Cambridge Biosystems Ltd in UK the owner who claim himself as Chris (but his actual name is Korstiaan Jan Hendrik Gorter) is a scam. On September 2009, he posted few auction listings in LabX and we had bid one of the bidding which is a Perkin Elmer Optima 3000DV ICP-OES. He had send us an invoice which the amount of USD 5, 000. He told us his office is in Cambridge (but his actual address is Devon according to his bank account register information) and the machine is located in their warehouse in Manchester. We had paid the total amount of USD 5, 500 to him including the USD 500 for the crating and packing. After that, he is keeping dragging it and keeps on giving all kind of excuses. After we give him a firm warning, he no longer picks up the phone and not even replies the email for a period of time. After a while later, he coming back to us that we didn’t make the payment on time and resulting the machine was not able to remove out from “the owner” ware house which is not own by them. Then he keeps dragging for another few weeks. We had asked him to provide us the contact person and exact location of the warehouse for our forwarder to pick up the machine but he reluctant to provide the address and person to contact for the collection. What he provides is only a general GPS location. This had result us starting to feel like he is a scam and post the issue in Scam.com on October 2009. I believe this had starting to affect him in his “daily business” once he starts to found out the listing. So he reply us with an email stating he don’t want to do business with us anymore ask for our account information for refund. We are fine with it and had provide him the correct bank information, he drag it for another 2 weeks to see if we had remove down the posting from scam.com. We who are genuine buyer/seller of course doing what we had promise that remove the posting but he make the payment “accidently” with wrong account name but all others information are correct, so the refund still able to send to our bank branch but will not allow to bank into our account due to correct bank account number with WRONG bank account name. Again this had result the refund will be return to his “hand” again. After that, we request him to resend the refund but he keep saying that he still not yet getting the refund from our bank. We had ask our bank to get us the international wire terminal report and the report showing the refund was send to his bank on 18-Nov-2009 without return or any issues. So again he is trying to make fun of us again. Then later he claims that he is travelling and will come back and send us the money on January 2010. After that, he claims that the bank freezing his bank account and he was unable to send the money. On February 2010, he told us he going to send us the money soon then again he is not sending the remaining fund back. So we had wait enough and today 23 February 2010, we had not yet receiving the refund from him so we had decided to publish the whole story to the world to make note of every one not to deal business with him any more.

He register his business in 25 November 2009 and in March 2009, his company already black listed by Cambridge University of UK. So this makes me believe more that he is a scam or a not genuine business company.

So please help to take note that he is a scam and don't do business with him.

His company name and information is as per follow:
Cambridge Biosystems Ltd
Company ROC number: 6757684
23, Kingstreet, Suite 57,
Cambridge CB1 1AH
United Kingdom.
Tel: +(44) 122 3655 385
Fax: +(44) 122 3655 443
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Company homepage:
www.cambridgebiokit.co.uk

Their company actual registration address is:
CAMBRIDGE BIOSYSTEMS LIMITED
53 WATERSIDE EXETER
DEVON EX2 8GX
Company No. 06757684

He publish a homepage is just to scam people and make people believe them. Don't trust them as you will found out the listing never change for a very long time. When you call his phone number, there will be always no one to pick up the phone and go into voice mail.

His bank account is:
HSBC Bank United Kingdom
Account No: GB 22 MIDL 40053073827496
Swift: MIDL GB 22
Sort Code: 40 05 30
Bank Address: 60 Queen Victoria Street London. EC 4N 4TR United Kingdom.

His is Dutch and his home town address is as per follow:
Essenstraat 1
Haarlem The netherlands
2011 DW

He also got another business partner who name Jason Christopher Frank and he is an American. We post this is to alert all the genuine buyer and seller not to fall into this kind of business scam in future. As we all are genuine buyer and seller and this kind of seller really make our business more difficult wasting of our valuable time.

Besides, they also got a US register based company in below location:
Carlsbad Biosystems
848 N. Rainbow Blvd. #3222
Las Vegas, NV 89107 US
Phone: (702)940 7970
Fax: (702)-932-1570

Homepage: http://www.carlsbadbio.com

You will find the both company homepage is the same and even phone recording is the same person.

As we had already give firm notice for him to make the refund but until today we are not getting the remaining. He keep telling us that his bank account got problem. I believe he is damm liar.

I post this up is to make sure no other people fall in his trick again.