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Crowd PR Review
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Crowd PR Review crowd.pr Scam
We recently finished our Kickstarter campaign so this Crowd.PR Review is a bit late. First of all, let me say that my team is made up of experienced entrepreneurs with deep experience working in the tech industry. Our speciality isn't necessarily in PR but when it comes to launching and running successful businesses we know what we're doing.
After launching our campaign on Kickstarter within hours we were hit up via email by Crowd PR. Now, normally we are really good about vetting people we hire on the outside but when you're crowdfunding everything is at warp speed and time is precious so we liked what we saw and heard so decided to give them a shot. They swore that our project had everything it took to go viral so we took this as a good sign. This turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes we made during this campaign. After wiring over the $3000 retainer they requested we started getting a bad feeling in the pit of our throats. Communication immediately started sputtering to a halt and whenever we asked for an update were merely told that they were working on it and they should have good news sooner than later.
Well let's just say that day never came. We kept sending emails and calling (all went to voicemail with no return call) and eventually we had to question what they were doing at all. When we asked for proof that they had done anything well they eventually turned on us completely. They never did anything. Once they had our money that was the end of it. The team we had hired on good faith to help us were now blaming us and our product, saying it was terrible and not their fault and that we were the ones who were incompetent for even creating something like this. Wow, just wow. In my entire professional career I had never been attacked in this way. The only media pickups we had were the result of work that WE DID in house. I honestly don't believe a word that these guys said and after they had our money didn't do a single thing.
Crowd Pr is a scam plain and simple. We were foolish enough to send their money via bank transfer and now come to find out that they aren't even a registered business in the state of California. After researching more I found a ton of other people who have been scammed before us. The whole thing just reeks of a crime scam ring. Everything about them is a fraud, from people on their team (found out they don't exist) to previous clients and their consant changing their business name when caught. The main guy is apparently some kid named Kyle Staebell and he's the one behind this whole scam operation. Dig a bit deeper online and it's all out there. The whole thing is pathetic. They've done a good job trying to hide this all, but hopefully if someone reads this they'll be spared the same fate as us.
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Florissant
Florissant,Missouri,
United States
William Henry is Kyle Staebell
#2Consumer Comment
Sat, April 28, 2018
Yes, correct his true identity is Kyle Staebell and here is a picture of him:
Based on the research I did, he appears to be from Denver, Colorado.
I'm sorry to hear you were among the victims of his scam, please share the email thread, he is known to
have a slick sales pitch, if you can share the whole email thread it will help others not to fall for it.
Here is another review from a previous victim:
ripoffreport.com/reports/crowd-pr/-/crowd-pr-review-scam-1433804
