818-678-4550

Got this call at work today from this number at 1414. Lots of popping and clicking then dead air. *69'd the number and got 818-678-4550. I hope a real person doesn't call unless they want an earfull...I am totally out of patience for these idiots.

WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT FAX MACHINE AND COPIER---HOW DO THEY GET THESE NUMBERS.  I did give a earfull.  I am totally out of patience also.  The government needs to step in on this.

Tried to sell me Ink supplies.  The only problem is that they will keep sending the same product, and billing you. Only way is to call the billing dept. to have shippments stopped.

They hung up so I called back and said it was a toner, ink, national supply company and was a courtesy call from one of their reps.  I asked, do mean sales call, and she said yes. I asked her to take my phone number off of their list and she sounded annoyed. Well, I am annoyed they called me and would never do business with them because of it.

Allstate Imaging Inc.
21621 Nordhoff Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311-5825

They are listed on RipOffReport.com for office supply fraud.
Monthly shipments of cases of product you didn't order.

They called my office last week and wanted to know who was in charge of ordering office supplies. I advised that person was out of the office.

I looked up their number and found them on this site which is a good thing because they called again today. I advised them that we don't do orders over the phone. They said bye and hung up.

Hope that's the last of them...

this company was sued by the FTC in 2000 you all should report them agian sounds like they are doing the same thing they got sued for

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/04/ultraribbonsinc.shtm

For Release: April 18, 2000
California Telemarketer Settles FTC Charges of Alleged Office Supply Scams
One of the largest office supply operations in Southern California charged with sending unordered merchandise to small businesses around the country and then billing them for it has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it was violating federal law. The settlement requires Ultra Ribbons, Inc., and Allstate Imaging, Inc., based in Chatsworth, California, and their principals to pay a $500,000 civil penalty and consumer redress.

The FTC's complaint names Ultra Ribbons, Inc., Allstate Imaging, Russell Leventhal, Stuart Leventhal, Frank Montelione and Alan Jurick. According to the FTC, the defendants' telemarketers contacted the businesses at random offering to send "free trial" shipments of ribbons, cartridges or other office supplies. They also guaranteed that their products would last twice as long as those of the original manufacturer and told the businesses that if they were not satisfied with the products, they could return them during the trial period at no cost. The FTC alleged that the defendants frequently refused to accept returns and used abusive collection practices to intimidate businesses into paying for the overpriced merchandise. In addition, the FTC alleged, the invoices often included exaggerated, undisclosed shipping and handling charges, and the initial shipment was often followed with additional unordered shipments and invoices.

To settle the FTC charges, the defendants would be required to pay a $500,000 civil penalty and provide redress to all businesses that complained about Ultra Ribbon or Allstate Imaging to a Better Business Bureau or a government agency since 1996. Ultra Ribbons and Allstate Imaging would be barred from shipping unordered goods, from billing for unordered goods, and from misrepresenting the purpose of their phone calls, the fact that samples are free, that a person has ordered supplies, or that businessess have an obligation to pay for merchandise they didn't order. In addition, the settlement would bar the defendants from attempting to collect money from businesses which had received unordered merchandise.

The Commission vote to authorize staff to file the complaint and proposed consent was 5-0.

The complaint and proposed consent decree was filed on April 17, 2000, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division, by the Department of Justice at the request of the FTC. The settlement is subject to court approval.

NOTE: This consent decree is for settlement purposes only and does not constitute an admission by the defendant of a law violation. Consent decrees have the force of law when signed by the judge.

Copies of the news release are available from the FTC's web site at http://www.ftc.gov and copies of the complaint and proposed settlement will be available shortly from the FTC's Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580; 877-FTC-HELP (877-382-4357); TDD for the hearing impaired 1-866-653-4261. To find out the latest news as it is announced, call the FTC NewsPhone recording at 202-326-2710.

