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  • Report:  #230510

Complaint Review: A&A Marketing TRUSTED BUSINESS | Ripoff Report Verified™ …businesses you can trust. A&A marketing a worldwide leader in the online lead generation industry specializing in the home based business sector. A&A Marketing’s network of online media publishers and call centers we introduce thousands of individuals each day to a new variety of proven business.

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  • Reported By:
    San Jose California
  • Submitted:
    Sun, January 14, 2007
  • Updated:
    Wed, March 30, 2016
  • A&A Marketing TRUSTED BUSINESS | Ripoff Report Verified™ …businesses you can trust. A&A marketing a worldwide leader in the online lead generation industry, specializing in the home based business sector. A&A Marketing’s network of online media publishers and call centers, we introduce thousands of individuals each day to a new variety of proven business.
    pandaresearch.com
    Lake Zurich, Illinois
    U.S.A.
  • Phone:
    847-572-3256
  • Category:

Panda Research is such a SCAM! They say they are a survey company but the surveys are a joke! They are a very short list of questions that basically ask if you have heard about a company that does some sort of business online and they direct you to that company's website that makes you sign up for an offer or program that usually will cost you money. A sample survey is below for you to see what their surveys look like. If and when you complete that company's offer, Panda Research says you will get paid a certain amount of money from them and it will take up to 6 weeks to get the payout per their FAQs. After 2 months, all of my offers were still showing "Pending" on their website and none of them were approved. I had contacted Panda Research and their responses back were that it takes 6-8 weeks for the vendor to approve. But they never got approved so I contacted each of the vendors and questioned why they haven't approved the offers. Most of them said that it sounded like I got into a scam, some of them had not even heard of Panda Research! I continued to contact Panda Research and they stopped responding to my emails altogether.

There is absolutely no communication between Panda Research and the vendors they work with, they never do any follow-up or anything to make sure that someone gets approved after completing the offers. I had to do all the communication myself to try and get paid for the offers I completed. And still none were approved for payment well over 2 months now, and I did several different company offers. So I reported Panda Research to the Better Business Bureau and asked that they help me to get the payments that are owed to me. Only after that, and frequent communication with the BBB did I start to see a couple of the offers showing approved. I still have not received any payment yet from Panda but they are now starting to get approved with the BBB's help. Will I ever receive the actual payment from them? That's yet to be determined, but I wanted to alert everyone out there that this is not a real survey company, you will have to pay lots of money to complete all these offers instead of doing actual surveys, and you will have to FIGHT LIKE HECK to get any offers approved for payment. STEER CLEAR of this company since they are not at all what they say they are, they are misleading everyone and that is completely FRAUDULENT in my opinion.

Their surveys look like the following:

1.) How often do you use Postal Stamp's in a week?
2.) How much average amount do you spend on stamps in a month?
3.) From where do you usually get your stamps?
4.) Do you get the stamps yourself?
5.) Do you know, you can now print Stamps Online?
6.) Are you using any other similar type of these services?
7.) Have you heard about stamps.com?
8.) Would you like to Sign up today and get $100 Free Postage plus Take advantage of 4 weeks No Risk Trial?

Here's another one...

1.) Do you have a DVD player in your home/computer?
2.) Do you watch DVD's?
3.) Have you rented a DVD in the last 30 days?
4.) Would you like free unlimited DVD rentals with free shipping both ways?
5.) Do you watch DVD's more than twice a week?
6.) Have you ever heard of BlockBuster Online?
7.) Have you ever used Online DVD Rental Services?
8.) Do you know you can pick more than 25,000 titles online at BlockBuster Online! ?
9.) Would you like to get 2 FREE movie or game rentals a month?
10.) Do you want more information about BlockBuster Online and renting DVD's

Laura
San Jose, California
U.S.A.

1 Updates & Rebuttals


BeingScammed2013

San Jose,
California,
USA

Company Resolved Issue After All These Years

#2Consumer Suggestion

Mon, February 29, 2016

I must say that I was pleasantly surprised this month when I was contacted by the Ripoff Report team saying that A&A Marketing wants to make things right after all these years with dissatisfied customers like me. You don't see that often, if at all, so kudos to A&A for caring, even though it took this long. They have clearly improved their service to reach out to us like this, and they gave me a small reward for my troubles back then. The good news is that they lowered the minimum payout amount so it is actually fair now and achievable. They improved their FAQs so that they are clear on what the process is like, and they appear to be very responsive now. These were all major issues almost 10 years ago that appear to now be resolved. So good luck to A&A in the future, I hope you start seeing satisfied customers again. 

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