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  • Report:  #282215

Complaint Review: Xedia -- Xium - Amarillo Texas

Reported By:
- NEW MEXICO, New Mexico,
Submitted:
Updated:

Xedia -- Xium
4720 N.e. 24th Amarillo, 79107 Texas, U.S.A.
Phone:
806-383-4140
Web:
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Tell us has your experience with this business or person been good? What's this?
Xedia is Greg Dockery's latest scam. He's had three companies in less than 3 years...keeps flying by night, but he is still selling the same worthless junk: plastic cans of 'nothing' for upwards of $250, and smoke detectors redesigned to 'clean air' that break in three weeks, but they won't make good.

This joker says he's got all kinds of patents, but check the Patent Website, and search for Dockery and you'll see lots of stuff, he's counting on that...Look a little closer, and you will find nothing that none of it is him, except some lame thing he probably did just so his name was on that site.

Greg says he is an inventor, and invented caller i.d. But, if you ask George Memos, the REAL INVENTOR of caller id, he will tell you that is not true. This is easy information to find:

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6975707.html (see details below)

Greg Dockery says invented picture in picture, but that curtis mathis "stole" it from him...But it is Dockery who steals everyone's hard earned money, and intellectual property, so he can sell cheap plastic cases, made in taiwan, of nothing.

It's easy to find the TRUE inventor of Picture in Picture, too, since the Patent Office doesn't lie like this snake...It's almost TOO easy to expose this rip-off artist.

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6563547.html

This Dockery has a big ego, that he thinks people won't look it up!! CAVEAT EMPTOR--Buyer Beware!! Do your homework, and do NOT let this man steal you, or your poor retired mom and pop's hard earned money!! Like he took my mama's and THEN had the nerve to charge her nearly $200 a month for these plastic cans of nothing!!

HERE IS THE CORRECT INFORMATION ON WHO INVENTED CALLER ID:

Inventor(s)

George Memos

Application

No. 718399 filed on 2003-11-20

Current US Class

379/67.1 , 379/68 , 379/88.09 , 379/88.23

Field of Search

379/67.1 , 379/68 , 379/88.09 , 379/88.1 , 379/88.11 , 379/88.22 , 379/88.23 , 455/412.1 , 455/412.2 , 455/414.1

Examiners

Primary: Rexford Barnie

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP

US Patent References

5265145

5349638

5394445

5400393

5432844

5481594

5490205

5559860

5602908

5778053

5822416

5881134

5963626

5978451

5995603

6067348

6266399

6347133

Abstract Claims Description Full Text

Abstract

The present invention provides an apparatus for efficient communication of messages such as voice messages in a telephone answering system. The apparatus includes an input to receive an incoming call, a recorder for recording outgoing messages, a memory to store incoming and outgoing messages, a comparator for comparing caller information to a client list, a player for playing a particular outgoing message to a calling party if the caller information matches a specific client in the client list, and a menu for identifying members of the client list and to identify locations in the memory for each of the members. The particular outgoing message includes a question previously posed by the specific client and a response to the question.

HERE IS THE REAL PATENT INFORMATION ON

PICTURE IN PICTURE:

Inventor(s)

Kim C. Smith

Assignee

Spotware Technologies, Inc.

Application

No. 392441 filed on 1999-09-07

Current US Class

348/565 , 348/563 , 348/564

Field of Search

345/719 , 345/720 , 345/771 , 345/779 , 345/781 , 345/783 , 345/788 , 345/800 , 345/807 , 345/835 , 345/840 , 348/563 , 348/564 , 348/565 , 348/567 , 348/569 , 725/43 , 725/47 , 725/56

Examiners

Primary: John Miller

Assistant: Annan Q Shang

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Gilly; Richard, Walker; Mark S.

US Patent References

5532753

5594509

5606374

5751953

5844620

6088064

6151059

6154771

6243142

6313880

6314570

6348932

6469753

Abstract Claims Description Full Text

Abstract

A television screen (24) is displayed as a window (25) within a larger displayed image (21), also referred to as a "picture-in-picture." A control program associated with the window (25) provides additional functions to the window, including the ability to view the time, title, and other information a

WARNING...DO NOT FEED THE SCAM MAN DOCKERY OR XEDIA, OR XIUM OR WHATEVER HE'S CALLING HIS XPLACE NOW! THE ONLY PART THAT IS REAL IS THE X...AS IN DANGER XXX STAY AWAY OR YOUR MONEY WILL BE XTRACTED FROM YOUR WALLET!

A. fayad

NEW MEXICO, New Mexico

U.S.A.


