LOOKING for EVERYONE that HAS a COMPLAINT AGAINST: StoresOnline, iMergent, Galaxy Mall, NetGateway, inetseminars, General Pacific Partners & Professional Marketing International/Inc. (PMI), Galaxy Enterprises
If you know of other dba's/aka's of StoresOnline, please make them known here.
If you want to file a complaint it is important you take time to read as much as you can. The info will be valuable to you in completing your complaint and know the history of SOL/iMergent.
1) Copy & Paste this rip-off report web address of this thread into a new email -- Spread the word !!!!
Next - Tell everyone in your email address book to come to this thread, read it & list their initials, city & state along with their complaint thread, whatever complaint site it was written on OR verify they have filed complaints with any other like BBB, FTC, IFTC, Attorney General, &/or State's Dept of Consumer Affairs.
2) If you tagged on to a report or never filed a report – FILE YOUR OWN REPORT NOW, once it posts then come back here and add your initials, city, state along with your complaint thread address.
3) Read all of the info here, YES all of it, I know it is a lot.
4) (Optional) Copy & paste ALL the info into the email with this tread address and send it to everyone in your address book and ask that everyone else to do the same - YOU WILL BE PART OF THE LARGEST CONSUMER ADVOCATE EFFORT to save other unsuspecting consumers the heartache, disappointment and financial loss of believing the SOL's sales pitch and becoming involved because SOL failed to disclose true business practices, costs & expenses PRIOR to finalizing sales.
Why act now? - because NOW is the crucial time to find all consumers that have been scammed to prove that your complaint is real and that there are so many folks out there that haven't yet filed, that don't know where to file complaints or are ashamed that they have been scammed (which is what SOL counts on). Find those that cancelled in 3 days yet denied their refunds to those that put tons of time & money into SOL's less than adequate online software to find it didn't work at all or works "clunky & old" and that if lucky enough to get a web site up & running it won't work on any other hosting site but SOL's because no one wants to pay excessive SOL hosting fees compared to the general competitive market and have requested refunds. Need to find those that have refused to pay SOL and are being hounded by collection agencies. (Previous comments based on complaint reports written at various complaint sites). Dreams have been crushed, emotional heartache & financial loss, lives destroyed by SOL's deception no matter what product or company name was used at the time (see aka's/dba's listed above).
Mr. Danks, CEO is on record that He, his family, the SOL employees & shareholders have been emotionally and financially devastated primarily because stocklemon.com had reported information on their site. Stocklemon added their own opinion which is what Danks apparently is most opposed to or Danks claims the info reported on stocklemon was false – how can this be? when the info is available elsewhere online? The news expose'(s), articles, TV news, legal actions, etc are all false? I don't think states would take the time & money to prosecute SOL if they didn't have concrete facts.
Why act now?- because Mr. Danks, CEO of StoresOnline/Imergent claims to news reporters and legal counsel that most complaint reports written on RipOffreport.com, plus others here in the US and those filed internationally from United Kingdom, Australia etc., are without merit &/or fictitious.
Ripoffreport.com has over 300 complaints, 22 pages on StoresOnline, that does not count all the reports listed under the aka/dba names.
Complaints have been filed around the globe, not just in the US.
It seems Danks, Poelman, Korn – continually come up with excuses (legal or otherwise) to stay hidden, excuses rather than fully disclose truths.
Example:
http://www.forbes.com/execpicks/best/2003/0612/002.html
Not verbatim: Basically John Poelman, chief executive of Galaxy's parent Imergent Inc, said 3 day right to rescind not applicable because it is purchased by small businesses, not consumers.
People aren't allowed to try it out (the software) because it could be easily copied.
I don't know that I believe this excuse – maybe they could show how it is used at the seminar so when folks use it at home and it doesn't look or work the same – well I guess that would set them up for failure.
In this report -- http://www.news.com.au/
story/0,10117,15684461-15319,00.html
Mr. Korn denied any high pressure at any sales seminar – customers decide for themselves.
Is this contradictory to complaint reports and news exposé's? YES
Other comments by Mr. Korn can be read at the bottom of this report: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/printpage
/0,5942,15158064,00.html
Well, now consumers can read an almost complete history (I'm sure there are more reports/news/TV etc out there that I didn't come across) and make up their own minds.
Stocklemon.com is back online today. Go there and read reports dated:
August 17, 2005
July 8, 2005
May 10, 2005
April 21, 2005
April 12, 2005
March 18, 2005
March 9, 2005 http://www.stocklemon.com/articles/03_09_05.html
March 4, 2005
March 1, 2005
February 24, 2005
Here is an article that describes a bit of what is going on between Stocklemon & Imergent/StoresOnline.
This article in the Daily Herald: iMergent execs accused of illegal insider trading.
