- Report: #166532
Complaint Review: StoresOnline - Orem Utah
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StoresOnline
754 East Technology Ave Orem, 84097 Utah, U.S.A.
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StoresOnline is NOT what they seem, high-pressure sales, fast talking reps, calls for more and more money, no help, general tutorials, ripoff Orem UtahRip-Off Report Investigation: shows that StoresOnline & iMergent is fulfilling its commitment to provide excellent customer service. Rip-off Report gives StoresOnline a POSITIVE rating in customer support and quality assurance. StoresOnline pledges to resolve complaints and address any issues from the past, present and in the future - committed to 100% satisfaction - whatever it takes say company executives.
Hello~
I want to say thank you to those that posted about this company. You saved me $15,000. I bought 6 websites and went into a 50/50 partnership with my aunt. My aunt is not a financial risk-taker, but like me, she was looking for some extra income. She is smart and has a masters in accounting. She deals with vendors, budgeting, and money every day. I know how to design websites and I have other computer knowledge. Together we thought we would have a great business partnership.
However, I have spent a month on their "user-friendly" self-help tutorials and all they did was give me very general information so I couldn't learn how their program works. Here is the bullet. (and probably why their tutorials are so general.) Yesterday a representative called me and said that they would like to "mentor" my aunt and I and bring us aboard their "success team."
The representative told me he had to know my decision on whether not I was going to be a team player or not that night. I told him I didn't have my credit card with me but that we were very interested in being mentored, so we set up an appointment for tonight. He informed me at the end of the conversation that by tonight, we had to make our decision and turn over the money right away. We were uncomfortable at best with the pressure, but we were looking at the big picture. You have to spend money to make money, right?
My aunt and I already invested $6,200 in their program and now they were asking another $10,000-$15,000 upfront to coach us through the process of putting our marketing site together. I am really glad I didn't have my credit card on me yesterday because it allowed me to do some research, research I should have done on day one when I was invited to their seminar. I found this site and several others, including the Better Business Bureau in Utah, stacked with pages and pages of complaints.
If you go to a seminar, listen to your gut instincts, I wish I had.
Crystal
Minneapolis, Minnesota
U.S.A.
I want to say thank you to those that posted about this company. You saved me $15,000. I bought 6 websites and went into a 50/50 partnership with my aunt. My aunt is not a financial risk-taker, but like me, she was looking for some extra income. She is smart and has a masters in accounting. She deals with vendors, budgeting, and money every day. I know how to design websites and I have other computer knowledge. Together we thought we would have a great business partnership.
However, I have spent a month on their "user-friendly" self-help tutorials and all they did was give me very general information so I couldn't learn how their program works. Here is the bullet. (and probably why their tutorials are so general.) Yesterday a representative called me and said that they would like to "mentor" my aunt and I and bring us aboard their "success team."
The representative told me he had to know my decision on whether not I was going to be a team player or not that night. I told him I didn't have my credit card with me but that we were very interested in being mentored, so we set up an appointment for tonight. He informed me at the end of the conversation that by tonight, we had to make our decision and turn over the money right away. We were uncomfortable at best with the pressure, but we were looking at the big picture. You have to spend money to make money, right?
My aunt and I already invested $6,200 in their program and now they were asking another $10,000-$15,000 upfront to coach us through the process of putting our marketing site together. I am really glad I didn't have my credit card on me yesterday because it allowed me to do some research, research I should have done on day one when I was invited to their seminar. I found this site and several others, including the Better Business Bureau in Utah, stacked with pages and pages of complaints.
If you go to a seminar, listen to your gut instincts, I wish I had.
Crystal
Minneapolis, Minnesota
U.S.A.
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Crystal
Minneapolis,Minnesota,
U.S.A.
Storesonlines and their affiliate Electronic Marketing Services (EMS)
#2Author of original report
Fri, December 02, 2005
EMS is the marketing partner of Storesonline. These sales representatives call and ask you questions to see if you "fit" their program and then once you do, (I would like to see someone that wanted to join and they said sorry were not going to take your money because you don't fit) they want you to join their team for the price of $7,000 - $15,000 and they will, step-by-step help you become successful. After further questions, (which they avoided, gave long-winded unrelevant answers to, or just plain said I don't know), I found out that it isn't really a step-by-step process. They can't help you with specifics, only "point you in the general direction." They also stated that their "graduation rate" aka success rate is only 85%. If there system is so wonderful, why isn't it closer to 100%? Anyway, I told them that my aunt and I made our decision, our decision was NO. We then were accused of making assumptions and being irrational because we didn't want to listen to their presentation. In conclusion, we spent over two hours trying to tell these guys NO. They claimed they weren't going to try and convince us, but two hours of a we "weren't giving them a chance" guilt-trip proved otherwise. They also said they weren't fast-talkers and it wasn't high-pressure sales (haha, yeah right). I find it funny that they claimed that they only had 8 mentor positions open and of all the people that signed up that day, they thought we "fit" their program. If there are only 8 spots open and 200 people signed up, why were they so adamant about us? What a bunch of WHOOIE! Run...run fast...run faster...warn others!