19 Updates & Rebuttals

Drb2072

Jacksonville,
Florida,
U.S.A.
Different Ways to establish Credibility

#2Consumer Comment

Fri, March 20, 2009

I was just visited briefly by a sales representative from Xedia. Apparently, he pitched the XPS 400 to my company a while back, but the high cost prevented us from doing anything. He basically said we needed two XPS 400's, one for each bank of our building, but it would save us up to 20% on our electricity usage. I am immediately skeptical because I have researched wind and solar generators that would provide 10-100% of our power usage, and even 10% of our power usage would cost many multiples of $5000. So I ask him how it's possible...the answer wasn't very clear. Something about saving the electricity we are wasting. Like a battery? No, its a capacitor. Whatever. Anyway he is here today because they now offer leasing. For only $278 per month for 48 months we can lease the equipment with a $1 buyout. Now we are in an area where I do know what I'm talking about. Even if they are charging $2000 for s&h and install (he couldn't tell me what that would cost), the interest rate is a healthy 36%. If they only charged $1000 for S&H and install, the interest rate jumps to 47%. I pointed this out to him, and he couldn't get out of my office fast enough. Like I said, there are many ways to establish credibility. When you can lease equipment for 7-8% on the high end every day but someone offers to lease something to you for near 50% interest, you get a good idea of what type of person and company you are dealing with.


Drb2072

Jacksonville,
Florida,
U.S.A.
Different Ways to establish Credibility

#3Consumer Comment

Fri, March 20, 2009

I was just visited briefly by a sales representative from Xedia. Apparently, he pitched the XPS 400 to my company a while back, but the high cost prevented us from doing anything. He basically said we needed two XPS 400's, one for each bank of our building, but it would save us up to 20% on our electricity usage. I am immediately skeptical because I have researched wind and solar generators that would provide 10-100% of our power usage, and even 10% of our power usage would cost many multiples of $5000. So I ask him how it's possible...the answer wasn't very clear. Something about saving the electricity we are wasting. Like a battery? No, its a capacitor. Whatever. Anyway he is here today because they now offer leasing. For only $278 per month for 48 months we can lease the equipment with a $1 buyout. Now we are in an area where I do know what I'm talking about. Even if they are charging $2000 for s&h and install (he couldn't tell me what that would cost), the interest rate is a healthy 36%. If they only charged $1000 for S&H and install, the interest rate jumps to 47%. I pointed this out to him, and he couldn't get out of my office fast enough. Like I said, there are many ways to establish credibility. When you can lease equipment for 7-8% on the high end every day but someone offers to lease something to you for near 50% interest, you get a good idea of what type of person and company you are dealing with.


Drb2072

Jacksonville,
Florida,
U.S.A.
Different Ways to establish Credibility

#4Consumer Comment

Fri, March 20, 2009

I was just visited briefly by a sales representative from Xedia. Apparently, he pitched the XPS 400 to my company a while back, but the high cost prevented us from doing anything. He basically said we needed two XPS 400's, one for each bank of our building, but it would save us up to 20% on our electricity usage. I am immediately skeptical because I have researched wind and solar generators that would provide 10-100% of our power usage, and even 10% of our power usage would cost many multiples of $5000. So I ask him how it's possible...the answer wasn't very clear. Something about saving the electricity we are wasting. Like a battery? No, its a capacitor. Whatever. Anyway he is here today because they now offer leasing. For only $278 per month for 48 months we can lease the equipment with a $1 buyout. Now we are in an area where I do know what I'm talking about. Even if they are charging $2000 for s&h and install (he couldn't tell me what that would cost), the interest rate is a healthy 36%. If they only charged $1000 for S&H and install, the interest rate jumps to 47%. I pointed this out to him, and he couldn't get out of my office fast enough. Like I said, there are many ways to establish credibility. When you can lease equipment for 7-8% on the high end every day but someone offers to lease something to you for near 50% interest, you get a good idea of what type of person and company you are dealing with.


Drb2072

Jacksonville,
Florida,
U.S.A.
Different Ways to establish Credibility

#5Consumer Comment

Fri, March 20, 2009

I was just visited briefly by a sales representative from Xedia. Apparently, he pitched the XPS 400 to my company a while back, but the high cost prevented us from doing anything. He basically said we needed two XPS 400's, one for each bank of our building, but it would save us up to 20% on our electricity usage. I am immediately skeptical because I have researched wind and solar generators that would provide 10-100% of our power usage, and even 10% of our power usage would cost many multiples of $5000. So I ask him how it's possible...the answer wasn't very clear. Something about saving the electricity we are wasting. Like a battery? No, its a capacitor. Whatever. Anyway he is here today because they now offer leasing. For only $278 per month for 48 months we can lease the equipment with a $1 buyout. Now we are in an area where I do know what I'm talking about. Even if they are charging $2000 for s&h and install (he couldn't tell me what that would cost), the interest rate is a healthy 36%. If they only charged $1000 for S&H and install, the interest rate jumps to 47%. I pointed this out to him, and he couldn't get out of my office fast enough. Like I said, there are many ways to establish credibility. When you can lease equipment for 7-8% on the high end every day but someone offers to lease something to you for near 50% interest, you get a good idea of what type of person and company you are dealing with.


