so I’m able to do this…

As was suggested above, I’d suggest lodging with the small claims court – quite often these people are quite willing to return one person’s money, once they’ve shown they’re serious, to make the problem go away rather than risk external authorities taking a closer look.

Start working your way up the chain if you have to.
http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=101817&catId=100405&tid=100008

Don’t play LawyerBattle unless you have to, but your option of last resort may be
the ACT Small Claims Tribunals.
http://www.courts.act.gov.au/magistrates/index.html

I did keep a receipt, but that doesn’t seem to matter… I just received another call from the woman her apparently owned the Civic branch, who resigned and ‘disappeared’ overnight. She’s now saying that the old business closed down, they just kept the number and ‘some’ clients. (On Wednesday everyone and everything had ‘disappeared’) and the business (who belongs to the woman who is in Belconnen) was transferred to Belconnen.

OMG…. is this frustrating or what… I’ve spoken with the ‘man’ who owns Belconnen and for 1. he’s not a woman and 2. he tells me he has nothing to do with the Civic Business.

I actually went on to the small business website, the business went into liquidation in March. The woman who owns the ‘Vanessa’s Day Spa’ has 3 different names, one which seems to be linked to the laserderm place. I was told by her and this woman who ‘disappeared’ and ‘reappeared’ that they don’t do IPL, nor do they have a machine. BUT, I went to the shop yesterday and they have on their signs, phamplets and this Vanessa ‘3 names’ business card, that they do in fact do IPL treatments..

I’m really annoyed that these people continually lie, making up different stories as the days go by without taking any responsibility… They just shut up shop, moved to a new location, with a new name and started over. So what about the people they owe money too,not only their clients but suppliers, cleaners, landlords.. If they did this to me, I’m sure they did this to everyone.

I really don’t see me getting my money back. However I can say that, due to my personal experiences I would never go to Vanessa’s Day Spa in Garema Court.

If we tell you our secret women’s business, we may have to kill you.

; )

Just out of curiosity, what kind of work are you guys/gals having done? And apart from the shonky operators what have the results been like?

Please, folks, go to a specialist medical doctor for laser treatments! It’s actually much cheaper than these Shonky Sisters outfits, they have better equipment and know what they are doing. Yes, they do cosmetic stuff. I went to the Northbourne Ave shysters and got the hard sell. I declined.

I knew someone would… LOL

Mia80 said :

(although some bloggers may disagree) Theft is a crime.

I disagree, theft is not a crime…

Firstly, do you still have the receipts etc from your pre-purchase, evidence of how many you have used etc????

Still I say go to the ACCC, because what they have done is blatant theft. Nothing less, and (although some bloggers may disagree) Theft is a crime. Plain and simple.

Raise the issue with everything and everyone you have before you get legal.
Even then a Small Claim will only cost you around $50 to lodge, but why should you have to spend more money on those ^&*(&^(&*^.

Fernwood is another example of theiving &^$^%$&^(*.
I was talked into getting a 2 year membership (with monthly direct debits). Don’t know why, I was perfectly fine without a gym before. But I don’t know how many times I rang and wrote to them to cancel my membership (being direct debited from my account), they never did.
I had to close the account and start a new one.

Why do “businesses” think they have it over us?
They wouldn’t exist with us in the first place.

So very wrong.
I am so very angry for you.

I’M PISSED OFF THAT THESE PEOPLE RIPPED ME OFF AND THEN CLAIM ‘THEY KNOW NOTHING’…;)

I’m feeling calming now…….. calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean….

UNLEASH THE DOGS OF WAR!

…and by dogs of war I mean a solicitor.

I would like to find out if anyone else has had any problems with these companies, or if something similar has happened to them.

It’s okay to simply say ‘I’m so pissed off I want to go public’. We can dig.

Just an update, I called the Civic store to find out if they were able to ‘find’ my file. The woman I spoke with – Vanessa, from Vanessa’s Day Spa, – told me that the woman who worked for them conducting the laser treatments, owned the business and because she resigned yesterday they no longer do LPI treatments. Fair enough..

So, I wanted to find out more about this woman, who took off with my $500, closed down the store without any kind of notification. I asked ‘Vanessa’ if the Vanessa Day Spa has the files and equipment from the Melbourne building, which she told me that the Belconnen store stole the files and she doesn’t know where the equipments is and that they no longer, as of today, conduct IPL (well I now know that). She avioded answering any of my questions and when I pressed her she hung up on me. Although she did say, that this ‘woman’ who owned the clinic told her no one paid up front. So they don’t have my files, the computer doesn’t work but they can confirm that no one paid for their treatments up front… mmmmmmm

So as of yesterday, this day spa ran the laser clinic out of their premise (which she confirm, saying yesterday that she owned the clinic) and today the equipment has dissapear (over night…. it’s the aliens), this Vanessa woman knows nothing and the clinic was never run from her store nor does she know where is has gone.

WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT!!!!!!!!! I just want my money!!!

I rang the Belconnen store and was told that they haven’t stolen anything and that they are a legite business. Which I believe.

I found out that this Vanessa persons husband appartently owned the Laserderm International clinic in the Melbourne building. So basically, she lied through her teeth.

I’ll keep everyone up to date!!