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  • Report:  #105833

Complaint Review: Shadowy Meetings Elaborate Dinners Smooth Operating Salespeople Cult Mania

Shadowy Meetings, Elaborate Dinners, Smooth Operating Salespeople, Cult Mania deceptive salesmen, no full disclosures of the facts, evasive tactics, tellers of lies, lulling you into false senses of security, dream killers, money robbers, heartless devils, succubus women, stud wolves, fattening you up before the slaughter Nationwide

  • Reported By:
    Nextdoor Other
  • Submitted:
    Sat, August 28, 2004
  • Updated:
    Wed, September 01, 2004

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You have received an invitation to something that appears to be a wonderful, legitimate offer to help you realize your dreams. Cheerfully you accept. You attend what they call a mini-seminar where you are fed ham sandwiches and beverages of your choice. You have been pre-qualified and have been singled out from the rest of the group. You are told of a much larger sales presentation being held at a much fancier location where there will be an enticing breakfast and dinner. You begin to get stars in your eyes.

The day of the big seminar arrives and with baited anticipation you look forward to the event. You walk in and see around you georgeous women and sharp dressed men. All with amazing smiles and sexy legs. You have just entered the Twilight Zone. And, your personal nightmares commence. You have been told of lofty methods of getting what you desire most out of life. Freedom, riches and time to spend doing the things you love the most. You sign on the dotted line. Then the truth about the thousands you just spent slaps you right across the face. You have been robbed. But well after the grace period expired. You bought a set of websites that took you well beyond the time period to figure out.

Then you find yourself here asking for mercy from these companies. Only to find dead silence and a turned back from them. What do you do? How can you recover your lost finances? How can you exact revenge?

Take heart, I have an inspired idea. By any method you can, covert and subversive. Gain access to the same meeting you were just fleeced in. Use assumed names, fake addresses and any other spy like tactics you can. Don't do the following at the mini-seminars but do what I am about to suggest at the main one.

Once inside, go into the best Academy Award winning performance of your life. Smile, act hungry, make them believe you're ready to sign even before the meeting starts. Then, as a cobra mesmerizes its prey, you do the luring. You set them up. Turn the table on these rats and make them pay...big time.

At the end of the meeting when the group are still seated just before dinner is served. Stand up, raise your hand and tell them you have a few questions to ask before you spend thousands of dollars. You'll know when the time is ripe. You have already been ripped off, you have seen the other stories out there and you are armed with all the correct questions to ask through you're own research.

The time to "attack" has come. With blood in your eyes, and with the aggressiveness of a consumer advocte reporter, you begin to fire the questions at them. One after the next. You back them so far into a corner that even the strongest, silver tongued devil begins to whimper like a spoiled brat. The questions you will ask, trust me, are the same questions everyone else wants to know. You just happen to be the one with all the ammo and prior knowledge. Sample questions could be as follows...

1. What are your refund policies.
2. What are the hidden charges and/or other charges we may face that you haven't covered?
3. How long does it take to get an email answered through customer service?
4. Do you have an 800 line we can call?
5. How long does it take a computer illiterate to set up their first website? (This one covers and works back to the length of time you have to dissolve your contract and get your money back)


The above questions are just a kick off point. You begin to get my drift here? You, I am confident, can come up with much better probing questions than I can.

Some suggestions before you embark on your undercover missions. 1. Do this before your silence is bought. and 2. If you decide to move forward with this. Sit somewhere in the middle of the room and surround yourself with as many people as you can. This way you have some protection and obstacles for them to have to get through. Once you have started grilling them, you can be assured they will begin to encircle you like a goup of hungry vultures. 3. Try to take an ally with you. It would be good if you could find someone who was ripped off by the same company. 4. Try to assemble a "Task Force" so they too can be there with you.

My thinking is, when you begin your inquests, you will find many standing up and walking out on them. Then, in essence you have saved the financial lives of people who were about to lay their bank accounts and credit cards open for those hungry dogs to have a feeding frenzy over.

