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I need direction direct tv has ruined my credit and cost me lots of money for no/shitty service multiple work orders for them having to come fix faulty equipment and crappy installation….they took money out my checking account money they didn’t earn or supply a service for I returned there equipment and took over 500$ out my checking account and now suing me for more along with my bank for covering the crazy amount they were requesting they are a bully company and I have 4 young boys to take care of on my own life hard enough with out major companies like direct tv stealing from innocent people !!!!
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alisha lodrigue,
I have absolutely NO sympathy for your situation. Any installer will double check your signal and the dish location in relation to trees, bushes, etc. before leaving the install. Any competent consumer would make sure their equipment worked before they signed off on the work order for their installation…you are obviously not one of these folks…
My BIGGEST question though is, why are you purchasing premium television service that you obviously cannot afford, when you are trying to support 4 children on your own (shocking…). Directv is not “stealing from innocent people”…they’re simply trying to collect their money from irresponsible people, in order to pay the installer that set up your service.
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Andrew, you really do not know what you are talking about. I believe Alisha because Direct TV and Dish Network did the same to me and I wast never late with my payment. I decided to discontinue us because my bill kept going up more than what I originally contract for. I boxed and mailed back their equipment through UPS and they still took money from my banking account. So It is not for you to judge people. You should be outraged that companies are taking advantage of people who contract with them in good faith and get shafted. Do you work for Direct TV
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Direct T. V. fraudulently removed money from my checkings account.
If you are not on a auto bill payment situation tell the bank to out the unathorized withdrawal back into your account. Call the bank fraud dept in your bank and file a complaint. Takes about 14 days, This is what I did and It made direct T.V. reverse the transaction.. My situation was that Direct T.V. stopped providing my programming due to their failure to pay via-com for it’s provided programming, so millions of customers were scammed by direct T.V.. Andrew , Direct T. V. didn’t pay it’s billion dollar bill , so we have to assume the loss ??? Let the back paddling begin , and BTW I feel not sorry for Andrew’s logic error of a single mom just trying..
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I have a comment …………………………how rude…………………………..shes a single mother with 4 kids that works hard to take care of her family ……………………..she deserves to have a happy life……………………just because we are poor doesnt mean we cant watch tv. ……………………………and for your information……………………..some people are not electronical nerds……………………..i got news for you i know nothing about how to set up that stuff. ………………………..if i pay someone to do it i expect to be done right and got more news………………………………….DIRECT TV. IS A JOKE……..ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE……………………………………………….SO DONT JUDGE PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE YOUR A MR. KNOW IT ALL……………………
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Andrew, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I hear the same horror stories in my building. People are dropping the service because of the shady practices and the overcharging that the company is doing. I will never get the service because of these kind of practices…Get a real job..because they will be going out of business.
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Direct TV has to be the worst company I have ever dealt with. Their customer service is in Mexico. They have no holdings in the US; therefore you cannot sue them. A total ripoff!!! You are better sticking to basic cable or use an antenna if you want to save money. If you want to see movies – hulu.com. Direct TV is a nightmare……
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here’s the deal on Direct TV. The want auto payments because they take the money before it is due. They are operating on YOUR money. Someone helped them selves to nearly 1300 out of my account. I cancelled the card. On August 7 Direct phoned me and said the card is cancelled. I explained why, but first asked are you speaking of the bill that is due on August 22? She said yes. I never gave them another card, now they have raised the price by 20 per month which I am not paying. They already had upped the 29.99 price by $5 and they are now close to 80.00. Plus they are gone if there is a cloud in the sky. Crooks, nothing but.
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They did this to me also.
I told them to turn my service back on, and they put my money back into the account I paid them their monthly fee.
Closed my checking account, and cancelled the account, sent them back all their equipment. and now they are calling my husband saying we closed our account early and owe them 200.00
DirecTV Sucks
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Morgan, Phelps, & Stern – Payments Pending Division offering me $2,997,500.00. Is this for real? They want $20.00 for release of a “Folio” and check.
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Tell them to take it out of the check at final settlement ! So the check will read 2,997,489.00
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Sounds to good to be true!!!STAY AWAY!!!
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I received a card in mail that says u. S. government is dispersal of government funding of 20, 978.00 . They want me too send $19.00 in order to get the funding.
They ask for a release no.? The $$$ is from government.. The name of company asking for the down payment is Global they are in Atlanta, but the $$ is coming from California..
