This Oshawa area general contractor is rated 1.0 from 8 reviews with a TrustScore of 0.7. Services offered include home improvement work. Read their reviews, ask about license and insurance information, and request a quote.
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We had the misfortune of hiring Markus to do our back fence here in Whitby. We E-transfered the money to him and like a ponzi scheme he vanished. The "invoice" he provided was a fake address. We have sent his registered letters and the letters came back to us. He gave us every excuse in the book. He did not return any products or returned any money.
I am more than happy to have everyone that he scammed come together and have him charged with theft. He gives contractors out there a bad name and doesn't deserve to be in business.
My email address is amandatahiti83@gmail.com for anyone that wants to make a change and get back what's rightfully theirs..and Marcus...I am still waiting for my $1700.
Markus and girlfriend Keisha came to my home to start a chain link fence- they let me know what materials I still needed and had me send them an etransfer for those materials. I gave them $1583.80 and they never returned. I was using my savings for this.
Markus and Keisha never came back to put up the fence. They made every excuse possible to not show - they had a flat tire, it was too hot out, there was a house fire etc etc etc and when I asked for my money back he sent voicemail after voicemail giving excuses and reasons why he couldnt come back and couldnt return my money.
I have since went to the police but have not received any money back. I live in north Wellington county - but they go all over Ontario targeting people. He is now using JM Contracting as his company name.
Do your personal issues mean you don’t return the money after you have clearly taken it and then made excuses to never show up, bring materials or anything else? You marked up and damaged my driveway with yellow spray paint! Do you think you’re allowed that money now, not returning materials, just a whole tonne of texts and vm’s about why you can’t come.
NO- you took my money and didnt return it after I specifically gave you 2 days to return the money via etransfer. I asked for it back and said I’d go to the police - which I have. I gave until Sunday at 6pm and now. Thanks for your reply. I’m awaiting the etransfer still. Will advise trustedpros if I ever receive it.
Not one phone call went to voicemail. I was speaking with you directly the whole entire time. I sent you photos on my flat tire. I sent you photos of the fire that I had to go and deal with my insurance company and when I was on my way back you decided that I couldn't come and do it. The money you gave to me was to purchase materials which I told you can come to your house and you told me no give me every freaking penny back or else you would have your brother come after me or somebody that I would regret the day and I tried to be there even the soonest I could the day I didn't want to work was feels like 45 degrees.
Price quoted was excellent, I should have known it was too good to be true. I saved for a year to get this work done. I e-transferred 1700.00 and then he messaged me from the lumber yard advising of a great deal on fencing for the deck so I e-transferred another 700 and change. Marcus was supposed to start work the following Monday. This was April 2021. Every day there was another excuse. Car accident on the way to my home followed by granny had a stroke, 2 days later granny passed away. Of course he and his entire family had covid and the list goes on and on on. Then we moved to returning the materials and sending me my money back. He claimed to be in line at the lumber yard and while there his truck breaks down. It has been a total nightmare and even more horrific is he is still continuing to collect deposits. If you have been scammed by Marcus Conquer T&M cutters or J-M contracting please reach out to me by email mhutchinson8@cogeco.ca
June 29/22 Response to rebuttal. You have me confused with other victims, I never once told you not to return my materials in fact you were messaging me when u were in line to return them then ghosted me and a week later said your truck broke down while in line. I never said the total amount was 1700, the total amount is 2490.00 from 2 separate e-transfers. You have held my money for the last 14 months. On July 7 I will again log on to confirm weather I received my money or yet another excuse.
It took me a year because you originally told me the materials I couldn't return during covid to use on another home and send you it back. You knew this and you know that the person refused to pay me and was in court. Plus like everyone else during covid I had family members pass away and a new born baby born and the lock-down.
The lawsuit just settled now a year later and funding will be refunded. July 7th..
Additionally the price wasn't just 1700.
