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Scam warning: Dirty Microbe customers are not receiving their products

tshirtisland.blogspot.com — After 2 months, lots of customers are left out with no t-shirts, no money and no feedback!

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  • shatteredshards, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3*raises hand* One of the scammed people here. Get the word out, people.
  • CalamityJames, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yep, me too. There's a post about it on my blog too:

    http://www.calamityjames.co.uk/rants/dirty-microbe/
  • MasteRR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Here as well. Ordered a shirt almost a month and still nothing. Lots of complaints of the same things in the comment of that blog post, most saying multiple emails were sent with no response. Phone numbers registered to the site are disconnected.

    Looks like DM is a lost cause. If anyone else has a pending order please put in a chargeback for you credit card now (the sooner the better since a lot of CCs have short limits on chargebacks).
  • icep25, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I had ordered from dirty microbe in the past without incident, so i thought they were safe. I thought that they were doing good since i saw a lot of their ads around the net. I was wrong. I ordered a month ago and haven't gotten anything. Of course, they charged my credit card right away. I've sent multiple emails and have gotten zero from them. Calling my bank right now for a charge back.
  • SMPrime, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1We are collecting a lot of info about this on Icrontic as well. The only way I finally got my money back was by contacting the owner directly through Facebook, to which he responded with a "not my problem since I am only the owner but I'll take care of it anyway", and refunded my money.

    http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63962
    • MasteRR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"not my problem since I am only the owner"

      Sounds like a worthless company to me.
  • corrodedmonkee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yep, got me too... ordered 2 shirts on 30th May, enquired on the 21st June... got a reply saying "they were lost and would resend" on the 22nd.

    2nd, 6th and 10th July sent tickets... eventually got pissed off and emailed him directly... got a reply where he said he would "bust heads" then silence again. Not heard anything since.

    My stuff is all on icrontic too, as i found them via googling dirty microbe.

    Really liked their shirts. Really hate their customer service.

    Appalling.
    • ellikelli, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My story is pretty much identical. I ordered mine around the same time, emailed them and they replied for the first e-mail and then NOTHING. I really liked their t-shirts too, that's why I ordered them but I guess the company's a total bust.
  • Crynos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I didn't order any shirts, but I'm an affiliate there which I guess means I'm out $75 :( That sucks.
  • krist69, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2add me to the list. paid for two t shirts, never arrived.
  • rohmaru, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1why people are burying this? i still didn't get my money back!
  • yalublutebya, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yep. I ordered two shirts the first week of June. Payment went through, shirts never came. No responses to my two emails. Totally uncool, DM. I just lost ALL respect for those people after reading this. -_-
  • roolvid, on 11/08/2007, -0/+1another scammed costumer. i hope the bank will still give a chargeback, i dn't know for how long they do that. i made the order on the 4th june. I hope it´s not too late.
  • ellikelli, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I posted this on the TCritic site but I thought I'd post it here as well.

    I was ripped off too! I ordered two T-shirts this past summer and never got them. I thought it was because I live in Finland and the postage will take longer … which in some cases it does, but it’s been like FOREVER and I’ve yet to see any shirts.

    I first ordered the T-shirts May 9 and received a confirmation email. On May 11 I got an e-mail that they’d received my PayPal money. At the end of May I e-mailed them and asked them where my T-shirts were and they said that they’d probably gotten lost in the mail and they’d send them to me again. I never heard back from them again.

    It’s September now and I’ve yet to receive my t-shirts! NOT COOL. NOT cool, man! From hence forth I’ll be sticking with bigger companies like Threadless … companies that I know won’t shaft me, man!
  • netcowboy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0This is big news in the t-shirt world.
  • mel0dy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0This whole thing is so annoying! I'm so sorry I have blogged about this shop in the past encouraging people to buy from them.... dammit!
  • StacMasterS, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Huh, I'm surprised to hear about this... they've been advertising on my site for quite a while, and the few times I talked to them it sounded like they were pretty on the ball. Of course I've never actually ordered anything from them, but if people are having issues I hope DM can work it out. :/
  • engtech, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The dirtymicrobe.com domain seems to be down now.
    • MasteRR, on 11/08/2007, -0/+1It now points to The Christian Chat Network? Huh, must have "forgotten" to renew the domain name, too.
  • isosceles, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have a dispute in paypal to get my money back. I placed an order in the last week of July and never heard from them even after several emails.
  • ManLord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just want to say it's not all a scam. I ordered my t-shirt in may and got it very quick. But i guess i was the lucky one.. And the site is down now anyway.. A shame, they had both quality design and fabirc.
    • MasteRR, on 11/08/2007, -0/+1I ordered successfully in the past as well. Seems that they were doing okay, then just vanished. Could be a scam, could be a mistake, but if just a mistake they never came back and fixed it. Now that the domain name is gone I lean towards the scam side.

      My only regret is that if they truely are spammers that they now hold my credit card number from past orders. Jebus only wonders what they might do with the database of probably thousands of past customers. Seems like a good excuse to be using PayPal or the like whenever possible.
  • shatteredshards, on 11/19/2007, -0/+0I had ordered my shirts back on May 9th and never got then, and was luckily able to do a chargeback with my credit card company in July (they had a 60-day limit, which they tweaked for me since my order email said my shirts would ship a couple weeks later). Supposedly these guys actually went bankrupt and stuff's getting liquidated to pay things off, but they were taking money and screwing people for at least FOUR MONTHS before their site went down and they fell off the map completely. I can't imagine how many people weren't able to get their money back.
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  • karladam, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1This is all too bad, I ordered their player shirt and yes it did take over a month, but they did ship it and I emailed them and they gave me a 15% lifetime discount card. Sadly I can't use it now.
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