Cash pending grant $20, 978 , ( home improvenment), , Education, Business Start-up, Travel, Home Improvement, or Other ..their phone no. Is 1-877-857-6286
Release no. Is 14595-00466..please let me know if this is a scam or legal $$ for Senior to have and not pay back..and why the government requesting $19.00..will we get the $20,000 if we pay the $19.00 with our credit card.
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Has anyone heard of a third party lending company called Thompson Briggs Financial Group??? They are apparently located at 2 Penn Center, on JFK Blvd in Philadelphia?
Anyone??
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Yes, actually i applied for loan,and they’ve ask me to pay aroun $800 for secure deposit. But after that i don’t heard anything from them. Had you?
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A company called Preston Lord Enterprises at 5 Lyons Mall Suite 777, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 sent me a letter saying get paid mailing letters from home. There is a fee to get started but says it will be refunded for a single package issued with every 9th paycheck.
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Please help me make the right decision, about Obam’s Mortgage plan to he Refi Mortgages, for $1700
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ANY entity who wants your money BEFORE they send you umpteen million dollars is a SCAM.
I am trying to rent a room. A person, supposedly in England, had a third person send me a beautiful 4-color check for about 17 times what I wanted for the room. It was drawn on a hardware store in New Jersey. I took it to the bank and asked one of the officers if it was legit. The store said it was the third inquiry that day! The inquiry cost me NOTHING, but if I had tried to deposit it, the bank would have charged me for the rubber check, and if I had drawn on those funds, MY checks would have bounced, too.
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I am wondering if this thompson briggs financial group is legit… i got papers for a loan and they are asking for a security of over 700
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i too received papers from Thompson Briggs and they want over 700 however i went to fax the papers back and the fax number is not in service
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did you find anything out
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I just went through the same thing from thomspon briggs financial and now says there number is not in service. Anyone know of anything to do to get my money back or any advice?
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Common sense should tell people that these letters are scams. I received a letter today from a company out of London, England called Wakefield financial ltd. Says that I won a prize of $100,000.00. But of course I have to send them a fee. How as ‘re you going to win anything without entering the contest or sweepstakes in the first place. So I have no sympathy for people who send money to people they don’t even know in order to get money.
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I was wondering does anyone no anything about a first legal net they are suppose to help with my mortgage refinaceing it a little leary about it still not sure HElp
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Do not do business with this company. If they are located in St Petersburg Florida. They have one so called attorney they represent now named Melanie
Emery. I worked there and could not stand what was happening. The majority of people who work there are either on probation or in a prison work release program. I would not trust them with a mortgage on a cardboard boxI If you really need help go to a local reputable attorney and research the attorney as well. Your house is your biggest investment. Do your research.
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Now their number is back and thompson briggs called me saying someone hacked into their system and may have our information and the FBI and all that is investigating it
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I still can not get through to Thompson Briggs and the message says this number has been temporarily disconnected……..it has been 4 days since i have heard anything……at least they did not get my money…..phew
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I too am wondering if this is thompson briggs is legit. Supposedly my refund cheque should so up tomorrow. Has anyone every actually gotten thier money back out from these guys…
Slightly panicing…
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It’s been over 16 days thompson briggs financial group will refund the $800 but until now i don’t heard nor i can’t get hold of them. please help if by chance you came accross with this company.
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I feel so bad for you, I really think you got scammed, so many people talking about these people I really hope you did not send them any money, please say you did not.
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Are Reverse Mortgages legit? We are considering applying for one, but just not
sure if there are any downfalls involved.
I would really appreciate professional advice concerning this.
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I would never do a reverse mortgage as you leave someone in your family paying for your debt after you die. Most of these that I am hearing about are scams people NEVER GET A DIME OUT OF REVERSE MORTGAGES OR ANY SCAMS. If you get a letter stating you have won a lottery and know you didn’t enter it report it to BBB so they can report the company. It’s way too easy to put a company name on fake letterhead anymore. Don’t EVER send anyone MONEY FIRST IN ORDER TO GET MONEY. I do know both Direct tv and Dish are just scams as bad as Windstream is as my bill goes higher with very bad internet and a barely used phone line. Why can’t the poor get great cable service as we are people too. No use judging anyone anymore as the way Obama is going we will all be poor. As far as Refinancing your home don’t do it it will cost more in the long run. Best bet if it sounds way too good it usually is.
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My mother “Gladys” received a letter from GGP RESEARCH CORP. seeking a secret shopper. They inclosed a check for 1,985.00 with instruction on how these funds are to be spent.
