76, Report:
#158860
Posted Date:
Sep 29 2005
Palmetto Marketing, ripoff, magazine scam, I found the # to reach them though! Coral Springs Florida
This is the second year I have fallen into this stupid trap. I guess I should have learned the first time.
I did finally get everything figured out last year when I signed up for a magazine through P.M.I. (after they entered the wrong address TWICE). Now this year I signed up f...
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Categories: Sales People
77, Report:
#158436
Posted Date:
Sep 27 2005
Palmetto Marketing - Cortney Hintz ripoff Coral Springs Florida
cortney hintz of past fraudulant sales is hitting los angeles. asked my mom to buy a magazine, said it was a competition [boys versus girls] for kids earning money to go to college- if they got enough points they could go to cancun. the service fee seemed too high, so I looked on th...
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Categories: Door to Door Sales
78, Report:
#158387
Posted Date:
Sep 26 2005
Palmetto Marketing ripoff Coral Springs Florida
A young man came by my residence one day selling magazines, he had one I was interested in and it looked like a good deal. I wrote out a check and he was on his way.
Not two minutes later another sales person came by. I told them I had already contributed to thier company and...
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Categories: Sales People
79, Report:
#158231
Posted Date:
Sep 25 2005
Palmetto Marketing ripoff Coral Springs Florida
Teenagers were going door to door selling magazine subscriptions to earn class trips they said. I bought a subscription for my 5 year old daughter.
It costed $35 for a disney princess magazine for 6 issues. I paid in cash and received a copy of the order form. It says it will tak...
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Categories: Sales People
80, Report:
#158010
Posted Date:
Sep 23 2005
Palmetto Marketing ripoff GUESS THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR TRYING TO BE NICE!! Coral Springs Florida
Around March of this year my roommate and I had a young man come to our door to sell us magizens so that he could win a trip to Cancun. (Big suprise huh??) Both my roommate and I wrote him a check for $60 each, i few weeks later i got a notice from the bank stating that my account ...
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Categories: Sales People
81, Report:
#157319
Posted Date:
Sep 16 2005
Palmetto Marketing ripoff, dishonest, magazine scam Coral Springs Florida
We had recently moved into our new home. A young man, looking like a high school student came to my door. Selling magazines for a trip he could earn, hesitant I took the bait. Forty dollars later, no magazine, out forty bucks and totally embarassed I fell for a scam.
Debra
Cl...
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Categories: Door to Door Sales
82, Report:
#156763
Posted Date:
Sep 12 2005
Palmetto Marketing - Gemini Sales ripoff, never recieved my order, stole my 40 bucks. Coral Springs Florida
On May 11,'05 I was approached by an alleged high school teen trying to get enough sales to take a school trip. He was working as a representative of the Gemini Sales Co. soliciting for Palmetto Marketing, Inc. This all seemed like a fund raiser for a good cause.
The customer re...
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Categories: Corrupt Companies
83, Report:
#156638
Posted Date:
Sep 10 2005
Palmetto Marketing Door to Door Magazine Marketing Scam, Ripoff Coral Springs Florida
Scams come in all shapes and sizes; mine was a young man posing as a student but did look a bit old. I bit, which is unusal, and gave him my check for a magazine. At least is was only one and not much money. Never, ever give $$ to door to door sales. This is a big rip off! Forg...
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Categories: Door to Door Sales
84, Report:
#156576
Posted Date:
Sep 10 2005
Galaxy Credit SCAM Fraudulent Stealing illegal Sneaky Cold-hearted SCAM RIPOFF Peoria Arizona
A call came in from GALAXY CREDIT who suposedly had been trying to contact me for 2 yrs. I spoke with a GALAXY CREDIT rep. (Jackie, would not provide a last name.) Who gave me a case number **** and phone number of 877 742-5300 ext. 404
The conversation was sketchy and hard to un...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
85, Report:
#155791
Posted Date:
Sep 02 2005
Palmetto Marketing ripoff Takes your money does not send books Coral Springs Florida
I ordered a magazine called Wood Strokes-Wood Crafts,from a young lady named C Hebeit. She was selling door to door.I wrote check out for $29.70, plus gave the young girl $10.00 in cash, totaling $39.70. I still have the Customers copy of this transaction. I NEVER RECIEVED THE MAGAZ...
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Categories: Door to Door Sales
86, Report:
#154021
Posted Date:
Aug 17 2005
PALMETTO MARKETING PAID BY PERSONAL CHECK FOR MAGAZINE SUBCRIPTION EUROPEAN CAR 24 ISSUES at $50.00 ripoff CORAL SPRINGS Florida
A student came to my door and needed to sell magazine subcriptions in order to take a trip this summer to Cancun, Mexico. I still have the orginal receipt for a magazine subscription of European Car and signed up for 24 issues at 50.00, and never received a magazine yet, and the dat...
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Categories: Door to Door Sales
87, Report:
#147213
Posted Date:
Aug 14 2005
Palmetto Marketing ripoff Coral Springs Florida
Like several others I was at home doing my own thing on March 22, 2005 when I got a knock at my door and a boy was selling magazines. He too, explained, in his bubbly personality, that he was trying to win a senior class trip to Cancun, Mexico and how he earned points for each maga...
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Categories: Door to Door Sales
88, Report:
#153584
Posted Date:
Aug 13 2005
PMI, Palmetto Marketing attempted ripoff, door to door sales, scam, magazines, young kids, students, Cancun trip, contest Coral Springs Florida
Like the other 400ish complaints about this company, I too wrote a check to these charming kids. They pulled the same story...a contest, a trip to Cancun to be won, blah blah blah.
