DirectBuy Legal "Fraud" Little Rock/Bentonville Arkansas

As a Former Marketing Director of DirectBuy of Northwest Arkansas and working for Diana Tyler (daughter of Jim and Vicky Smith) and Vicky Smith, I can tell you that everything this person is saying is completely TRUE!! If you want to hear how underhanded their tactics are, I'll give you what happened to me as well as an ex employee. I was working for the company, and when I was hired, I informed them that I had two other companies that my wife and I owned and were currently working on and in pursuit of building up.

I was fired for being 7 minutes late to a meeting that I was only given about 12 hours notice of. We normally had to be in on Saturdays around 9:30, and the meeting was at 9am. I was told of the meeting around 8pm on Friday Night. Lovely Right? I have a young daughter, my wife and I own a salon, and I have two other companies, a National Radio Show, and a Pro MMA League I'm working on. So just holding down that job with the odd 1-9pm+ hours is insane. I showed up at 9:07am, sold 3 memberships that day, and two on Friday, made them $25,000.00 and was told that because of my tardies and absences (Every day I took off was approved, including our event we held which I told them about when hired), and they knew about the other businesses and that I would be running behind from time to time, etc. I countered them on that, and then was told "When we were in San Francisco, we decided that we were going to take the company in a different direction, and since you can't be 110% committed to DirectBuy, we're going to let you pursue your dreams".

Please note, I was never written up, nor did I ever have to sign any documentation for violating any company policy. They fought my UnEmployment, and WON!! I'm now in the Appeals process, and according to everything I've read, they don't have any ground to stand on, because what I did wasn't Intentional.. Just ridiculous.. This is possibly the worst company I've ever worked for. I've been a Store Manager for Kohl's, Borders, and a District Manager with GNC, Spencers, and have had some high profile jobs, but this takes the cake. I have NEVER been fired in my life, so this is just a complete slap in the face.

Oh, and on the Commission Scale... I wish it was that good, but its' not. We only get $100 per close.. The club gets about $3200, and the rest goes to the Corporate Office. How Sad.. One more thing.. I was the #1 Closer at the NW Arkansas Location from March to November.. I made them around $60,000.00 per month for 8 months.. What a complete worthless turd I was huh? So it wasn't performance based. I had been the Top Closer since I started in mid March..

Any Thoughts would be appreciated, but I highly recommend anyone that is thinking about working for this group, or joining to STAY AWAY!!

A Concerned Citizen of Northwest Arkansas.

too bad Jim Smith and his wife Vickie home address and phone numbers are not posted here, after all, if you go to their presentation, they have all of your info.

turn about is fair play, right.

crooks should be exposed to the public at every chance, I am sure it would make anyone thinking of pulling a scam to consider the conquences. ( like being noticed and pointed out when they go shopping at the mall or local market)