1. Probation training pay (for Gladys) $300.00
2. Required fund to be transferred $1,465.00
3. Remittance Service charges $130.00
4. Funds needed for shopping $90.00
Total $1,985.00
Instructions for fund tranfers are as follow: test & evaluate compliance in Money remittance transactions by sending a Western Union or Money Gram for On of their field agents in any of these locations. 1) Victoria Wilson, in New York City, NY. 2) Donald Hoyle, New York, NY. 3) Linda Johnson New York City, NY. After you complete these tasks you are to call your Accounts Manager with the Western Union Money Transfer Control Number or the Money Gram Reference Number immediately after completion. Of couse they also request you email or fax your secret shopper receipts. Then you call your account manager Mike Lawrence at 1-289-776-5325 to activate the enclosed check before you deposit this check. They also provided an evaluation form to use as a secret shopper. Ref:GVC-198327, representative ID 2900.
She did not request any information from this company in any way. I feel this must be a scam.
Carolyn Goers, concerned daughter
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I have gotten one of those before. I looked at the bank it was drawn on and called the bank directly and then went in and found out the routing number was correct but the account number was false, It was a fake company and check so I reported and didn’t respond back to them. I didn’t try to cash the check either, Becareful of all western union serect shopper test they are usually fake.
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The western union secret shoppers are always money laudnering scams. you’ll cash the check It comes out clean (at first) then you’ll send it via western union to another location entirely by the time it reaches its final destination, the money sent is now real, while you’re left with your bank going WAIT that check bounced, you now have to pay it all back… I almost fell for it a few years back, Tootntotum just finished building the new one on 34th and osage, and i lived close, when they instructions came to me via email i had to go secret shop the western union in that store, yet i knew there wasn’t a western union in that one, and i knew from working at tootntotum that western union has it’s own people do any type of ‘secret shopping’….
From what I have read over the net the last few years, it seems to be either one man, always on the move, or, it’s two one stationed in an area to send the package wth the fake check to you from several different rerouted locations, and another stationed in the location your to send the western union to.
either way SCAM!!!! So DO NOT CASH THAT CHECK!!!
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STAY AWAY ……………THIS IS A SCAM …………….BEEN THERE ALMOST LOST MY KIDS………………….
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SECRET SHOPPERS AND MOST WORK FROM HOME JOBS ARE SCAMS. Best bet if it sounds too good it has to be so run. NEVER DEPOSIT A CHECK OR WESTERN UNION INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT AS IT WILL BE FAKE AND THEY WILL COME TO YOU. YOUR BANK FOR YOU TO PAY IT BACK AND ALL BOUNCED CHECK CHARGES.
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I am wondering if Insider’s Financial Real Estate Workshop run by Dean Graziosi, is a legitimate business. I would really appreciate both professional and individual experienced advice concerning this because I am planning to invest in the company.
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Dean is a reputable company. From what I know you will have to pay one fee and then a monthly service fee each month so u will be out some money if it doesn’t work. I have worked in Real Estate for over 10 years most of these a legitimate company but something they tell you to do used to work but doesn’t work in 2013. Be careful. No money tree going to fall out of the sky.
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I was wondering, has anyone dealt with this company?
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I just posted a comment and forgot the company, Has anyone dealt with the Successful Education Online and the Coaching Department?
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has anyone dealt with time-share re-sale
Elite Referrals, Inc., in Orland, Florida?
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I received an email from a women claiming the company she works for Pimmel Thorn-GMBH, supposedly a check processing company. They offered me a position of Check Assist Manager- where I receive a check from a customer around 2,000- 2,500. I cash the check then take my percentage and western union the rest of the money to the clients. I tried to check it out on the site here but I could not find anything, it just does not seem legitimate that they would send checks in my name to send off. What is your opinion, although I am sure it is a scam.
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Let me guess, the amount they’re asking you to send via western union is like either just under 2k mark or under 1500 mark? The western union scams always make sure the amount of money being sent thru western union is a large lump sum, that is just under the amount required by western union to record or find suspicious. so either they say take so much out for yourself, take this and this and this out or however they divide it up or explain why only so much is being sent all it is is a money laundering scam, a rather smart one at that because the only party in the whole operation that is at risk and getting in trouble for it, is you, the actual innocent one.
Note, anytime someone sends you a large check for whatever reason, such as secret shopper, job offer, or even an offer for say an item you are selling online. And the check amount is vastly larger than the agreed upon amount and the excess is to be sent back via western union… its a scam…
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I received or use to receive check for secret shoppers regularly. What I started doing is telling them to send me a cashiers check. Then I would inform them that this money will not go into my personal account. Never, no matter if you do your research and the company appears legitimate, put a check issued to you from a company in your personal account. This is only asking for trouble for you and your finances. I know it hard out there and good jobs are few and far between, but the results you receive from scamming is worse.
