Ibex Weddings Is A Fraud
I am writing to you for help. Over seven months ago, I was married in Fort Wayne, IN. We contacted a gentleman, named Alex Pearl, through a company called Ibex Studios/Ibex Productions/Ibex Weddings. This man came and video taped my wedding, I do have a picture I can provide. It has now been over seven months and we have not heard from him, we have no video in hand, and we know he is out there still maintaining his website and defrauding others out of special memories.
Over the past number of months, I have tried each way possible to track down this man. I have called many different phone numbers, many of which have been interrupted or disconnected. I have even gone to the one address I had for him, a post office box in a UPS building. It was informed by many people who now have his phone number and by the UPS gentleman that we are not the only one`s he doing this to.
Please contact me to move further to put an end to what this man has done.
Over the past number of months, I have tried each way possible to track down this man. I have called many different phone numbers, many of which have been interrupted or disconnected. I have even gone to the one address I had for him, a post office box in a UPS building. It was informed by many people who now have his phone number and by the UPS gentleman that we are not the only one`s he doing this to.
Please contact me to move further to put an end to what this man has done.
Posted by Neha Richter; updated 05/06/07
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Alex,
I have many email`s from you showing NO response. Over the seven month time period, you did not respond many times to my email`s or my husband`s emails. I can show many threatening messages from you. And if you are so true to your response, then why don`t you post how you would have the video in six months as indicated. And why don`t I have a completed, edited video in hand when indicated in an email that it would take you approximately two weeks to complete in January. Also, notice the email that you sent that message from. It wasn`t until I started emailing EVERY address I had from you did I get any gleam of a message.
You need to remove my email from your website along with the my receipt of the package.
I have choosen not to respond to the forum at this time due to the turn it has taken. This was not the intent of this forum to bash anyone but yet to find you, receive what we have paid for, and stop you from doing this to someone else. The fact that there are many brides that have not received video`s since 2005, indicates that you have not fullfilled contracts with them. It is of my opinion, that you should NOT have collected future contracts until you could complete the one`s you already had.
Also, in my email`s to you, even the one posted, I have a confidentiality statement at the bottom of the message. You are violating that statement in the message. I highly suggest you remove the statement.
I am not going to be part of this message board due to the nature of this content from this point forward. I have other individual`s email addresses and I have remained in contact with them.
I have many email`s from you showing NO response. Over the seven month time period, you did not respond many times to my email`s or my husband`s emails. I can show many threatening messages from you. And if you are so true to your response, then why don`t you post how you would have the video in six months as indicated. And why don`t I have a completed, edited video in hand when indicated in an email that it would take you approximately two weeks to complete in January. Also, notice the email that you sent that message from. It wasn`t until I started emailing EVERY address I had from you did I get any gleam of a message.
You need to remove my email from your website along with the my receipt of the package.
I have choosen not to respond to the forum at this time due to the turn it has taken. This was not the intent of this forum to bash anyone but yet to find you, receive what we have paid for, and stop you from doing this to someone else. The fact that there are many brides that have not received video`s since 2005, indicates that you have not fullfilled contracts with them. It is of my opinion, that you should NOT have collected future contracts until you could complete the one`s you already had.
Also, in my email`s to you, even the one posted, I have a confidentiality statement at the bottom of the message. You are violating that statement in the message. I highly suggest you remove the statement.
I am not going to be part of this message board due to the nature of this content from this point forward. I have other individual`s email addresses and I have remained in contact with them.
Posted by Neha; updated 05/06/07
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Neha, the turn it has taken...... Is showing you flat out lied.
Of course you are departing this board. You still don`t explain why you choose to make that false statement. Your post did NOTHING to even try to explain that. How can you possibly explain your initial post... You can`t.
And yes, of course you want your email removed... I understand. Proof sucks, huh? It will remain here to show what you have done.
You can`t make a public claim of fraud based on a complete fabrication and then cry foul when defend myself and I prove you based it on a complete lie.
It`s really funny that your only concern is that I am DISPLAYING the email, not the fact it shows you told a great big lie to start this message thread.