PLEASE READ ENTIRE ARTICLE at--- (you need to type in these addresses in your address bar or copy and paste them)
http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=49933
Article on FindProfit.com written 2/25/05
iMergent Tries To Diffuse Stock Fall With Conference Call
PLEASE READ ENTIRE ARTICLE at
http://www.findprofit.com/archive/6046.html
See other article lists at end. Do yourself a favor and read everything!!!!!!!
If you live in any of these 26 states, this is a web site StoresOnline/Imergent does not want you to know about:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/franchise/netbusop.htm
Click on your state to see what they have outlined to protect you and see how StoresOnline/PMI has violated you & your state.
Each of us can make a difference, help spread the word. There are folks out there, some have email, some don't even have computers - but are under SOL's thumb to pay up even though they have nothing to show for their investment. If we get the word out maybe they can get their complaint filed. NOW is the time to be heard. Please be proactive and help, thanks.
Disclosures: I don't hold shares of iMergent. It is my opinion that the states of Maine, Texas, California, Utah, Illinois and others are acting on complaint reports filed by consumers, that these reports have been verified by proper channels &/or authorities, they are not fictitious and these states are appropriately acting on behalf of their citizens by taking legal action against StoresOnline/iMergent.
I have not seen any publication from StoresOnline that offers validity to their seminar claims. I've only seen reports where people say they introduce successful estore owners at the seminars who are actually relatives & employees, these facts are not disclosed at the seminar. Many of the news/TV reports have quoted seminar speakers touting SOL's ability to help people make thousands of dollars each month. Reports claim losses, no sales, can't get my site up, SOL won't return email, phone or fax communication, and they only give you the run-around. Have there been any refunds? According to a few reports - Yes. Have they made refunds and had people sign letters saying they will not take further action and that the matter has been handled to the customers' satisfactions – most probably. Some have not taken the refund because it was considered “hush” money. It just sends a message that this company and others like it will use your money – “your money” to buy your silence = don't tell anyone about this unhappy matter or we won't give you YOUR MONEY back.
They have not established an online site listing all of their established estore sites. There is this one that is truly SAD: Storesonline – Directory of Sites at www.galaxymall.com/stores/ashworth/so2.html I tried to click on a few and it took so long for a site to come up that I cancelled it. If they had a legit directory of sites then potential consumers could go there and click on these sites. Then you could get to the site; contact the owner to see if they are having any success. Would just have to filter out those owned by relatives/in-laws, employees & friends which by the way should also be openly disclosed to consumers. I don't think anyone would blame SOL's inner circle for having sites as long as they are shown as such and that there are non related parties that are also successful that included what each spent to get where they are. Rather than misleading people to think that they can do it for 50.00 – 2500.00. I did a “storesonline.com/site” search and you can find some estores because SOL makes the customer use their .com and assign the customer a number that follows.
Example:
galaxymall.com/stores/fashion/sunspecs/……. or
/storesonline/site/707069/……. for the few I looked at and clicked on some worked, some didn't which doesn't leave me very confident in their software.
AS many as they say they have sold you would think there would be multitude pages that would come up via the search engines – but they just aren't there at least not that I can find via search.
Everything they (SOL) say is just that, hear say. People have requested proof time & again, reporters have asked but there is never a response from SOL.
In one of the reports below it was stated that there really aren't that many law suits filed against them and that complaints filed are without merit that the number of complaints is miniscule in comparison to the number of sites sold. Are you saying that SOL as a company is being penny wise and dollar foolish???? Why is so difficult to refund the unhappy customers and stay off the complaint boards? Is it because there are more complaints than you want the public to know about?
Other articles found online by typing in “StoresOnline complaints” into search engines.
LEGAL ACTION taken against StoresOnline/iMergent
Class Action – Jury Trail Demanded
http://www.lawssb.com/currentcases/pdf/imergent
.pdf#search='Imergent%20Cease%20%26%20Desist'
Shalov Stone & Bonnel
http://press.arrivenet.com/business/article.