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SCAM
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Run from that company anytime you deal w western union or any of them its a scam. DON”T EVER FALL FOR WE WILL GIVE YOU MORE MONEY THAN WHAT YOU SHOULD GET. All you will get it bounced fees from your bank and they will have stolen your identity
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This is a scam, please do not cash anymore checks from them.
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I received a call from Northwest Realty International from Tacoma, Washington asking me if I wanted to rent or sell my Time-share Vacation Membership in Cabo. They offer to pay me $1,890.00 for one week of rent or $17,869.00 to sell. I looked them up but could not find anything on them. I called their phone number but it go’s to an answering machine.
Has anyone heard or know anything about this company? It sounds too good to be true.
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I would just like to know if TradersRoom.com is legitiment web site for trading stocks? Was thinking about doing it but can’t find anything on them as far as blogs or anything goes. Need help anyone have advice on this please.
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I have had an offer to sell my timeshare for $17,000 from Summit Tour & Travel, Inc. After I sign the contract to sell, I will have to pay $2200 for processing fees. Is this a legitimate company and/or offer?
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I sold my timeshare a few years ago but, that was only after I wasted hundreds of dollars on fees to multiple companies to list it for sale. Years later it finally sold but, for a third of what I bought it for. This sounds like a solicitation to get you to LIST your unit for sale with them. For this the owner pays a fee but these companies are a waste of time. It’s not like homes sales where you have an individual listing and an agent advertising it. It’s just thrown in with all the rest of the sales. The $17,000. also sounds like a come on to make you think this is what you could sell it for or they have a buyer for your unit. Timeshare is almost impossible to sell. If you research this you will find out there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of units for sale.
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Has anyone heard of tagsalesdepot.com. I found a truck that I like but it is at this companies warehouse and they take care of the whole sale and delivery. Is this legit?
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i’m male, and 68 y/o ,the county is still taking out $75.00 from my ss check, my kids are in there 40′s is this legal????i don’t do fed.taxes anymore because, they intercept it, or housing, they intercept that too!! and i’m fed up cause ,i whent to fl., cause my mother died down there, i liked the weather down there so i stayed for 30 years in FL. i had a stroke and my sister said to come Home, and i did,my bigest mistake!!!!now i’m disabled, and can’t live on my little check! CAN ANY ONE HELP ? 54311 legally?? thank you Francis !!!
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Dear Admin,
My name is Farhaj from Islamabad, Pakistan. I take this opportunity to bring one thing in your kind notice about http://www.himalyamanpower.com. They are offering me work permit visa in Quebec guaranteed with no rejection. The man namely Maxwell is corresponding with me through email. Please suggest me and guide me.
Regards.
Farhaj
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Received a bogus letter from Phoenix,Az from a US AIRLINES that I won 2 RoundTrips tickets call to get info BOGUS! Number is 1866-981-5717 BOGUS PHISING SCAM I never responded.
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I followed all the rules and still got scammed, I trusted a business Bloomington Lincoln Mercury Dealership, Bloomington, MN. I ran not one but two Car Fax Reports on a car that was presented to me by the Salesman of the Dealership. I had the Police Department run a check. I did hours of research on the car, but didn’t on the salesman. I checked complaints, but didn’t know that those get cleaned up. I checked BBB, but the Dealership didn’t have an account so it looked clean. I was trying to do right by downsizing and getting a car with lower payments. I trusted the dealership and that transferred to the salesman. Nothing showed up on the Car Fax, because the Salesman had done a Straw Purchase in Northern Mn contacting a friend that was a salesman. So since no one reported the car stolen, Chrysler didn’t report it stolen either and the women that purchased the car for the salesman, immediately left for out of state. This salesman set up an elaborate scam through the dealership. He used their computers, their software, Temporary License Plate/papers, etc. He brought me in, spinned his scam through the dealership. In all he did, no one watched him even though he already had a record of Theft by Swindle, forgery, etc. No one in the dealership wanted to make sure that when I came in I or anyone else would be safe. When they searched his home, there were stacks of peoples names, where they worked, phone numbers, what they made, etc. How can the State of MN not care that a Dealership set me up for Identity Theft – where are their ethics? Bad things do happen to good people and people that do their homework to make sure things like this don’t happen. If you ever loose your job and also end up in the Emergency Room from a major trauma, don’t try to fix things like finances alone, that was my mistake. You are just too vulnerable and those with no ethics, character – businesses will see you coming. I want to empower people to make a choice, knowing what they are dealing with. This is not the first time this dealership has been in the news for their ethics or character.
