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Complaint Review: Primerica - Nationwide
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Primerica Cost me a friend Orlando Florida*UPDATE: Primerica recognized by Rip-off Report a business opportunity well worth considering - it's not for everyone but many representatives make solid commission incomes. Primerica takes appropriate action against representatives conducting themselves improperly, pledges 100% commitment to customer service.
A close friend of ours went to work for Primerica. She knew we were in the process of re-financing our home... She came over and explained the company for us, but she had said several times she only wanted to come over for a training meeting to help her gain experience for her new job.
I told her BEFORE hand that I was not interested in doing business with the company but she insisted it was only for her training..However she became VERY angry with me during the meeting and tried very forcefully to get my husband and me interested, and actually talked my husband into attending a second meeting with her. He called home when he was at the meeting and said he could make money if he joined them and wanted to give them $199.00. I said NO WAY! Then a few days later I got a very nasty letter from this friend returning the financial paperwork she wormed out of us. She said I hurt her feelings because I didn't trust her judgment and she was only looking out for our family blah blah blah.
Now bear in mind that normally I WOULD trust her with anything, but I feel like she is being mislead herself and I didn't want to get involved with primerica. I did alot of investigating on the company on my own and decided it's totally a scam.
I tried to explain to her that we always explore ANY company we deal with concerning finances or major decesions, but she refused to listen to me and now wants NOTHING to do with our family. I have lost a very dear friend, one who even threw our wedding shower when my husband & I were married. ALL BECAUSE OF PRIMERICA!
Lynn
Orlando, Florida
U.S.A.
I told her BEFORE hand that I was not interested in doing business with the company but she insisted it was only for her training..However she became VERY angry with me during the meeting and tried very forcefully to get my husband and me interested, and actually talked my husband into attending a second meeting with her. He called home when he was at the meeting and said he could make money if he joined them and wanted to give them $199.00. I said NO WAY! Then a few days later I got a very nasty letter from this friend returning the financial paperwork she wormed out of us. She said I hurt her feelings because I didn't trust her judgment and she was only looking out for our family blah blah blah.
Now bear in mind that normally I WOULD trust her with anything, but I feel like she is being mislead herself and I didn't want to get involved with primerica. I did alot of investigating on the company on my own and decided it's totally a scam.
I tried to explain to her that we always explore ANY company we deal with concerning finances or major decesions, but she refused to listen to me and now wants NOTHING to do with our family. I have lost a very dear friend, one who even threw our wedding shower when my husband & I were married. ALL BECAUSE OF PRIMERICA!
Lynn
Orlando, Florida
U.S.A.
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Lynn
Orlando,Florida,
U.S.A.
Thanks for the laugh, If you only knew!
#2Author of original report
Mon, May 24, 2004
I am writing in response to the man who rebutted my original report on primerica...my husband and I had a good laugh when we read the part about me being controlling. If you only knew! Maybe it was the fact that when my hubby asked my opinion on the $199.00 they wanted that you assumed I was controlling. The fact of the matter is that when we became a couple we both mutually agreed that if we ever wanted to spend more than $100.00 on something we would DISCUSS it first. We also agreed that when making ANY major decisions we would talk about it first and make it together or compromise...Since I have access to the internet at work and we don't at home I researched primerica. Both the primerica web site, citibank and several others...I also came across ripoff.com and read everything I could....I printed out loads of things from the primerica site, citibank and ripoff.com. My husband read EVERYTHING I brought home and did some digging on his own, through friends in the financial business (including our family's cpa) and friends in the realestate business....When he called and asked me about the $199.00 and I said no way...(it was no way without discussing this alone, in private without pressure being put on him on the spot.) Which, if you ADMIT it, goes on all the time with this company. As for me being controlling...we will just keeping chuckling about that! And by the way...my husband is still thanking me because he is still hearing bad things about primerica FROM OTHER PEOPLE NOT ME!
DEAN
PHILADELPHIA,Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.
IT'S NOT THE PRIMERICA I KNOW
#3Consumer Comment
Fri, May 21, 2004
The person who wrote this letter could not have properly checked out Primerica, because if she did she could never call it a scam. I know many many families personally in Penna, NJ and DE that Primerica has helped with its products and services as well as it's business opportunity. There are literlly thousands of possitive articles written about Primerica in nearly every business journal in the world. So it appears she looked only where she could find negative information to form her opinion. Her problem is with her friend not Primerica. She chose not to trust her friend's or her husband's judgement (she sounds a bit controlling) so rather than admit she has a problem them, they can't have the wisdom she has, it must be Primerica. Primerica is not the problem. SHE IS!