Chloe

Stilwell,
Kansas,
U.S.A.
JJ How do you get around this when your customers ask?

#6Consumer Comment

Fri, February 27, 2009

http://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/releases/2008/051408xedia_tro.pdf http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/release_view.php?id=2456 Even if this has been settled and I can't find where it has - I would ALWAYS stay clear of any company (whether you are buying a product or hopping on board to sell it) that caught the attention of the AG's office. And I wouldn't be to quick to buy a product made in Taiwan that I am going to hook to my electrical panel. YIKES!!


Chloe

Stilwell,
Kansas,
U.S.A.
Rebuttal to Director of Operations regarding patents

#7Consumer Comment

Sun, February 22, 2009

Thank you for supplying the patent numbers with Greg's name on them and yes I did check those numbers out. BUT the only problem - you used those patents as a rebuttal to the original complaint that Greg does NOT hold the patent on caller id or picture in a picture. IN FACT I just heard an independent associate for Xedia state in front of 20+ people that Greg did invent these items which is just wrong. If the associates can misrepresent info regarding patents my concern is what else are they willing to misrepresent? The patent numbers you supplied are as follows: 6317101 - antenna 6369778 - antenna 5327230 - video multiplying system 5151838 - video multiplying system


Jj

Lee's Summit,
Missouri,
U.S.A.
A Few Comment on the nature XPS Series Power Factor Correction Products

#8UPDATE Employee

Mon, December 29, 2008

Background: I have 10+ years of Naval Advanced Electronics Training and was an Communications electronics instructor in our esteemed U.S. Naval Submarine Fleet. I worked several years as a commercial / industrial electrician, hold a B.S.E.E. degree and worked the last 7+ years as a complex network engineer for a Fortune 300 Telecom company. I'm also an Independent Distributor for Xedia and feel that I too know just a little bit about electricity and electronics. First off let me say that the XPS SERIES OF PRODUCT MARKETED BY XEDIA DO WORK! I've experienced the savings personally and have also witnessed the savings month over month, and over previous years in both residential and commerical client applications. Sure there are some lifestyle and enviromental variable that come into play, but overall, they are tried and true products backed by money back guarentees and generous extended warranties! As for the XPS products themselves, they are capacative devices intended to not only capture and store wasted power resulting from unbalanced residential / commercial / industrial power power panels that would otherwise pass the wasted power out the common "neutral" lines and back to the utility company plant to be recharged as new KwH units to the next customer in line, without you getting a credit I might add. The XPS products also condition your 'inside' plant by capturing the "rougue" (out of sync) harmonics introduced by various loads, specifically harmonics 3 & 5 which are the most damaging to electrical equipment. Collectivlely this power is stored in capacative circuitry and reintroduced upon demand in response to the power requirements of "INDUCTIVE" loads such as electric motors, high Discharge lighting and transformers. These inductive loads have an inherant voltage lag requiring more power (power factor) that can either be supplied by the XPS devices in the form of collected & stored capacative power (power factor correction) or they can be supplied by the utility company as newly billed KwH. PFC results in reduced real power introduced at the power meter as billed KwH's on power bills. The commercial versions enhance the efficiency of the "INDUCTIVE" loads through this power factor correction process and improve the overall power factor efficiency rating resulting in less power usage for inductive loads and an increased effciency closer to .95% efficiency rating, saving the commerical / industrial plant owner $$ in penalty charges. The short version of a long explanation is that these products help the consumer save money by re-using power they've already purchased, increasing their usage efficiency and prolonging the life of their electronics equipment. In turn they also help the Utility company by not having them have to supply as much power which in a small way helps the Green effort by helping reduce harmful emmission. If the masses were more accurately informed and educated on the benefit potential of power factor correction and the posative role XPS Electricity Management Devices can play, imagine the exponential effect that could have on power production and the enviroment!! Brown / Blackouts might be a thing of the past and we wouldn't be so quick to shovel as much nasty coal into our power generating plants. Natural gas prices would go down due to reduced demand by the same power plants. Until then, consumers will continue to unknowingly waste electricity as it continues to increase in cost year over year and continue to wonder what they can do about it. My answer? Get ahold of an Xedia rep and be part of the solution. Please email me if you have any questions, comments or replies. Personal attacks or overly negative rebuttals will not warrant a response, so if you intend to go there, don't waste your or my time. Thanks.