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I have seen so many complaints as well as speaking with WCCO and they have reported on complaints, yet you can find nothing on them. My last correspondence from them was unsolicited in which they consistently spoke of their high rating with BBB. I submitted a complaint and they reply I received was that I was crazy and that they had an A+ rating. I went in to buy a car and their salesman set me up in a staged con. Retired now FBI agent found my Loan Application, USAA Bank Statements and TCF Bank Statements in the salesman’s private home in Woodbury, MN. The State of MN charged the salesman with theft by swindle. BLM knowingly hired this man with a history of other Theft by Swindles, forgery, etc. BLM hired him knowing this an acted irresponsibly in not managing him. I asked them what did they have set up for his accountability, for his success, to protect a financial business and all the customer coming in through the door. The manager said to me, nothing. When I asked why he no longer was there, I was asked to leave and told to get a subpena. I still am being stalked by this salesman as well as documentation of eMails of how is he going to pay me back for turning him in and he has friends that will take care of me. Statements like I know where you live as well as a fluid reserve of verbal abuse. I have asked others that have had dealings with him and asked why they didn’t take him to court as I did and they all said the same thing, they were afraid. People have the right to know this dealership showed no responsibility in protecting any of my personal information and that their identities are at risk as mine was and still is today. We aren’t talking about some minor comment or a he said, she said – we are talking about Identity Theft and lack of responsibility of this Dealership in being responsible in managing their employees and in taking ownership in their behavior. Sending me eMails that I am crazy and that BBB rated them high. Also they told me if BBB rated them so high, there couldn’t be any problems. I am a person that has been victimized over and over by their salesman and by this dealership. They refused to work with me in resolution or help in anyway to clean up what they and their employee did.
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Has anyone heard of this website? No Purchase Required, INC.com Its a work at home company, “supposed” to be real. Just curious…….
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I responded to a work from home ad on craigslist.org. The girl who answered the phone not only had a bad connection, but also did not use proper grammar. Strike one and two.
The name of the company is NPR A.K.A. No Purchase Required, INC. I cannot find any information on them on the BBB website, but did look up their website. There are a lot of misspellings and grammar errors. Strike three.
Within fourteen minutes another lady called me who also had a bad connection, lots of noise in the background, and bad use of grammar. Strike four.
After listening to her spill, she mentioned the fee for the background check would be $45 and non-refundable. Warning! Warning! Strike five!
Now these people have my name, phone number, and email address. Changing now.
Are there ANY LEGIT work from home opportunities? I’m pretty sure this is NOT one.
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The saddest part about this is that this happened less than 24 hours ago and I don’t even know whom you are referring to or what happened.
Bad grammar on the phone? Bed connection? Unacceptable. This is true. Spelling errors on the website, well, you can chalk that up to the owner being passionate and refusing to let someone else do the website.
Why does a person have to pay for a background check? The same reason that our competitor that is BBB Accredited does – because it’s necessary to ensure that we are not hiring someone that will cause harm to our company or our clients. But unlike our competitors, we don’t charge for anything else – no training costs, no equipment costs – nothing.
When one is looking for a job and finds one in a regular brick and mortar, you will have to pay for gas for up to two weeks without so much as a dime from the company you are working for and definitely without reimbursement. But because this is what is always done, no one thinks about the cost or the fact they may have to borrow money to get to work. So are you investing, paying, if you will, to work? Yes. And far more than the cost of a background check in many cases depending on how far away the job is…not to mention to have to eat.
At the end of the day, we are still looking for qualified Customer Service Representatives – not sales people, and not commission based either. We have job openings and we need people to fill them.
We are a small, growing company that is doing everything we can to provide good service to our clients, and hire good staff. The sad part is, we have to fight against all the scams and schemes out there that make people concentrate on everything they can to find a problem – even where there are none that exist.
It was a bad connection, so you probably didn’t even get to ask the young lady if there was a way to have the fee waived, because there is.
And Angela, the worst is, according to the records you called us at 5:09 pm and this was posted at 5:47pm. How much more helpful would it have been if you have contacted our office directly about your experience or concerns.
The young lady you talked to, according to your appointment log, is not originally from this country. We provided her a job opportunity when others have turned her away to help her learn skills that will enable her to succeed at the goals she is trying to obtain. Shes a hard worker, and very helpful.
