Profiteks - Gabriel Osorio ripoff internet advertising for online small businesses Hartford Connecticut
The company Profiteks, run by a Gabriel Osorio, has ripped me off..profiteks.com This company/person does advertising for online businesses such as Coastal Vacations, Emerald Passport Liberty League, and others. He supposedly does pay-per-click, but said that he advertises it in places that are more effective than just placing it in keywords such as home-based business opportunities. Regardless, I paid him to get me people to talk to about joining my business. I contacted Gabriel in December, and he told all about what he does, he sounded like he knew what he was doing. He actually lives in the next town from me, so that made me think he should be on the level, since I can just go knock on his door. I was involved in both Emerald Passport and Coastal Vacations and he suggested that I advertise both at the same time. He said he was going to build a website for me to advertise.
So basically he charged me $1200.00 plus he said another $400.00 to advertise both, and then another $200.00 because he said that he now is starting to advertise on MSM, instead of just Google. So a total of $1800.00 I paid him with a credit card. Also I had trouble before this with a company called Hit Doctors (another rip off report about them coming soon) where they ripped me off for $3000.00. (Be careful online with these companies guys).
Anyway Gabriel said that he would get his lawyer to get my money back from them. Well of courses I was really excited about that. Gabriel said that he wanted to meet me, so a couple weeks later we actually met in person at a restaurant. I had absolutely no reason to distrust him. Anyway I gave the contract that I had with Hit Doctors to him, to give to his lawyers. Unfortunately I gave him the only copy I had. More on that later. So anyway it was probably the last week in December of 2005 and he told me I will be up and running by January 13th 2006. January 13th came and went and nothing. It was difficult trying to get a hold of him but after a week or so I did. He said he was in California on business. He said he would get it going right away. I tried getting a hold of him probably a week later, when I did he said he needed to meet up with me again, to show me I guess the website he built and to go over some things. So eventually we got together this was probably the middle of February at this point. So we got back together, he also brought his "wife" along with him. He showed me the website he built and that was pretty much it. After that I waited a week or two and nothing so far. I left messeges he didnt call back but eventually I got a hold of him. This is probably around the middle of March now. I am not certain of the exact dates. Obviously it was far past the January 13th date he gave me. So I kept calling and he does not respond. Eventually I get a hold of him and he sounds depressed and down. He tells me of a personal situation that happened to him between he and his wife and basically now he has no money. (I wont go into detail on that). I don't know if it was true or not, sounded fishy to me, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt, again he assured me he would get it going right away. I gave him a week or two and then contacted him again. He said I'm sorry, that I didn't get it going. I told Gabriel I know what your going through must be hard, but I really need you to get this going. He said ok ok, here is the website address, and he said check it in a few hours it should be up. In a few hours it was up, It was a pretty good looking site, a few mistakes on it, but the issue was where people would put their contact info, it brought them to a page that didn't work.
So basically it was a non-functioning website. This is the same website he showed me a month earlier. I don't know why he didn't put it up back then. So I emailed him and told him it didn't work. Obviously he was not advertising it for me on Google or MSM. I really didn't pay him to just build a website I paid him to get me people to talk to. I paid him to advertise for me, to get lots of interested people in my opportunity. This was the last time I ever spoke with him. This was probably the middle of March. From that point on I sent him numerous emails and left many messages on his voicemail. He never once called me or emailed me. To this day I have not heard from him. I called him probably 10-15 times a day 3-4 days a week. Recently I called and someone actually answered, I wasn't sure if it was Gabriel or not, I asked for Gabriel and the person asked who is calling and I told them my name and they hung-up on me. One time I called at night and his father answered. He said he wasn't there. The physical address of Profiteks is an apartment building. I went there because I live about 15 minutes from it.
Definatly not an apartment complex of someone who says on different blogs and prweb that they make six-figures a month. It looked to me to be no more than an 800 dollar a month apartment. I just called his number today and the profiteks message isn't on there now, its the voice of some guy that doesn't sound like Gabriel. Also his fax number goes to the same message. His cell phone was disconnected and I am concerned that he took off. He also works out of New Jersey. Gabriel Osorio is also a rep with Liberty League. In which I plan to fax copies of this report to and to many other companies who I feel would be interested to know about my experience. Also I am reporting him to the BBB and other agencies. Gabriel has his own posts here at rip off report defending liberty league, funny enough. He uses the name Bronxrep22, email address He has made absolutely no attempt what so ever to contact me. Even if he had gone through some tough times, I always was patient and friendly with him, he could have called and left a message saying that he would eventually make it right. Obviously he has no intention on doing that, he ripped me off for $1800.00 dollars, and he treated me to dinner twice with my own money.