Jj

Lee's Summit,
Missouri,
U.S.A.
A Few Comment on the nature XPS Series Power Factor Correction Products

#9UPDATE Employee

Mon, December 29, 2008

Background: I have 10+ years of Naval Advanced Electronics Training and was an Communications electronics instructor in our esteemed U.S. Naval Submarine Fleet. I worked several years as a commercial / industrial electrician, hold a B.S.E.E. degree and worked the last 7+ years as a complex network engineer for a Fortune 300 Telecom company. I'm also an Independent Distributor for Xedia and feel that I too know just a little bit about electricity and electronics. First off let me say that the XPS SERIES OF PRODUCT MARKETED BY XEDIA DO WORK! I've experienced the savings personally and have also witnessed the savings month over month, and over previous years in both residential and commerical client applications. Sure there are some lifestyle and enviromental variable that come into play, but overall, they are tried and true products backed by money back guarentees and generous extended warranties! As for the XPS products themselves, they are capacative devices intended to not only capture and store wasted power resulting from unbalanced residential / commercial / industrial power power panels that would otherwise pass the wasted power out the common "neutral" lines and back to the utility company plant to be recharged as new KwH units to the next customer in line, without you getting a credit I might add. The XPS products also condition your 'inside' plant by capturing the "rougue" (out of sync) harmonics introduced by various loads, specifically harmonics 3 & 5 which are the most damaging to electrical equipment. Collectivlely this power is stored in capacative circuitry and reintroduced upon demand in response to the power requirements of "INDUCTIVE" loads such as electric motors, high Discharge lighting and transformers. These inductive loads have an inherant voltage lag requiring more power (power factor) that can either be supplied by the XPS devices in the form of collected & stored capacative power (power factor correction) or they can be supplied by the utility company as newly billed KwH. PFC results in reduced real power introduced at the power meter as billed KwH's on power bills. The commercial versions enhance the efficiency of the "INDUCTIVE" loads through this power factor correction process and improve the overall power factor efficiency rating resulting in less power usage for inductive loads and an increased effciency closer to .95% efficiency rating, saving the commerical / industrial plant owner $$ in penalty charges. The short version of a long explanation is that these products help the consumer save money by re-using power they've already purchased, increasing their usage efficiency and prolonging the life of their electronics equipment. In turn they also help the Utility company by not having them have to supply as much power which in a small way helps the Green effort by helping reduce harmful emmission. If the masses were more accurately informed and educated on the benefit potential of power factor correction and the posative role XPS Electricity Management Devices can play, imagine the exponential effect that could have on power production and the enviroment!! Brown / Blackouts might be a thing of the past and we wouldn't be so quick to shovel as much nasty coal into our power generating plants. Natural gas prices would go down due to reduced demand by the same power plants. Until then, consumers will continue to unknowingly waste electricity as it continues to increase in cost year over year and continue to wonder what they can do about it. My answer? Get ahold of an Xedia rep and be part of the solution. Please email me if you have any questions, comments or replies. Personal attacks or overly negative rebuttals will not warrant a response, so if you intend to go there, don't waste your or my time. Thanks.


Jj

Lee's Summit,
Missouri,
U.S.A.
A Few Comment on the nature XPS Series Power Factor Correction Products