Of course you are departing this board. You still don`t explain why you choose to make that false statement. Your post did NOTHING to even try to explain that. How can you possibly explain your initial post... You can`t.
And yes, of course you want your email removed... I understand. Proof sucks, huh? It will remain here to show what you have done.
You can`t make a public claim of fraud based on a complete fabrication and then cry foul when defend myself and I prove you based it on a complete lie.
It`s really funny that your only concern is that I am DISPLAYING the email, not the fact it shows you told a great big lie to start this message thread.
Posted by Alex Pearl; updated 05/06/07
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Alex is now the victim - that seems to be his m.o.
He is also placating a few just enough to cool the heat. Also his m.o.
And Sue, you really helped. Thanks!
In regards to the personal attacks, perhaps bad and not fair, but in the very least they prompted him to finally reply, albeit always with a sense that he has the right to blame the customer and take you all for suckers.
If anyone honestly thinks he won’t start doing this again tomorrow so long as he can get away with it, why wouldn’t he? His business model actually seems pretty good (for the ethically challenged): Collect lots of money, deliver if not too inconvenient, give in to a few who press him - move on.
Unless this guy lands in front of a judge, Neha’s second purpose to her initial post“…to stop you from doing this to someone else” will be a good joke to him. He is the only one in all these postings to use the word “funny” …and a few times at that. I don’t think he can help himself.
While most legitimate businesses try to turn their 800 number into a jingle that cannot be forgotten even when desired, here are just a few numbers, addresses, and names of Ibex that can be found on the web and at www.BBB.org that I’m sure Alex hopes everyone will forget:
(217) 359-0625
(708) 469-1682
(800) 459-0623
(800) 658-5081
(815) 462-3663
(888) 217-0434
(888) 217-4344
(888) 795-6682
Ibex Video
209 West University Ave. Suite 101
Champaign, IL 61820
Ibex Productions
702 Bloomington Rd
Champaign, IL 61820
Ibex Weddings
7301 W. 25th street, #166
Riverside, IL 60546-1409
Ibex Studios
Ashippun, WI 53003
Www.ibexstudios.com
Ibex Productions
15941 Harlem Ave #110
Tinley Park, IL 60477-1609
Www.ibexweddings.com
Ibex Productions Wedding Videography
28 E. Jackson Bldg., # 10-A797, Chicago, il
Limelight Video
P.O. Box 1087
200 N. Vine Unit B
New Lenox, IL 60451
He is also placating a few just enough to cool the heat. Also his m.o.
And Sue, you really helped. Thanks!
In regards to the personal attacks, perhaps bad and not fair, but in the very least they prompted him to finally reply, albeit always with a sense that he has the right to blame the customer and take you all for suckers.
If anyone honestly thinks he won’t start doing this again tomorrow so long as he can get away with it, why wouldn’t he? His business model actually seems pretty good (for the ethically challenged): Collect lots of money, deliver if not too inconvenient, give in to a few who press him - move on.
Unless this guy lands in front of a judge, Neha’s second purpose to her initial post“…to stop you from doing this to someone else” will be a good joke to him. He is the only one in all these postings to use the word “funny” …and a few times at that. I don’t think he can help himself.
While most legitimate businesses try to turn their 800 number into a jingle that cannot be forgotten even when desired, here are just a few numbers, addresses, and names of Ibex that can be found on the web and at www.BBB.org that I’m sure Alex hopes everyone will forget:
(217) 359-0625
(708) 469-1682
(800) 459-0623
(800) 658-5081
(815) 462-3663
(888) 217-0434
(888) 217-4344
(888) 795-6682
Ibex Video
209 West University Ave. Suite 101
Champaign, IL 61820
Ibex Productions
702 Bloomington Rd
Champaign, IL 61820
Ibex Weddings
7301 W. 25th street, #166
Riverside, IL 60546-1409
Ibex Studios
Ashippun, WI 53003
Www.ibexstudios.com
Ibex Productions
15941 Harlem Ave #110
Tinley Park, IL 60477-1609
Www.ibexweddings.com
Ibex Productions Wedding Videography
28 E. Jackson Bldg., # 10-A797, Chicago, il
Limelight Video
P.O. Box 1087
200 N. Vine Unit B
New Lenox, IL 60451
Posted by lol; updated 05/06/07
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And out come the rats......
