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Complaint Review: rude boy magazine - Newark California
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rude boy magazine
6655 Clarke Ave, Newark, 94560 California, USA
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http://rudeboymag.com/
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Rudeboy magazine. Rudeboy clothing sponsorship scam. Newark California
I would caution all music artists to be on the look out for this scam. The total sham is this: They propose that you will get featured in there magazine, and that you are a perfect fit for sponsorship. They push that deadlines are pressing, and to provide a payment of $50 US. If you want to go on there mailing list of 100k clients another $39 US is payable. They highly recommend this. They also push for a video fee. Lucky i passed on this. They have full web sites and social media covered to make it all look above board _ Rudeboy clothing, Rudeboy magazine. But they provide no written agreements to sponsor you. No injection of monies to advance your career. They want to be paid instead. This is a clear cut scam. And i told them so with one person Justin Victor in particular, who was extremely shady, and i told him i wanted my money back, which was paid via Paypal one month ago. What they provided was a simple page in the cloud. No magazine spread with other articles etc. No mail out was ever done to there clients. And the clothing sponsorship was one hat sent from the USA. Does that sound like a company that wants you to sponsor there brand? If you try to order the clothing you get supposedly for free, by the time you ship it, pay taxes with an inflated price. It costs more than buying this same product in Australia? They indicated they would agree to a editorial layout in the magazine spread about me. This was never done, just my straight out biography which is on my website already. In fact, all that amounted from Rudeboy was one page, pics and videos, which was like a link to my website? Instead they had multidudes of other artists being processed like a meat market they scam at the same time. This rang the bells when on twitter and instagram the artists were all flooding in. They ask you add them to there social media pages? I was surprised when i researched the group there was not one complaint on line? I was told i would get a refund in full. But the person i was talking to went out of his way to make you go in circles as a delaying tactic. Wanted me to return the hat from Australia to LA? Until he finally agreed to take what i paid $89 US out of his own pocket. A very suspicious character Justin Victor. Never remitted one cent. It is not the monies but the principal at stake here. I advised him i would act but preferred to believe i was bluffing. He claims they have never had any bad experiences. I told him i doubted that as well. I have made a compaint to Paypal as well. I would highly caution any artist or music entertainer being asked for sponsorship by Rudeboy to get featured in there magazine.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Nothing in writing. Is a meat market.
#2Author of original report
Sun, March 20, 2016
There is simply no document in writing to support a supponsorship. Without there is no sponsorship. An application to join is not a sponsorship! The info is a straight up method of collecting your data to pay a sponsorship fee. I would doubt this response is even from an artist, but the company itself. They tend to draft there response in email to me, in this very same tone as this note here. They still message me. But the fact nothing ever happens! They have a meat market via twitter of eveyone winning! There was never ever any personalised about it. No contact via Rudeboy or me as a artist to move ahead. Not once, any personal interest in moving forward in sponsorship! It is all a blatant scam Rude Boy. Take your photo with a hat and send it to me. Is that sponsorship? There was a web page as i said, but it was not a newletter or magazine. The listing that they stated it goes to, does not exist. It was a one page word for word i gave them, as i stated. No editorial nothing! I have the same words on my web site. Why would i need there page! I implore any artist to not get involved in this shady, and non descript organization. If you think they will support your career i doubt it. They have a listing via twitter and instagram of everyone winning. Would never have the staffing to support your career. I doubt they would know the first thing about you honestly. It is all about scaming your money. They want you promote them. Not the other way around.
1prynce
columbus,Ohio,
USA
Rude Boy Magazine sponsership
#3General Comment
Thu, March 17, 2016
I am an artist who was recently sponsered by Rude Boy, and the person who took care of my sponsership kept in constent with me. they sent me a discount code that would make any purchase on there site free, with the exception of shipping and handling. I was also emailed a link, in which i am able to request merchandise for free ifi need any. The hat they sent first was too insure that they had the right address to send things too. within 3 or 4 weeks my article was up on there site, and one of there editors kept in contact with me throughout the entire process. the form they have you fill out in the beginning serves as the agreement, rather than having a written agreement. this is where they have you give all your information to them so they have it in there database.
