1, Report:
#1211287
Posted Date:
Mar 20 2015
Smart Circle, Mike DeFazio Results Consulting Group DS Max Granton Marketing Illegal threats, Psychological Abuse. New Jersey, Philadelphia Area Pennsylvania
I worked for Smart Circle under the guise of a company called Results Consulting Group, and the owner there was Mike DeFazio. We sold Verizon Fios door to door in the West Chester area.First of all, they lie to you from the start to get you in there for an interview. I was under the...
Entity
Categories: Unusual Rip-Off
2, Report:
#1215232
Posted Date:
Mar 12 2015
Devilcorp , Appco Group, Innovage, Cydcor, DS-Max, Granton Marketing and Smart Circle are an employment scam Nationwide
Where do I begin? How do I explain this cancer to someone who hasn't experienced it first had? How could I possibly describe the corrupt, deviant and unprincipled schemes that this 'company' practices on a daily basis??? Why not let others do the talking?
There is no other ...
Entity
Categories: Cult Organizations
3, Report:
#1190365
Posted Date:
Nov 21 2014
Smart Circle Granton Marketing DS-Max Wholesale Warehousing Industries A CORPORATE HORROR STORY Nationwide
Smart Circle would have to be the most malign company I ever had the misfortune of working for. Without a doubt the most vicious, evil-minded and hostile work environment I have ever had to suffer. They offer slave hours for slave wages disguised as an opportunity for financial fre...
Entity
Categories: Cult Organizations
4, Report:
#1181078
Posted Date:
Nov 14 2014
DEVILCORP , The Landers Group, Cydcor, Quantum, Granton Marketing, Innovage, The Cobra Group, Smart Circle, DS Max, etc. etc. , Why do they need so many names? It's because they screw people. Internet
What do these parent companies have in common? EVERYTHING. Just like their subsidiaries change and use different names, so do their parent companies. They all have the same system, run the same scam and are owned by the same people. They all have a 'management training progr...
Entity
Categories: Liars
5, Report:
#1188348
Posted Date:
Nov 12 2014
Mr Chris Niarchos Pyramid Sales Scam Nationwide
The Cobra GroupCobra MarketingI worked for a Business Cult called WWI aka Granton Marketing aka DS-MAX aka Big Results Inc aka Cydcor aka Smart Circle aka Innovage for many years. They now have a new name but the leaders of the cult remain the same.I started work for them when...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
6, Report:
#1168977
Posted Date:
Aug 11 2014
Smart Circle Cydcor Innovage Granton Marketing and all of the descendants of DS-MAX Nationwide
Almost everyone is familiar with vague websites. Sites that make you scratch your head because after arriving at their home page and spending five minutes analyzing the corporate-speak and stock photographs, you have no idea of what they actually do. Smart Circle relies o...
Entity
Categories: Liars
7, Report:
#1159479
Posted Date:
Jul 04 2014
Strategic Campaigns Smart Circle, Granton Marketing, Innovage, Cydcor, DS Max, and numerous others. Liars, deceptive, unethical, brainwashing, No benefits, 100% Commission, Run away screaming now! Kansas City Missouri
Please, whatever you do, do not waste your time on these criminals. I can assure you they are not what they seem. I was in desperate need of a job not long after graduating from college, and they prey upon thousands of people in a given year who fit that same demographic. I was...
Entity
Categories: Advertising Agencies
8, Report:
#1157289
Posted Date:
Jun 25 2014
Rise Media Group, Ashley Martin, Smart Circle, Cydcor, Granton Marketing, Innovage, DS-Max ,Setting The Pace and Ringing The Bell Fort Myers Florida
I suppose this post technically isn't about scams. A scam, in its simplest form, is when someone takes your money without giving you anything in return. But what would you call a job that promises entry level employment in the marketing or customer service sectors but is really abou...
Entity
Categories: Cult Organizations
9, Report:
#1153701
Posted Date:
Jun 10 2014
Smart Circle , Cydcor, Granton Marketing, Innovage, DS-Max, and many many more worldwide Internet
Help Stop The Smart Circle ScamMany of us have been hurt by Smart Circle either directly or indirectly. We ourselves or a loved one may have been involved with this organization. We may have been lied to by one of their reps and now find ourselves in a two year Directv contract. The...
