Palmetto Marketing BUYER BEWARE! Palmetto Marketing scam artists may be knocking on your door! Slam it in their face even if they look like an innocent high school student! Coral Springs Florida
Yesterday a couple of fresh-out-of-high school guys come to my door. I work third shift and should have never gotten out of bed to answer their incessent knocking! I was suckered into buying the most expensive magazine subscribtion ever! After having second thoughts I read the back of the order form and it reads...You may cancel this transaction within three business days from the above date. To cancel this transaction, mail or deliver a signed and dated copy of this cancellation notice or send a telegram to Palmetto Marketing Inc. # ____. There is no phone number, no e-mail address, and vital information is missing in order to cancel! And there is no way that I can get this letter from Michigan to Florida in 2 days! I then turn the page over and see that the sneaky seller has written the wrong date on the front of the receipt, so now I actually have 1 day to cancel!
So I decide to do a little research on the internet. Nothing comes up but tons of complaints about Palmetto Marketing! I read a complaint that really creeps me out because it is the exact thing that happened to me 2 states away from the writer of the complaint!
The boys say they are just a couple of subscriptions away from winning a trip to Cancun. They ask for a glass of water claiming to be exhausted from walking in the heat. If they could just get me to buy 3 subscriptions they would definately win. I tell them that maybe I could spring for one but the guys say they have to at least sell 2 or only one would get to go to Cancun and they are best friends and inseperable! I resist and resist telling them that $30 per magazine is way too expensive. They get a little creative and tell me they are with some "eloquent speakers of America" and they are preparing and learning about self esteem for college. They say they automatically hold the check for 2 weeks. So I reluctantly buy 2 magazines and it comes to a total of $80.00. Does 30+30 add up to 80 to you? There is a $10 processing fee per magazine. Then the ballzy guys ask for a tip. Then they write "bug off losers Eldon is the best" on a peice of paper to "scare away the competition."
After they leave I am staring at my receipt with regret that I just blew so much of my hard earned money and I read..."No verbal agreements recognized. No postdated checks accepted. No checks will be held. Allow 90 to 120 days for delivery. We are not affiliated with any local High School or College."
Why those sneaky little...! Excuse me, I have to go call my bank and spend $15 to stop my check! Immediatly!
Casey
saginaw, Michigan
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Renee
Rochester,Washington,
U.S.A.
What one has to say that does the Buisness
#2UPDATE Employee
Tue, September 16, 2003
I have a few coments to make. I personaly have been working for Palmetto Marketing for a few months and had to come home to straighten a few things out with my family cause they were frekin out by doing reserching and finding stuff out like this. Im gonna let you guys know something by my own view of what Iv seen and exsperience..When the sales person is feeling out the form make sure everything goes through and u can read the order he or she has to send in..Make sure u ask for a phone number before u purcuse if theres no number they have then dont bother getting anything. Its you wanna get a magazine or not. Its a job for us. For me it works on my personanlity skills and people skills. Dealing with diffrent people across the USA it gets hard. I have to have a good personality and have the people like me for who I am to get them to get a magazine. Now if everything goes right like if the reading is readable of the address and u have a number if u dont get ur magazines with in 90 to 120 days then call that number.. Im not allowed to say im from a high school cause im not. Its pretty much based on the person if u like them and trust them. If there boring or feed u alot of bull dont bother. if someone is out there being honest like giving u the number and info that u like the YES U WILL GET UR MAG! but if ur gonna sit there and go oh no i have no number and freak out before ur 90-to 120 days til your mag gets there then that dont help. And us out there we have to be alert, aware and not stupid also. Thats just how it is. Im out there to have fun meet new people and if they want magazines then they can get it from me. There are alot of stupid people out there though and they wont get ur magazine out to u cause the'll spend the money if its cash but those are the ones that make PMI look bad. The people that are stupid and not doing a good job or the murders or people doing drugs and ect make us look bad! Im typing this all on my own will im home for a few days calming things down for I can go back to work and have fun selling!