No one believes you are a bride. You are so much more pathetic than you even accuse me of being.
Why doesn`t this coward post their real name? I know who they are...
Not a bride, just a rat looking for a way to badmouth me without being accountable.
No one believes you are a bride. You are so much more pathetic than you even accuse me of being.
Why doesn`t this coward post their real name? I know who they are...
Not a bride, just a rat looking for a way to badmouth me without being accountable.
Posted by Alex Pearl; updated 05/06/07
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Alex,
I hate to inform you that she did not lie; please provide the phone records that provides proof you did return our multiple calls over the 7 month period she mentioned in her postings. Providing us the raw footage is not fulfilling the terms and conditions of our contract; it is just trying to buy you time and give you a a false sense that you held up your end. Posting confidential information was not not a smart move on your end. IF you would have fulfilled the terms of the contract by providing the edited copies of the tapes on January 29, 2007 you would have stayed in line with the contract. Plain and simple you are pissed you got called out, period. I am not sure what all my wife told you she would or wouldn`t do if we got the raw footage but that was not me and I am the one that paid for you to come and video tape our Sangeet and Wedding and give us finished footage by January 29, 2007; you didnt and still haven`t to date. For someone who is so honest I wonder why there were so many dead ends trying to get VERBAL communication with you. I am going to live up to my end of what I told you earlier, this is going legal either though individual lawsuits or a class action suit. I will talk to my wife about who has already contacted her but if anyone else who is wanting to join feel free to contact me directly at jameyrichter@comcast.net
Alex make this easier on yourself please provide me your personal address so I can serve you with this suit; I will be more reasonable with my request the more you cooperate. IF you continue to hide behind PO Boxes then I will request the judge to scrutinize this situation in more detail. As for the contract you signed with the soon to be Bride in December please return her money as a jesture of good faith that you are trying to make a step in an ethical direction.
Jamey Richter
PS . As I told you before if you feel I/we illegally threatened you or we did not hold up our end of the contract please feel free to file with the State of Illinois you have our home address to serve me. Posting confidential information without our authorization is illegally; you werent even forthcoming with past customers as referances becuase you said that was confidential information. Our request was to ensure you were legit what you did was unethical, illegal and down right stupid.
I hate to inform you that she did not lie; please provide the phone records that provides proof you did return our multiple calls over the 7 month period she mentioned in her postings. Providing us the raw footage is not fulfilling the terms and conditions of our contract; it is just trying to buy you time and give you a a false sense that you held up your end. Posting confidential information was not not a smart move on your end. IF you would have fulfilled the terms of the contract by providing the edited copies of the tapes on January 29, 2007 you would have stayed in line with the contract. Plain and simple you are pissed you got called out, period. I am not sure what all my wife told you she would or wouldn`t do if we got the raw footage but that was not me and I am the one that paid for you to come and video tape our Sangeet and Wedding and give us finished footage by January 29, 2007; you didnt and still haven`t to date. For someone who is so honest I wonder why there were so many dead ends trying to get VERBAL communication with you. I am going to live up to my end of what I told you earlier, this is going legal either though individual lawsuits or a class action suit. I will talk to my wife about who has already contacted her but if anyone else who is wanting to join feel free to contact me directly at jameyrichter@comcast.net
Alex make this easier on yourself please provide me your personal address so I can serve you with this suit; I will be more reasonable with my request the more you cooperate. IF you continue to hide behind PO Boxes then I will request the judge to scrutinize this situation in more detail. As for the contract you signed with the soon to be Bride in December please return her money as a jesture of good faith that you are trying to make a step in an ethical direction.
Jamey Richter
PS . As I told you before if you feel I/we illegally threatened you or we did not hold up our end of the contract please feel free to file with the State of Illinois you have our home address to serve me. Posting confidential information without our authorization is illegally; you werent even forthcoming with past customers as referances becuase you said that was confidential information. Our request was to ensure you were legit what you did was unethical, illegal and down right stupid.