#10UPDATE Employee

Mon, December 29, 2008

Background: I have 10+ years of Naval Advanced Electronics Training and was an Communications electronics instructor in our esteemed U.S. Naval Submarine Fleet. I worked several years as a commercial / industrial electrician, hold a B.S.E.E. degree and worked the last 7+ years as a complex network engineer for a Fortune 300 Telecom company. I'm also an Independent Distributor for Xedia and feel that I too know just a little bit about electricity and electronics. First off let me say that the XPS SERIES OF PRODUCT MARKETED BY XEDIA DO WORK! I've experienced the savings personally and have also witnessed the savings month over month, and over previous years in both residential and commerical client applications. Sure there are some lifestyle and enviromental variable that come into play, but overall, they are tried and true products backed by money back guarentees and generous extended warranties! As for the XPS products themselves, they are capacative devices intended to not only capture and store wasted power resulting from unbalanced residential / commercial / industrial power power panels that would otherwise pass the wasted power out the common "neutral" lines and back to the utility company plant to be recharged as new KwH units to the next customer in line, without you getting a credit I might add. The XPS products also condition your 'inside' plant by capturing the "rougue" (out of sync) harmonics introduced by various loads, specifically harmonics 3 & 5 which are the most damaging to electrical equipment. Collectivlely this power is stored in capacative circuitry and reintroduced upon demand in response to the power requirements of "INDUCTIVE" loads such as electric motors, high Discharge lighting and transformers. These inductive loads have an inherant voltage lag requiring more power (power factor) that can either be supplied by the XPS devices in the form of collected & stored capacative power (power factor correction) or they can be supplied by the utility company as newly billed KwH. PFC results in reduced real power introduced at the power meter as billed KwH's on power bills. The commercial versions enhance the efficiency of the "INDUCTIVE" loads through this power factor correction process and improve the overall power factor efficiency rating resulting in less power usage for inductive loads and an increased effciency closer to .95% efficiency rating, saving the commerical / industrial plant owner $$ in penalty charges. The short version of a long explanation is that these products help the consumer save money by re-using power they've already purchased, increasing their usage efficiency and prolonging the life of their electronics equipment. In turn they also help the Utility company by not having them have to supply as much power which in a small way helps the Green effort by helping reduce harmful emmission. If the masses were more accurately informed and educated on the benefit potential of power factor correction and the posative role XPS Electricity Management Devices can play, imagine the exponential effect that could have on power production and the enviroment!! Brown / Blackouts might be a thing of the past and we wouldn't be so quick to shovel as much nasty coal into our power generating plants. Natural gas prices would go down due to reduced demand by the same power plants. Until then, consumers will continue to unknowingly waste electricity as it continues to increase in cost year over year and continue to wonder what they can do about it. My answer? Get ahold of an Xedia rep and be part of the solution. Please email me if you have any questions, comments or replies. Personal attacks or overly negative rebuttals will not warrant a response, so if you intend to go there, don't waste your or my time. Thanks.


R B

Clinton,
Tennessee,
U.S.A.
...a closer look at the numbers....

#11Consumer Comment

Wed, November 12, 2008

I was approached by someone offering this product and was just doing a little research when I stumbled across this site. I've read all of the comments and have just a couple of things I'd like to add to this conversation. First of all, let me say that I don't know Greg or anything about his past patents or anything else about the other companies or claims. I do know a bit about electricity although I do not claim to be an engineer I have a better than "working knowledge". There is a response in this thread which is quite lengthy and gives some examples and parameters for use...it is this response that I'd like to give some additional food for thought. These devices are primarily intended to improve / correct power factor (there are a couple of other secondary and tertiary effects, but they don't really have a substantive effect in the end). A power factor correction unit usually consists of a number of capacitors that are switched by means of contactors. These contactors are controlled by a regulator that measures power factor in an electrical network. To be able to measure 'power factor', the regulator uses a Current transformer to measure the current in one phase. Depending on the load and power factor of the network, the power factor controller will switch the necessary blocks of capacitors in steps to make sure the power factor stays above 0.9 or other selected values. If a purely resistive load is connected to a power supply (light bulbs, electric heaters, electric ovens, etc.), current and voltage will change polarity in step, the power factor will be unity (1), and the electrical energy flows in a single direction across the network in each cycle. Inductive loads such as transformers and motors (any type of wound coil) consume reactive power with current waveform lagging the voltage. So, a device that corrects power factor is only really having a substantive effect on the network when these capacitive loads are present. Enough of the theory, now for the responses. Item #7 - simply looking at an electric bill is not necessarily a good indicator for ROI. Certainly the smaller the bill, the more likely the ROI will be harder to achieve, but more important is the types of devices that are used in a particular residents. Most, in my opinion would not achieve the types of savings that are advertised simply because most don't have enough capacitive load to justify the cost. Item #9 - you are correct that there are other devices on the market that correct power factor and ALSO step down voltage after a given start-up period. One doesn't really have anything to do with the other. The power factor of an AC electric power system is defined as the ratio of the real power to the apparent power, and is a number between 0 and 1 (frequently expressed as a percentage, e.g. 0.5 pf = 50% pf). Real power is the capacity of the circuit for performing work in a particular time. Apparent power is the product of the current and voltage of the circuit. Item #12 - even comparing months from year-to-year is not an adequate comparison, there are always anomalous events in any given month that can positively or negatively impact your electric bill. This is a better way, but still not an accurate way. Item #13 - you are leaving out an important element of your calculation - time. I will not dispute any of your numbers, but will only use them for my calculation. Lets assume you were to achieve a 240W drop for a washing machine and that washing machine ran on average 30 minutes for each load (remember we only care about the time the motor is running since this is the only capacitive load in this device) and the household did 5 loads of laundry per week for 4 weeks per month. The calculation for the savings would be (again using your numbers and a simple calculation - power factor is an actual portion of this calculation, but I will not include it for simplicity): 240 * .5 * 5 * 4 / 1000 = 2.4 KwH of savings. In my area the current rate for electricity is $0.10891 / KwH. So, I would have saved 2.4 * 0.10891 = $0.261 for the month. My point is simply looking at amperage or Watt reduction isn't accurate measure of savings without including time in your equation. Finally - I know of many industrial customers that use large capacitor banks and other devices to help improve their power factor and reduce lags in service. I'm just not sure a residential application can justify the costs involved since there typically (not always - I'm sure there are exceptions) isn't enough capacitive load in a residential household.