Good luck on your missions. This message will self destuct in five seconds ;-{)

Here endeth Sermon #6

"One will put a thousand to flight. Two will put ten thousand to flight." "There is strength in numbers."

Silverstar Reporter
Nextdoor
U.S.A.

5 Updates & Rebuttals


Silver

Nextdoor,
Other,
U.S.A.

Clearer Information This company needs to be brought into accountability or stopped all together.

#6Consumer Comment

Tue, August 31, 2004

The name of the company I am referring to is Storesonline.com aka iMergent aka Galaxy Mall. The title of their seminar I attended, as a cover, was Internet Marketing Stadegies. It may have changed by now.

I try to inform about meetings like this in a general way. I am sure Storesonline is not the only company that engages in deceptive practices, elaborate meals and empty promises.

You would do yourself and others a huge favor by informing as many people as possible about them...remeber...Storeonline. This company needs to be brought into accountability or stopped all together.

Thank you so much for asking me for a reply. If you will look to the Home Page of RipOff.com you will see future reports about them as well as my own views of what should be done about companies that like to rip people off.

Silverstar Reporter


Pat

Gilbert,
Arizona,
U.S.A.

What is the company name(s)?

#6Consumer Comment

Sat, August 28, 2004

Dear Silverstar Reporter,

What is the name(s) of the company sponsoring these seminars? It looks like you only used descriptive adjectives in the title.

Where are they operating? Nextdoor USA offers no help.

How were you orginally brought in? Internet ad, newspaper, approached on the street? What was the pitch?

Do you have any names of the people operating these seminars?

Are you planning on taking the actions you describe?

A good reporter presents all the facts and provides as much information as possible in order to have a credible story. Something about your story just does not seem right.

Please don't get me wrong. I am not doubting your bad experience, I just need more information to go on than what you have provided. Please enlighten us. Thank you.


Pat

Gilbert,
Arizona,
U.S.A.

What is the company name(s)?

#6Consumer Comment

Sat, August 28, 2004

Dear Silverstar Reporter,

What is the name(s) of the company sponsoring these seminars? It looks like you only used descriptive adjectives in the title.

Where are they operating? Nextdoor USA offers no help.

How were you orginally brought in? Internet ad, newspaper, approached on the street? What was the pitch?

Do you have any names of the people operating these seminars?

Are you planning on taking the actions you describe?

A good reporter presents all the facts and provides as much information as possible in order to have a credible story. Something about your story just does not seem right.

Please don't get me wrong. I am not doubting your bad experience, I just need more information to go on than what you have provided. Please enlighten us. Thank you.


Pat

Gilbert,
Arizona,
U.S.A.

What is the company name(s)?

#6Consumer Comment

Sat, August 28, 2004

Dear Silverstar Reporter,

What is the name(s) of the company sponsoring these seminars? It looks like you only used descriptive adjectives in the title.

Where are they operating? Nextdoor USA offers no help.

How were you orginally brought in? Internet ad, newspaper, approached on the street? What was the pitch?

Do you have any names of the people operating these seminars?

Are you planning on taking the actions you describe?

A good reporter presents all the facts and provides as much information as possible in order to have a credible story. Something about your story just does not seem right.

Please don't get me wrong. I am not doubting your bad experience, I just need more information to go on than what you have provided. Please enlighten us. Thank you.


Pat

Gilbert,
Arizona,
U.S.A.

What is the company name(s)?

#6Consumer Comment

Sat, August 28, 2004

Dear Silverstar Reporter,

What is the name(s) of the company sponsoring these seminars? It looks like you only used descriptive adjectives in the title.

Where are they operating? Nextdoor USA offers no help.

How were you orginally brought in? Internet ad, newspaper, approached on the street? What was the pitch?

Do you have any names of the people operating these seminars?

Are you planning on taking the actions you describe?

A good reporter presents all the facts and provides as much information as possible in order to have a credible story. Something about your story just does not seem right.

Please don't get me wrong. I am not doubting your bad experience, I just need more information to go on than what you have provided. Please enlighten us. Thank you.

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