- Report: #925378
Complaint Review: Freedom marketing
| Freedom marketing 3820 south Pine st. suite 200
Tacoma, Washington United States of America |
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Freedom marketing Labella destinations Mike Stanfield Tacoma, Washington
*Consumer Comment: Travel Awards SCAM
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Responce to: Freedom marketing Labella destinations Mike Stanfield Tacoma, Washington
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stays. Taxes and processing fees turned out to be almost as much as the prize? We were sucked in by this professional com man and his group of scammers.
Went to the presentation with my wife and daughter. The presentation makes these guys almost sound legit. We signed up thinking what he said was real. When we had a moment out of there high pressure sales influence we decided it was not for us. We sent an email to them requesting our refund as the paperwork said we had 3 days to do. The email came back as undeliverable.
We tried to contact them by phone but got many excuses and no one to give our money back. We then went to the office and were told the 3 day thing didnt really mean anything and should be removed from the contract paperwork. They were going to give us seven days. They again showed us the web site which worked really well in there office with them running the keyboard.
We relented after some more high pressure salesmanship and returned home. Upon trying out the web site at home there were many parts of it that did not function well. Links that went nowhere and photos of destinations that were the same in the Bahamas and Florida and Rio and Spain and.etc. You get the idea. We then attempted another email to request our money back. They said it would be workingNot true. Email still came back to us. All the sudden when we got ahold of them the 3 day period now applied and we would not be getting our money back because of it.
These guys are very good at scamming people. Please be aware and do not go to the presentation. We fell for it and now will end up paying for it.
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Travel Awards SCAM
AUTHOR: agitated - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, November 11, 2012
In response to the owners response, it sounds to me like he is trying to pass the blame onto the other companies he works with ("We do not fulfill the memberships IDS does", "Regarding the promotional trip: all promotional trips are purchased through a third party vendor"). His statement that "Everyone that is invited to our presentations is told in writing that there are processing fees and taxes they will be required to pay in order to use the travel certificate...", forgets to mention the fact that you aren't given this information (in fine print), until after the presentation. Nowhere is this stated prior to arriving at the presentation. Additionally you can't get any real information from the marketing lady on the phone who as a third party doesn't really have detailed information. I asked her all of these things and she just said what I wanted to hear to get me to go there so she could get her commission.
My suggestion to LaBella is, if you are really trying to provide a good product then get a handle on who your partners are (IDS and your marketing company), because ultimately you are representing each other as a service to the customer. I for one know that you already are aware of all of these things and continue to try and fool people, so go F*** yourself. My suggestion to the public is to stay home.
#2 REBUTTAL Owner of company
Responce to: Freedom marketing Labella destinations Mike Stanfield Tacoma, Washington
AUTHOR: Freedom Marketing - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, October 18, 2012