And while she may have misspoke a few words (or was it just her accent), now that I see who it was, I also know that you did not mention that she was kind and professional – because I know she was – she always is.
While you’ve said nothing outright wrong, you’ve attached our name to a webpage that talks about scams…and that is all that people need to see. Our name in association with this page that talks about the BBB’s top 10 scams, even though we aren’t one of them. This hurts our business, the people that work here and the families that depend on us to provide a job.
I only pray that people read what you said AND read this, and take a moment to do some due diligence about us and what we stand for.
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Thank you for your feedback about your experience, however my experience was totally different. When I applied to this company NPR I too, was skeptical about a work from home business because I had searched and tried everything. However, I took a chance anyway just to see what it was all about and I completed my background check(of course with flying colors!!) and started working in less than a week…A REAL WORK AT HOME JOB!!! No start-up fees, no signing up my friends and family, like most companies do or pay for training which may cost upwards of $300. I love my work at home position and have always been determined to be a stay at home mom that could provide for my family without government assistance and NPR has provided that for me. Work at home jobs are NOT for everyone some people need to be apart of the rat race and corporate assembly line of worker bees. I always believed that just because you have a few bad experiences it should not cloud your view because while you are so focused on the negative that positive has been overlooked. Meaning you can’t drive a car properly if your only view is the rearview mirror…there are great and legit work at home companies you just have to keeping digging until you find what works for you…I know I have!!
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There are a lot of legit WAH jobs; but your mindset is your block already. I’ve worked for three legit companies ranging from CSR to claims. Now, as for NPR, they were very professional when I called. And everybody I spoke with was very professional. As for a background check fee…this is common for many work-from-home opportunities. And administrative cost is a big chunk of the recruiting and hiring process. As for grammar usage – a lot of websites fall short; especially news media. And I’ve received emails from top recruiters at fortune 500 companies that had errors in grammar. I’ve been in training sessions that had powerpoint spelling errors; and in other live sessions with less than perfect grammar used. However, the quality was not lost. Furthermore, work-from-home jobs are expected to grow, due to new innovations. Even if I am not selected for the position at NPR…I believe this is a good company; and I wish them successs.
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Update:
I was offered a position today, but turned it down. I spoke with a young lady that appeared to be reading a script; and she also appeared to be quite nervous. When she moved away from the script, and spoke more freely; the conversation flowed much better. However; It is very much a pyramid scam. They appear to have good people in the wrong line of work.
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Wow, first and foremost we were all in training and taking calls, so NO ONE was offering anything to anyone today until after 2:00 PM in the Recruitment Department. So I find the time stamp of that previous post odd.
Secondly, if someone has already turned a position down, they wouldn’t be offered it again unless they stated in their application that they wanted to be kept updated about ADDITIONAL campaigns or lied and pretended to be another person.
We currently have two internal sales positions and 3 other campaigns that we are hiring for and – one of which is taking inbound calls for a loan company.
I think the thing that is most upsetting is “Angela”‘s need to really, and truly try to make people think that there is something wrong with us….
Now this person is stating that good people work with us in the wrong line of work?? Why would a good person do that? What exactly is being said about our team members and employees?
Angela (alias I would guess), I’m not sure who you are and what your motivation is to continue this line of posting, and we certainly cant stop you – but what you are doing is wrong…..especially when the REAL Angela you pretended to be actually wrote on this blog.
Please stop. It’s ugly and unkind. And if you don’t, well – we will just pray for you and that you will be blessed with a job that fits your needs. feel free to contact support@nopurchaserequired.biz with any questions you may have. And please, please stop applying.
And to the rest of the Readers, this will be my last comment here.
We have a processing fee for 49.00 to ensure we can afford to pay for people’s background checks and offset the hiring costs. We aren’t a multi-conglomerate and we plain and simple couldn’t afford to pay for every single applicants processing fee because you don’t know if people are going to show up to work or not. And mind you, this is a processing fee that only is paid IF they are offered the job and ACCEPT it. It is certainly FREE to apply.
The fee also ensures that for every new campaign that comes available, we can verify to the business client that the agents are professional and have an acceptable background history. You never have to pay anything else and can join and cross-train for any campaign available if you have the skills to do so.
So, readers, if you made it this far in the thread – just call us. 678-278-8366. Or go to our webiste: http://www.nopurchaserequired.biz
And thank you, in advance, for your due diligence.
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I have received emails about a home consulting buisness from FTT Consulting Company out of Brooklyn, NY. I have searched for information and could find none. While filling out an application I saw that they not only wanted my bank name, account #, routing #, and paypal account info. For me that is too much information to give online over an unsecure site. I called the phone number posted and got a persons voice mail not stateing company’s name. Not only that this email was not sent to my personal email but to my school email where the only emails I get there are from school. Has anyone ever heard of this company?