J-M contracting - kijii ad - Markus agreed to start Nov 15-17th I transferred 1400.00 for supplies and that morning at 3:13 am I rec’d a text message his grandfather had a heart attack so he couldn’t start then it was changed to Wednesday morning at 7:00am and at 7:20 am I called him - no answer - he sends a text message his truck won’t start - battery died took him all day to get a tow and then I said send my money back this isn’t working - then I said okay come on Thursday at 3:30 to start the job well to my surprise 2:50 pm that day his truck didn’t need a battery it was an alternator he needed however this took all day to figure out - so I knew he was bull shitting me st this point so I was bring the product to my house which he said he purchased on Sunday Nov 14- well he suggests he will return everything so then it’s yelling at me that he’s trying to get the stuff returned - I had zero proof he purchased anything no would he send me any receipts and it was horrible to think this guy takes money and thinks that no one works hard to save that money to do renovations to their home. He agreed to transfer 300 dollars on Nov 22 and when I asked when he said it’s processing I didn’t receive 300.00 dollars only 200.00 so I started calling him again - I asked him why he lied about the transfer - he came up with he needed the money - hello dude you have 1400.00 dollars of free money of mine- then I had son call him and he promised my son he would transfer the rest on Wednesday Nov 24 plus send a copy of where the truck was repaired and the time- that didn’t happen - I will hunt him down until the day I die! He a scammer and a liar and can NOT BE trusted and I will file a police report as well as small claims court - I also sent the claim “ first demand letter” to him and his insurance company - DO NOT RESPOND TO J-M contracting at all on kijii scam artist at its finest
All was paid back.. I had an engine issue to fix. I needed time to send back but did.
Plainly speaking, he is a scammer. He showed lots of interest only to get me up and sending material deposits of 1500$. He is out there preying on ppl and i can't believe this sort of low minded people exists (Markus and Keisha). For almost 2 years he never returned money.
Markus Conquer from T&M Cutters has scammed us for 2000$. He posed as a fencer and responded to our kijiji ad looking for someone to build a fence in our backyard. He came across very knowledgeable. He asked us for a 2000$ deposit for supplies and lumber and the job was to begin April 5th. As soon as he received our e-transfer deposit he started making excuses as to why the lumber was never delivered, he never showed up. He continued to make excuses that there was just a delay in the supplier however he was unable to send us any confirmation that he even bought the supplies. Reading reviews online, we quickly realized that he is scamming people continuously in this same way. He poses as a fencer, a roofer, or basement contractor... Takes people's deposit money and then runs. We have opened an investigation with the bank and with the ontario police. It is important that if this happens to anyone else, please contact us @ mariuz44@hotmail.com so we can give you the officer looking into his fraud. If we get multiple people being scammed then it will be easy for them to convict him.
Unfulfilled Contract with T&M Cutters through Markus Conquer and Keisha Ogden
WARNING/SCAM - DO NOT engage with this company – they do not fulfil their contract(s) and run off with the deposits!
An ad was placed on KIJIJI through our neighbour seeking a fence contractor. Per the contract with Markus Conquer of T&M Cutters dated July 17th, work was set to commence on July 27th and end on August 2nd, 2020, to rip out existing fencing and re-fence the rest of our property, after our shared fence and retaining wall was complete on the north side. Deposits totalling over $5K ($5,000.00 ) were provided between July 17 and July 24th, 2020. Our neighbour invested a similar amount for our shared fence and retaining wall work. Various reasons for delays were provided, including overnight hospitalization stay, death in family, issues with underground line locates, trailer hit & run, babysitting issues, truck mechanical issues, injured foot, amongst others. We extended the contract completion date to August 23rd - no work ensued, more excuses.
Markus requested a last chance and earnestly promised he had the resources and the supplies and the equipment ready to go. This time we created an amendment document with specific terms and conditions to be met, or reimbursement of our deposits be provided within 7 days of a contract breach. Markus agreed, revised and signed the amendment document. The work was to start Aug 23 and end within 8 days.
The work was never started, no reimbursements of our deposits were made, no proof of receipts of supplies or rentals received. It's important to note that for several weeks we had requested copies of the receipts of purchases made, we followed up on equipment rentals that he stated and there were no receipts produced NOR did the equipment rental company confirm any equipment was rented for our project.
