- Report: #963105
Complaint Review: CSI RELIEF / - McKinney Tennessee
Reported By:
JENNIFER SMITH -
PORTLAND, Oregon, United States of America
Submitted:
Updated:
-
Author Not Confirmed
Why?
CSI RELIEF /
8945 County Road853 McKinney, 75071 Tennessee, United States of America
Phone:
210.454.1090
Web:
www.csirelief.com
Categories:
Business Rating:
(0)
Tell us has your experience with this business or person been good?
CSI RELIEF / Rick Thompson CSIRELIEF - BOGUS PRODUCTS/ RICK THOMPSON, JULIE D. FREEMAN. HARRY ASTON ARE THIEVES AND SCAM ARTISTS McKinney, Tennessee
Report Attachments
FRAUD, RIPPOFF:
CSIRELEIF, RICK G. THOMSON, JULIE D. FREEMAN, HARRY MARSHALL ASTON
October 25, 2012
CSI was formed as an LLC with three partners, including Rick Thompson and me (Jennifer Thompson Smith) and one silent partner when Rick was residing in Oregon in the early summer of
2012.
After returning to Dallas in August 2012 and reconciling with his ex-wife, Julie D. Freeman, Rick approached me with the intention of forming a new company. Rick had re-formulated the partnership agreement from one-third ownership for each for the three founding partners, to a new ownership redistribution whereby he would own 75%, I would own only 25% and the remaining third partner, who had a sizeable investment and one-third ownership, would be completely disregarded!
Rick Thompson and the I.T. administrator, Harry Aston, both of whom hosted CSIs Thursday night update conference calls, repeatedly told everyone the pay module was almost finished and would be up the following week. The following week however, never materialized. Hundreds of people believed what they had heard and joined CSI based upon what these two men said.
When I refused to agree to the new partnership arrangement and questioned the existence of the third partners rights, Rick instructed the IT administrator to completely block my access to CSI system (Sept 7, 2012). I have repeatedly asked both Rick and Harry Aston, the IT administrator, to reactivate my access, which has never done.
I have repeatedly asked Rick Thompson to provide all financial information so we could do a profit report and close the LLC as required by law. He refuses do this as well. At the same time, Rick was making large, many times unapproved, unreasonable, unjustified and now, undocumented cash withdrawals from CSIs company account.
On Thursday, October 18, 2012, the CSI website was shut down by Harry Aston while Rick Thompson and Harry Aston launched yet another website under the name www.IBOproducts.com, based upon the website design and some terminology that had been composed by Chuck Deagan (Distributor who was instrumental with CSIs graphics and wording). It became clear that IBOproducts.com was the original CSI website that had been modified for Rick and Harrys new company. That night Harry Aston text CSI distributors to jump on the Thursday night conference call, many thinking the call was going to be the usual CSI update call.
It was during this phone call that Rick announced it was NOT a CSI update call. It was, however, a solicitation phone call by both Rick Thompson and Harry Aston to introduce current CSI associates to and to entice them to join www.iboproducts.com.
Unfortunately for me, I had trusted my father as I invested all my savings into CSI as well as set up the banking merchant account in my name and with my credit. I could never get my father (Rick Thompson) to sign all the paperwork and order company checks. Instead, he was moving as much as $10,000 at a time from CSIs bank account and into his personal account in Texas. At one point, I froze this account but had to reopen it because distributors were owed commissions. When he saw the account re-opened, he immediately drained the account leaving me with only $1400 while he solicited people to ask for $1000 refunds, When I ask him how I was suppose to manage this, he told me he didnt know what to tell me. He was taking the money and shipping from Texas. The product that was shipped in large quantities looked different from the product that had been sent as samples. When the distributors started using this version of Relief, they found it to not work as well the original samples had worked.
When associates started complaining about the ineffectiveness of the product, Rick advised them to contact me for a refund even though he had told some people that I was no longer involved in the day-to-day operations. Obviously, due to Rick Thompson pulling almost all the money out of the account, I was faced with tens of thousands of dollars in refunds for the inferior product that he had shipped. I felt victimized and awful, but I felt even worse that so many others had been victimized too. After feeling sorry for myself for a couple minutes, I became angry that I had allowed Rick Thompson, my biological father who had left my mother with four small children to raise, with no child support, to scam me, my friends and family and others who neither he nor I even knew. I decided that I could feel victimized and humiliated or I could set about to make things better. Choosing to focus on the positive is what I have done.
