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Lucky Paintball Issue?
I read this on the nation. I have no idea if it's true but feel you should know about it just in case. It appears dealers and people who have ordered stuff from Lucky have all received this email:
Lucky Paintball Europe Sales wrote:
> We, Black Market Sportz LTD (UK), apologise for any inconvenience caused to
> anyone by the recent events and actions of Aaron Stephens, Black Market
> Sportz LLC (USA).trading as Lucky-Paintball.com.
>
> We did neither manage nor control lucky-paintball.com that was and is the
> sole responsibility of Aaron Stephens. We do not have control of the PayPal
> account or the banking for lucky-paintball.com that again is under the
> control of Aaron Stephens. Aaron Stephens has refused to either transfer the
> website domains or the PayPal account.
>
> We have invested in excess of $600,000 in Black Market Sportz LLC (USA) and
> we have never taken any return on that investment and we have not closed the
> US operation. Any actions taken have been the sole responsibility of the
> Business Manager Aaron Stephens.
>
> Luckyeurope.co.uk is also a separate and stand alone entity not owned by
> Black Market Sportz LLC (USA) and neither Luckyeurope.co.uk or Black Market
> Sportz LTD (UK) have taken over or moved the US operation to the UK. Aaron
> Stephens directed by his post on the Lucky-paintball.com and the
> buyluckypaintball.com websites for all customers to direct their enquiries
> to the UK site and staff.
>
> Aaron Stephens has in the last month taken in excess of $8000 out of Black
> Market Sportz LLC (USA), lucky-paintball.com and even after he closed down
> the website has continued to take monies out of the Bank and PayPal
> accounts. John Dresser and Brett Benbow both have received payment for their
> services to Lucky-paintball.com. They also both owned and ran
> element-paintball.com from the Lucky-paintball.com premises while employed
> by Aaron Stephens in their roles at Black Market Sportz LLC (USA),
> lucky-paintball.com.
>
> We, Black Market Sportz Ltd (UK), as we said we would and at our cost sent
> two employees to Black Market Sportz LLC (USA), lucky-paintball.com premises
> to see what they could do to assist the customers of lucky-paintball.com.
> They arrived to find that Aaron Stephens had shipped 8 skids out of
> lucky-paintball.com. They also found customers orders unshipped in the
> warehouse and these orders have been shipped last week!
>
> We are in the process of identifying a means to continue to produce the
> products and to offer them to US Customers and Dealers locally in the USA.
>
> We cannot refund monies we did not receive we can only suggest that you
> refer such enquires to the PayPal account owner Aaron Stephens directly.
> I'm taking out Aaron's personal info for his own sake. The last thing he needs right now is more phone calls and mail...
>
> We also suggest you contact your Credit Card or PayPal to dispute any
> payments you have made to lucky-paintball.com and where you have not
> received your order or a refund.
>
> We have handed this matter over to our Lawyers who have instructed us to
> state the following:
>
> This statement and any actions undertaken or suggested by Black Market
> Sportz Ltd., Luckypaintball.co.uk, its employees, officers, associates or
> other actions are not to be taken or accepted as admittance of
> responsibility for any actions of Black Market Sportz LLC or the Business
> Manager Aaron Stephens, its management or for Lucky-paintball.com.
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