php/618940.html
ACCC swoops on software seller 6-21-05
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,156844
61-15319,00.html
State of Washington
http://www.dfi.wa.gov/sd/orders/S-03-010-03-CO01.pdf#search='storesonline%20complaints'
State of Texas - Temporary Injunction
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/081905
imergent_ati.pdf
State of Texas
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/releases/
2005/022205imergentpop.pdf
State of Maine – Consent Orders
http://www.state.me.us/pfr/sec/Orders/StoresOnline_CA.htm
http://www.state.me.us/pfr/sec/Orders/StoresOnline_CA2.htm
http://www.state.me.us/pfr/sec/Orders/StoresOnline_CA3.htm
Class Action Newsline
http://www.primezone.com/ca/news.html?d=74862
CONSUMER ALERTS 4-6-05 also lists State of CA legal action
http://www.smallbusinessresourcesonline.com/index.php?module=Website&action=Text&content=1115776390078-6407
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/691973
CEASE & DISIST, CONSENT ORDERS
State Of Washington
http://www.dfi.wa.gov/sd/orders/S-03-010-03-TO01.pdf#search='StoresOnline%20Cease%20%26%20Desist'
Read the 5 SOL violations of the Business Opportunity Fraud Act
State of Maine – Consent Orders
http://www.state.me.us/pfr/sec/Orders/StoresOnline_CA.htm
http://www.state.me.us/pfr/sec/Orders/StoresOnline_CA2.htm
http://www.state.me.us/pfr/sec/Orders/StoresOnline_CA3.htm
NEWS ARTICLES/expose'
News from PR Newswire – Class Action of behalf of Investors in iMergent
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/ArticleNews
/story/PRNEWS/20050429/2005_04_29_18_3407_1360054
ArriveNet Press Releases
http://press.arrivenet.com/business/article
.php/611681.html
ArriveNet
http://press.arrivenet.com/business/article.
php/631822.html
Australian IT
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15310262%5E15336%5E%5EnJbv%5E15306%2D15318,00.html
10-7-2005
http://www.100pluscheapwebhosting.com/news/news.php?id=460
FindProfit.com
http://www.findprofit.com/archive/6046.html
Financial News
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050913/135377.html?.v=1
News Releases 2-22-05
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagnews/release.php?id=806
The Courier Mail 5-3-05
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au
/printpage/0,5942,15158064,00.html
The Courier Mail 5-26-05
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common
/story_page/0,5936,15405970%255E3122,00.html
What SOL doesn't want you to know
http://www.shouldibuyastore.com/default.html
http://www.shouldibuyastore.com/wst_page2.html
Australia 6-22-05
http://www.wps.com.au/news.html?newskey=1168
Youkshire Media on the United Kingdom
http://www.yorkshiremedia.com/news/latest
/ripoff_stores_online/
Network Media
http://www.networkworld.com/net.worker/columnists
/2004/1108gaskin.html
Special Report Scams & frauds 10-09-04
http://money.guardian.co.uk/scamsandfraud/story
/0,13802,1323173,00.html
Imergent Latest News, Articles, Info
http://www.newsbug.net/topica/imergent.php
Holes in Net Fortune Seekers / UK
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/money/guardian/news
/2004/10/9/holesinnetfortuneseekers/2
TV REPORTS/expose'
Canadian TV news
http://www.cfcn.ca/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTML
Template/C/20050414/inet?brand=generic&hub=&tf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/
frontpage.html&cf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/fron
tpage.cfg&slug=inet&date=20050414&archive=
CFCNPlus&ad_page_name=&nav=consumer&subnav=fullstory
KIROTV 1-31-03
http://www.kirotv.com/consumer/1950077/detail.html
WTAE TV 4-25-02
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/team4/141911
4/detail.html
KRON4
http://kron.com/Global/story.asp?S=1804928
PUBLIC WARNINGS & ALERTS
Australian IT 10-16-05
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15495986%5E26199%5E%5Enbv%5E15306%2D15319,00.html
SolScammer 9-29-2005 Australian consumers Unite
http://www.scams.net/showthread.php?s=2383428ec295f98679619a9e06df6bbb&p=909#post909
StoresOnline Scam
Looking for Australians who have been misled
http://www.freewebs.com/storesonlinescam/
eBlogger
http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=10427669&postID=110914295707922599
Consumer Online 5-31-05
http://www.consumer.org.nz/newsitem.asp?docid=2239&category=News&topic=iNetSeminars+warning
Consumer Online 12-21-04
http://www.consumer.org.nz/newsitem.asp?category=News&docid=2072&topic=StoresOnline%20update
Consumer Online 8-2-04
http://www.consumer.org.nz/newsitem.asp?category=News&docid=1930&topic=StoresOnline%20websites
Department of Consumer & Employment Protection 5-9-05
http://www.docep.wa.gov.au/Corporate/
Media/statements/2005/May/i-Net_Seminars_Imerg.html
Forbes.com 6-12-03
http://www.forbes.com/execpicks/best/2003/0612/002.html
Media Release
http://www.fairtrading.act.gov.au/Media%20Releases/Storesonline.pdf
Technology Story 5-28-05
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3294933a28,00.html
Business Resources Online
http://www.smallbusinessresourcesonline.com/index.php?module=Website&action=Text&content=1115776390078-6407
Consumer Alert 4-6-05 also lists State of CA legal action
http://www.smallbusinessresourcesonline.com/index.php?module=Website&action=Text&content=1115776390078-6407
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