| Grover Marketing |
| Grover Marketing America's Daily Deal Mark Grover WILL steal your money, Internet |
| 11th of May, 2011 by User789729 |
| Mark stopped by my restaurant when we barely opened and introduced us with his service. We had him "DESIGN" our web page, but that never happened, he put up a SCANNED IMAGE OF OUR MENU and slapped it on our 'newly designed' web page. He also wanted to advertise us with his ad space in Penny Savers, but when I got in touch of Penny Saver, they said, Mark Grover was BANNED from advertising. He said he advertised our coupons on mailers but never got 1. Mark's web page had a list of clients on his web page, and I called up most of them, asking them about his service. And guess what, SAME DEAL. Basically, he took our money, and when we found another advertising agency to get our business out there, he basically said he can't give the money back but he can give us PRINTING SERVICE. We agreed, and my god, his "printing" service was done at KINKOS, the quality was CHEAP. My business image is now ruined because of Mark Grover. I don't want to name any restaurant he worked with that he ripped off, but we all victim of his scam. One restaurant gave him $500 to get his banners/flyers, but NEVER heard from him. Another restaurant, wanted a web page, but he did the same thing, scanned menu, and added "Under Construction" on the page. If you look at his webpage "http://grovermarketing.com/", he did the same thing to our web page, but worse. Don't be a VICTIM. |
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| I live in Connecticut and run an online toner business ( etoner.com ). Mark Grover bought $583.40 of toner from us in late 2003 and early 2004. He told me would pay by check and that the payment was on the way. Every time I called him that was what he told me, but I never saw the check. I am still waiting for that check. Whoever filled out this report should be thanked for doing so. If I can in any way confirm that it is true, from my experience I verify it completely. If Mark pays his debt to me I'll be sure to let you know. |
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| I live in Connecticut and run an online toner business ( etoner.com ). Mark Grover bought $583.40 of toner from us in late 2003 and early 2004. He told me would pay by check and that the payment was on the way. Every time I called him that was what he told me, but I never saw the check. I am still waiting for that check. Whoever filled out this report should be thanked for doing so. If I can in any way confirm that it is true, from my experience I verify it completely. If Mark pays his debt to me I'll be sure to let you know. |
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| I live in Connecticut and run an online toner business ( etoner.com ). Mark Grover bought $583.40 of toner from us in late 2003 and early 2004. He told me would pay by check and that the payment was on the way. Every time I called him that was what he told me, but I never saw the check. I am still waiting for that check. Whoever filled out this report should be thanked for doing so. If I can in any way confirm that it is true, from my experience I verify it completely. If Mark pays his debt to me I'll be sure to let you know. |
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| Sorry about the triple post, I didnt realize it was spilling over to the next page. If I can delete the xtras I will. |
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What about me Mark!!! How about if you refund my money and make it right???
I have many of these certificates that I cannot use. I have called and emailed the office to no avail. I have included my phone number on each of the emails and the only response I got back was "Could you provide your phone number so we can discuss this." Duh! It was on the bottom of the page. When I emailed his=m back stating this he never responded.
My info is in your website. I have a $90 credit with your company because of so may certificates that were refunded to my account. What good are certificates that are rejected by the shop owner for lack of payment.
I'll even make it easy for you to find me and once again email your website with my complaint. |
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| America's Daily Deal is a rip off! I purchased a certificate and the business would not honor it since they said that America's Daily Deal made a mistake and that the certificates were expired. Even though the certificate clearly stated the expiration date as not being for another 2 months. I contacted America's Daily Deal multiple times via e-mail and phone and have yet to receive a response. I will no longer do business with them and made sure to tell all my family and friends to delete their accounts and not give these scam artists any business. |
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| I am in the same office building as Mark Grover, and if I had a nickle for every bill collector that comes here looking for him, I could spend my days at the SPA instead of working. I feel so sorry for all of the scammed people that are looking for him. He said that he is always at his office (perhaps after 9pm) but it's always dark. I think SDG&E is looking for him on a daily basis! I now know why he walks around with his head down, it's hung in shame! You should be ashamed! Why don't you do everyone a favor and leave California, you're nothing but trash, too bad the fair is over, they could probably use another good carnie, or con man! |
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In a previous post many weeks back, Mark Groverscam recommended to the readers of this hasndy Scam Report website that we should contact the owners of some San Diego retail establishments to validate how outstanding his business ethics are and what a great guy he is...
You can scroll-back to check this out, but here's the "dare" that this jerk-off Groverscam included in his post:
"Troys Greek, Mr Chick, Longhorn Cafe, Zen Orchid, Chamorro Grill, Picante; if it matters to anyone, don’t take this unknown guys words, go ahead and call the owners of these business. Call me and I’ll give you their direct numbers. Not only is this claim completely untrue, but with each of these business we are continuing with on-gong projects beyond americasdailydeals.com."
