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| Powersports Directory Information Agent Trial membership scam sneeky bank account scam chico, California |
| 5th of Jan, 2011 by User932318 |
I wanted to make sure no one else falls for the sneeky business practices that this company has been pulling off for years. They have 5 different names and they offer a service of advertising your motorsports or bicycle business online. They have a representative call your business and offer you $ 25 to look at their company and tell them what you think about them. Then they say that you will have to pay $5 for a COD package that they reimburse you for. So the check will be for $30 to cover your payment and your shipping. Since they know you will have to write a check to receive the COD (that is their scam) they take your bank account number and routing number form your COD check and they charge you $294 a month later. Then when you call them to get your refund they answer the phone as Information Agent. Then they tell you haw you were notified of this fee and that you had 30 days to review the package that was sent out. They tell you how you are misleading and dishonest because they surly have a third party confirm this. Of course there is no third part confirmation and at no time do they tell you you have a time frame of which to respond or they will deduct $294 fees from your account every 3 months!
It is the way they get your bank information that is just disgusting! I filed a report with BBB as well and several others have the exact same gripe. The owner or another representative of the company then bashes your company and tries to make claims of fraud on your part. They try to say that you have many different names and operate out of many locations etc to make you look like the shady party. Well yes of course any business owner has a business address and a home address! Not rocket science here folks! The company says its the best in the industry since 1986 yet they need to scam you for your bank account information to get their money! I dont even know what their product is as I have no interest at looking at anything from this business because of their shifty and illegal business practices. It is illegal to take bank account number sand generate a payment to your business without a signature of authorization from the owner of the account PERIOD! Then Powersports says its their phone representatives fault and they don't operate like that. They even tell you how you authorized them to do this yet they have no proof of your so called authorization other than you received the package with the check and the details saying they will be charging you! No meniton of how they stole you banking information to do it!
DON'T BE FOOLED by this company! It is not worth it! |
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I too have just been bit, which is really a problem since the package i signed for (COD) was under my own personal checking account. I took the time to read the material, make a page on their listing during the trial period, Then I just saw the $294 deducted from my personal checking (which I only authorized for payment of the COD) and am pretty furious.
I am hoping I don't see another $294 coming out of my account in the next few months and will be notifying my bank that I did not authorize a charge on my personal checking account.
I also DID read all of the fine print and despite their claim of "we will notify you before your first bill, " I did not see nor confirm any bill or invoice for the amount of $294, especially not on my own personal checking account (which is no way linked to the business for which it was intended to be invoiced to)
BBB says they have a A- rating, and they very well may be "legally" charging their absurd listing prices... but I am definitely unhappy with their business practice so far, and will definitely not be recommending nor using their services ever again. |
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| I have had the great pleasure of working as a call rep for this company. just got fired today. want to know when I started? 3 days ago!!! during my working days they hired 8 more people to train while the 10 new people I trained with were still working there!!! then today they called each of us in one by one and fired us saying that the need to make room for more others coming in. this is clearly a way for them to point the figure at the teliphone callers for there company when something gos wrong and they get a complaint, they just say well that person doesnt work here anymore well not crap !! they way they have been doing it for YEARS!!! is they hire 10 people (say there going to pay you $12 an hour ) but then say there going to pay you 7, i just found out the owner has 3 diferent names!!! jon scott, richerd scott and something else. !!! clearly a scam artist !!! |
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| I too worked for this company for a whole year! It was a great job with great pay. the hours weren't the best. But that's my only complaint.There is a whole pitch you follow, and it does say you are being payed $25 for your time to take a 30 DAY FREE TRIAL. When the trial is up you get a certified letter in the mail saying call and cancel or you will be billed by this date and the amount. Also when a rep is speaking to say the Owner or GM there is paper work filled out about the company and who and what time they were spoke to, that goes to Frank. Literally 5 mins after a call, then Frank from the Verification Dept gives whoever was spoke to a call to reiterate and make 100% sure they know it's a free trial and they are being payed to take it!! It's not shady. Its not the companies fault if you don't get your certified letter or forget to call back. That's the companies. And even if you get billed and forgot to call. It's handled professionally. This company has been operating for 20 some years now. If it was illegal what they were doing, they wouldn't be around. And by the way when was it illegal to originally establish yourself as a business and develop different Inc. companies branching out.As for all the Employees Information Agent goes through, wouldn't you fire people if they didn't do what the were hired to do. The pay starts at $8 per hr and weekly improves, depending on how long you last, and the sales you generate. You top out at $12, so you must have heard wrong.I chose to leave for personal issues, not because I was fired and not because I thought i was working for a scam. If I still lived where the home office was I'd work there again anytime. And the company would take me back, because I was a great sales rep. |
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