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Complaint Review: CIT Lease Finance Group - Chicago Illinois
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CIT Lease Finance Group
233 N. Michigan Ave., Suite1800 Chicago, 60601-5519 Illinois, U.S.A.
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CIT Lease Finance Group ripoff dishonest will not honor their own paperwork Chicago Illinois
My partner and I had just ventured out on our own doing contracting and carpentry work. We started with very little money and struggled to get our name out there. Somehow a sales rep found us and gave us a sales pitch on how beneficial a merchant account would be for us. At that time there were sevaral "start-up" fees and we couldn't afford it, then he asked what we were grossing a month in income and even he realized we couldn't afford it. He said he would check with us in a couple of months to see how business was.
He did just that, and business was better and I almost had him off the phone and he gave me "the deal", no start up fees, waive the first month payment and reduce our monthly charge to $51.50/mo.. and of course he called around 4:00pm and he needed an answer by 5:00pm. I told the rep I needed to talk to my partner and I would get back to him asap. Please keep in mind at the time I had never owned my own business and I was 21 yrs. old. Of course I thought it was a hell of an offer, I couldn't contact my partner and so I went ahead and said yes.
Later I did talk with my partner and he too thought it was a good deal at the time, my wife on the other hand wasn't on the same team. She basically told us we could use the money elsewhere such as advertising. It was agreed that we would cancel the service. A couple days after talking to the rep, someone was sent to our house to setup the machine and as he told us, that was his only job and if we wanted to cancel then we needed to send in the Notice of Cancellation paper. We did just that. This was June 14 2002 the cancellation paper was sent and they continued to pull money out until December of 2002 and then the account was shut down. At the beginning of every month I was on the phone talking to computers and being transferred I faxed in bank statements all to no avail. They have sucked over $700 out of me for a service I never used.
After the account was closed in December I thought it was finally over. I never heard a word then in June of 2003, 7 months later I received a letter from Metropolitan Adjustment Bureau and they want $3236.61. I have called on two occassions to explain what happened and both times I talk to this snotty little woman who will not listen, she enjoys attempting to lecture me and when I bring up the Notice of Cancellation that "her" company provided me with in the beginning, she hangs up.
She threatend to turn my case into a lawsuit, if I dont pay the amount they want. They are all crooks.
Jason
Abilene, Kansas
U.S.A.
He did just that, and business was better and I almost had him off the phone and he gave me "the deal", no start up fees, waive the first month payment and reduce our monthly charge to $51.50/mo.. and of course he called around 4:00pm and he needed an answer by 5:00pm. I told the rep I needed to talk to my partner and I would get back to him asap. Please keep in mind at the time I had never owned my own business and I was 21 yrs. old. Of course I thought it was a hell of an offer, I couldn't contact my partner and so I went ahead and said yes.
Later I did talk with my partner and he too thought it was a good deal at the time, my wife on the other hand wasn't on the same team. She basically told us we could use the money elsewhere such as advertising. It was agreed that we would cancel the service. A couple days after talking to the rep, someone was sent to our house to setup the machine and as he told us, that was his only job and if we wanted to cancel then we needed to send in the Notice of Cancellation paper. We did just that. This was June 14 2002 the cancellation paper was sent and they continued to pull money out until December of 2002 and then the account was shut down. At the beginning of every month I was on the phone talking to computers and being transferred I faxed in bank statements all to no avail. They have sucked over $700 out of me for a service I never used.
After the account was closed in December I thought it was finally over. I never heard a word then in June of 2003, 7 months later I received a letter from Metropolitan Adjustment Bureau and they want $3236.61. I have called on two occassions to explain what happened and both times I talk to this snotty little woman who will not listen, she enjoys attempting to lecture me and when I bring up the Notice of Cancellation that "her" company provided me with in the beginning, she hangs up.
She threatend to turn my case into a lawsuit, if I dont pay the amount they want. They are all crooks.
Jason
Abilene, Kansas
U.S.A.
4 Updates & Rebuttals
Gloria
Cottonwood,California,
U.S.A.
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#2Consumer Suggestion
Tue, June 29, 2004
Hi, You may want to send a complaint to FTC (Federal Trade Commission) . I did and received a response saying they don't do individual cases. However, if they log enough complaints, they will start an investigation and possibly legal action. So here is the link: https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01 to the FTC complaint form. I've told many people about it, so you may want to do the same. Make sure you give specific examples or even let them know you have documentation of deceptive or misleading information. Also, if possible, please scan & send copies of these documents to me at [DELETED]. I haven't given up, but it does take a while for the squeaky wheel to be heard. As far as CIT, here is their main site: http://www.cit.com/main/default.htm . Also, within this site, I found e-mails and have sent copies of my rip-off report, including a copy of all the complaints listed under Lease Finance Group in the Rip-Off site. Here are some e-mail addresses, you may want to send your concerns to: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], I did get the Rip-Off Report Do-It-Yourself Guide and it did have some good steps to follow. However, it was a little lacking in the cyberspace rip-offs. I've been paralleling the thoughts or ideas in this Guide to try to apply them to the internet. For example, instead of sending faxes, send e-mails. So every web site I am interested in, I look for e-mails and make up a group listing & start bombarding them with e-mails and include my rip-off report, plus any other rip-off concerns. I hope this helps. Thanks, G for California
Gloria
Cottonwood,California,
U.S.A.