Darcy Watson

Round Rock,
Texas,
U.S.A.
Customer Service Manager

#12UPDATE Employee

Thu, August 14, 2008

I am filing a rebuttal towards the "Even the price is a scam" Xedia's policies and procedures strictly prohibit a distributor from selling our products on the internet. If the seller on the referenced site is a Xedia distributor we will shut them down or terminate there distributorship with the company; old product originally purchased by Forum from Xium before the existence of Xedia has appeared on the internet in the past. We consider this a temporary situation and we will do all we can to address what we clearly understand as a difficult situation but the supply of the old product is limited and is not backed up by Xedia's satisfaction guarantee or Xedia's warranty policy therefore the price of the online product is not a very good value for the buyer as compared to Xedia's.


Darcy Watson

Round Rock,
Texas,
U.S.A.
Customer Service Manager

#13UPDATE Employee

Thu, August 14, 2008

I am filing a rebuttal towards the "Even the price is a scam" Xedia's policies and procedures strictly prohibit a distributor from selling our products on the internet. If the seller on the referenced site is a Xedia distributor we will shut them down or terminate there distributorship with the company; old product originally purchased by Forum from Xium before the existence of Xedia has appeared on the internet in the past. We consider this a temporary situation and we will do all we can to address what we clearly understand as a difficult situation but the supply of the old product is limited and is not backed up by Xedia's satisfaction guarantee or Xedia's warranty policy therefore the price of the online product is not a very good value for the buyer as compared to Xedia's.


Darcy Watson

Round Rock,
Texas,
U.S.A.
Customer Service Manager

#14UPDATE Employee

Thu, August 14, 2008

I am filing a rebuttal towards the "Even the price is a scam" Xedia's policies and procedures strictly prohibit a distributor from selling our products on the internet. If the seller on the referenced site is a Xedia distributor we will shut them down or terminate there distributorship with the company; old product originally purchased by Forum from Xium before the existence of Xedia has appeared on the internet in the past. We consider this a temporary situation and we will do all we can to address what we clearly understand as a difficult situation but the supply of the old product is limited and is not backed up by Xedia's satisfaction guarantee or Xedia's warranty policy therefore the price of the online product is not a very good value for the buyer as compared to Xedia's.


Darcy Watson

Round Rock,
Texas,
U.S.A.
Customer Service Manager

#15UPDATE Employee

Thu, August 14, 2008

I am filing a rebuttal towards the "Even the price is a scam" Xedia's policies and procedures strictly prohibit a distributor from selling our products on the internet. If the seller on the referenced site is a Xedia distributor we will shut them down or terminate there distributorship with the company; old product originally purchased by Forum from Xium before the existence of Xedia has appeared on the internet in the past. We consider this a temporary situation and we will do all we can to address what we clearly understand as a difficult situation but the supply of the old product is limited and is not backed up by Xedia's satisfaction guarantee or Xedia's warranty policy therefore the price of the online product is not a very good value for the buyer as compared to Xedia's.


Thomas

Milan,
Ohio,
U.S.A.
Even Xedia's pricing is a scam

#16Consumer Comment

Wed, March 05, 2008

I saw these products on ebay for much less than the distributors sell them at Xedia and the same manufacturer, Xium, makes them. The Xpower Energy Saver is only $99 compared to Xedia's $249 and the Xygen Air Rejuvenator was only $79 compared to $199. I also found them at bargainswebstore.com for the same low prices as on ebay so I'm sure it's the same company. Look for yourself. Do a search on ebay for Xpower Energy Saver and see what comes up. It seems this bargains web store is also selling the exact same products for a much (much, much, much) better price than Xedia.


Bill

Marble,
North Carolina,
U.S.A.
This posting is not for people who FEED on NEGATIVE information

