“I arrived in time before the store closed and I stayed with a sofa that were for sale for the money I delivered as a signal in December 2024 for a closet. I have been lucky that they did not stay with the advance. Very bad for them that hid it and I wish them luck. Never do what you don't like to be done since everything comes back”It is the testimony that a person reflected now two months ago through a review on an Internet platform. She, yes, it seems that it was the most lucky. He did not receive the closet he asked for in a known furniture store of Elche and for which he delivered a signal, but took a sofa in return. He did not lose everything. Others had a worse fortune. As a woman who, at that same dates, said he bought A room in September 2024. “After almost six months giving ourselves long, we have learned by sources outside their store they have closed. They do not answer messages, or calls and have stayed with more than 2,000 euros of a room that has never arrived”An opinion of so many others that can be found on platforms and social networks, together with some call to others affected and affected so that they will formally denounce. The situation is such that the National Police of Elche has arrested the two responsible for this furniture firm for fraud after they have received up to twelve complaints at the police station.
National Police cars parked next to the Elche police station in a recent image. / Áxel Álvarez
“Permanently closed”
Specifically, according to research sources, the company in question, Lozano furniture, located on La Libertad Avenueand even in Google already appears as a business “Permanently closed”, He was dedicated to receiving already charging an advance without even processing those requests with the mercantile that provided the furniture. Moreover, the supplier manifests that, At one point, he stopped receiving orders from this Ilicitan firm, and the premises surrounding the establishment confirmed to the complainants that, indeed, he had closedafter a time came when It was impossible to contact them by message and by phone call.
Long to customers
He modus operandi was always similar: When the date of delivery agreed with the clients arrived, those responsible for the establishment were limited to saying that The deadlines should be delayed, well because there was a lot of demand, or because it coincided with a holiday, for example. Long with which they were trying to gain time, according to researchers, without the belongings ending up arriving. Even on occasion, according to research sources, they reached Demand more money as an advance under the argument that some of the furniture requested had changed.
The Elche National Police Station, in a file image. / INFORMATION
Even Móstoles
So until, finally, according to some of those affected and affected in the police station of the National Police Corps of Elche, They ended up closing and, therefore, stopped serving customers. Some of them, before this scenario, denounced. Stable in this regard is that even There is some complaint from outside Elche, from Móstoles, in Madrid, specifically, of people who wanted to furnish a holiday housing. Also of former clients of the company who met this unpleasant surprise when ordering. Just one fact: In the label of the closed establishment it appears that the business had opened its doors in 1970, now 54 years ago.
Identified with internet opinions
Precisely the reviews on the Internet is what led some people to identify with the reflected opinions already end up denouncing the facts, to the point that The National Police has reached the twelve facts investigated.
Two national police officers performing surveillance work. / INFORMATION
Various amounts
As for the amounts, they vary from some cases to anotherand, as transferred by the victims before the agents, there are fertilizers of 1,500, 1,700 or 1,900 euros that were given as a signal, Without ever, orders were ever delivered, and the amounts given on account were not reintegrated. In many cases, For orders made in 2024, and that, a priori, they should be delivered at the end of the year, and then delayed until the beginning of 2025, then to March, and so on the end of the complaints filed. A situation to which the fact that, apparently, they would have also occurred IMPOS OF THE RENTAL TO THE OWNER OF THE LOCAL Where was the furniture store.
Declaration at the police station
Finally, The two heads of the store, a 46 -year -old man and a 51 -year -old womanfinish arrested and providing statement in the National Police Police Station of Elche, and are waiting for judgment.