I have contacted the original manufacturer of the original Relief, the product that we signed up to promote and we were supposed to have as our founders packs. I have also lined up investment partners and we are soon going to have the great product that really works. This is the same product we should have had months ago had Rick Thompson been honest and been committed to CSI. Im excited to say that we have tested samples of the anti-inflammatory product in Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon and Tennessee and it works better than we could have imagined. Over 95% of those trying it have reported amazing results. We have production underway and scheduled to be shipped approximately the second week of November. All of you who purchased the Relief product from CSI and have not requested nor have received a refund will receive this product at no charge.
In closing, I wish to thank all of you who have been supportive and patient with me. I assure you I am doing everything in my power to recreate the company that we envisioned but was taken from us. We will be updating you on a regular basis and look forward to the testimonies of success with this incredible product.
You can and should shape your own future
Because if you dont, someone else surely will.
Joel A. Barker
To your health,
Jennifer Smith
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO RECEIVE A REFUND, TO ACCESS YOUR WEBSITE,
CONTACT:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REFUNDS / GENERAL INFORMATION:
Richard G. Thompson:
Email: [email protected]
Cell Phone: (210) 454-1090
Non-published: (360) 314-6848
Physical Address:
8945 CR 853
McKinney, Texas 75071
Skype: DADDYSHARK48
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LOST PACKAGES, SHIPPING, RETURNS, COMPLAINTS
Julie D. Freeman:
Email: [email protected]
Cell phone: (210) 367-3274
Non-published: (214) 842-6685
Physical Address:
8945 CR 853
McKinney, Texas 75071
Skype: Julie.D.Freeman
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IF YOU CANNOT ACCESS YOUR PERSONAL WEBSITE, CONTACT:
Harry Marshall Aston: (wife:Jennifer Sue Shaw Aston)
Email: [email protected]
Cell phone: (214) 200-9195
Office Phone: (469) 247-2405
Non-published (469) 200-4059
Physical address: 6 Shady Bend Dr
Melissa, TX 75464-8919
Skype: Harry.Aston
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FILE A COMPLAINT WITH YOUR ATTORNEY GENERAL:
To file a complaint on these three CSI people, contact your States Attorney
Generals Office: (COPY AND PASTE)
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MAKE SURE TO FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL (AUSTIN, TX), GREG ABBOTT, AS WELL!!!
https://www.oag.state.tx.us/forms/cpd/form.php
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION:
(COPY AND PASTE)
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
CSIRELEIF, RICK G. THOMSON, JULIE D. FREEMAN, HARRY MARSHALL ASTON
October 25, 2012
CSI was formed as an LLC with three partners, including Rick Thompson and me (Jennifer Thompson Smith) and one silent partner when Rick was residing in Oregon in the early summer of
2012.
After returning to Dallas in August 2012 and reconciling with his ex-wife, Julie D. Freeman, Rick approached me with the intention of forming a new company. Rick had re-formulated the partnership agreement from one-third ownership for each for the three founding partners, to a new ownership redistribution whereby he would own 75%, I would own only 25% and the remaining third partner, who had a sizeable investment and one-third ownership, would be completely disregarded!
Rick Thompson and the I.T. administrator, Harry Aston, both of whom hosted CSIs Thursday night update conference calls, repeatedly told everyone the pay module was almost finished and would be up the following week. The following week however, never materialized. Hundreds of people believed what they had heard and joined CSI based upon what these two men said.
When I refused to agree to the new partnership arrangement and questioned the existence of the third partners rights, Rick instructed the IT administrator to completely block my access to CSI system (Sept 7, 2012). I have repeatedly asked both Rick and Harry Aston, the IT administrator, to reactivate my access, which has never done.
I have repeatedly asked Rick Thompson to provide all financial information so we could do a profit report and close the LLC as required by law. He refuses do this as well. At the same time, Rick was making large, many times unapproved, unreasonable, unjustified and now, undocumented cash withdrawals from CSIs company account.
On Thursday, October 18, 2012, the CSI website was shut down by Harry Aston while Rick Thompson and Harry Aston launched yet another website under the name www.IBOproducts.com, based upon the website design and some terminology that had been composed by Chuck Deagan (Distributor who was instrumental with CSIs graphics and wording). It became clear that IBOproducts.com was the original CSI website that had been modified for Rick and Harrys new company. That night Harry Aston text CSI distributors to jump on the Thursday night conference call, many thinking the call was going to be the usual CSI update call.