File your Report with FTC
#3Consumer Suggestion
Tue, June 29, 2004
Hi, You may want to send a complaint to FTC (Federal Trade Commission) . I did and received a response saying they don't do individual cases. However, if they log enough complaints, they will start an investigation and possibly legal action. So here is the link: https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01 to the FTC complaint form. I've told many people about it, so you may want to do the same. Make sure you give specific examples or even let them know you have documentation of deceptive or misleading information. Also, if possible, please scan & send copies of these documents to me at [DELETED]. I haven't given up, but it does take a while for the squeaky wheel to be heard. As far as CIT, here is their main site: http://www.cit.com/main/default.htm . Also, within this site, I found e-mails and have sent copies of my rip-off report, including a copy of all the complaints listed under Lease Finance Group in the Rip-Off site. Here are some e-mail addresses, you may want to send your concerns to: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], I did get the Rip-Off Report Do-It-Yourself Guide and it did have some good steps to follow. However, it was a little lacking in the cyberspace rip-offs. I've been paralleling the thoughts or ideas in this Guide to try to apply them to the internet. For example, instead of sending faxes, send e-mails. So every web site I am interested in, I look for e-mails and make up a group listing & start bombarding them with e-mails and include my rip-off report, plus any other rip-off concerns. I hope this helps. Thanks, G for California
Gloria
Cottonwood,California,
U.S.A.
File your Report with FTC
#4Consumer Suggestion
Tue, June 29, 2004
Hi, You may want to send a complaint to FTC (Federal Trade Commission) . I did and received a response saying they don't do individual cases. However, if they log enough complaints, they will start an investigation and possibly legal action. So here is the link: https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01 to the FTC complaint form. I've told many people about it, so you may want to do the same. Make sure you give specific examples or even let them know you have documentation of deceptive or misleading information. Also, if possible, please scan & send copies of these documents to me at [DELETED]. I haven't given up, but it does take a while for the squeaky wheel to be heard. As far as CIT, here is their main site: http://www.cit.com/main/default.htm . Also, within this site, I found e-mails and have sent copies of my rip-off report, including a copy of all the complaints listed under Lease Finance Group in the Rip-Off site. Here are some e-mail addresses, you may want to send your concerns to: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], I did get the Rip-Off Report Do-It-Yourself Guide and it did have some good steps to follow. However, it was a little lacking in the cyberspace rip-offs. I've been paralleling the thoughts or ideas in this Guide to try to apply them to the internet. For example, instead of sending faxes, send e-mails. So every web site I am interested in, I look for e-mails and make up a group listing & start bombarding them with e-mails and include my rip-off report, plus any other rip-off concerns. I hope this helps. Thanks, G for California
Gloria
Cottonwood,California,
U.S.A.
File your Report with FTC
#5Consumer Suggestion
Tue, June 29, 2004
Hi, You may want to send a complaint to FTC (Federal Trade Commission) . I did and received a response saying they don't do individual cases. However, if they log enough complaints, they will start an investigation and possibly legal action. So here is the link: https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01 to the FTC complaint form. I've told many people about it, so you may want to do the same. Make sure you give specific examples or even let them know you have documentation of deceptive or misleading information. Also, if possible, please scan & send copies of these documents to me at [DELETED]. I haven't given up, but it does take a while for the squeaky wheel to be heard. As far as CIT, here is their main site: http://www.cit.com/main/default.htm . Also, within this site, I found e-mails and have sent copies of my rip-off report, including a copy of all the complaints listed under Lease Finance Group in the Rip-Off site. Here are some e-mail addresses, you may want to send your concerns to: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], I did get the Rip-Off Report Do-It-Yourself Guide and it did have some good steps to follow. However, it was a little lacking in the cyberspace rip-offs. I've been paralleling the thoughts or ideas in this Guide to try to apply them to the internet. For example, instead of sending faxes, send e-mails. So every web site I am interested in, I look for e-mails and make up a group listing & start bombarding them with e-mails and include my rip-off report, plus any other rip-off concerns. I hope this helps. Thanks, G for California