Media Contact:
Brenda Mack,
Office of Public Affairs
202-326-2182
Staff Contact:
Linda Stock or John Jacobs
Western Region - LA
10877 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700
Los Angeles, California 90024
310-824-4316 or 310-824-4360


(FTC File No. 992 3216)
(Civil Action No. CV-00-04042 R)

Introduced herself as with Allstate Imaging, asked for person in charge of office supplies, began chatting away about Christmas and her relatives coming into town, when I said I was busy please cut to the chase, she hung up.

Got the call this morning.
Can I speak to the person responsible for imaging?
Where you calling from?
Allstate Imaging
I put him on hold and found his number on this website! Wow, they never stop!

Called me at work today. They hung up as soon as I answered though (when they found out it was a business? office building?)

Someone from this phone number called, but left no voice mail message. The caller ID showed: “(808) 678-4550 -CALIFORNIA-”

I did a search online for this phone number and found several comments and complaints for this particular business (Allstate Imaging).

It would be advisable when your Caller ID shows a phone number you do not recognize (or recognize as a telemarketer), to just let it go into voice mail. If it really is an important message for you (and not an unsolicited sales call), or if they are a legitimate business or organization, they would leave a personalized and detailed message as to who they are and the purpose of their call.

To hopefully put a stop to these repeat calls, I have been jotting down a log of phone numbers that leave no voice messages for the past three months, and reporting these unsolicited phone calls on phone number websites such as this one. Yes, it takes a few minutes and effort, but if more people would do this, perhaps more businesses will realize these types of unsolicited telemarketing techniques are only annoying people and resulting in a very negative effect on their company image, customer satisfaction/loyalty, and overall sales. Writing to companies directly to explain this might also be helpful.

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Someone from this phone number called, but left no voice mail message. The caller ID showed: “(818) 678-4550 -CALIFORNIA-”

I did a search online for this phone number and found several comments and complaints for this particular business (Allstate Imaging).

It would be advisable when your Caller ID shows a phone number you do not recognize (or recognize as a telemarketer), to just let it go into voice mail. If it really is an important message for you (and not an unsolicited sales call), or if they are a legitimate business or organization, they would leave a personalized and detailed message as to who they are and the purpose of their call.

To hopefully put a stop to these repeat calls, I have been jotting down a log of phone numbers that leave no voice messages for the past three months, and reporting these unsolicited phone calls on phone number websites such as this one. Yes, it takes a few minutes and effort, but if more people would do this, perhaps more businesses will realize these types of unsolicited telemarketing techniques are only annoying people and resulting in a very negative effect on their company image, customer satisfaction/loyalty, and overall sales. Writing to companies directly to explain this might also be helpful.

Call me repeatedly and hang up when I say I'm dealing with another company how rude!!!

The guy sounded quite off. He said he was hanging on like a butterfly in the wind and then tried to sell us toner. He tried to argue when I said we were not interested. I told him not to call back and hung up on him.

Male caller asked who was in charge of purchasing printer supplies, was that me? then wanted to know if I was the decision maker, advised we get our supplies free from the company we got our printers from and that I wasn't interested, continued talking so I hung up.

Called and asked about copiers - told them I didn't have time to go through all 34 of them and hung up. Heheheee - Justice

calls repeatedly to sell toner, told them we do not do much printing and we only buy OEM toner replacements because all of out equipment is leased. asked to be put on their "DO NOT CALL LIST, and taken of of their calling list as we are well aware of all the complaints against them and have no intention of ever doing any business with them - all to no avail.

They just called my personal cell # I have no idea how they got it. I never answer out of area numbers from people I don't know. They didn't leave a VM so that is usually a dead give away. I hit Google and found this page. Thanks for the posts, I love adding Spamers to my call reject list

Yeah no more spam, they just got my cell phone too.. I've updated myself on the federal DO NOT CALL list several times but still pricks like this manage to find us.. I guess the economy really is that bad huh?

They call me up to and sometimes more than 6 times a day. How do I get these people to leave me alone?????