| Country | United States |
| State | Chile |
| City | Brewster |
| Address | 87 Brewster Hill Rd |
| Phone | 845-661-5730 |
| Website | https://whiteoakapiary.com |
Not really sure what all the others are talking about. I've gotten bees and honey from him for many years and found him to be a great guy. All the negatives are probably one person who wants to trash his name. I'll do business with him any time.
On July 8th I ortdered and paid $96.30 for 3 queen bees. I included this note:
"I need these asap as have 2 queenless hives.
Can you help quickly? If not, please call me 717-XXX-XXXX.
Thanks for your help.
Dave"
After a month with no communication I filed a complaint witjh Paypal. After another week I got notification that they had shipped the queens.
The package arrived today. There was one queen and a few workers in one of the queen cages. However the other two queen cages contain only worker bees, no queens.
Terrible communication and overt fraud in that I have now paid $96.30 for one queen.
Run away from these people! They are rip-offs.
I ordered and picked up a 5 frame Nuc from White Oak in June. Found Mike to be very knowledgeable and friendly. I attended two classes (free) he gave prior to my nuc pickup dates.
Giving White Oak 5 stars for good
Seller took close to two months to ship out two packages of queens bees and this was only after having to file a refund claim through PayPal. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH WHIE OAK APIARY.
Both queen cages arrived with attendant bees alive and the queens dead.
Contacting this fraudlent seller is pointless; has yet to answer telephone or respond to any e-mails.
Mike Bruen from White Oak Apiary has $628.00 of my hard earned money and I have no bees. I ordered 3 five frame nucs and 1 top bar nuc from him on March 7th 2014. I was told that he would ship them to me in June. Nothing ever arrived and now there is no, absolutely no communication from him. I am sickened by this situation and can't believe that a beekeeper of all people would stoop to these levels. I have a lawyer/friend who I am working with to get my money back. Paypal would not help me because I filed the report outside of their 45 day eligible period which of course got me even more upset. I was very forthright with Paypal telling them this seller should not be allowed to use their billing service any longer because he is stealing people's money. It seems as though they are still allowing him the privilege of using their service which is totally ridiculous.
I am sorry to everyone else that this has happened to, its very upsetting when a guy like Mike Bruen is able to seemingly get away with completely ripping people off. I don't know how he sleeps at night with all that bad karma.
Forgot to change the stars!
Giving White Oak 5 stars for good