Complaint Review: Pro Marketing Group AKA R3 Enterprises Cydcor Granton Marketing Innovage DS-MAX - Fort Lauderdale Florida

i must say this about DSMAX, Innovage, Granton Marketing. I was with them for 4 years. I must say that there is negative and positive thing about them. The positives are that there i away for people that are just hard workers to own there own business. People that didnt have a college background. ( i do ) They help people get and become goal oriented. I was never goal oriented before i work with them. I became a owner in there business. I went to Bahamas and other places of the U.S. I grew like i never new that I would grow. On the other hand when I became the owner of my own company there was alot of scamming going on. They took 15k out of my bank account. That broke the camels back for me. you can contact me at (((ROR REDACTED))) CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

Cydcor has yet another name. I was hired by a company operating in the Philadelphia area who is using the name Syntec Marketing Solutions. I have since discovered the Cydcor scam, and realized that Syntec is part of Cydcor. I do not however consider myself to be a victim of Cydcor/Syntec, because I only worked there for 3 days.

First I would like to say thank you to all the people who have filed reports here and elsewhere on the Net about this group. I recently began job hunting in Miami, and I decided to post a preliminary draft of my resume on sites like Monster, Careerbuilder, etc. to see if I would get any response while I was reworking my resume and doing the typical job hunting research. Within 12 hours of posting I received responses from 3 companies: Pro Marketing Group, The Niko Group, and Miami Marketing Works. When I took a look at their ads and called to speak with the companies, I was immediately struck by a few observations, most notably: - All the ads were remarkably similar -They all encouraged those with no experience to apply and and seemed to almost (very subtly) discourage responses from experienced canidates -They all boasted of having Fortune 500 companies as clients, but did not give any real information in their ads or on the phone (vague job descriptions, no specification of the company's actually operations) -They were all in an incredible rush to interview me I told one company that I couldn't come in for an interview until later in the week, and they said that would be too late, someone would be hired by then. I told them sorry, but it was impossible and wished them luck. Several hours later they called with a change of heart and scheduled the interview with me. By this point, the alarm bells were ringing in the back of my mind. They were way too desperate and way too vague. I figured I'd still go to the interview for some practice, though, so I started to do some company research. The only problem was, there was no information on these companies in the normal places--better business bureau, local business rags, and so on. I decided to check out their ads again via a Monster search. I then discovered how many ads they had placed, especially in the headings that were not sales or marketing. Then I started doing phone number searches in reverse directories, and it turned out that 2 of the 3 companies were listed under other business names and all had only been in business for a year. I checked other job sites and found other similar ads by different companies. One particular company, R3, had the same phone number as Pro Marketing Group! By now it has become obvious that something shady is going on and that the only reason to go to any of these interviews is to warn other people. I decide to do a little more digging and that is when I discovered these postings and quite a few other sites with the dirt from former employees. I have now confirmed that R3, PMG, and the Niko Group are definately one of these DS Max affiliates, and there is about a 95% chance the other company is too. It does not take that much common sense to realize that people should stay away from these organizations. There are many, many branches of this group, and I do not doubt that there are good people involved, nor that a few (very, very few) are able to achieve the dream, but it is impossible to argue with so many charges. I must wonder why some of you even try. Even in a large organization of stellar reputation there is bound to be a few miscreants, and most employees realize this and would not defend them. In fact most people who are happy with their jobs don't feel the need to defend it at all. So my question to those defenders of the many faces of DS Max and Cydcor is what are you so afraid of? Or, what is it you have to lose? Or, how could you possibly think that you know what happens in every faction of this extended group? And finally, how do you think 3 or 4 people can successfully discount over a hundred (yes, over 100--do your homework!) testimonies of deception and other misconduct? To the rest of you, question, question, and then ask more questions. It is amazing to me how many people were manipulated by such a transparent gimmick. This just supports my premise that the most imminent danger to our society is a lack of independent and critical thought. Please do not think I am insulting anybody who was taken in by these people. I am just trying to make the point that we all need to be aware and attempt a little critical thinking. Especially in the US, where we are taught to regurgitate information instead of examine it. To everyone who is regretting their involvement with the DS Max extended family, don't waste your energy on regret--just learn from the experience. Thanks for warning the rest of us and keep spreading the word. Those of you loving the company, be honest and demand honesty. Best of luck, you'll probably need it. Making big bucks undeniably takes big work, but rest assured, there are definately better alternatives than the DS Max (and family) way.