Raymond Borgfeldt of Proaudioline Inc. in Miami Florida sells pro audio equipment through ebay site ABSOLUTEPROAUDIO. He is NOT an authorized dealer & most manufacturer product lines he sells on his ebay site have terminated his dealer status & are purchased unauthorized. He also places his ebay store under alias names to evade ebay. He’s been previously banned by ebay due to fraudulent practices in the past. Absoluteproaudio owned by Prospect Sales, owned by Terra Sales, owned by Invision US, owned by Raymond Borgfeldt.
He’s from Sweden here only on a E1 work Visa. He dresses well to impress you with the facade of success, but squats on a mattress pad of a foreclosing home in Weston, Florida that belongs to a friend who moved to New York a year ago. He doesn’t own a car..instead he counterfeits Avis rental car vouchers & often gives them freely to friends & business associates. Currently under investigation. He is also currently under investigation for Identity theft charges with the Hillsborough, New Jersey Police Dept. Case 08-3222.
He is under investigation for Insurance fraud & smuggling pro audio equipment to evade Vat taxes in the UK. with the UK Government. His credit cards are maxed & will often use yours without permission, always paying with his debts with insufficient checks. He is currently in default of most his loans as well as large amount of checks he stopped payment on with the manufacturers he buys from.
He’ll build your trust & then open a credit card in your name with you being unaware of it & then charge it. Then, he’ll claim it was a mistake & the manufacturer charged the wrong credit card. It’s his story he uses with everyone to buy another month to come up with the money from some other unsuspecting soul. Within months, your credit is destroyed.
He will zero in on your pride, your ego, your fears, your dreams, visions of success, or your desire to get something special. He will make himself appear to be the only person on whom you can rely for the fulfillment of your wishes & desires until you have unquestionable trust. Finally, he moves onto you credit, your money. or your property…
He often talks himself out of trouble. “You have my word that it won’t happen again”, It was simply a big misunderstanding”, Trust me”. He’ll seldom shows embarrassment about his legal, financial, or personal problems. His lack of remorse or guilt is associated with his remarkable ability to rationalize his behavior & shrug off personal responsibility. His actions that cause shock & disappointment to family, friends & associates who play by the rules, have no concern to him, & he’ll often have handy excuses for his behavior.
He also has a violent temper & was arrested for Domestic Violence on July 29, 2007 in Miami, Florida. Case # B07-41989
Any involvement with this man will soon cost you a serious financial loss. This man only uses people to scam money from you to support his lifestyle. There isn’t an honest transaction he does in business or in friendship.
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August 4th, 2009 at 1:36 am
I’m a Swedish residant, been in the Audio business for close to 20 years now. Actually I heard of Raymond in the late 80’s. He was stopped at Arlanda, Stockholm Airport with lots of equipment. He claimed it was used and belonging to a guy in the PA business, he had only rented it and was now back from the US tour and was to return it to the owner. In fact it was new and he aimed to sell it in Sweden. Ray is well known among dealers and users of Pro Audio Equipment in Sweden. In the 90’s he sold at least some hundred AKAI samplers straight from his Corvette in parking lots and backstreets. It’s really a sad story of someone bending the truth bit by bit, and eventually ending up very far from the rest of society. I don’t believe he’s got any friends at all, he will try to make a deal with anyone. Everything is on a “now” basis, he never looks a week or a month ahead to realize consequences…
“smuggling pro audio equipment to evade Vat taxes” – this was the case in Sweden for some ten years, he was in court due to this in Nykoping, Sweden.
So, keep your musical dreams alive – avoid this guy.
Best of luck!
Fred
August 20th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Well Fred,
It looks like you have him back in Sweden! He was deported in May 2009 from the United States due to a previous arrest & extended stay on an expired Visa & cannot return. He has FIVE Police reports filed & pending fraud investigations for prosecution.
He’s still frauding credit cards on people in the USA via the Internet & frauds Fed Ex account numbers shipping Pro Audio Equipment into the UK & Sweden claiming the equipment as “gifts” to evade Vat & Duty Taxes.
Be on the lookout for Raymond Borgfeldt of Proaudioline Inc.
August 22nd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
I purchased an item on Absoluteproaudio ebay site & this Ray Borgfeldt guy traveled all the way to the UK to bring the expensive equipment right to me. He did not plan to pay duty & vat taxes. It was for $3000 and when I refused to buy it coming from America, he was etremely rude.
He then claimed to own a company called ukproaudio, but I still refused. I looked into the company ukproaudio afterwards located in east sussex. It was an ebay store managed by his partner Dan Priest who owned Parkgate Recording Studio. All their pro audio equipment was shipped from America but their website claimed the inventory was in the UK.
After paying taxes & shipping, where would there be any profits? If something goes wrong with the equipment, does the Manufacturer service it under warranty?
Looks like from all the postings written about him, he has ripped off alot of people. There are even postings with his mug shots from an arrest for beating a woman. This man belongs in jail. He steals, breaks laws, and physically abuses dames! What a bloody ugly man!