Complaint Review: Marketing Solutions

Marketing Solutions offers an affiliation based website where you are supposed to make commissions on sales through the "free" website that they sell you for $49.95. They then sell you packages of internet traffic. This is supposed to be QUALITY traffic, the best that you can buy.

On 12/9/05 I purchased $3000 of this Quality traffic only to find out that they were using MYGPT.com (pay per click on websites), getcheaptraffic.com ($20.00 for the same amount of traffic, mostly proxy hits!), and BUYHITSCHEAP.com (same as GETCHEAPTRAFFIC).
After 3 months of no results, and making many calls to complain, I got a call from Steven James. He informed me that ALL CALLS ARE RECORDED and that I had agreed to give them one year to let them prove themselves. He was correct. On one of the many calls, I had said "okay" when discussing the "you can't lose" refund policy. Needless to say, I never made a penny even on the items that even I purchased through the website.
As per the agreement with Marketing Solutions, I was to be refunded the difference of the $3000 minus the sales after 11 months if I sent a letter requesting a refund. I mailed the certified letter in the timeframe agreed upon and called them to verify that everything was okay with the letter. A woman named Sara got it on 11/22/06 and forwarded it to Steven James in Quality Management. I have called them over 20 times in the past two months, and Steven James will not return my call. Apparently, he is the only one who can issue a refund (Principle according to BBB).

Since then, I have seen the claims against them on www.ripoffreport.com and realize now that this is a scam. Marketing Solutions has a bad rating with the BBB in Phoenix, even though they are not a member. Since you are entering a "business agreement", the boiler room salespeople collect your social security number and banking info "for tax purposes". I see this as a VERY dangerous scam at very least. Yesterday I filed complaints with the Phoenix BBB, the FTC, and the IC3 through the FBI website. Right off the bat, I see 4 other complaints on this website. Maybe a class action would be in order???
Similar reports:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/Internet-Marketing-Companies/Marketing-Solutions/marketing-solutions-ripoff-sc-ECBQ2.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff220760.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff206421.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff182402.htm

BBB's unsatisfactory record rating:
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Robert scott
brandon, Florida
U.S.A.

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