If you read posts by him on this sight, he talks a good game, but this guy scammed me big time. On top of that he has the only contract that I have with the other company that I need to get my money back from, so basically he has severely hampered my chances at that. I never saw any sign that he had a lawyer to anything for me, complete lie. The apartment where he lives didn't even have his name under his room number. It was the last name of his "wife" or girlfriend or whatever, which is also fishy. I feel he stalled me for 60 days so I could not dispute the charges on my credit card. No matter what he says and how well he says it, this guy strung me along, and stole money PERIOD! I hope my experience with profiteks and Gabriel Osorio will be a benefit to anyone who reads this. I will post any updates as they occur.
Robert
Wethersfield, Connecticut
U.S.A.
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6 Updates & Rebuttals
Robert
Wethersfield,Connecticut,
U.S.A.
Update on the situation
#7Consumer Suggestion
Wed, May 10, 2006
Yes Diane I agree that it was an isolated incident. Gabriel did not know that I had posted here, and he actually called me yesterday and sincerely apologized for not getting ahold of me. We actually got together in person and he said he would refund my money promptly and will carry out the other services he promised. I may have jumped the gun a little in posting, but you have to understand before this, I have been ripped of by two other advertisng companies, for a total of 8,000 dollars over the past 7 months. When this situation happened with Gabriel and profiteks I immediately assumed the worse. I didnt know if he telling me the truth or not. How could have I known? I now realize that he was being very truthful with me. My second post tried to show the other side, which turned out to be what the situation actually was. I too regret having to get into his personal situation, but at the time I thought I was being ripped off, again I had no way of knowing. It was important to mention the situation again in my second post, because I felt it was needed to offset my first posting. I do feel bad about that. So Gabriel, absolutely was a victim in this situation and I am definately going to have Gabriel/Profiteks do my advertising, I would and will recommend that anyone who is considering doing business with Mr. Osorio should absolutely do business with him. From what I seen over the past year in this business that Gabriel is your best bet for sucess in this business when it comes to advertising. Again this was a very unusual situation. If I could remove my post I would. I was wrong. Seeing what the situation really was, I do again offer my apologies here for mentioning his personal situation. Gabriel has gotten his business back up and running and I am confident that it will be stronger and better than it ever.
Robert
Wethersfield,Connecticut,
U.S.A.
Update on the situation
#7Consumer Suggestion
Wed, May 10, 2006
Yes Diane I agree that it was an isolated incident. Gabriel did not know that I had posted here, and he actually called me yesterday and sincerely apologized for not getting ahold of me. We actually got together in person and he said he would refund my money promptly and will carry out the other services he promised. I may have jumped the gun a little in posting, but you have to understand before this, I have been ripped of by two other advertisng companies, for a total of 8,000 dollars over the past 7 months. When this situation happened with Gabriel and profiteks I immediately assumed the worse. I didnt know if he telling me the truth or not. How could have I known? I now realize that he was being very truthful with me. My second post tried to show the other side, which turned out to be what the situation actually was. I too regret having to get into his personal situation, but at the time I thought I was being ripped off, again I had no way of knowing. It was important to mention the situation again in my second post, because I felt it was needed to offset my first posting. I do feel bad about that. So Gabriel, absolutely was a victim in this situation and I am definately going to have Gabriel/Profiteks do my advertising, I would and will recommend that anyone who is considering doing business with Mr. Osorio should absolutely do business with him. From what I seen over the past year in this business that Gabriel is your best bet for sucess in this business when it comes to advertising. Again this was a very unusual situation. If I could remove my post I would. I was wrong. Seeing what the situation really was, I do again offer my apologies here for mentioning his personal situation. Gabriel has gotten his business back up and running and I am confident that it will be stronger and better than it ever.
Robert
Wethersfield,Connecticut,
U.S.A.