We requested our deposits be returned to us in full ASAP. Since August 28th Markus continued to give excuse after excuse of 'awaiting investments reimbursements' and 'requires signify from Banking Manager from Fraud Dept' to release the funds, confirming that ‘CRA issues were resolved’, and ‘Received Insurance funds’. More excuses. This is a lot of money for our family and we saved for over a year to repair our fence. We paid cash/e-transfer, no work was done, no supplies purchased, no equipment rented - no reason not to return money that does not belong to them. We are incredibly disappointed at both of them being deceitful, the myriad of endless questionable excuses, and would just like to get our hard-earned money returned to us.
We continue to pursue every avenue available to us to have our funds returned to us, including Legal counselling and lodging a formal complaint with the local Police. For others who have experienced the same deceit through Markus / Keisha / T&M Cutters, please reach out to royalepond@gmail.com
Markus contacted me off kijiji for basement renovation contract. My fault was not to search his name or company or I would've seen the complaints on BBB and not hired him. He was very eager to get my business. I should have seen the red flag when he was super late on our first meeting. He came with his wife Keisha. So we start talking and initially he got me 1 week late already as he said he will start project a week later. Now comes the night before and that's when he sends the invoice (without company name or address) and we're talking late into the night just so he can extract a deposit. As another person stated here, he claims to live in Cambridge but address on his driver's license is for Scarborough and looks like he usually hangs around Oshawa side. Initially he asked for a number close to 5000 as an e-transfer for deposit to buy materials. I wasn't ok with it so he said fine make it half. Another redflag I should've picked up on. I sent him $2400. The excuses started next morning. Oh he's not well. Oh he's gotta do COVID testing. His crew also gotta do COVID testing. Funny enough the deposit was for materials and he was well enough to go and buy $2400 worth of materials (so he claims). The contract was supposed to start Thursday. Now we're on Friday afternoon obviously no one is here working no materials delivered etc. I tell him I don't work like this and I want my money back. To which he said he will return materials by evening and do a refund. That didn't happen. He asked for Monday morning. I said fine. That didn't happen and no response. He doesn't respond to you once he has your money and you gotta reach out to him. He said Monday he's doing COVID test again. WOW! he claims he already did a COVID test and it came out negative. and he's doing another COVID test now. I said fine. As expected no updates and when asked he gets upset and said that he was sleeping and I woke him up. It has been an absolute poor experience dealing with this person. Avoid this person and company at all cost.
Looking into contacting police and filing a report.
T&M Cutters has a TrustScore™ of 0.7. The average TrustScore™ for other businesses providing similar services in Oshawa and the surrounding areas is 3.1. For detailed information on how TrustScore is calculated, click here to learn more.
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Total Received | 0 | 9 |
Approved | 0 | 8 |
Unverified | 0 | 1 |
Suspicious | 0 | 0 |
Overall Rating | 1/5 |
Complaints Received | Last 12 Months | Last 3 Years |
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Suppliers & Creditors | 0 | 0 |
Employees & Sub-Contractors | 0 | 0 |
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Posted License Information | Not yet provided |
Posted Liability Insurance | Not yet provided |
Posted Workers Compensation | Not yet provided |
Company Website | No |
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Member of TrustedPros Since | 2020 |
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This Oshawa area general contractor is rated 1.0 from 8 reviews with a TrustScore of 0.7. Services offered include home improvement work. Read their reviews, ask about license and insurance information, and request a quote.
Main contact(s) | Markus Conquer |
Listed with TrustedPros since: | 2020 |
Residential work | Yes |
Commercial work | Yes |
Warranty | Warranty details not yet provided |
Accepts credit cards | Yes |
Year established | |
Offers financing | Yes |
24 Hour emergency service | Yes |
Legal structure | |
Licensing information | Contact T&M Cutters to request licensing info. |
Insurance information | Contact T&M Cutters to request insurance details. |
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