American shingle came to my 85 year old mother home and she and my 67 year old brother signed a contract to have a roof installed this summer. Unfortunately they gave these crooks an insurance check from Hartford for $2, 190.01 on 8/6/10. About 2 weeks later we received a telephone call to inform her that the materials would not be delivered until 10/31/10 and the roof would be installed on 11/1/10. About 2 weeks after that we received a undated letter in the mail stating that she would be receiving a full refund. I have contacted the Attorney General of North Carolina, but from when I have been reading because of the bankruptcy they have total protection and no assets. This company knew full well what there financial situation was before. I work for a bank who requested a bail out. Executive officers and other management were possibly aware for quite so time. I also spoke to one of there salesperson and he also told me that he was till owed thousands of dollars in back pay. This company should more definitely be investigated. My mother is also deaf and elderly, if the take advantage of someone like that I not surprise by what I'm reading on some of the other sites.

I do not know what to do I gave American Shingle over $3, 000 to repair my roof and now they are out of bussiness. They will not answer any phone calls. And the email address that was on the letter they sent me is not valid. Iknow I've been ripped off but I don't Know what to do

American Shingle subcontracted the roofing installs with my company and did not pay for the work they agreed to pay us. We signed a contract with them and never breached that contract, but they did with us and as it appears the whole world!!! I know that our company is not the only company out there going through this situation and our hearts truly go out to them and all of the victims of this situation. We were installing and tarping roofs up until the day before they closed their doors on 8/10/10. We tried to deliver our invoices for the prior week to the Charlotte office, as was required, on Wednesday, 8/11/10, only to find that the door was locked and that there was no longer a company. They currently owe us over $18, 000 and we are very concerned that we will never see that money. We were left not being able to pay our personnel for the work that they did for Shingle. All of this has left us in a sickening situation to say the least?!?!? The really sad thing is that we are now having to also field telephone calls from customer’s of American Shingle whom are desperate and upset about their roofs not being installed, leaks in their houses, repairs, etc., etc. These customers have no where to go and no one to help them, just like us. How on earth could the managers in the individual branches have not known something was up and how could they have consciously taken people's money and hired out work to companies like ours when they knew the company would not be around to fulfill their contracts to their customers and to their hired help? The more we learn the more it becomes apparent that they not only did not appreciate their customer's nor did they appreciate their employees, their subcontractors and whoever else worked with them. They claimed that the money they collected was insurance money and not the customer's, so why are the people upset!?!?! I mean, COME ON!!! That is a bunch of nonsense, if I ever heard it. The customer's have paid into those insurance companies every month; some probably for more years than you can imagine and never had a claim until now. Then to have something like this happen to them is just unforgivable. What a big spiraling mess! If anyone is aware of a central place where customers, employees and subcontractors can all file complaints and claims please email that information to [email protected]. Everyone needs to pull together to make the owner and his or hers accomplices pay for their actions.

AS OF LAST THURSDAY 8/12/10 I BECAME AWARE THAT THIS COMPANY WAS GONE AND HAD MY 5, 000.00.

YOU MUST CONTACT YOUR STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO WAGE A COMPLAINT, ALSO YOUR STATES DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE ALL UNDER FRAUD!!!

ANY NAMES OF REPRESENTATIVES, CELL NUMBER'S WILL BE APPRECIATED.

FEEL FREE TO CONTACT YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA..THIS IS WIDE SPREAD FRAUD...AND I'M JUST GETTING STARTED

ZILDJIAN
TAKE NO PRISONERS

This company has indeed picked up homeowners checks without doing the work. They have not paid their sub contractors for the past two and a half months and are not paying their employees.They told all employees they were closes offices Weds. and to have their things gone that they have filed bankruptcy. This money is going in the pockets of someone, and the same companies with the same EXACT business model as American Shingle, are now popping up in the same areas, or have been established there for just a couple months. Just speculation, but I believe that's where the money is going. I am an ex employee of American Shingle and was not at the bottom of the company ladder, and these have been the rumors circulating. To confirm this even more the companies are trying to hire the ex American Shingle staff, (obviously the stupid ones), to transition straight into their companies.The roofing industry is getting a bad name because of this. All the ex employees are now trying to open the own roofing companies. More than 95% are not licensed or insured and have no clue how to roof a house.They were a sales and marketing company that sub contracted, these are sales people. CUSTOMERS BEWARE!!! If anyone has just sent their checks in or had them picked up, call your insurance agent IMMEDIATELY to put a stop payment on the check. Furthermore if a contractor cannot show their license and insurance and wants your check up front, run the other way and call a real contractor. There are plenty of reputable contractors that American Shingle owe out millions of dollars to, that would love to have some work.Hope this might put into perspective what is going on for some disgruntled customers. The checks American Shingle already has, cross your fingers and pray you get them back is all the advice I can give.