Update on the situation
#7Consumer Suggestion
Wed, May 10, 2006
Yes Diane I agree that it was an isolated incident. Gabriel did not know that I had posted here, and he actually called me yesterday and sincerely apologized for not getting ahold of me. We actually got together in person and he said he would refund my money promptly and will carry out the other services he promised. I may have jumped the gun a little in posting, but you have to understand before this, I have been ripped of by two other advertisng companies, for a total of 8,000 dollars over the past 7 months. When this situation happened with Gabriel and profiteks I immediately assumed the worse. I didnt know if he telling me the truth or not. How could have I known? I now realize that he was being very truthful with me. My second post tried to show the other side, which turned out to be what the situation actually was. I too regret having to get into his personal situation, but at the time I thought I was being ripped off, again I had no way of knowing. It was important to mention the situation again in my second post, because I felt it was needed to offset my first posting. I do feel bad about that. So Gabriel, absolutely was a victim in this situation and I am definately going to have Gabriel/Profiteks do my advertising, I would and will recommend that anyone who is considering doing business with Mr. Osorio should absolutely do business with him. From what I seen over the past year in this business that Gabriel is your best bet for sucess in this business when it comes to advertising. Again this was a very unusual situation. If I could remove my post I would. I was wrong. Seeing what the situation really was, I do again offer my apologies here for mentioning his personal situation. Gabriel has gotten his business back up and running and I am confident that it will be stronger and better than it ever.
Robert
Wethersfield,Connecticut,
U.S.A.
Update on the situation
#7Consumer Suggestion
Wed, May 10, 2006
Yes Diane I agree that it was an isolated incident. Gabriel did not know that I had posted here, and he actually called me yesterday and sincerely apologized for not getting ahold of me. We actually got together in person and he said he would refund my money promptly and will carry out the other services he promised. I may have jumped the gun a little in posting, but you have to understand before this, I have been ripped of by two other advertisng companies, for a total of 8,000 dollars over the past 7 months. When this situation happened with Gabriel and profiteks I immediately assumed the worse. I didnt know if he telling me the truth or not. How could have I known? I now realize that he was being very truthful with me. My second post tried to show the other side, which turned out to be what the situation actually was. I too regret having to get into his personal situation, but at the time I thought I was being ripped off, again I had no way of knowing. It was important to mention the situation again in my second post, because I felt it was needed to offset my first posting. I do feel bad about that. So Gabriel, absolutely was a victim in this situation and I am definately going to have Gabriel/Profiteks do my advertising, I would and will recommend that anyone who is considering doing business with Mr. Osorio should absolutely do business with him. From what I seen over the past year in this business that Gabriel is your best bet for sucess in this business when it comes to advertising. Again this was a very unusual situation. If I could remove my post I would. I was wrong. Seeing what the situation really was, I do again offer my apologies here for mentioning his personal situation. Gabriel has gotten his business back up and running and I am confident that it will be stronger and better than it ever.
Diane
Worcester,Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
A Different Experience
#7Consumer Comment
Wed, May 10, 2006
My name is Diane. After reading this post I am in utter disbelief. I can truly sympathize with Richard, though my experience is the total contrast.
Working with Gabriel and Profiteks has been nearly a life saver for my business. I would be bold enough to say that Richards experience is rather isolated. As Richard stated and all of his clients are aware. Mr. Osorio had the unfortunate happenings of life stumble upon him.
I am not too sure why Richard even talks about Gabriel's personal problems. I think Gabriel confided in all of us in highest confidence of his situation. Gabriel has a way of winning us all over, not only does he provide incredible marketing services, his marketing approach proves often genial. Without his service and dedication, my business would probably be in the ground right now.
I am very greatful for the help, service, dedication, out of the box thinking, and persistence, shown by gabriel and his entire organization.
I can in a most humble manner testify, Profiteks has helped my business generate well over 589K in internet sales over the past 11 months.
Richard lets both agree that your incident is isolated. I am sure Gabriel will call you soon, or respond to your emails shortly.
Let us all pray for him. Gabriel needs our support, and trust me WE ALL NEED GABRIEL !
Richard, keep us all up to date here on what's going on. I think he has a lot of fans
Robert
Wethersfield,Connecticut,
U.S.A.
Additional comments to post
#7Author of original report
Wed, May 03, 2006
This is Robert, I am the one who created the last post. I feel it is important for me to write this following message. Obviously its only 1 day since I started the post and I have not informed Mr. Osorio of my post here as of yet. When anyone writes a rip off report here, they obviously are in the frame of mind of being a victim, and rightfully so. I think though in certain cases, especially when dealing with a one or two person business, that it is important to sometimes look at the situation, from a different point of view. Now everything I posted was absolutely the truth. I would just like to expand on it, and see what else could have happened here than me being completely ripped off. Now when dealing with any business major or minor there is always going to be issues. When you deal with human beings, there will never be perfection 100% of the time. First I would like to address the issue of Profiteks being a scam. I don't believe it is a scam, because when I first talked to Mr. Osorio I told him that I wanted to advertise for Coastal Vacations.
