Complaint Review: StoresOnLine

I am a resident of Plattsburgh, NY. On September 12, 2006, I attended a "luncheon/seminar" presented by storesonline.com in Plattsburgh. I signed up for the next seminar that was held on September 30, 2006, in Boltan Valley, Vermont. There were about 50 people. It was a very long day, made even worse for me because of the distance I'd had to travel. During the course of the day, I signed up to become a "business owner" with the company. Because of the lateness of the hour when I got home, I did not actually start trying to get online until the next day (Oct 1, 2006). During my attempts to do this, I kept running into Pop-up blocks and such. I've tried to reach these people both on the phone and online, with no luck.

Just recently, I've found, much to my chagrin (to put it mildly), I've found out that this company has class-action suits against them in 14 different states (I haven't seen Vermont listed as one of them, AS YET!), and my financial advisor has also told me about these suits. My recourse to this so far has to be to contact my credit card company to contest the charge (where the down payment was made), and to block any further payments. I am also in the process of locating various agencies to alert them to the very real possibility of fraud with this company. So far, I've been able to get addresses and phone numbers for the State Attorney General in both New York State and Vermont, as well as the Better Business Bureau. I will fight this, if it comes down to it (I've also been in contact with my lawyer in this matter), and, even if I've lost the initial down payment of $2,000.00, I will have blocked the rest of the money. I am given to understand that this has been going all across the country, and individual people have been bilked out of thousands of dollars. This is being done to thousands of people who really can't afford this to happen.

These people have worked hard to get a certain amount in their "nest egg", and these people have taken that away from them. Although I'd like to see the perpetrators put into prison for a very long time (the rest of their natural lives might be sufficient), I will settle for seeing them out of business, and some portion of the monies dispursed to ALL victims of this scam. Mary jJane Plattsburgh, New York
U.S.A.