Complaint Review: IPA-International Profit Associates

IPA is nothing more than a fraud engine. There is very little valid work coming from this firm. Basically, IPA is a highly engineered scheme designed to bilk unsophisticated, small business people. Their flawed and highly skewed analysis tools always come up with one singular suggestion, MORE CONSULTING.

Beware, IPA is a collection of highly motivated criminals.

I filed a complaint with Illinois states attorney Lisa Madigan's office, and within 2-3 weeks, they got off my back. STOP PAYMENT on all you can and then complain to Lisa Madigan when their (IPA's) phone harassment starts. It works!!!!!

I have been working at IPA for 2 years. The atmosphere is great, the people are dynamic, and their is unlimited potential. First of all, I would ask you to read what you are signing. From reading the article that you wrote, it is apparent that you are not a very bright gentleman, as is displayed by your various spelling errors and fragmented sentences. The signed contract that you put your John Hancock on is 1 page long. It states clearly our hourly rate and the amount of hours needed to successfully complete the project to see a positive impact on your company. If you asked our consultants to leave after 2 days, then you were only billed for 2 days. However you must understand that we are not magicians and we do not work miracles overnight. If you complete the hours that we recommend, we guarantee a 3 to 1 return on your investment within 12 months. If you implement our recomendations and do not see that return, we would be happy to come out on our own nickel and dime to see that you get that return. It is apparent that you are not that intelligent a person, as displayed by your article that you submitted. I would ask that each business owner that is approached by IPA and is reading this response to base your decision on the facts. Let us do the work up front, as no payment is required unless you are completely satisfied with the results.

On 5/19/05 an IPA sales person showed up in our office claiming he had an appointment with our company, about
increase sales for the business. We seat down he explained Int'l Profit Associates is a company with a big net work of marketing
in the country, that would bring our company into a high volume of sales and a complete business development service .
I told him I would like to see it further , next day another member of their company, came up and introduce me his side of the business stating that
they would bring my company totally positive in sales, using their knowledge in the market and that the payment to his company would be made in accordance with the results their company would bring to us. I agreed with their proposal as I signed their contract for their services with an initial credit card deposit in the amount of $600.00 + $ 4,500.00 ( amount already in dispute with Amex ), next following day three other person showed up in our office as they spent 2 days in our company checking our financial; at the end of the second day they presented me a forecast in A/R that would permit us to pay their first invoice in the amount of over $18.000.00 for one week of their work, I told them that we had no funds to pay for this invoice, first due to the fact of we own payment to our supplier already
past due and we must pay our supplier, second was the understanding that your company will collect your part as the results starts and we would work together.
After this explanation they just reprint their invoice for the amount of $9,952.24 for two days of work, plus the order part paid with credit card in the total amount of $5,100.00, and they said that if payment is not made in one week they would get their legal department to contact us, they also said after they receive the payment they would come back to continue their service.
No service was made in our company at all, except checking our financial to find out if we could pay what they would be charging us.

Yesterday we received the invoice in the Amount of $9.952.24 to pay, I told their legal department we would commit to pay the amount they
claimed to be expenses to have their 3 person here for two days ( $ 2,902.24 ), so we can have more time to find out about their operation, and also for us to find
professional help to deal with this problem, so after we received their ok accepting this amount to close this case, they told us the credit card amount was a different
charge, we would need to deal with another company involved, as they could not tell us the name of the company, I have being trying to end this history with the payment of $2,902.24 and they are still claiming the credit card is another company, after investigating with the credit card, we found out that their company is the one that processed the credit card charge, after this I realize that this is a SCAM, they may be acting illegal in the market trying to claim money for service they do not provide, for sure they must stop.