Posted by Jamey Richter; updated 05/06/07
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Jamey, what possible explanation do you have for the statement she did not lie? I proved such. With the email communication i posted. She said we where not in contact for 7 months and it was not true. She even thanked me for returning her messages. You have been threatening me since about 3 weeks after the wedding. It`s really getting stupid.
Lets hear your explanation as to why her claiming to not have been contacted in 7 months is not well.... A lie
Can you explain that to me and the world?
Why is it not a lie Jamey? It;s sure not the truth.
FYI, he making such a claim on this board that is easily proven false is a damned good lawsuit on my part for slander and liable. I have never even threatened to press as such...But you just want to drag this lie out to ends that I sure can`t understand.
Ask your attorney about her making a false statement publicly to get people to rally around her.
Lets hear your explanation as to why her claiming to not have been contacted in 7 months is not well.... A lie
Can you explain that to me and the world?
Why is it not a lie Jamey? It;s sure not the truth.
FYI, he making such a claim on this board that is easily proven false is a damned good lawsuit on my part for slander and liable. I have never even threatened to press as such...But you just want to drag this lie out to ends that I sure can`t understand.
Ask your attorney about her making a false statement publicly to get people to rally around her.
Posted by Alex Pearl; updated 05/06/07
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You keep going back and forth, But I haven`t heard either Neha or Jamey,her husband? actually provide any reason why Neha would make that statement when it wasn`t true. Alex posted her email, if they where talking via email like that, shortly before her post, the post is pretty obviously not true. She made a very plain statement that she had not heard from him. I am not saying she couldn`t have complained, but to dupe us into believing she hadn`t heard from the guy in 7 months. That`s kinda low.
Neha, why did you thank him for returning your messages in your email to him?
Neha, why did you thank him for returning your messages in your email to him?
Posted by E; updated 05/06/07
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Alex,
I see you disregard all the other questions; to answer yours, she is a pissed of wife/bride that errored by a few weeks. The email we recieved on February 2, 2007 put you out of the terms and conditions of the contract. On February 2, 2007 you said it would take 2 weeks, that time frame came and went. Another month+ came and went and you did not attempt to rectify this again until SHE contacted you again. Then at the end of the month she finally made a post on this site. IF you want to be techinical since you are trying to grasp on minimal irrevelant points she did not lie becuase where in that posting did it say 7 contiguous months? Either way you were out of contract on the date of the February 2, 2007 email. As I asked you before if you are sooo confident you are in the right please post everyones communication you or your employees have had since being hired up to today on your website after you recieve everyones permission. The truth lies there. If we are in the wrong you will see a retraction / apology submitted by us; I cant speak for the others. This still doesnt address you being out of contract and only since we took an aggressive path to get some form of progress with you.
Before other people jumped into this message board with some other personal attacks or truth against you I am not here to judge. There are people who have tried for great periods of time trying to get results from you and to date I am not sure if any of the true grievance parties that have posted still have not received their finished edit tapes as defined in each contract as well as on your past website before you started shutting down all the sites and changed it to a statement / contact page. How many have you fulfilled? Please reread my last email and respond to the questions I asked you. As for regard to the Slander comment, it is spoken not written; if you think that slander is a form of defense you need to take that up with the news station who aired the story.
Jamey
I see you disregard all the other questions; to answer yours, she is a pissed of wife/bride that errored by a few weeks. The email we recieved on February 2, 2007 put you out of the terms and conditions of the contract. On February 2, 2007 you said it would take 2 weeks, that time frame came and went. Another month+ came and went and you did not attempt to rectify this again until SHE contacted you again. Then at the end of the month she finally made a post on this site. IF you want to be techinical since you are trying to grasp on minimal irrevelant points she did not lie becuase where in that posting did it say 7 contiguous months? Either way you were out of contract on the date of the February 2, 2007 email. As I asked you before if you are sooo confident you are in the right please post everyones communication you or your employees have had since being hired up to today on your website after you recieve everyones permission. The truth lies there. If we are in the wrong you will see a retraction / apology submitted by us; I cant speak for the others. This still doesnt address you being out of contract and only since we took an aggressive path to get some form of progress with you.
