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L P Garden Grow and Pest Control
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LP
L P Garden Grow and Pest Control
Unclaimed Business
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Tshepo K
1 reviews | Active since Jan 2020
21 Jul 2024, 18:39
****mers claiming to be a compost company
They are ****mers. Do not talk to them or allow them into your property. JUST WALK AWAY. I was at the front gate looking for a lock in Moreleta Park. When suddenly a bakkie with “Free State” number plate stopped on my front yard and a guy named Roderick Theyser jumped out the bakkie with a spade full of manure and said he offers good service to make my lawn green. He said he will use only 1 or 2 bags of manure as it was only the front yard lawn outside. One bag costs R149. Saying that there are no labour costs and that I won’t regret. Also saying he has a strong chemical to kill ****s and make my lawn green. Before I could answer he asked for a glass of water to drink and warm water for his spray container. The bakkie looked convincing as the business logo and trademark with all details were on the left door. When I returned with the glass of water and spray container, 2 guys were spreading the manure over my lawn. They were moving so fast. By that time he was writing an invoice of R450. When the guys finished spreading compost, the invoice was R5 000, saying that he even gave me R300 discount. He wrote that he used 27 bags of manure, which is highly impossible as my front lawn is small enough for just 1 or 2 bags. He kept on pressurising me to select option of “pay and clear immediately”. We argued for a long time. I ended up paying R5 000 as I knew that these guys would perhaps use physical force or retaliate later on if I refused to pay. Later on I would realise that there was no “chemical” in those bottles, it was just plain warm water. They were pretending to have put a chemical in the spray container. I would later go to Builders Warehouse at Woodlands, and was told that there is no chemical used to make the lawn green and that one big bag of manure only costs around R230. Later on I would call the ****mer and asked why he did what he did, and for the most part he sounded dismissive and sounded like a completely different person. His tone of voice had changed also. He promised to return the following day to treat the lawn in the yard, but never showed up. Not that I wanted him to return. I would then realise that I was ****med. Later on I googled their company and it reflected that they are ****mers who have been reported to Lynwood Police Station few years back. But they are still operating for the past 13 years now. You want your lawn to be green and nice, just go buy manure and apply it yourself. The guys at Builders Warehouse will advice you very well, even about which chemicals to use for all kinds of ****s. BE CAREFUL OF LP GARDENS GROW & PEST CONTROL!!!
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Tshepo K
1 reviews | Active since Jan 2020
21 Jul 2024, 18:39
****mers claiming to be a compost company
They are ****mers. Do not talk to them or allow them into your property. JUST WALK AWAY. I was at the front gate looking for a lock in Moreleta Park. When suddenly a bakkie with “Free State” number plate stopped on my front yard and a guy named Roderick Theyser jumped out the bakkie with a spade full of manure and said he offers good service to make my lawn green. He said he will use only 1 or 2 bags of manure as it was only the front yard lawn outside. One bag costs R149. Saying that there are no labour costs and that I won’t regret. Also saying he has a strong chemical to kill ****s and make my lawn green. Before I could answer he asked for a glass of water to drink and warm water for his spray container. The bakkie looked convincing as the business logo and trademark with all details were on the left door. When I returned with the glass of water and spray container, 2 guys were spreading the manure over my lawn. They were moving so fast. By that time he was writing an invoice of R450. When the guys finished spreading compost, the invoice was R5 000, saying that he even gave me R300 discount. He wrote that he used 27 bags of manure, which is highly impossible as my front lawn is small enough for just 1 or 2 bags. He kept on pressurising me to select option of “pay and clear immediately”. We argued for a long time. I ended up paying R5 000 as I knew that these guys would perhaps use physical force or retaliate later on if I refused to pay. Later on I would realise that there was no “chemical” in those bottles, it was just plain warm water. They were pretending to have put a chemical in the spray container. I would later go to Builders Warehouse at Woodlands, and was told that there is no chemical used to make the lawn green and that one big bag of manure only costs around R230. Later on I would call the ****mer and asked why he did what he did, and for the most part he sounded dismissive and sounded like a completely different person. His tone of voice had changed also. He promised to return the following day to treat the lawn in the yard, but never showed up. Not that I wanted him to return. I would then realise that I was ****med. Later on I googled their company and it reflected that they are ****mers who have been reported to Lynwood Police Station few years back. But they are still operating for the past 13 years now. You want your lawn to be green and nice, just go buy manure and apply it yourself. The guys at Builders Warehouse will advice you very well, even about which chemicals to use for all kinds of ****s. BE CAREFUL OF LP GARDENS GROW & PEST CONTROL!!!
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Rakgadi O
1 reviews | Active since Jan 2020
23 Dec 2022, 03:06
Scam Artists Beware!!
Scam Artists claiming to be selling compost. Scammed me saying they used 80 bags of compost yet the patch of grass is very small in Pretoria moot. These crooks need to be arrested. Because they have my home address I didn't want to cause a scene so I paid them so they can leave. I pray that one day that they meet their match who will avenge all the people they have scammed.
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Rakgadi O
1 reviews | Active since Jan 2020
23 Dec 2022, 03:06
Scam Artists Beware!!