Entity
Categories: Liars
10, Report:
#1056114
Posted Date:
Jun 04 2013
Smart-Circle International/Luminanace Marketing NEW Pyramid Scheme in Disguise, formally known Multi-Level Marketing Van Nuys California
To the current employees, future employees and whoever is considering working for smart circle please take one second to read this.Few things you should know about the company itself:-Smart Circle OR...-Granton Marketing, Now Smart Circle, Aka DS-Max, Cydcor-They pay BBB (Better Bus...
Entity
Categories: Better Business Bureau
11, Report:
#183073
Posted Date:
Mar 04 2013
The Marketing Group, Madison Marketing, Cydcor ripoff, deception, false promises Vienna, tyson's Corner Virginia
It's time to ACT!! Let's make a difference by preventing this company and others like it from continuing to decieve and take advantage of good people looking for honest opportunities...
I recently filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. The Federal Trade Commision re...
Entity
Categories: Multi-Level Marketing
12, Report:
#49215
Posted Date:
Jan 21 2013
Peak Promotions, Cydcor, Granton Marketing, DSMAX Rip-off New Brunswick New Jersey
All of us went through the SOP of this DSMAX affiliate as described in the other reports on this site. We just wish to confirm the deceptiveness, the pettiness, and the overall SCAM motif of this organization. At Peak Promotions J.U.I.C.E stands for Join Us In Cheating Employees- th...
Entity
Categories: Employment Services
13, Report:
#981532
Posted Date:
Jan 02 2013
Orange LTD Orange Marketing, Orange Nashville, Imperial Marketing Vision, CYDCOR, DS-Max, Innovage, Smart Circle Cydcor/DS-Max/Innovage/MLM/Hiring Scam Nashville, Tennessee
Orange LTD, Nashville, TN.
Background:
There is an extensive network of so-called marketing companies worldwide. They are subsidiaries of a larger organization that too goes by different names. Do a simple internet search for DS-Max, Innovage, Cydcor, G...
Entity
Categories: Multi Level Marketing
14, Report:
#130196
Posted Date:
Dec 20 2012
Sunrise Marketing Solution, Victory Promotions, CRC Advertising, JPG Marketing, DeFrancesco Acquisitions, Cyndicate Solutions, Maxwell Marketing Group, Impact Promotional Group, Scott Marketing Solutions, Triad Promotions, Crown Marketing, ripoff door to door scam!! promotes for big name companies, trick unsuspecting college students into DOOR TO DOOR ripoff Owings Mills Maryland
For anyone looking to get into a marketing company. If they sell pieces of paper for a profit like; pizza hut, Orioles, Tires Plus, all sports tems, or any big company and they look like coupons to you, RUN as fast as you can out the door. This company promotes for big name compan...
Entity
Categories: Multi Level Marketing
15, Report:
#980438
Posted Date:
Dec 12 2012
Strategic Campaigns Inc. Cydcor, granton marketing, or various others relating to their MLM/Pyramid Scheme 100% commission door to door sales that operates as a clut-like MLM/Pyramid scheme Kansas City Missouri
Strategic Campaigns is just another in a long line of Cydcor offshoots that operates a pyramid scheme that is reasonably effective in taking naive young college grads,desperate job seekers, ex cons, etc. and convincing them through a cult-like initiation process that they ...
Entity
Categories: Door to Door Sales
16, Report:
#808745
Posted Date:
Oct 21 2012
Marketing Concepts Cydor, DS-Max, Raf Diaz, Panni, Universal Online Promotions, Polaris, Com Quest Marketing (MLM, direct selling, door-to-door, Quill.com) West Palm Beach, Florida
This is my experience with Marketing Concepts.
I've been unemployed for a while and am in need of a job, so I decided to look on craigslist. I found an ad from Marketing Concepts stating that they were looking to fill some entry level marketing positions and had great opportuniti...
