Business ProfileforInternational Development Services, Inc.

Following aggressive cold-calling, my business, **********, signed a consulting agreement with IDS with estimated fees of $70,525. We also signed an IDS Assurance Agreement whereby IDS assured us "the realization of a return, through a combination of cost savings and profit enhancements, in excess of 2 (two) times the investment incurred for the consulting hours billed[.]" ************** was obviously important to us.IDS proceeded to rush through a business evaluation and made various suggestions that were disastrous for our bottom line, impossible to implement, and/or suggestions they did not follow through on to conclusion. They charged us $254,628. Needless to say, we did not realize a two-to-one return. When we complained, we were offered some half-hearted assistance from a gentleman who ultimately ghosted us after providing no help. We were put into a seemingly endless internal review process whereby we answered the same questions over and over but got no results. We have recorded phone conversations with the representative who claimed to be helping us through the review process with damning admissions about IDS's work and the supposed "Assurance" of a return, but it went nowhere.I cannot stress enough how IDS almost single-handedly ruined our business.Upon further research, we discovered that numerous BBB complaints and reviews, revdex reviews, and ******** page reviews complain of similar behavior. Likewise, IDS appears to be affiliated with various other shell entities with the same model and similar complaints. Various people associated with this network of companies include a disbarred lawyer who owned a company that was the subject of an ******** Attorney General investigation and suit, and a former President and CEO who was charged with multiple counts of conspiracy, grand theft, and making false statements.To date, IDS has not meaningfully addressed my concerns. I will not trust anything they say until I see a refund check. BEWARE OF IDS!!!