Scott
Ft. Lauderdale,#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, August 17, 2004
We are a small business in South Florida that fell for the Norvergence - IFC scam in an attempt to save several hundreds of dollars per month on cell phone bills that were ironically never delivered. They finally installed the MATRIX closet ornament in June and promptly sold the lease to IFC Leasing...the same company that complained to the New Jersey BK court in July that IFC had several hundred accounts in default at an expected default cost of 10 million dollars. It is hard for IFC Leasing to argue they were innocent victims of Norvergence when they continued to buy leases from Norvergence when most customers were not even making their first payment. How can IFC Leasing expect to collect from accounts that were sold non-tranferrable, worthless Adtran equipment without service when their own Master agreement with Norvergence transfers the account back to Norvergence if the customer never makes a payment or subsequently defaults on the contract? Besides the obvious FTC and UCC concerns regarding the complicent relationship between corporate officers from both companies, more important is the RICO "bait and switch" standard is met and should trigger an order for injunctive relief prohibiting the LC's from issuing demand payment letters prior to the completion of a complete investigation by the FTC. Please post if you have been issued a demand payment letter or lawsuit notification letter or the like from IFC.
Andrew-John
Dallas,#3Consumer Comment
Mon, August 16, 2004
My small company is also a victim of the Norvergence / IFC scam. Recently, we attempted to return the Matrix equipment to IFC. They said that they paid Norvergence for it in advance, so it belongs to them. Since we are no longer interested in doing business with any company involved with the Norvergence scam and we were not going to make any more payments on the useless equipment & non-existent service, it wasn't right for us to keep the equipment. Last week, we sent it to IFC via UPS and they refused it, the package was marked "refused, not ordered ". Now the package has been returned to the mailing center from which it was sent. We haven't heard from the IFC collections mob in a few days, but still don't know what to do next... Have any complaints been made to the FTC ? Is there a place to seek relief from this terrible situation ?