#17Consumer Comment

Tue, February 05, 2008

Hello to everyone that comes to this Forum. I want to address the accusations on this web page not to convince you to believe one side of the story or the other but to simply give you something to think about. I do support Greg Dockery and the Xpower Energy Saver. I am a skeptic as many of you and I thought it may have been a rip off when I first got my Xpower but that is not the case. Anyway for anyone who has the time to read this negative information I hope that this posting will add some salt and make this reading somewhat palatable. Point by point I will address the things posted here: 1. Greg never wanted to be called the "Modern Day Thomas Edison" That was a hat given to him by an older "mentor" that is truly a scammer and was going to use that title given to Greg to scam people. Greg never wanted that title and left that title in Forum Technologies. 2. Greg never claimed to have 240 patents. He does claim that his 4 utility patents can develop 240 plus products. Obviously the person who write this report did not do their homework. Notice the verbiage in parentheses, he states that it is the zealots and not Greg. Well then which is it? Perhaps this is someone that never learned to be compassionate, someone who does not have a happy life and so they feed on putting others down? 3. The next paragraph is right. The Xpower is the size of a coffee can and it will save you up to 25% on your electric bill and it does carry a 6 month guarantee. Hmmm. how many scams would offer a 6 month guarantee and honor it? I am amazed how little common sense there is left in the world. 4. Too good to be true. so was caller ID, the digital answering machine, and sliced bread. how many of those products were used to scam people? Weak point. 5. Let Bill Buy It news report. I personally asked Greg about this and he sent me a letter that he had sent to Bill with no response. Apparently Bill was not looking for a good report. I mean what sells in the world today? Positive or negative reports? Bill made a few mistakes like just plugging it in. There is actually a little thought that needs to be put into plugging in the Xpower. This technology has been used for decades in commercial applications. Bill brings it to a university and Greg didn't? Xedia has numerous engineers and electricians very qualified and even US government agencies are purchasing numerous Xpowers for various applications. That may not say a whole lot but why would they spend their money on them??? ***INTERESTING NOTE*** The Xpower was not designed to save power but to reduce the noise on high tension lines for video data transmission. Greg (a radio frequency engineer) was working on this project with other engineers. 6. $1 Capacitor - That is what someone else told me a year ago and he would go build one. Just last week I left 2 units with him. After one year he neglected to make his energy saver. So easy the proud say...and yet...well you know "talk is cheap" 7. Not for residential customers? I would be the first to say that people with an electric bill of less than $125 would not have a good ROI. We are not here to rip people off and I turn away business based on the fact that I am not looking to sell Xpowers if I don't think it is justifiable. 8. Other energy saving methods. of course. Solar-great! Wind-great! but until then lets allow the Xpower to help reduce the over consumption of natural resources. Even in these areas there will be some brilliant person that makes a new discovery and I would be willing to bet this scoffer that writes this post will also be one of the first to put down the person that truly invents one of the ways to save electricity that this person advocates. This is the story of history and it repeats itself over and over. 9. Only works with the Power Factor - Power factor (PF) is but one part of saving power. There are units that just work with PF and they lower the voltage and burn people's motors. The Xpower does not do this and that can be proven with any number of meters that would be used to show that. The Xpower on the other hand was engineered to bring a balance of correction to 1) power factor 2) harmonics (4th and 5th wave) 3) voltage sag. Power factor alone...not. 10. Not listed with ETL. here is the URL for the report www.myxedia.com/pdf/xpower/ETL.pdf and the sticker in on the Xpower. 11. Watch this demonstration on the Xpower and see for yourself that it does work in a residential application. www.xpowertechnology.com/xpowervideo.html 12. Electric bills fluctuate - Absolutely and that is why we recommend people check not one month to the next but one month to the same month a year ago and then use www.wunderground.com/ to even check the temperature. A scam? We are being honest and refuse sales to keep a clean record. I can't but believe that this report is placed here by the previous company that Greg worked with and took his products from. Reminds of the story Zig Ziglar tells about kicking the cat which I had time to share it here but you will have to find it. Great illustration! Anyway we make people very aware of the temperature factor. We could sell them real well if we only sold them in July and August just when bills are about to go down due to the cooler weather, but this is not our plan. On the other hand people plug them in in October and November and then claim it does not work because their bill goes up. Hmmm, I wonder why a bill goes up in December. reader, can you guess why? Another question, what color was George Washington's white horse? Anyway there is education and some thought that goes into this and that is why the Let Bill Buy it Report is totally Bogus. THIS IS GETTING LONG...Sorry 13. KWH - Right, we are charged by KWH. What is the equation to get to the KWH? Well here is a great website to look over but in case you don't want to look at the site I sum it up below. By the way, Greg did not create that website to SCAM people. Just in case you thought this was bigger than life itself. Website summary: we are charged by the amount of watts we use, kilowatt = 1000 watts. How do we know how many watts we use. Well light bulbs are easy 40, 60, 75 and 100 watt bulbs. Now how about your fridge? Well there is another equation and it is this: Watts = Voltage x Amperage Watts = 120V x Amperage Watts = 120V x 12amps (washing machine) Now if we reduce the voltage or the amperage then we reduce the watts right? Yes, no trick here. Watch the Xpower demo if you haven't. The amperage is dropped in usage on the source side but not the load side. Voila! Savings! W=VxA W=120x12 W=1440 If we reduce the amperage usage by 2 amps we get... W=VxA W=120x10 W=1200 Now be careful of other units out there that will manipulate the voltage because these will burn out your motors in your appliances. If you have not seen the demo I really would encourage you to. Next.... 14. Oh...THE END Really now, I think some common sense with the previous information would help you see that the negative reports may not be all that founded and that light from another perspective needs to be shed on the matter. The Govt. using the Xpower and soon Xedia will have a... COMMERCIAL XPOWER This unit will hardwire to the breaker box (3 phase, 240V) and will be for larger applications. Only licensed electricians will be able to install them and there will be serial numbers and a department just for that unit. Does that sound like a SCAM? Happy investigating and don't miss an opportunity because one bad apple spread the infectious rot through the bushel. I do appreciate the people that try to prevent people from getting ripped off but I doubt any of these people have talked to Greg. hmmmm..... For some of those "scam" testimonies you can view the electric bills of many people by going to the Xedia website... Try http://www.XpowerAmerica.com Think for yourself...


