Complaint Review: TheUseful.com

I (foolishly and against my usual policy) clicked on a flashing banner ad for a free $50.00 gift certificate to Red Lobster. So, I thought this might be legit. It's been more than two months, and I have yet to receive a gift certificate.

After spending more time than I'd like to admit going through page after page of surveys and offers, all of which I declined, I expected to get my gift certificate. I got spam from Optionetics, lots of it, and email from all kinds of nonsense companies. I even got snail mail advertising paid seminars on investing from Optionetics.

Forunately, I have my own domain, and used an email account that I set up to receive this kind of garbage. Now the account no longer exists, but I have the satisfaction of knowing that for a couple of days before I deleted it, Optionetics got a copy of every message I received on that account.

This company is bogus. A WHO IS lookup indicates that they use a PO box, and use generic names on all records, so there is no way to get the name of anyone at the company. They don't answer their phone.

I will probably never see that gift certificate.

Bill
Scottsdale, Arizona
U.S.A.

sorry, allowing you to give a competitors name would instigate others to just file against their competition, to only come back later to suggest their company your comments on this policy are welcome! CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.