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Complaint Review: CMI - Century Marketing Inc - Jersey City New Jersey
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CMI - Century Marketing Inc
344 Grove Street Suite 50 Jersey City, 07302 New Jersey, U.S.A.
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CMI - Century Marketing Money scammers Jersey City New Jersey
I stupidly feel victim to a scam. On February 25 and 9:22 pm I received a "Restricted" call to my cell phone and stupidly I answered it. It was a company going by the name of Century Marketing. The guy on the phone told me that I was in the running for a drawing to win a large amount of money. I was like "ok money is good" so I listened to what he had to say and agreed to doing his offer. So I let this man talk me into signing up for some magazines and they told me that I would be receiving a free diamond watch.
Sounds pretty cool huh? Well its not. I let this man talk me into signing up for 6 magazines that are now going to cost me $69.16 every month for 15 months. The total value is going to cost me 1,037.40. To me that is a lot of money for some magazines. And here is the catch I have to uphold my contract for the full 15 months and can not cancel with out having to pay a lump some of money. Now why do I have to pay for something that I was scanned into in the first place and pay for something that I don't want now knowing that it is going to cost me that much money.
After talking to this one man I was transfered to another who was a "manager" and he went over the contract and everything with me. And wanted to know how the other man did and he wanted me to give and evaluation for the first man. So I did but in my mind through the conversation I kept telling myself to just hang the phone up and leave it alone that something is not right about this whole thing. But I never did and went along with it and now I am going to pay greatly for it.
The other thing that bugs me is these people were telling me that they were from Helena, Montana. Sounds reasonable but I am only 4 1/2 hours from Helena and this man was asking me about the weather and what not. Then a couple of weeks later I receive a confirmation letter in the mail and it came from New Jersey not Montana. On the letter it states at the bottom and these are the exact words, "This program involves neither a contract nor an extension of credit." So there is no contract, then I should be able to cancel but once again like I said before I can't without paying some major money for no reason. So I will let this go and let them have their $69.16 every month until I can figure out how to stop them from taking my money.
Sincerely,
Unhappy person
Kayla
Lovell, Wyoming
U.S.A.
Sounds pretty cool huh? Well its not. I let this man talk me into signing up for 6 magazines that are now going to cost me $69.16 every month for 15 months. The total value is going to cost me 1,037.40. To me that is a lot of money for some magazines. And here is the catch I have to uphold my contract for the full 15 months and can not cancel with out having to pay a lump some of money. Now why do I have to pay for something that I was scanned into in the first place and pay for something that I don't want now knowing that it is going to cost me that much money.
After talking to this one man I was transfered to another who was a "manager" and he went over the contract and everything with me. And wanted to know how the other man did and he wanted me to give and evaluation for the first man. So I did but in my mind through the conversation I kept telling myself to just hang the phone up and leave it alone that something is not right about this whole thing. But I never did and went along with it and now I am going to pay greatly for it.
The other thing that bugs me is these people were telling me that they were from Helena, Montana. Sounds reasonable but I am only 4 1/2 hours from Helena and this man was asking me about the weather and what not. Then a couple of weeks later I receive a confirmation letter in the mail and it came from New Jersey not Montana. On the letter it states at the bottom and these are the exact words, "This program involves neither a contract nor an extension of credit." So there is no contract, then I should be able to cancel but once again like I said before I can't without paying some major money for no reason. So I will let this go and let them have their $69.16 every month until I can figure out how to stop them from taking my money.
Sincerely,
Unhappy person
Kayla
Lovell, Wyoming
U.S.A.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Tracy
Chesterfield,New Jersey,
U.S.A.
scam vs not listening
#2Consumer Comment
Tue, July 01, 2008
My husband was also scammed by this company this evening. Now I do note the comments from the ex-employee with regards to lack of attention and not asking questions however I would like to say that when a person pushes as much as the people calling do then it is easily understood why people get confused and persuaded to pay money for a product that they may not wish to purchase. In response to the specific example with regards to Walmart the difference here is huge mainly due to the fact you can simply take your tv back to the store and ask for a refund and then go elsewhere to purchase! Why is it that these people insist on pushing people and then wander why they think it is unfair to be called scammers! I am pursuing this and have filed a dispute with my bank as all attempts to contact the company have failed. Regards Tracy
Bill
Anywhere,Minnesota,
U.S.A.
concerned
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, March 06, 2008
now iam a little concerned by the word that you use called "scam" because as you had stated that you listened to what they had to offer, agreed to the offer, later realized that you were not paying attention, realize its more money then what they explained....so now they are a scam? the biggest problem in america is that you people dont pay any attention to ppl on the phone, you dont ask questions that your entitled to, ooor can u do simple math.. the offer goes 3.99 a week for 60 months..well any smart person would know 60 months is 5 yrs or 260 weeks...well they dont bill 3.99 every week for 5 yrs..i mean really that would drive u freakin bonkers... so they bill 69.16 each month for 15 months..leaving 45 bill free...now some say thats a terrible price...but to the average american who spends 50 bux a month on magazines anyway for 60 months...equals 3000.00 so realistically we save 66% off the rate your going to spend anyway... i guess if u go to walmart and u buy a tv....get home and realized that you overspent or bestbuy has the same tv at 200$ cheaper then walmart scammed you....?