It was during this phone call that Rick announced it was NOT a CSI update call. It was, however, a solicitation phone call by both Rick Thompson and Harry Aston to introduce current CSI associates to and to entice them to join www.iboproducts.com.
Unfortunately for me, I had trusted my father as I invested all my savings into CSI as well as set up the banking merchant account in my name and with my credit. I could never get my father (Rick Thompson) to sign all the paperwork and order company checks. Instead, he was moving as much as $10,000 at a time from CSIs bank account and into his personal account in Texas. At one point, I froze this account but had to reopen it because distributors were owed commissions. When he saw the account re-opened, he immediately drained the account leaving me with only $1400 while he solicited people to ask for $1000 refunds, When I ask him how I was suppose to manage this, he told me he didnt know what to tell me. He was taking the money and shipping from Texas. The product that was shipped in large quantities looked different from the product that had been sent as samples. When the distributors started using this version of Relief, they found it to not work as well the original samples had worked.
When associates started complaining about the ineffectiveness of the product, Rick advised them to contact me for a refund even though he had told some people that I was no longer involved in the day-to-day operations. Obviously, due to Rick Thompson pulling almost all the money out of the account, I was faced with tens of thousands of dollars in refunds for the inferior product that he had shipped. I felt victimized and awful, but I felt even worse that so many others had been victimized too. After feeling sorry for myself for a couple minutes, I became angry that I had allowed Rick Thompson, my biological father who had left my mother with four small children to raise, with no child support, to scam me, my friends and family and others who neither he nor I even knew. I decided that I could feel victimized and humiliated or I could set about to make things better. Choosing to focus on the positive is what I have done.
I have contacted the original manufacturer of the original Relief, the product that we signed up to promote and we were supposed to have as our founders packs. I have also lined up investment partners and we are soon going to have the great product that really works. This is the same product we should have had months ago had Rick Thompson been honest and been committed to CSI. Im excited to say that we have tested samples of the anti-inflammatory product in Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon and Tennessee and it works better than we could have imagined. Over 95% of those trying it have reported amazing results. We have production underway and scheduled to be shipped approximately the second week of November. All of you who purchased the Relief product from CSI and have not requested nor have received a refund will receive this product at no charge.
In closing, I wish to thank all of you who have been supportive and patient with me. I assure you I am doing everything in my power to recreate the company that we envisioned but was taken from us. We will be updating you on a regular basis and look forward to the testimonies of success with this incredible product.
You can and should shape your own future
Because if you dont, someone else surely will.
Joel A. Barker
To your health,
Jennifer Smith
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO RECEIVE A REFUND, TO ACCESS YOUR WEBSITE,
CONTACT:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REFUNDS / GENERAL INFORMATION:
Richard G. Thompson:
Email: [email protected]
Cell Phone: (210) 454-1090
Non-published: (360) 314-6848
Physical Address:
8945 CR 853
McKinney, Texas 75071
Skype: DADDYSHARK48
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LOST PACKAGES, SHIPPING, RETURNS, COMPLAINTS
Julie D. Freeman:
Email: [email protected]
Cell phone: (210) 367-3274
Non-published: (214) 842-6685
Physical Address:
8945 CR 853
McKinney, Texas 75071
Skype: Julie.D.Freeman
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IF YOU CANNOT ACCESS YOUR PERSONAL WEBSITE, CONTACT:
Harry Marshall Aston: (wife:Jennifer Sue Shaw Aston)
Email: [email protected]
Cell phone: (214) 200-9195
Office Phone: (469) 247-2405
Non-published (469) 200-4059
Physical address: 6 Shady Bend Dr
Melissa, TX 75464-8919
Skype: Harry.Aston
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FILE A COMPLAINT WITH YOUR ATTORNEY GENERAL:
To file a complaint on these three CSI people, contact your States Attorney
Generals Office: (COPY AND PASTE)
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MAKE SURE TO FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL (AUSTIN, TX), GREG ABBOTT, AS WELL!!!
https://www.oag.state.tx.us/forms/cpd/form.php
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION:
(COPY AND PASTE)
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
Report Attachments