Well, a few colleagues and I took the challenge that Mr. Groverscam put forth and we did indeed contact many of the owners that this financial assassin recommended. And guess what?
To absolutely no one's surprise, EVERYONE of them had nothing but venom, nasty words and REAL anger for this flim-flam man. This dope has ripped-off every one of these owners for big bucks in the past -- and it's an ongoing story. None of them are working with this hemorrhoid... Yet another big, giant lie in an entire ocean of them….
CAN WE ALL AGREE THAT IT IS TIME TO BID FAREWELL TO THIS HUMAN FUNGUS AND HIS BOGUS BUSINESS?
There are a few other places to voice your opinion -- if you have the time and desire...
1) Better Business Bureau, San Diego Chapter = sandiego.bbb.org or (858) 496-2131
2) California Department of Consumer Affairs = www.dca.ca.gov or 800-952-5210
3) the San Diego district attorney's consumer fraud hotline = 619-531-3507 or sdcda.org
4) Small Claims Court
5) lawsuit in district or superior court |
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My tale of woe should sound very familiar to business owners around San Diego…
In late July 2011, our restaurant (Bite of Boston) was approached by the founder of America’s Daily Deal, Mark Grover, about running a special online coupon deal for both Bite of Boston locations in San Diego.
We liked the concept of attracting new customers and agreed with Mr. Grover to participate in a
one-day-only online special where consumers would get $14.00 worth of food for just $7.00.
In mid-August to early September 2011 – without our approval/permission -- Mr. Grover offered the Bite of Boston certificates during FIVE ADDITIONAL DAYS on his website. We had no idea that Mr. Grover ran five unapproved “events” during these few weeks. This was the first in a series of signals that we were being duped...
In early October 2011, we reached-out to Mr. Grover inquiring about reimbursement for the hundreds of certificates he had sold to consumers. At that time, the delay tactics started – blocked phone calls, no return calls, flimsy excuses (i.e. four exploding tires on his vehicle) and LOTS of non-responsive emails….
In late October 2011, Mr. Grover finally crawled out from wherever he lives/works and turned-over six post-dated checks -- requesting that we “bear with him and have patience” by holding-onto (i.e. not cash) any of the checks for a week or two or until he gave us an approval to move forward.
Our business banker checked Americas Daily Deal’s bank account several times during the following weeks – confirming what we had feared: insufficient funds in Grover's account(s).
In mid-November 2011, we received an email from Mr. Grover stating that his accounting department had inadvertently miscalculated the monies owed to the Bite of Boston. This was an honest mistake on Mr. Grover’s part and we had NO issues or arguments regarding our total reimbursement being lower than the original six checks.
At this point, we had cashed two small checks (a miracle unto itself), one check bounced, and three checks were never acted-upon by us. Grover has since told numerous customers (and the Better Business Bureau) that the Bite of Boston had been overpaid. …. It is utter nonsense... A bald-face lie!
On December 1, 2011 -- after 10 more days of waiting for the correct checks to be sent to us, after three months of waiting to be reimbursed, and after three months of giving-away more than $3, 000 worth of food – we decided to stop our financial bleeding by refusing to accept customers’ certificates from America’s Daily Deal.
It was a painful process having to turn customers away, but we were losing money because Mr. Grover was holding onto our customers’ money and concocting ways to never reimburse us.
It is now September 2012 and despite 14 months of delay/delay/delay tactics, Mr. Grover’s “accounting errors” and his insistence that he overpaid the Bite of Boston, the bottom line and this one vital fact cannot be disputed:
THE ONLY MONIES THAT HAVE EVER EXITED MR. GROVER’S CORPORATE ACCOUNT AND MADE IT SAFELY INTO OUR CORPORATE ACCOUNT IS A SMALL PITTANCE THAT WE MIRACULOUSLY RECEIVED IN NOVEMBER 2011.
What sickens us is that Mr. Grover is still most likely running his phony deals every day and probably destroying some unsuspecting businesses along the way….
We had put this debacle behind us a long time ago, but someone recently pointed us to this scam website – which has re-energized and motivated us to fight back…. We'll never see the thousands that Grover owes us -- but we can get our two-cents worth of telling the truth... |
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I plan on visiting Mark Grover soon. He is a liar and a theif. He stole or ripped off over 400.00 bucks from as of Oct. 10, 2012. ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN RIPPED OFF, LET ME KNOW...WILL BE VISITING MARK SOON TO COLLECT MY MONEY. He is a pathological liar as well.
Billy Sayers
Great Earth Vitamins
La Jolla, CA.
858 452-9775
Join me in a surprise visit to Mr. Grover |
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