51, Report:
#750136
Posted Date:
Jul 07 2011
AT & T Advertising Solutions AT & T Real Yellow Pages, Yellow Pages, YP.com, adsloutions.att.com Possible scam to look into hurting small business owners, Internet
I have recently also turned this into the local news teams that do investigations in our area after finding so many reports on here about the company and other consumer websites. This company needs to be stopped. I agree with the people on putting together a class action...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
52, Report:
#739034
Posted Date:
Jun 10 2011
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AT&T Advertising Solutions AT&T Setup with a Deceptive/Misleading ad for my business Tucker, Georgia
I was contacted by AT&T Advertising Solutions about buying an ad in the local online yellowpages. The only thing was it was a setup/decptive from the begining. The Rep knew my business was a mobile business but insisted on seting me up with the listing with my home ...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
53, Report:
#735461
Posted Date:
Jun 01 2011
AT&T Advertising Solutions YP.com Billing for advertising I never ordered. I Cancelled all future advertising by 2 registered letters Tucker, Georgia
After paying $90.00 a month for placement on YP.com and receiving two clicks a month, I decided to cancel any future advertising with AT&T Ad Solutions. Reading the fine print on my contract I saw that I had to notify the Company at their headquarters, in writing. On November 12...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
54, Report:
#733934
Posted Date:
May 27 2011
AT&T Advertising Solutions AT&T Bellsouth Yellow Pages Unethical Salespractices, Lying about contract terms & monthly charges, refusal to decrease montly service charges Atlanta, Georgia
27 May 2011
As a medical professional in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, I have ethical standards that I hold myself and my practice to as well as my associates. I advertised with AT&T Yellow Pages/AT&T Advertising Solutions/BellSouth Advertising & P...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
55, Report:
#324399
Posted Date:
May 13 2011
Smart Advertising Solutions, Smart Lending Solutions, Smart Home Business Connection, Image Incentives They change their name again. You can get a report from the BBB at arizona.org Tempe Arizona
I received a telemarketing phone call today from Jim Williams. He claimed to be a representative of a Company in Tempe Arizona called Image Incentives. He claimed his company builds websites to help people make money in their own home-based business. After asking me several quest...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
56, Report:
#372500
Posted Date:
May 13 2011
IMAGE INCENTIVES Why can't we find Image Incentives on ANY ArizonaBBB sites,City Hall Tempe, Arizona Attorney Generals Office or State of Arizona TEMPE Arizona
1)Just checked out 3 different Arizona BBB sites for Image Incentives like Drummer claimed and found no such business name on any of them.
2)City Hall of Tempe, AZ has no listing of an Image Incentives business per Shelley Hearn who works at Tempe,AZ City Hall like John Strummer ...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
57, Report:
#374558
Posted Date:
May 13 2011
CUTTING EDGE MEDIA INC. / TRUE WEALTH MAGAZINE SOLD MY INFO TO IMAGE INCENTIVES aka SMART ADVERTISING SOLUTIONS PER AZBBB ELIZABETHTOWN Pennsylvania
After filling a complaint against Image Incentives aka Smart Advertising Solutions Tempe,AZ who are now changing their company name to just Image Incentives Responded to AZBBB about my complaint that they claim I signed a form with their company to get a home business(WHICH I NEVER ...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
58, Report:
#722289
Posted Date:
Apr 26 2011
AT&T Advertising solutions YP connect bait and swith tactics rip off program denver, Colorado
Elmer with AT&T advertising solutions miss led Mike and Darrick with Cherry Creek Restoration the entire time we tried to do business with them. first off we were guaranteed 350 leads a month not 350 clicks and if we didn't get the leads we did not have to pay, this was di...
Entity
Categories: Computer Marketing Companies
59, Report:
#707473
Posted Date:
Mar 18 2011
AT&T Advertising Solutions AT&T: Screwing the small business owner with deceptive sales practices st louis, Missouri
My Partner and I own a decorative concrete company. We are a small and new business. We met with 2 of At&T advertising solutions salesmen at my partners home about 4 months ago.
