Columbus Camper Center

We had the misfortune to try to buy a camper from Columbus Camper. I called Columbus Campers having found the camper we wanted online on January 19 and Mr. Ashley said that we could have the ‘deal’ done and approved etc by Tuesday. My husband is a Burger King franchisee in Vermont and so our mailing address has always been PO Box 2457 in Brattleboro. We own a house in Greenfield MA and we put both as the mailing address & physical address. When they filled out the paperwork they filled In the PO Box in Brattleboro but put the Greenfield, MA city for the PO Box which of course was incorrect. I am a realtor and own and manage several vacation rentals in the Florida Keys. We have recently become Florida residents and are building another house on OUR property in Cudjoe Key 20 miles from Key West. All this was explained to Mr. Ashley and for him to say that we are scammers is liable and should be dealt with in the courts. We have impeccable credit and are Bank of America Platinum customers and were approved immediately by BofA, we were told and each time we tried to make an arrangement to come and pick up the camper we were given different reasons why it wouldn’t be picked up. TEN days later after we had scheduled and rescheduled with my brother in law to come and pick up the camper Mr. Ashley said that it wouldn’t be possible because the address had to match our Florida address on our licenses and that we would now have to start with a new contract.
At this point we were completely exasperated and decided that there would be a good chance, we would make the 11 hour trip to find yet another reason we could not have the camper.
Mr. Ashley told my husband that that he couldn’t have his $ 3000 deposit back for 10 days because the check and paperwork had been mailed to the bank and it would be that long before they got it back. When my husband confronted him with the fact that the CASHIERS check had been made out to Columbus Camper and would make no sense to have been mailed to the bank, Mr. Ashley THEN said that he hadn’t said that but rather it was ‘his’ policy to wait 10 days to be sure checks cleared. A CASHIER’s CHECK doesn’t clear, it’s money and is instantly credited to his account which happened days ago. He continued to refuse to send us our deposit check back whereupon my husband said he would contact the BBB and the Governor’s Office of Consumer Protection, feeling at this point we’d never see the money. Mr. Ashley was on speaker phone and I will quote his words before he hung up on us «Now you won’t get your money in 10 days, you’ll get it when I’ve gotten notice from the Consumer Protection office.»
If you go online and google ‘reviews’ for Columbus Camper you’ll find many such stories as mine and particularly referencing the ‘owner’ himself, and then to the 11 complaints filed and the «F» rating given Columbus Campers by your BBB, it speaks for itself. To say we are scammers?