The better man
None,#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Thu, July 28, 2011
To begin,
I will summarize the responses to the blatantly false claims
in the first 2 paragraphs and will go into detail below them
I did work for Acceleration Financial Solutions (not Group)
as the owner of this company so cleverly disguised to save face of his awful
reputation. I will not disclose his name because he has long history of suing people
for slander Hmm I wonder why. Do a
search for this company and see for yourself.
This is the same person that posted this false report
I have never stolen from or ripped anyone off, I was never exposed
for anything other than being foolish to trust this man like so many others
have, I have ample training and certification, I had a police record nearly 20
years ago at the age of 16 for trespassing which was erased as I was a juvenile
at the time ( I am not claiming to be perfect), I have made plenty of money in
the past and after working for this man (Owner of Acceleration Financial
Solutions) I came to a point of being broke because he rarely paid me any money
and if he did would ask to borrow it back so he could pay his bills. Somehow he
convinced me to stick with him with promises that it would all be made right. I
became financially crippled by trusting him.
In short I have a long list of happy clients that would
attest I am great at what I do.
OK, wow where do I start
I was scouted out and recruited to help build the company
and teach the clients of financial strategies and techniques. I was put in a position
of financial consultant not a sales rep and never officially accepted a
management position.
After the first week the owner told me that I was not to be
involved with maintaining my clients financial picture but rather to sell them
into his so called plan and that the back end office staff would be in charge
of this and take care of them. This was not the same disclosure I was told when
I agreed to come on board. I was not happy but agreed because I still hoped
that I was going to help a lot of people.
So I began selling a financial package to prospective
clients. I drove out to their houses and presenting what I thought was a great
product. I was told that the leads would be ready, scheduled and all I had to
do was show up and show them how we could help. I found out after about 2 weeks
that the prospects came from a site that collected contact info for mortgage
refinancing? More distrust? It was basically a bait and switch. They were told
it was a way to flip the amortization schedule upside down on their mortgage.
In a way some could look at it this way but still was a very indirect and
sneaky approach to setting the appointment. I voiced my opinion about being
honest but was shut down immediately. He said you concentrate on selling and
let me do the rest.
After about a month the
clients began calling me saying they did not receive what was initially promised.
I was very upset about these calls and went to the staff to find out what the
heck was happening. To no fault of their own they had no clue what they were
supposed to do since the owner never had a structure in place to do as the
package promised. I went to the owner
and said we cannot move forward on sales any longer until the back end was
tight and clients were happy so he said to get in there and see what I can do
to fix it. I happily agreed and got to work spending every waking moment getting
things straightened out as much as I could. I went to the owner and said the
clients need several services they were promised but the services that were
offered such as a mortgages and insurance were priced out horribly. I asked how can this
be? The mortgage company had a pretty good reputation for getting good rates, the
insurance companies were also reputable so why would they get better rates
elsewhere? Another surprise! He was getting advertising fees just another
sneaky was of saying KICKBACKS. I was disgusted, not only were the clients not
getting what they paid for but in reality they would be paying even more? I dug
a bit deeper and all the services he had to offer were all over priced in order
for him to receive his kick backs.
After learning all of this I quit and told the owner to not worry
about paying me since all the other employees would suffer as well because he
had not paid them either. After I left, only a week later the entire company
collapsed. I began my own company Guaranteed Financial Group in July of 2010
and shortly after starting the clients began calling me to find out what was
happening, I told them the company was out of business and offered to help out
any way I could for free as much as possible. After all, I did sign them up and
wanted to make it right for them. Most of them really liked that I offered but
said it was not my fault, that I too was a victim and they would get it back
from the owner one way or another. They turned to the BBB (Better Business Bureau)
and then the AG (Attorney General) Small Claims Court, local authorities, with
no avail. They did not feel satisfied since there was no money to refund and
the owner would dodge their calls and never return any messages so they went to
ripoff reports and scam informer to retaliate. The owner blamed me for the collapse
of AFS and even blamed me for the collapse of his second company.
Keith Crawford is a very old friend of mine for many years and
approaching 70 years old and very genuine man. He told me after I hired him
that He did not like the owner and said that we need to watch out for him. In
life I always look for the better side of people as often as possible and
sometimes it comes back to bite me. Keith has not worked with me at Guaranteed
Financial Group as I was just getting started and could not justify paying him
for services I did not yet need.
Several other employees found out of my start up and offered to come work with
me for little to no money. They are and were great people and deserve the very
best. When I have the opportunity to use their services they will be the at the
top of the list and I look forward to paying them well.
I really thought of scam informer and rip-off report as a
great idea to keep professionals to a true level of professionalism but in this
case I have been sending the same massive amounts of proof that this claim is
false and not one response EVER in this case this service is worthless and
should be disregarded.