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I have a company offering me 4500.00 in a line of credit with master card.. If I send them 900.00 as a down payment. They call it semi secured credit card. The say they give you the 900 back plus interest in 12 months. They are also offering 250 dollar gas card. They say they are Freedom 1st National bank, goggled it and could not find it. Their number is 18889980585.. Has anyone every heard of this?
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has anyone ever heard of the company GlW Peoperty mangment Comapny. My husband applied for a job though them and they sent an email saying they were interested in him bit would need to go to a web site and answer some questions. After answering the questions they then needed hinm to run his credit report, stateing that he would be driving a company truck and have a company credit card. However as soon as he completed the credit part of the information the web sire locked up. I have emailed them twice asking for them to resolve the web page problem and they dont respond. I then googled there comapny and cant seem to find them any where. I went to there web site and there is not way to contact them, no phone number, no address to contact them at all. Is this a scam?? Job was listed on craigslist???
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I think this is a scam. I answered some questions too from a company that had jobs in Brooklyn and Manhattan and asked me for my credit report, but I did not do my credit report because I thought it was a scam. The name of the company is Morgan & Price.
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Has anyone heard of a company called attrico ltd. They are advertising in my local papers a “corporate postman” job. BBB has no info on them.
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Jean – At first glance the website, http://attricos.org, looks legit – but there are several red flags. / The bottom of the home page mentions copyright 2011, yet the site – registered as “Attricos LTD” – was created on 10/12/12. It also notes a New York HQ, yet the New York Secretary of state has not filing for that name. / The name on the site is “Attrico LTD” yet the site address includes an “s” in the name – as did the site registration. / The employment position involves receiving parcels and reshipping them to unknown 3rd parties. // You may wish to visit the following site for more info – https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/radDocs/consumer/ReshippingScam.html
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Looking for someone to help with all the bankruptcy papers cant afford a lawyer and I am afraid I will mess them up on my on. Does anyone know of a legitimate company that does this I found usabankruptcyassociates.com but it sounds to good to be true.
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Hey Brenda : Try your local library. They should have the most recent books on how to file for bankruptcy. Some books may have pictures of the forms you will need to fill out. My library here in Ohio had books that helped me do filing for my brother. Good Luck !
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I think I got took myself. I got a email first. Telling me they would like to hire me. Then the next thing I know I am getting a check in the mail. So I emailed this person back Mary Snaga. To ask her what this was for. She told me I had to order a laptop from there vender. Because it had all the softwear I need on it. So the check had one company on it and fedex had another company. I didn’t think nothing about it. So I took the check to my bank after I called the bank that was on the check. The bank told me the checking account was open and active. So I deposit it in my account. I took the banks word that it was good. I deposit it on a monday morning. They didn’t put it in my account until Wed morning. So when I emailed her and told her it cleared. She emailed me back asking me to send it western union and moneygram. Well before I could call my bank to let them know it was no good. I had some of my bills come out. So now I have to pay the bank back 980.00. What sucks I really need a job. Because I am not working. I don’t have that kind of money. My husband is supporting all of us. He dosen’t even make that kind of money. You know we will never see that money. Here are the names of the Company’s . The checks has the name of Innovative Underwriters Inc. Then it will come Fedex under a different sender IFAX Solution Inc. So be carefull.
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Having problems with a company called Anchorfree inc. They offer an internet security service called Hotspot Shield Elite. Had problems with service so asked for a refund. Still waiting. Has anybody had dealings with these guys?
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I have been offered employment with a co. Called kilroy travel out of denmark for here in the Charlotte area, seems a little suspicious to me, can anyone help me out here?
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Sherylyn,
I have been getting similar “offers of employment” from Kilroy Travel for the last few days. I have resume posted on careerbuilder, so that might be where they got my email address.
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The saddest part about this is that this happened less than 24 hours ago and I don’t even know whom you are referring to or what happened.
Bad grammar on the phone? Bed connection? Unacceptable. This is true. Spelling errors on the website, well, you can chalk that up to the owner being passionate and refusing to let someone else do the website.
Why does a person have to pay for a background check? The same reason that our competitor that is BBB Accredited does – because it’s necessary to ensure that we are not hiring someone that will cause harm to our company or our clients. But unlike our competitors, we don’t charge for anything else – no training costs, no equipment costs – nothing.
