First Financial USA - FFUSA - John Eliason - Chuck Fowler Suspicious Business Practices Medina Minnesota
I was recently contacted by e-mail and asked to join a conference call about a job with FFUSA. It appears they got my resume from Monster.com. I sat throught their conference call and listened to a very professional sales pitch about how much money I can make. They talked about bonus' residuals etc. I submitted my interest to join their team to sell Murchant products to local business who serve people with products and services. I received another e-mail from the with 23 pages of documentation that I had to complete and fax back before they would sent me my sales start up information. One document in the packet was a DIRECT deposit authorization form. My choices was to sign up for direct deposit or not. If I wanted direct deposit, the for read that I also had to designate someone from FFUSA to have access to the account. When I confirmed this with a phone call to their HR, Britany told me that this was correct if I chose direct deposit, I had to designate someone in FFUSA access to the account in cases where an over payment was made, they would have the right to go into the account to get it back. She told me If I wouldn't agree to this that I could elect to have my payments mailed by check. I felt this was a very shakey practice that I had never heard of before, so I elected not to proceed with them any further. This all happended the week of Feb 23, 2009.
Patrick
Madison, Alabama
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
FFUSA Best Practices
Medina,Minnesota,
United States of America
I understand why you may be concerned...
#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Wed, February 15, 2012
Dear Patrick,
We certainly appreciate that you took a look at us and would welcome you take a better, more thorough, look. Weve been in business since 1995 and do business in all 50 states, have an A+ Better Business Bureau rating, give to over 500 charities quarterly and have won Best Places to Work by the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal for the last 4 years in a row. We have a team of really great people (people who you would probably really enjoy working with) here in Minnesota that support our nationwide sales team. When paying our sales team we simply need to know whether they prefer a check or direct deposit. Yes, when someone chooses direct deposit, the bank that handle these transactions needs the ability to correct a mistake if one is made. For Example: if they mistakenly deposit $1,000 rather than $10,000, they need the ability to retrieve the $1,000 and deposit the $10,000. Or if they deposit your money in someone elses account they need to be able to pull that back so they can send it to you. Its standard practice with all banks and businesses in this country that offers the convenience of direct deposit. Hopefully that makes sense and clears up any question.
Best Regards,
John Eliason
Founder, CEO