Complaint Review: Promotional Discount Offers

I received a call from Promotional Discount Offers stating that I had been pre-approved for a Visa card with a limit of $2500. The lady was a very good sales person, and that is coming from a person who is a retail sales manager. I gues you have to be a good sales person to sell people a box full of useless paper.

Anyway, she told me that there was a $299 fee for processing and in addition to my Visa card I would be getting a packet of discount offers for travel, such as, discount hotels, rental cars etc. She said that my credit card would be coming from another company, not their company in 10 to 14 business days from the 21st of May. She even said that if the $300 was a little to much for me at that time (which it wasn't), not to worry. She said when you receive your Visa card you can withdraw up to $500 at any atm machine nationwide, as a cash advance.

She then sent me to a verification person, who recorded this portion (or what they wanted to, of this portion) of the call. They verified my account info and also verified, "The Credit Offer" (he was very careful during this few seconds of the call not to say Visa card [hindsight]. I did however ask him about the Visa card for $2500 dollars. (Which is somehow not on the recording that they played for me when I called to ask for my refund.) The packet did not arrive until June 18th. I called them and told them that was all I had received they told me to watch the mail the other peice should be coming (still being deceptive).

Once the second piece did arrive it was just a welcome letter to the merchant account for $2500 that was in the bottom of the small box of papers they had sent me. This merchant card is a paper card with an account # and a catalogue full of useless crap that people would never need. They dressed up the catalogue by putting the old country music group The Mandrel Sisters on the front of it (they must of lost all of their money like that Willy Nelson dude to be modeling for a company like this one).

Obviously, this is not what they had portrayed this to be. As I said before, I am in sales and have been for 12 years. If I lied to my customers in order to make every sale I would be a thief, and a lier. I also would not have been in business for 12 years either. They should not be in business. Every person on here should call the Better Business Bureau and get this company shut down.

I have reported them to the BBB in New York and am also going to report them here in Virginia. I have also called my bank and they are doing some investigation as well as getting me the ACH tracking # so I can get this charge returned to my account, in full. I am also a personal friends with the Bank manager at my Bank and she is going to be investigated all charges that have gone through the bank from this company. She said that there had been over 100 transactions from Promotional Discount Offers just at our branch alone.

If, she is able to fix all of those transactions that is over $30,000 out of Promotional Discount Offers's pocket. Ironic isn't it they took $300 dollars from me and I may be able to take about $30,000 away from them. Let's get them guys.

Graham
Herndon, Virginia
U.S.A.