Stores Online has entered the Canadian market place with their high pressured, fast paced sales pitch for making money via internet sales. It starts out with a couple hour evening session that sets the stage and leads into a one day workshop.
At the workshop you are presented with information about Store Online, their store front services and basically pressured into to buying into the program on a today only offer. Granted we all have the ability to say "no" and I think most would including myself if we had been presented all the facts.
Once the smoke has cleared and you begin to read over the next week or so what you have signed up and paid for it becomes clear that not all the facts and hidden fees were presented during the session. You are further dupped by their promise of further infomation at a future session that is free if you take the top package which by the way nets out to over $6000.00 when everything is said and done.
Then comes the phone calls from other organizations (PMI,Electronic Marketing Services, The Tax Center) all affiliates of Stores Online trying to sell you their services to accelerate the launching of your stores fronts. These service if you elect to do so can take your investment to well over $30,000.00.
In the end you soon see that their service are less then presented, the task of taking a business to the internet is harder then they portray and the hidden fess continue to build.
Stores Online (aka) Imergent Inc. (aka) Galaxy Mall Inc. has over 350 complaints lodged against them (www.ripoffreport.com) as well as documented cases in Maine, California, Texas, Washington State and Australia.
As a Canadian I would file a complaint with the Competition Bureau, 50 Victoria Street, Gatineau, Quebec, K1A 0C9 or call toll free 1-800-348-5358 or go to competitionbureau.gc.ca.
Any persons wishing to enter into a class action law suite please contact me.
Chris
Baldwin, Ontario
Canada