Entity
Categories: Multi Level Marketing
17, Report:
#953546
Posted Date:
Oct 11 2012
Diamond, Inc. Smart Circle International, Innovage, Foundation Marketing, CydCor, Granton Marketing, Keystone, Vintage, Inc., TMG, IGD Scam, MLM, pyramid scheme, illegal activities Encino, California
CydCor opperates as Smart Circle International, LLC in the U.S. It's company brands are also owned and operated by Innovage, LLC in Foothills Ranch, CA. They've opened up hundreds if not thousands of offices around the nation, stating they have 311 divisions. These divisions do dire...
Entity
Categories: Sales People
18, Report:
#106045
Posted Date:
Aug 23 2012
DS-Max - Cydcor - Midwest Focus Group deceptive help wanted ad Indianapolis Indiana
Here is an interesting site or two about dsmax.
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.
ebay does have plenty of innovage items for sale.
I responded to a newspaper ad with va...
Entity
Categories: Employers
19, Report:
#29289
Posted Date:
Jul 19 2012
DS-Max, Cydcor, Granton Marketing, VES Marketing ripoff, sucks, scam, deceptive Tampa Florida
I worked for VES Marketing for a while and it was very deceptive. DS-Max is the parent company and they just basically use people like my then owner Vic Sandre as puppets and then they turn around and trick us into making money for them. The whole thing is a huge scam.It starts ou...
Entity
Categories: Internet Marketing Companies
20, Report:
#40718
Posted Date:
Jul 19 2012
Cydcor Dejon Johnson Powers Imports Chad Powers Dishonest Underpaid Cult Overworked JUICE BAST*RDS ripoff ripoff business from hell cheated employees liars deceptive company Webster Texas *EDitor's Notice
I am an eighteen year old female who worked for the cydcor division of the the ds-max cult for 8 weeks. In those 8 weeks, I had a nervous breakdown, lost my fiance, and nearly lost my real family too.They promised I would be protected while knocking door-to-door in ghetto 3rd ward a...
Entity
Categories: Sales People
21, Report:
#66250
Posted Date:
Jul 17 2012
DS MAX, Granton Marketing, East Coast Promotions ripoff, scam, debt, lies, deception, drugs Baltimore Maryland
Well,
Where to start. I was an employee at East Coast Promotions in Baltimore. My manager was Stan Beemish Bolvin. They were a part of DSMAX, a fortune 500 company or course (not). That was one of the millions of lies.All in all, I was on my way to management, I was a believer...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
22, Report:
#76209
Posted Date:
Jul 17 2012
DS MAX & The IPM Group The DS MAX and IPM Group - ripoff Cheating Employees and Customers Sherman Oaks California
All I can say is scam, scam, scam. The only thing these guys teach future salespeople is how to be thier own best customers. Employees (aka. suckers) are brought in at all costs, made to feel special about the asinine opportunity before them, promises of irrational wealth are made, ...
Entity
Categories: Sales People
23, Report:
#206298
Posted Date:
Jul 17 2012
Cydcor It's all true...who cares how they do in the field...how are they doing in LIFE??? Nashville Tennessee
So everything I've heard on here is so true. Here's my story. I dated a guy in Tennessee who was an assistant manager and when I met him, everything was about the business. He was even late for our first date because he was out roaming the country on a road trip (where, by the wa...
Entity
Categories: Sales People
24, Report:
#291288
Posted Date:
Jul 16 2012
DS-MAX - Coral Group Scam Scam Scam!! SALES SCAM YOU SOLICITE CRAP ALL DAY Denver Colorado
Ok I love going on here and reading people's stories and I came across DS/MAX which I remember was the big name for the Coral Group Inc in Denver. Here is my story:I graduated from college with a hospitality degree and at the time I was working at a restaurant. I went on to career...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
25, Report:
#218311
Posted Date:
Jul 12 2012
Granton Marketing, Now Smart Circle, Aka DS-Max, Cydcor, Innovage Illegal solicitation, MLM, Pyramid Scheme, deceptive sales tactics, FIGHT Back! Willowdale Ontario Canada
I have first hand, detailed experience with Granton Marketing/Smart Circle/Cydcor/DS-Max. My 1st job out of college was with a satellite office. Since then I have moved on in the real corporate world. I learned all the ins and outs of business. I never forgot this corrupt compan...
Entity
Categories: Cross-Border Scams