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Complaint Review: International Profit Associates - Buffalo Grove Illinois
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International Profit Associates
1250 Barclay Blvd. Buffalo Grove, 60089 Illinois, U.S.A.
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International Profit Associates Rude and Crude Collections Harrassement ripoff business from hell Buffalo Grove Illinois*UPDATE: Rip-off Report Investigation - International Profit Associates recognized by Rip-off Report as a safe business service - IPA pledges to resolve all complaints, 100% commitment to customer service and satisfaction, feel confident and secure when doing business with IPA
I have reported on this company once before. I wrote them trying to get things resolved. I never heard a word from them for about 2 or 3 weeks. Last Friday I got two really rude, unprofessional phone call from someone in their collections. Telling me to call them back about a Felony.
I had put stop payment on the check I wrote them, and I had told them I put stop payment on it. They sent it through anyway. The chick call me twice leaving very unprofessionl phone messages. Then that afternoon I got a fax saying if the matter wasn't cleared up by that afternonn they are carrying it to Illinois court.
I live in NC, but they said I had to show up in court in Illinois and if I didn't it would be to their favor. So after not hearing from them at all, then all of a sudden in one days time they call and call with rude messages and then send a threating fax to me. They really have their business scare tactics down pat.
I could go on and I. I am willing to settle up something with them, but looks to me like they are just a bunch of bullies. One man getting filty rich, kinda reminds you of Sadame Insane, and leaving the little people with nothing.
The lady from Antioch, CA, I would love to talk to you. I agree whole heartdly with you about lets get together and fight this thing and let the world know what these crooks are all about. Greed, Greed, Greed.
M
Hampstead, North Carolina
U.S.A.
I had put stop payment on the check I wrote them, and I had told them I put stop payment on it. They sent it through anyway. The chick call me twice leaving very unprofessionl phone messages. Then that afternoon I got a fax saying if the matter wasn't cleared up by that afternonn they are carrying it to Illinois court.
I live in NC, but they said I had to show up in court in Illinois and if I didn't it would be to their favor. So after not hearing from them at all, then all of a sudden in one days time they call and call with rude messages and then send a threating fax to me. They really have their business scare tactics down pat.
I could go on and I. I am willing to settle up something with them, but looks to me like they are just a bunch of bullies. One man getting filty rich, kinda reminds you of Sadame Insane, and leaving the little people with nothing.
The lady from Antioch, CA, I would love to talk to you. I agree whole heartdly with you about lets get together and fight this thing and let the world know what these crooks are all about. Greed, Greed, Greed.
M
Hampstead, North Carolina
U.S.A.
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April
Syracuse,New York,
U.S.A.
I'm glad I only lost the evaluation fees
#2UPDATE Employee
Wed, June 04, 2003
My husband accepted an appointment with a representative of International Profit Associates. We gave him all the information he wanted. I was wary of what he was offering and when i came home I looked the company up online. First I found out that it seemed a legitimate business, next I found the article from Inc. magazine. Thats when I decided to be very cautious. What I got from the article was that they were more worried about selling than about working with their clients towards results. That night I looked over the papers he left with us and fully comprehended the exhorbitant cost of the project. My husband and I decided to listen to what he had to tell us the next day and tell him we wanted some time to think about it. At the second meeting my husband chose not to be there and the representative wanted to speak with both of us. When I told him we wanted a few days to think about it, he said that the program was designed to start immediately and if we wouldn't that we must not be ready to change the company and they wouldn't want to work with us. I told him that was fine but he still wanted to see my husband. I finally talked to my husband and told the representative we were NOT interested. He asked why and reminded me about the fee. Which I paid. The costs he quoted us were: $950.00 for the analysis $27,000 for the book with the plans for our company an estimated 170 hours at $235.00 an hour plus expenses (airfare, rental cars and motels) and $38.00 a day. To implement the plan. I only wish I had known about the meeting sooner and had the chance to reasearch the company before hand and the fact I didn't find http://www.ripoffreport.com/ until the 7th page of a search done on IPA, after I had been to both meetings. I hope this will discourage someone from even accepting an appointment with International Profit Associates. I do know we need to make some changes in our company but I will be looking locally for someone to help us make a plan and probably paying only a small portion of what IPA wanted. I feel uncomfortable with the fact we handed our private financial information to this company and will be much more careful in the future. I wonder what he was thinking as he drove away? "They sure are dumb because we could have helped them." or "They sure are smarter than they looked."