When they met with us, they told us about their services. How they could help our business a...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
60, Report:
#673926
Posted Date:
Dec 21 2010
AT&T Advertising Solutions AT&T lied about services I would receive for the price and refuses to cancel internet advertising Internet
I was originally given excellent service with prices included then I started getting calls telling me that my online listing was not being seen in my area. So that doubled my online amount. I was told that the companion directory was included in the price I was originally quoted but...
Entity
Categories: Advertising Agencies
61, Report:
#672321
Posted Date:
Dec 21 2010
AT&T ADVERTISING SOLUTIONS YELLOWPAGES.COM TRACY ABBATE THEIR REP, TRACY ABBATE, WAS SENDING NAKED PICS OF HERSELF FROM WORKPLACE RESTROOM TO MY HUSBAND, WHEN HE WAS A CUSTOMER THERE Henderson, Nevada
at&t advertising solutions's representative was sending naked pictures of herself to my husband, her name is Tracy Abbate and she works in their office in NV, I found out after we had an account with yellowpages.com for a few months and Tracy was my husband's account represent...
Entity
Categories: Advertising Agencies
62, Report:
#657830
Posted Date:
Nov 03 2010
AT&T Advertising Solutions Yellowpages.com Showed a deceptive report to get my business, listed my company under wrong categories for over two months and never sent Welcoming Kit as promised. Atlanta, Georgia
I signed an advertising contract with AT&T Advertising Solutions to list our company in yellowpages.com on June 2010 after their sales representative gave us a Category by Directory Report from their company showing that 1,194 people had been looking for our service catego...
Entity
Categories: Internet Marketing Companies
63, Report:
#641278
Posted Date:
Sep 16 2010
AT&T ADVERTISING SOLUTIONS-WILL CHOATE BAIT AND SWITCH- SAYING ONE THING AND PRESENTING ANOTHER IN WRITING--WHILE RUNNING HIS LYING MOUTH KNOXVILLE, Tennessee
WILL CHOATE IS A LIAR AND A CHEAT. AT&T ADVERTISING SOLUTIONS IS A SCAM. THEY CALL ON YOU AND SAY THAT YOU WILL PAY ONE PRICE, BUT WHEN THE FINE PRINT OF THEIR CONTRACT IS READ THEY CHARGE YOU ANOTHER. WE WERE TOLD THAT WE WOULD HAVE A WEBSITE DESIGNED BY THESE...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
64, Report:
#345963
Posted Date:
Aug 18 2010
Image Incentive - Smart Advertising Solutions Beware in dealing with these guys Tempe Arizona
Beware of dealing with these fast talking high pressure sales people.
They called me and were evasive about my questions when I told them I wanted to do my due diligence.
They told me they are not a network marketing or MLM, nor a pyramid. when I asked Jay what a pyramid is,...
Entity
Categories: On-Line Business
65, Report:
#628201
Posted Date:
Aug 01 2010
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AT&T Advertising & Publishing Not holding up the agreed to terms , Internet
We setup a nation wide listing with AT&T Advertising solutions, the rep that sold us our agreement disappeared from the grid after we signed the agreement. AT&T reps try to push us off to that rep but cannot contact them or the manager in charge of the division. We hav...
Entity
Categories: Internet Marketing Companies
66, Report:
#518870
Posted Date:
May 02 2010
AT&T - AT&T Advertising Solutions Pay Per Call: Bad Business Practices and Blatant, Knowing Misrepresentation Tucker, Georgia
While I have large amounts of proof, and could explain this in greater details for several hours, I will try to make this as brief as possible here.
A year ago, AT&T Advertising convinced me to sign up for a special limited offer program to increase my business traffic and red...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
67, Report:
#594046
Posted Date:
Apr 17 2010
AT and T Advertising Solutions, AT&T Negligent loss of URL and Breach of Contract St. Louis, Missouri
AT and T sales rep offered the use of a catchy URL owned by AT and T. The URL was prominently placed in my print advertisement. After book went to print, I was informed that AT and T no longer owned the URL. It had been registered to a private individual in California. AT and T...
