Another person has come forward to say she's owed money from "Direct Buy."
The local home furnishing store, that promises members "insider" prices, suddenly closed up shop.
Tammy Borda is the General Manager of Rand Employment Solutions. She says the owners of the local "Direct Buy" hired one of her workers, then failed to pay the bill.
A moving van was outside the "Direct Buy" store in southwest Bakersfield on Thursday.
Inside the store, you could see mail and checks piled up on the floor. The workers say they were hired by a bankruptcy court out of New York.
Borda and Brian Bezdek are trying to get back money, they say, owners John Fitzpatrick and Larry Fleck, owe them.
Bezdek and his wife paid $5,000 for a ten-year membership, only to have the store close two weeks later. They got some of it back, but are still out to close $1,500.
Borda says her company is owed close to $1,900.
"I had direct meetings with Larry Fleck. John Fitzpatrick, being the principal, wasn't always there. He was either in L.A., sometimes here, but I'd miss him," said Borda. "So Larry Fleck and I sat down. He agreed that the invoices I showed him and the documentation, was all owed and he'd get back to me and see what we could do and it just deteriorated from that point on."
Borda filed a lawsuit against the owners, but she hasn't been able to serve them with papers because she can't find them. Neither could we. Their last known address was in Mission Viejo.
One website we found has 116 pages of complaints from people warning others not to do business with "Direct Buy."