When one is looking for a job and finds one in a regular brick and mortar, you will have to pay for gas for up to two weeks without so much as a dime from the company you are working for and definitely without reimbursement. But becuase this is what is always done, no one thinks about the cost or the fact they may have to borrow money to get to work. So are you investing, paying, if you will, to work? Yes. And far more than the cost of a background check in many cases depending on how far away the job is…not to mention to have to eat.
At the end of the day, we are still looking for qualified Customer Service Representatives – not sales people, and not commission based either. We have job openings and we need people to fill them.
We are a small, growing company that is doing everything we can to provide good service to our clients, and hire good staff. The sad part is, we have to fight against all the scams and schemes out there that make people concentrate on everything they can to find a problem – even where there are none that exist.
It was a bad connection, so you probably didn’t even get to ask the young lady if there was a way to have the fee waived, because there is.
And Angela, the worst is, according to the records you called us at 5:09 pm and this was posted at 5:47pm. How much more helpful would it have been if you have contacted our office directly about your experience or concerns.
The young lady you talked to, according to your appointment log, is not originally from this country. We provided her a job opportunity when others have turned her away to help her learn skills that will enable her to succeed at the goals she is trying to obtain. Shes a hard worker, and very helpful.
And while she may have misspoke a few words (or was it just her accent), now that I see who it was, I also know that you did not mention that she was kind and professional – because I know she was – she always is.
While you’ve said nothing outright wrong, you’ve attached our name to a webpage that talks about scams…and that is all that people need to see. Our name in association with this page that talks about the BBB’s top 10 scams, even though we aren’t one of them. This hurts our business, the people that work here and the families that depend on us to provide a job.
I only pray that people read what you said AND read this, and take a moment to do some due diligence about us and what we stand for.
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You know Angel you seem to have and answer for everything, like you are scooping this sight for any negativity well are You? I would not touch this company with a 10 foot pole is this your JOB?
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I answered this ad on craigslist back in March. I was so excited when I was hired, and no issue paying for my background check, because as Andrea said in the other comment, that’s half a tank of gas in my car and I don’t have to use it to get to work. I get to work at home! I get to be there for my son when he gets out of school. I can still get dinner on the table by the time my husband is home. There are just so many benefits to working for this company, and I love each and every one of my co-workers to pieces. This company is not a scam. I get a real paycheck each week for the work that I do within the company, and I don’t have to leave the house for any of it. I love working for NPR.
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Hi Maria,
I too have received virtually the exact same offer for my time-share in Puerta Vallarta. However, I am presently using my lawyer to go through with the transaction. I am Hoping that this is a legitimate organization and offer. I have received some red flags though and have warned them that if I feel that the something is wrong, I will cancel the transaction with them.
The major red flag has been their desire for me to release monies to an Escrow Company that is independ of their organization. Also they will not release the name of their buyer to my lawyer. If all is legitimate, why is there a problem with my lawyer holding my funds in my lawyer’s trust account?
All of my calls have been responded to. However, I have not released any finances to them or their so called trust company as yet.
Looking for a response or comment from anyone who can assist.
Thank you,
Mg
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Are Timeshare Angels a resale company and do they have any complaints.
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I won’t say NPR is a scam but they are definitley misleading. You think you are doing customer service for some kind of entertainment industry , but until you get further into the training you are signing people up for Motor Club of America. They are not signing people up for the actual product, they are signing people up to work from home. The owner Andrea tells you you can make a base pay but based on your productivity . I did the math on how much you get paid per enrollment and it adds up to exactly to how much you would be making base pay part time $200 or full time $400 a week. So this is a commission based work from home job.
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im a single mother of 2. I work hard everyday for my kids. I have had trouble with ellis mobile home movers has anyone else?
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im a single mother of 2. I work very hard with everything for my kids. I have had trouble with ellis mobile home movers. has anyone else?
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very rude answer from Andrew and lacking a lot of tact… where did he go? Not much people skills here… people are coming to you for help and solutions, not to be ridiculed and judged
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exuberant international holding limited. has anybody dealt with them.they are from china
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Obama don’t run no cable company, or any other bussiness you named in your complaint. Obama runs the country, and it is bouncing back from when your Hero George Bush ran the country in the ground, for instance that fake war in Irac, that Bust started wound up with three differant names (the war on weapons of mass destruction, The war against Alkida, Then Iracky fredom) Never in the history of the United States has a war had more than one name, such as The revalutionary war, World war 2, Korean war, Vietnam war. When a single war gets more than one name then you know its a lie. Now stop blaming Obama for everything just because he’s Black
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