Electronics City denies selling fake Samsung products

Sep 19, 2014 News

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A popular local company is vehemently denying that it has been selling fake Samsung products.
Electronics City, which deals in the sale of electronic gadgets, is contemplating legal action against the controversial Dennis Adonis, who they believe is using the internet to carry out a smear campaign against their business.
The owners are peeved at a news item carried by an online news outfit and written by Dennis Adonis which accuses them of selling fake Samsung mobile phones.
In an article published on the internet on September 16, Adonis wrote “Samsung, the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer is investigating dozens of complaints that were made against a Guyanese electronics store by consumers who felt that the store is selling mostly fake mobile phones that were not procured from Samsung. According to the South Korean company, several complaints were made against a Georgetown, Guyana Company calling itself Electronics City that has been offering Guyanese consumers various ranges of supposedly “Samsung” devices at unbelievably low prices.”
But the owners of the store have vehemently denied the accusation, claiming that they have been purchasing their devices from authorized Samsung dealers in Miami, Florida.
“We were made aware of the article (on the internet) that we are selling fake Samsung stuff. It’s nothing of the sort. Our customers are calling us. From my knowledge, this guy is a con artist and the article is totally untrue,” said Preeta Mangar, who operates Electronics City with her husband.
They believe that the article was sparked by them confronting Adonis recently over a previous controversial relationship they had with him.
Adonis is no stranger to controversy having been linked to several failed schemes that cost Guyanese hundreds of millions of dollars.
In 2001, Adonis’s then company the Royal Antiguan Money Transfer Service Inc. had been investigated by the Bank of Guyana after he advertised the business as offering loans to the public.
Several persons had complained that they had paid sums to Adonis’s company to borrow money which they never received.
He then embarked on a failed airline project before announcing that he was offering training of persons to become air hostesses. A few were sent to Barbados where they were left to their own devices. They managed to get relatives to pay for their return to Guyana.
Hounded down over the failed schemes, Adonis disappeared only to resurface a few years later, this time announcing that his company SimNet Caribbean Mobile, was offering “high speed internet on a UK 3G USB modem”.
The announcement caused the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company to issue a statement, dissociating itself from the self-proclaimed Software Engineer.
Several persons were never refunded monies paid to Adonis’s company for the device under the scheme.
Adonis again made the news in 2009 when his then company, Sound Proof Music, had advertised a pro-wrestling event, Guyana Wrestle Mania, which was scheduled to have taken place in August that year at the National Park. After several patrons had purchased tickets, doubts arose when city businesses which had been advertised as being involved with the event dissociated themselves. The event, which was to have brought several international wrestlers from the WWE to Guyana, was then postponed to October and subsequently faded into oblivion.
The owners of Electronics City believe that it was the fallout over this scheme that led to a strained relationship with Adonis, who they are convinced is trying to ruin their business.
Kaieteur News understands that the business owners were among the persons who had to fork out money to refund patrons who had purchased tickets for the Wrestle Mania event, causing them undue financial losses. They believe that Adonis is using social media to tarnish their business.
“He conned us five years ago by collecting sponsorship money from us for the show. We are not going to let him do this to us again,” Preeta Mangar told this newspaper.
In the internet article, Adonis stated that a senior member of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards, which is tasked with seizing fake products, is also on the payroll of the electronics company.
But when contacted, a senior GNBS official categorically dismissed the claim, although the article is not escaping the entity’s attention.
“Given the character of the person that wrote the article, we are not sure if we should respond to the allegations he made about the GNBS,” the Public Relations Officer told Kaieteur News.
Adonis appeared in court on numerous criminal charges for his schemes, but is yet to be convicted.
In November 2010, the Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara resident appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry, charged with fraudulent conversion and was granted $200,000 bail.
In that matter, it is alleged that he was entrusted with $542,000 by Fitzroy Pollard to purchase 100 modems. Adonis allegedly converted the money to his own use and benefit. It is still engaging the court.

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