Now we talked about a lot of things and the company Emerald Passport came up, during that conversation he mentioned a couple names or directors in that company that he advertised for. Gabriel did not know at the time, but one of the names he mentioned actually was the name of my personal director. Now my director never mentioned to me that he used Profiteks for his advertising, which is very common among directors in these types of companies. I mean if you were having success with an advertiser, why would you tell anyone and have competition. If you find a treasure chest, why would you yell it out loud and have to split the treasure. The directors just gives you generic advertising instructions such as buy leads and etc. Its wrong and I am completely against that kind of deception. I never mentioned it to my director until recently, when I could not make contact with Gabriel. It was about a month ago that I asked my director if he used Profiteks to advertise. After a brief surprised pause, he said that he did. I asked him if Gabriel provided him the advertising he promised and what his experience was with Profiteks. He told me that yes, Gabriel provided him advertising and it was very successful. He told me that just a couple days ago he made a sale because of the advertising that Gabriel provided him. Which made me feel a lot better. Still I could not get a hold of Gabriel.
Now I mentioned in my last post that Gabriel told me of a personal situation that just happened to him. Now it is not my place to go into that here, but I feel under the circumstances that it is necessary. Gabriel told me that his wife recently left him and wiped out all of his money from his bank account. Now I have no way of knowing if that was true. Although I know that type of thing happens quite often. Now why he would have his business accounts set up where he could be wiped out is beyond me. Gabriel is only about 24 or 25 years old. Basically still a kid. At that age you think love lasts forever, obviously 50% of the time it doesn't. A young man just out of college starting up his own business is going to make a lot of mistakes. All businesses make mistakes, and hopefully learn from them. Could this be the case? I talked with my director from Emerald Passport recently, and he said that as of recently Gabriel has not been providing the quality of service he provided up to that point, which makes me think it may be the truth that this situation happened to him.
Now there is no excuse for him not having contacted me. On the other hand, even though I am out at this point 1800.00, I can't imagine what I would do if my wife left me and cleaned me out of probably close to 100 times that amount. Also, now having the stress of having to continue to provide all my clients with advertising and having no means to do it. That situation would probably put me in an institution. I still feel I deserved a phone call, even though my account with him may have been small potatoes compared to some of his other clients. I know in my life I haven't always called people at times when I really should have or promised to. On the other hand, I didn't take money from them. So what I guess I am trying to get across on this post is. If Gabriel really had this situation happen to him, then I guess he also is a victim. He had his life and business torn apart. Does a young man of 25 years old, who absolutely did made some business mistakes, and definitely personal/customer service mistakes, such as he has made with me, deserve the chance to scrape himself off the floor and have a chance to put back together his life and his business. ABSOLUTELY! Now in my last post I mentioned his address was an apartment.
Well, that's what a home based business is. Home Based. If a person is earning a significant income, its that persons choice to live as modestly as he chooses, and reinvest his money in his business or savings. He is a very young guy. That would actually be a very smart thing to do. It could very well be that Gabriel is off somewhere handling this situation and not around to contact me, I may be the least of his problems at this point. That could be why his father answered his phone, he could have family there taking care of his place while he is gone trying to sort out his life and business. Now all of this could or could not be the case. Only time will tell. Of course this situation must be rectified.
For me to be satisfied, Gabriel must contact me and at the very least return my $1800.00 dollars and the contract that I gave him to give to his lawyer. If he honestly went through this situation, then he really should eventually follow through with his promise to me of having his lawyer get back my money from this other company and refund my money. I do not want him to advertise for me at this point. If I decide I want to have Gabriel and Profiteks advertise for me, I want it to be my decision, not because I am forced to because I already paid him. Well that's it. I felt the need to write this post because there are sometimes situations where there is more going on than someone blatantly trying to rip a person off. Don't get me wrong, it happens constantly and a person must be critical and smart when dealing with any company, especially those that are related to network market and mlm businesses. I just think possibly in this particular situation, I may have been a victim of bad timing rather than a rip-off. If this is the case then Gabriel also was a victim of a rip-off and deserves the benefit of the doubt and the chance to rebuild his business and life. I will post any updates as they happen.