Before other people jumped into this message board with some other personal attacks or truth against you I am not here to judge. There are people who have tried for great periods of time trying to get results from you and to date I am not sure if any of the true grievance parties that have posted still have not received their finished edit tapes as defined in each contract as well as on your past website before you started shutting down all the sites and changed it to a statement / contact page. How many have you fulfilled? Please reread my last email and respond to the questions I asked you. As for regard to the Slander comment, it is spoken not written; if you think that slander is a form of defense you need to take that up with the news station who aired the story.
Jamey
Posted by Jamey Richter; updated 05/06/07
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Jamey,
Please quote the line or area of the contract you are quoting. I would be more than happy to discus individual terms of the contract.
Which line or contract line are you using to accuse me of breach of contract?
You have now been delivered all of your raw footage, many DVDs. Something that was neither ordered or paid for. I did so after caving to Neha to try to appease her.
Again, lets discus that contract. I need to know specifically where it is written I would have it to you by the date you state?
Please quote the line or area of the contract you are quoting. I would be more than happy to discus individual terms of the contract.
Which line or contract line are you using to accuse me of breach of contract?
You have now been delivered all of your raw footage, many DVDs. Something that was neither ordered or paid for. I did so after caving to Neha to try to appease her.
Again, lets discus that contract. I need to know specifically where it is written I would have it to you by the date you state?
Posted by Alex Pearl; updated 05/06/07
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Jamey, You should have Neha inspect her sent mail folder. I have inspected the email from top to bottom and despite prior claims there is absolutely no such confidentiality statement. There is nothing illegal about me posting her email to show that we were in fact in contact. I even went so far as to X out her private contact info, although I don`t think that was a requirement.
Why are you so upset with the readers of this board seeing that email anyway? Your main point about the email was that was is was CONFIDENTIAL.
Regardless of the picture you have painted of me, I am more than reasonable and will calmly discus any contract term you wish to address.
Why are you so upset with the readers of this board seeing that email anyway? Your main point about the email was that was is was CONFIDENTIAL.
Regardless of the picture you have painted of me, I am more than reasonable and will calmly discus any contract term you wish to address.
Posted by Alex Pearl; updated 05/06/07
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Alex, I dont really understand what`s going on and i dont really want to. I do think its really rude that people are using this forum for personal issues. I can only speak for myself. Over the last 3 weeks i have reached out to you about 5 times and tried calling all your various phone numbers and i haven`t heard a response. My first thought was you must be very busy but CLEARLY you have time to write many posts on this website. I sent you a deposit for $500 in December and its disappointing to see that you were scamming me. You may think differently but i do feel cheated because i really trusted you based off of my own personal experience with you. I really am not out to get you and dont want to cause trouble for you. I would just like to kindly ask that you return my $500 deposit since you are not taking on any additional projects. I really hope you can respect my wishes. And i hope everything gets better for you.
Posted by K. Desai; updated 05/07/07
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Get to work you scam artist. You apparently have all this time on your hands to be reading and playing on the internet. These brides you have scammed and not completed their work are still waiting while you sit here and wonder what they think of you (slander). Be a man and finish what you promised.
Posted by J; updated 05/07/07
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Kejil, I responded to the email you sent me nearly immediately. Please recheck your email.
Posted by Alex Pearl; updated 05/07/07
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J accuses me (anonymously of course) of not working to remedy this.
Do you mean the 5 jobs I sent this week.?... Or maybe the three I sent last week? Working through these jobs is absolutely all I do, except for having to defend myself against anyone who wishes to make any claim they wish on this board.
Do you mean the 5 jobs I sent this week.?... Or maybe the three I sent last week? Working through these jobs is absolutely all I do, except for having to defend myself against anyone who wishes to make any claim they wish on this board.
Posted by Alex Pearl; updated 05/07/07
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