I bought three magazines, two from one kid and one from the other, in both my husband's name and mi...
Entity
Categories: Door to Door Sales
89, Report:
#134326
Posted Date:
Aug 11 2005
Palmetto Marketing Palmetto Marketin Salesmen unprofessional, don't answer door! Coral Springs Florida
These 2 salesmen came to my door on a Saturday evening. Took me completely by surprise -- first of all there is no soliciting allowed where I live, secondly they basically pushed their way in my home. Upon entering, they sat on my couch and would not leave until I ordered 2 magazine...
Entity
Categories: Door to Door Sales
90, Report:
#151630
Posted Date:
Jul 28 2005
Palmetto Marketing Ripoff This girl came by having us believe her story about a trip to cancun and she had a good sales pitch and we bought it. We just would like our money back for something we never received. Coral Spring Florida
Our family was having a bbq in our yard when this cute girl in her twenties came up to our fence and started telling us this story about her school doing a fund raiser and a communication skill practice. we asked her to come in our yard and tell us more about it. she said she was on...
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Categories: Door to Door Sales
91, Report:
#151045
Posted Date:
Jul 24 2005
Palmetto Marketing - PMI RIPOFF offered refund only when threatened with police action!! Coral Springs Florida
Add another sucker to the list! I got schmoozed for nearly $80.00- and I was AMAZED at how quickly they cashed my check! (I'm in Michigan and this crack-pot company is based in Florida).
I followed the cancellation instructions on the back of the receipt. I mailed, I called and I...
Entity
Categories: Sales People
92, Report:
#150474
Posted Date:
Jul 20 2005
Palmetto Marketing ripoff scam Coral Springs florida
i am a mother of a three year old and the sole provider for the family. I have a husband in school full time that we pay for. So what i'm saying is, i do not have the money to be scamed by the magazine people. Luckily for us it was the minnimum amount of $18.00. Of which i will not...
Entity
Categories: Door to Door Sales
93, Report:
#150352
Posted Date:
Jul 19 2005
Palmetto Marketing Ripoff Fast talkers, pretend to be your friends, force their way in and proceed to rip you off!!!! Coral Springs Florida
Yesterday afternoon two young people (a boy and girl) came to my door talking about how they just needed a few more votes and they could win this trip to Cancun. I told them I wan't interested and that I was on my way out the door to the hospital because my mom was attacked by a pi...
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Categories: Sales People
94, Report:
#149169
Posted Date:
Jul 10 2005
Palmetto Marketing Magazine Subscription Rip-off Coral Springs Florida
Two young students came to my door when I was home sick one day. They were selling magazines to win a trip to Cancun. That was Feb 10, 2005. I have yet to receive one magazine and am out $40, which I was scammed out of. They were so young and so convincing. I feel like a fool. ...
Entity
Categories: Door to Door Sales
95, Report:
#148771
Posted Date:
Jul 07 2005
Palmetto Marketing Scam artists Ripoff Coral Springs Florida
07-06-2005
This afternoon a young lady came to my door, claiming to have recently graduated high school, she said she was a part of a group of about 300 across the country who were working on their communication skills by selling magazines which would earn her points, and then ev...
Entity
Categories: Sales People
96, Report:
#148520
Posted Date:
Jul 05 2005
Palmetto Marketing Ripoff Sales People not swayed by Sedation Coral Springs Florida
I now know why they ask outpatients to be watched over for 24 hours after they are sent home from the hospital after surgery. It's not to make sure they don't have medical problems: it's to make sure they don't write checks.
I live in a security apartment building that does not a...
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Categories: Door to Door Sales
97, Report:
#138515
Posted Date:
Jul 05 2005
Palmetto Marketing ripoff READ THIS IT'S WORST CASE YET! They broke into my apartment! Coral Springs Florida
I'm eating lunch with my roommates and we hear a knock on the door. One of us gets up to answer it and it't a guy about 18-20 years old selling magazines. He seems nice and cracks a few jokes to humor us, probably thinking we are more likely to buy something from him this way.
He...
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Categories: Sales People
98, Report:
#148321
Posted Date:
Jul 02 2005
Palmetto Marketing ripoffed a subscription to a magazine Coral Springs Florida
I had a young man come to my door selling magazine subscriptions for school. If he sold the most he could win a trip. I purchased Readers digest @ $28.00 plus a $10.00 processing fee. They got my money and I didn't get the magazine. I received 1 issue of Readers Digest with a bill a...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
99, Report:
#147284
Posted Date:
Jun 23 2005
Palmetto Marketing, ripoff Coral Springs Florida
On May 6, 2005 A young girl came to my door. I was spending time with my son after work. First thing the girl said is who she was, what she wanted. Then she asked if i was going to touch her or kidnap her. I said why would I do that. Then I got no answer. The
girl asked if i wan...
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Categories: Door to Door Sales
100, Report:
#104800
Posted Date:
Jun 23 2005
Palmetto Marketing ripoff NO MORE DOOR TO DOOR SALESMANS COMING TO MY DOOR!! Coral Springs Florida
TODAY I WAS SITTING HERE WITH MY LADY FRIEND. WHEN A NICE LOOKING HIGH SCHOOL KID CAME KNOCKIN ON MY DOOR.. TRYING TO SELL MAGAZINES TO WIN A TRIP TO CANCUN. I BOUGHT INTO IN AND PURCHASED 2 MAG.. AND COST ME 90$. HE WANTED CASH BUT I DONT DO THAT FOR THESE REASONS. SO I WROTE HIM ...
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Categories: Door to Door Sales