BUYER BEWARE
Boston Herald Thursday 4/23/09:
Business Today Section: Attorney general Martha Coakley's Office sued New England Pellet, LLC for allegedly failing to reimburse at least 194 Massachusetts consumers over 139,000.00 for unfilled wood pellet orders.
Massachusetts joins Connecticut in suing New England Pellet LLC of Enfield for failing to deliver wood pellets.
by The Republican Newsroom
Wednesday April 22, 2009, 8:00 PM
By MICHAEL McAULIFFE
SPRINGFIELD - The state attorney general's office is suing a company it contends accepted orders for wood pellets for winter heating while knowing the orders would not be filled.
The lawsuit, filed in Hampden Superior Court, names New England Pellet LLC, owner-president Stephen Zaczynski of Suffield and owner-chief executive officer Jason Tynan of East Longmeadow as defendants. A similar lawsuit was filed last December in Connecticut by the Connecticut Attorney General's Office.
Filed Tuesday, the Massachusetts suit states that the defendants solicited, advertised and sold pre-paid wood pellet orders when they knew the orders could not be filled, then repeatedly promised consumers the pellets would be delivered.