Complaint Review: W Craig & Company

I purchased the Jim Rosen Classified Ad System back in October of 2003. After receiving my package I got a phone call from Web Ad Systems from a guy named Ralph about purchasing a website to create my own business selling fitness equipment. It sounded good at the time so on Nov. 4 I made the $4500 commitment to set up my own site. This set up also required getting a merchant account at $64.95 per month.

Once I set that all up through an activation specialist named JJ he convinced me to invest another $5000 for a 4 part ad package to help market my new site. It included a 1 800 number, digital catalog, 5 extra domain names, and a 30 second commercial. I agreed to it, thinking it made sense as a way to advertise the new business and get things off on the right track.

It is now 5 months later, and with the lack of productivity on my site and discouragement with trying to reach technical support and get some help and answers about my site, I started to get a bit suspicious. Phone numnbers that I have are no longer in service and when I do finally talk to someone all I get is the runaround.

I decided to do some investigating on the net and ran across others that seemed to have reported the same problem. It seems I have been scammed just like many others. I am now out over $10,000, not to mention the monthly expenses that I am still paying for like site maintenence, my toll free number, and my merchant account totaling another $120 per month.

Does anyone in my same boat have any answers to this horrific scam or info on where to start in trying to recover my losses. Please Help.

Brian
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
U.S.A.