Scam Artists claiming to be selling compost. Scammed me saying they used 80 bags of compost yet the patch of grass is very small in Pretoria moot. These crooks need to be arrested. Because they have my home address I didn't want to cause a scene so I paid them so they can leave. I pray that one day that they meet their match who will avenge all the people they have scammed.
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Martmarie C
1 reviews | Active since Jan 2020
6 Jul 2022, 10:38
Scam topsoil / compost company
This is a SCAM business, do NOT use them or allow them into your property. I asked them for a quote for top soil to protect my garden from ruining during the winter. The manager (Vincent) did not give me a direct answer or quote. Eventually we settled on 10 bags on only the dry patches at R150 a bag. Before I knew it, 3 men were spreading a very thin, ill -quality dressing over my entire lawn. I kept saying to the manager that this is not what we agreed on and he kept promising 'I wont regret it' and "well work out a special price". He then asked me to fill a bucket with lukewarm water for the apparent 'pest control' formula. While I was away, he fetched empty bags from their car (and conveniently removed their car from my property) and added the unused bags to the pile of bags that were empty. When they counted the bags used, they counted 58 bags! It is firstly impossible to have 58 bags of top soil in the small bakkie they had, and secondly my lawn is not near big enough to use 58 bags. He proceeded to write me a quote of R12000! I argued with them and called them out about this after which they bargained a 'better'' price and asked me to pay an and clear the amount as they were scared I found out it was a scam business before I paid. I read another exact review on Hello Peter and figured out they are a scam business. DO NOT USE THEM!
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Martmarie C
1 reviews | Active since Jan 2020
6 Jul 2022, 10:38
Scam topsoil / compost company
This is a SCAM business, do NOT use them or allow them into your property. I asked them for a quote for top soil to protect my garden from ruining during the winter. The manager (Vincent) did not give me a direct answer or quote. Eventually we settled on 10 bags on only the dry patches at R150 a bag. Before I knew it, 3 men were spreading a very thin, ill -quality dressing over my entire lawn. I kept saying to the manager that this is not what we agreed on and he kept promising 'I wont regret it' and "well work out a special price". He then asked me to fill a bucket with lukewarm water for the apparent 'pest control' formula. While I was away, he fetched empty bags from their car (and conveniently removed their car from my property) and added the unused bags to the pile of bags that were empty. When they counted the bags used, they counted 58 bags! It is firstly impossible to have 58 bags of top soil in the small bakkie they had, and secondly my lawn is not near big enough to use 58 bags. He proceeded to write me a quote of R12000! I argued with them and called them out about this after which they bargained a 'better'' price and asked me to pay an and clear the amount as they were scared I found out it was a scam business before I paid. I read another exact review on Hello Peter and figured out they are a scam business. DO NOT USE THEM!
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Andrea B
1 reviews | Active since Jan 2020
13 Mar 2017, 11:04
Scam Artists - L P Garden Grow and Pest Control (CC 2009/153970/23(CC 2009/153970/23)
<p>Beware of <strong>L P Garden Grow and Pest Control</strong> - they are a bunch of crooks taking part in the compost scam (http://rekordeast.co.za/17228/alleged-compost-conmen-still-operative/) </p> <p>I was scammed by them over the weekend out of R3000 in the east of Pretoria - I never gave these men permission to spread compost on my lawn. They asked me for a bucket of water and on my return, I found that they had already opened a number of bags on the lawn and started spreading the compost on the lawn. I insisted on a quote several times, but they kept telling me they would see how many bags they would use. They then asked me for water to drink and on my retrun insisted that they spread 39 bags on my lawn and presented me with 39 empty bags- I argued with them that it was impossible that the parts of the lawn they covered used that many bags and that earlier I counted about 20 bags. They insisted that they were not lying about the 39 bags and argued with me that is was indeed possible that they used 39 bags. As these men have my home address and in fear of retaliation if I didnt pay, I ended up paying the R3000 to get rid of them. DO NOT BE FOOLED </p>
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Andrea B
1 reviews | Active since Jan 2020
13 Mar 2017, 11:04
Scam Artists - L P Garden Grow and Pest Control (CC 2009/153970/23(CC 2009/153970/23)
<p>Beware of <strong>L P Garden Grow and Pest Control</strong> - they are a bunch of crooks taking part in the compost scam (http://rekordeast.co.za/17228/alleged-compost-conmen-still-operative/) </p> <p>I was scammed by them over the weekend out of R3000 in the east of Pretoria - I never gave these men permission to spread compost on my lawn. They asked me for a bucket of water and on my return, I found that they had already opened a number of bags on the lawn and started spreading the compost on the lawn. I insisted on a quote several times, but they kept telling me they would see how many bags they would use. They then asked me for water to drink and on my retrun insisted that they spread 39 bags on my lawn and presented me with 39 empty bags- I argued with them that it was impossible that the parts of the lawn they covered used that many bags and that earlier I counted about 20 bags. They insisted that they were not lying about the 39 bags and argued with me that is was indeed possible that they used 39 bags. As these men have my home address and in fear of retaliation if I didnt pay, I ended up paying the R3000 to get rid of them. DO NOT BE FOOLED </p>
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