Beng

Annville,
Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.
DARE YOU

#18Consumer Comment

Wed, November 28, 2007

There is a similar posting regarding Xium and Greg on this website and I figured I should provide a quick way to get to find it: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/248/RipOff0248438.htm The above url will provide some other info regarding the Xpower. Here is the simple deal. The product is really just a capacitor. All it will do is change the phase of current with respect to the voltage. This does not equate in residential terms as a savings. Changing the phase of voltage and current can save an industrial plant money because they have lots of motors that draw lots of current. Then someone can save money. But in a home you will have some small motors: dishwasher, ac, washer, dryer, refrigerator. These do not pull enough current (amps) to justify correcting the phase. So how are people billed for electricity, by amps usage, NO. You are billed by KWH, which is a huge distinction. Don't be fooled by someone who says well Watts is equal to volts times amps. That is true but not so simple or true when we throw in motors and capacitors. I have tested the product myself using a kwh meter and guess what. The kwh never changes when you use the xpower or if you don't use it. In PA and most states you are charged based on kwh usage. So if that never changes then your bill will remain the same. As far as testimonials, bogus, your electric bill will fluctuate from month to month due to many reasons including weather and varied daily living that involves electricity usage. Meaning it is not a controlled environment. Give me a controlled environment plug the Xpower in and see if you have a change in kwh. You won't, because that is what I did. If Greg can test it like this and show a change in kwh that would show a 10% savings let alone a 25% savings in kwh, go for it. I dare Greg and your company.


J J

York,
Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.
A man of integrity

#19Consumer Comment

Wed, November 14, 2007

I have checked this man out extensively. He is the real deal! A family man with a vision for his products and company. You will never ever get an opportunity to market products of this nature. I have seen hundreds upon hundreds of proven results. I guess you should check the money back guarantee. His patents are all true. I never believe anything at face value unless I go to the source itself. I have spent time with this man and his company. He has a great track record of success. I guess some of the greatest people in the world are the most persecuted people. Keep pressing on Greg!


Director Of Operations Xedia

Amarillo,
Texas,
U.S.A.
Comment from the Director of Operations - Xedia

#20UPDATE Employee

Thu, November 08, 2007

I would encourage anyone and everyone including the below listed individual to contact me directly at (806) 383-4140 for any information regarding Greg Dockery or any information regarding their experience with Xedia. My name is Marc Ramirez and I have worked for Greg Dockery nonstop since 1992. The individual from New Mexico named A. obviously has issues other than trying to discredit and defame Mr. Dockery. I find it very difficult to determine why this individual would try to use this type of service to ask a few simple questions. First of all, we cannot find anyone remotely resembling this person in our database listed as an A. --- from New Mexico. I think that this person doesn't exist. I also think that if this person does exist then they are changing their name for reasons that I will address momentarily. I also think that this person is trying to protect the identity of his mother, which is fine, I completely understand the reasoning. But, if someone is not being treated fairly or if a 'mama' is being cheated or mistreated then please contact me directly and we can find some sort of resolution to the problem. I challenge everyone to this. Second, the words "scam", or "warning", or "buyer beware" are words that do not describe Greg Dockery and his company. They are the words that people use to hide behind - whenever they do not completely understand truth. Most importantly, the claims made by A. --- from New Mexico are humorously incorrect. Greg Dockery holds four US patents. #'s 6317101, 6369778, 5327230, 5151838 respectively. Feel free to visit uspto.gov/patft/index.html and view them. Please, A. --- - if you do your homework - do it right and if you truly exist, email me at [email protected] - I will help you and I could possibly help your mother. Marc Ramirez Director of Operations

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