{"id":910229,"date":"2026-09-29T21:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910229\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:24:20","slug":"tradesman-accused-of-holding-cabinet-doors-to-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910229\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradesman accused of holding cabinet doors to ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sydney tradesman is being accused by customers of taking kitchen doors before demanding an extra $3000 to return them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Allen Soltani, owner of Unique Resurfacing Services, allegedly quotes clients an upfront price to remove and refurbish kitchen doors before demanding an additional $3000 to finish the job.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Allen Soltani is accused of asking customers to cough up an extra $3000 to have their cupboard doors returned.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/538a7b2d1c9d13a08cc60c6f7801904f200384a4d9b6508948c5da146198b752.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Allen Soltani is accused of asking customers to cough up an extra $3000 to have their cupboard doors returned.\u00a0A Current Affair <\/p>\n<p>One customer, Sandra, paid Soltani $8500 in full, only to get an email demanding a further $3500 for extra work that was never proven or completed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnique Resurfacing is a company of knobs. Not one knob, but as many as you want to think about,\u201d she told A Current Affair, holding a handful of door knobs.<\/p>\n<p>Six months after Soltani uninstalled every cupboard door and panel, Sandra was left with an empty kitchen, eventually spending $10,000 with another company to start fresh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow [can] a person on this planet do this to another person in this stage in her life?\u201d Sandra questioned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another vulnerable customer, who is undergoing chemotherapy, claims Soltani took her money and held her kitchen doors captive under the same demand for an extra $3000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sandra\u2019s had to pay another company $10,000 for new cupboard doors.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/efd0cfb129e1d6c502222f637e952f10bdfa83714330d8a1ca77577e3dbea5d8.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Sandra\u2019s had to pay another company $10,000 for new cupboard doors.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n<p>In an email sent to clients, Soltani claimed he was suspending business operations due to health issues, staff shortages, and cash flow problems, while simultaneously demanding extra payments to finalise ongoing jobs.<\/p>\n<p>When confronted by A Current Affair, Soltani called the police, claimed he was unwell, and used his vehicle to briefly block the news crew\u2019s car from driving away.<\/p>\n<p>Affected customers say they are refusing to pay Soltani&#8217;s extra demands and are preparing to take the tradesman to the tribunal to recover their lost funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sydney tradesman is being accused by customers of taking kitchen doors before demanding an extra $3000 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-910229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}