18kisses1
norfolk,#2UPDATE Employee
Sun, November 25, 2012
I have only been working at ima for 2 weeks and they only want you to be on the phone for only 3 secs tops and they want you to brief on the phone, when they answer the phone and I tried to persuade them buy these magazines they ask me questions like: why am i nominated for the DREAM COME TRUE sweepstakes, and why am i in the running for the 25,000 sweepstakes, and why am i winning a Mustang GT Ford?, etc., etc., and im totally speechless for words because i dont even know why.!!! Their Credit Card or Bank Card that people use pops up on our computer screen as well as their name and address and SSN.
They tell you that the drawing is held every year and the raffle is July 15, 2013. It tell you that their is no obligation to buy anything to participate in the sweepstakes then turn around and tell you that you have three free magazines but you have to pay for one of them for 4.99/a month and the rest of the magazines would be free for 60 months. they tell you they have hundreds of magazines to choose from but they only have 36 magazines that get advertised on a daily basis it hurts me to kno that the company i work for is managed by complete scam artist's and they are only using my work to fill up their own pockets while they sit back and pay me less money than i worked for...i just want someone to tell me what i shoud do...???
BIGB
Delano,#3Consumer Comment
Fri, September 02, 2011
I received a call from IMA. They asked me some questions and then offered me magazine subscriptions. I did not want to go through with the payment but they did it anyway. I did, however, get a phone number from them and I called the next day to see if I could cancel. After talking to a representative for a while, he said that he could change my account to only receiving one magazine for one year, and I only had to make that initial payment that I did the day before.
I was relieved, yet I'm not sure if I could trust them. How do I know that I really wont be making any more payments?
Laura
Brooksville,#4Consumer Comment
Fri, February 05, 2010
This happened to me just today they took 68 dollars out of my account and i was going to get married its all i had and i need it back is there any way you can help me i am desprate
Curious
Virginia Beach,#5Consumer Comment
Tue, April 08, 2008
I know someone who worked for this company a few months ago and I heard that there was an arguement between the owners and one of the owners and some employees left the Virginia Beach offices and moved to an office in Portsmouth off of Victory Blvd? Do any of you who work there or have worked there know where the office is located and if they are still operating as IMA or do they go by another name now?
Govt
.,#6Author of original report
Mon, December 17, 2007
CONTACT DARYL DECROIX PRESIDENT OF IMA AND CRC DIRECT TO HIS MOBILE PHONE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS CALL PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETING ASSOCIATION AND COMMUNITY READING CLUB 757-615-6201 757-615-6201 757-615-6201 757-615-6201 757-615-6201 daryl decroix cell phone number
Geneva
Virginia Beach,#7UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, October 22, 2007
I worked for these people several years ago. I was still in high school and was doing this part time in the evenings and on the weekend. We were selling magazine subscriptions. It was fairly easy work. Most of my sales were to men, whom I would flirt with until they were friendly enough with me that I knew they would buy just because they liked me, and to the elderly, a big victim of this type of thing. Elderly people are lonely and are just happy someone called. They are also easily confused by the figures. I felt horrible about selling to them because we never actually mentioned how much they were paying in the long run. We would only give them the monthly payment amount but honestly, it came to over $700 in magazines over a couple years. If you were already buying all of the magazines every month, it might be a good deal, but nobody really buys that many magazines religiously. Between ripping off confused old people and the work environment itself (bell ringing constantly, I had to tell customers we were having a birthday party and it got really tough when bells would ring twice during the same call), I couldn't tolerate it any more. I made a lot of sales and the supervisor praised me constantly but I couldn't deal with it. I was making something like $7 an hour at the time. When I told them I was quitting, the supervisor threw a fit. That freaked me out and instead of giving notice, I decided to quit right away. They told me that if I didn't work at least the next 5 days, I would only get something like $5 an hour for the time I'd already worked instead of $7. I was furious but I was a kid and I didn't know my rights at the time. If I knew what I know now, they wouldn't have been able to rip me off. But alas, I didn't, and they did! Watch out for these scammers!