Abe's Of Maine

Full review
All of the positive reviews here and elsewhere are fake; written by the employees themselves.  Read the negative ones even on other sites; they are all similar horrible experiences with common patterns.  This seller will not only lie to you, charge you against your will, charge you when they don't have the product, fail to ship your item quickly or EVER, but the employees will do it shamelessly and rudely, everyone single one of them.  This is a criminal organization from what I can tell.  I "bought" something from them 2 years ago and am surprised to see they are still up and running despite the same bad experiences people are having.  Lemme give a shout out to Alzi!  This was my contact at Abes of Maine who dealt me the most lies and cost me the most time and money.  HEY ALZI!!  Yeah I know you're reading this because I saw your name on some of the fake positive reviews.  Basically, Abe's business model is to present low prices on their site, but with no real intention of shipping you anything.  They will only ship you what you buy (regardless of whether you paid for it or not), if, when they make their "follow up call" you agree to "upgrade" in various ways.  If you end up agreeing to spend enough money, then I think they usually ship your item eventually.  If not, your order basically sits indefinitely as "backordered or processing" or they just tell you they don't know when it's going to come.  If you order from these people, 2 days later, when you expect that your order has processed and shipped just fine, the "employees" will just be getting around to your order so they can try and scam you with this follow up call.  It's an irritating surprise to everyone who deals with Abes.  What actually happened to me personally was this: I ordered a camera, and then on the "follow up call" I was so turned off because they threatened to not ship what I paid for unless I bought some extra stuff, that I asked them to cancel the order.  However, they still charged my card!  I had to dispute this with my bank and with them for weeks.  The cust. service was as bad as it gets; rudeness, transferring, lies, the runaround, poor english, hang ups, yelling.  I actually got the camera a few weeks later to my surprise (even though I thought I cancelled the order) and Alzi tried to offer me "cash" to just keep it.  Clearly his original intention was to not cancel the order but hope he could still bribe me into keeping it once I had it in my hands.  Once I returned it, they only refunded part of the original sale and I had to spend more time with my bank getting the rest of my money back.  Giving these people your credit card info is roughly the same as handing your checkbook to a stranger on the street corner and hoping for the best.  Good luck!