Entity
Categories: Work Place Bullies
68, Report:
#526088
Posted Date:
Nov 20 2009
AT&T Advertising & Publishing AT&T Yellow Pages Internet advertising AT&T Advertising Solutions Scam, Will say anything to make sell, the reality is totallly different . After voice verificiation your stuck . Henderson, Nevada
I was contacted by Mark Maskas of AT&T Solutions solicitated internet advertising.
I was led to believe I could access my business through a Google search engine . I had explained to Mark that I wanted to be accessed directely through a Google search. Mark assured me that ...
Entity
Categories: Computer Marketing Companies
69, Report:
#515598
Posted Date:
Oct 27 2009
house painter leads.com [email protected] sell outdated leads, completed projet leads, strawed to buy signature service, some leads did not know company, only sell to 3 contractors truth is more like thirty contractors manassas, Virginia
I have recently purchased internet generated construction service leads from several companies. The two entities named in this report are probably the same company just a different cubicle. I attempted to communicate with the leads by Ph. and e-mail. Description of 5 ...
Entity
Categories: Home Improvements
70, Report:
#515156
Posted Date:
Oct 26 2009
ATT ADVERTISING SOLUTIONS internet rep totally screwed my business. no coverage in all the areas I've had for 15 yrs for lots of $ Tucker, Georgia
15 yrs. in busines I successfully advertised in most all printed yellow pages throughout Louisiana. When the rep sold me on using internet yellowpages, I asked him 3 times if i would still get the same coverage to my market all over LA. He said yes & more and we c...
Entity
Categories: Advertising Agencies, Employment Services
71, Report:
#498658
Posted Date:
Sep 22 2009
AT&T Advertising & Publishing AT&T Advertising Solutions, yellowpages.com Deceptive and immoral sales tactics and hiding/not divulging contract terms. Olivette, Missouri
I was promised the moon by my rep and blatantly lied to about the contract terms during preliminary negotiations. These calls were all supposedly recorded so I thought I was being told the truth.
They use a voice verification system to lock you into a contract in a hurried manner t...
Entity
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
72, Report:
#455771
Posted Date:
May 27 2009
Allied Marketing, Inc. Employment scam Internet
You get an email that looks like this:
Hello,
Thank you for responding to our job posting. Allied Marketing, Inc. helps businesses of all sizes with their advertising campaigns by delivering the most cost-effective advertising solutions without sacrificing quality. We are cur...
Entity
Categories: Employers
73, Report:
#394524
Posted Date:
Mar 31 2009
John Detitta, John De titta, Ad Film Ties, Film Ties a Criminal Raleigh North Carolina Nationwide
John Detitta stole nearly $4,000 from our company. His company, Ad Film Ties, stole my bosses business plan, who in turn was fired by the head of the company because of this debacle, which laid me off eventually.
John Detitta is an immoral son of a beech. I have posted our copyr...
Entity
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
74, Report:
#365885
Posted Date:
Oct 26 2008
Special Data Processing - National Magazine Exchange Another scam fraud misleading company that got my info suspiciously like HiringMax Fred OmidvarAngela Penbrook Productions Clearwater Florida
Recieved a letter in the mail for a sweepstakes drawing on 2/2/2010 for 2,100,000.00 and a 100,000.00 drawing on 12/31/08 for a second notice and call 1-800-915-8349 by September 4,2008 with an ID# signed by E Scanlon. I never signed up or went to their website ever so I believe Car...
Entity
Categories: Criminal Justice System
75, Report:
#376630
Posted Date:
Sep 30 2008
Smart Advertising Solutions (A.K.A. Smart Lending Solutions) SCAM, False Claims, Overpriced Advertising, Failed to meet contractual obligations for advertising campaign, refused to refund my money!!! Tempe Arizona
I NEED HELP!!!
Hello, I am a writing this report to reach out for a helping hand. Here is my story:
July, 2007 I was contacted by an individual about a home based internet business that will make you money. I was intrigued at the idea beacause I could use a suplamental income...
Entity
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies