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Complaint Review: Lear Financial - Santa Monica California

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  • Lear Financial 429 Santa Monica Blvd Suite 440 Santa Monica, California United States of America

Lear Financial CUSTOMER SATISFACTION COMMITMENT: Lear Financial is committed to customer satisfaction and constantly seeks ways to further improve its high-quality customer service. We are committed to helping our clients successfully diversify their portfolios, protect their savings and retirement income, and guard against risk through timely investments in gold, silver, platinum and other precious metals. Coast to coast.


*UPDATE: Recognized by Rip-off Report Corporate Advocacy Program as a safe business service Lear Financial pledges to always resolve any issues. Feel safe, confident and secure when doing business with Lear Capital.

*Author of original report: Outcome of reported dispute

*UPDATE Employee: Response to client that accuses Larry Germain of false activities

*Consumer Suggestion: Dear Lear Financial Customer or Prospective Customer:

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Editors UPDATE: Positive rating and recognition has been given to Lear Financial for its commitment to excellence in customer service.

Ripoff Reports discussions with Lear Financial have assured us that Lear Financial has made customer satisfaction a core principle and that Lear is constantly seeking ways to improve its already high standard of customer care. This means that Lear Financial will provide accurate, timely and courteous information to its clientele and that Lear staff will work quickly to satisfactorily resolve any client questions or concerns.

It also means that Lear is committed to learning from its customers through regular, voluntary follow-up calls and conversations. This feedback helps Lears customer care team to correct any mistakes and to ensure an even higher standard of customer service in the future.

Rip-Off Reports was pleased to learn that Lear Financials president, Kevin DeMeritt, deliberately focused on excellent customer service as a business hallmark in order to make Lear stand out from other gold and precious metals investing firms. Indeed, great customer service is what DeMeritt terms the Lear Advantage.

As an investment industry leader, Mr. DeMeritt understands that Lear clients investments are precious and that Lear has a responsibility to meet the highest standards of transparency, integrity and customer assurance. Lears goal is to establish a long-term relationship with its clients and understands that it can only do so by providing them with the best and most timely information and guidance.

A top executive at Lear Ripoff Report that Mr. DeMeritt is an innovator constantly looking for ways to provide added value to his customers. Kevin understands that the world is changing and that investors needs change just as fast. He strives to provide clients with real-time answers to real-time questions about precious metals investing. His goal is to provide the best and most responsive customer service in the industry, whether through knowledgeable and friendly customer care representatives, or through constantly-updated information on Lears full-service website. Kevins philosophy is: Never make a customer wait, never make a customer wonder.

Lear Financials customer care team notes that the expertise of Lears senior management gives Lear clients confidence. DeMeritt, predicted the market crash of 2001 on national radio and the ensuing strength of gold as an investment. He has steered Lear to a position as one of the most prominent precious metals investing companies in America, with frequent endorsements from a range of media leaders, including the Rush Limbaugh Show, Michael Medved, Dennis Prager, George Noory, Laura Ingraham, Mike Gallagher, Oliver North, Noah Hutchings, the late Marlin Maddoux and many others.

More importantly, DeMeritt and his team have helped thousands of investors protect their savings and retirement through the well-timed purchase of precious metals. As a result, Lear clients report high customer satisfaction.

Lear Financial recognizes that complaints posted on Rip-off Report (whether true or not) are issues that need to be addressed, not ignored. If handled correctly, complaints can be valuable learning opportunities. With the feedback generated by Rip-off Reports Investigation Lear Financial has instituted systematic changes to ensure that problems are resolved quickly and quality standards remain high.

In summary, after our investigation, which included discussions with Mr. DeMeritt and many of his past and current associates, Rip-off Report is convinced that Lear Financial is committed to delivering high quality services resulting in total client satisfaction.

Read more about why consumers should feel confident when doing business with a member of Rip-off Report's Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation & Customer Satisfaction Program. Yes, its a long name for a program that does a lot for both consumers and businesses alike.

Read about Rip-off Report Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation & Customer Satisfaction Program,.. A program that benefits the consumer, assures them of complete satisfaction and confidence when doing business with a member business. this program works.

SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT MOST OF THE REPORTS FILED ABOUT LEAR CAPITAL:

As a matter of policy, when a business becomes a member of the Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation and Customer Satisfaction Program they agree to allow Ripoff Report to contact every person who filed a complaint so they can make things right with them. In order to confirm that each and every complaint was resolved, Ripoff Report emailed the author of all the reports about Lear Financial.. Fortunately, the posting of false reports is not the norm, .. ..Sadly in this case, most of the reports posted about Lear were filed by the same person., and the Reports that were not posted by the same person all looked suspicious.. Ripoff Report has the evidence. Ripoff Report waited more than 2 weeks to post this UPDATE. As of today, Ripoff Report has not heard back from one person regarding any Report about Lear Financial.

It is the opinion of Ripoff Report, because the Precious Metals industry is so competitive, that it is more than likely unscrupulous cut-throat competitors posted the reports about Lear. Executives at Lear admit to Ripoff Report they are not perfect, as no company or individual ever is, but, the people at Lear have made a commitment to do their best to always do right and what is fair by their customers. If any of our readers feels a member of the Corporate Advocacy Program did not do right by them, to please contact us here at Ripoff Report. editor@ripoffreport.com

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NOW TO THE ORIGINAL REPORT THAT WAS FILED
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Lear Financial , Larry Germaine Senior Fortfolio Manager Deceptive and dishonest sales practices Santa Monica California

Contacted by phone by Lear Financial, I agreed to consider purchasing gold coins. I was led to believe that by giving the salesman my credit card number I could lock in the price of the coins but decide later. My account was charged even though I cancelled the transaction by fax and email. The Salesman Larry Germaine, repeatly harrassed me to get me to sign the shipping ageement. I repeatly refused.

We tried through Bank of America to have the charges removed from our account. The charges have been removed twice and put back on. On August 16 in response to Bank of America's inquiry the company falsified my signature to make it appear that I had signed and agreed to the transaction.

We have not received the gold coins to this date. The original contact was April 26, 2007 it is now September 6, 2007.

We are still attempting to get these charges reversed. We do not wish to pay 3 times what we could purchase the same coins for on Ebay.

Steve
St Helens, Oregon
U.S.A.

This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 09/06/2007 11:25 AM and is a permanent record located here: https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/lear-financial/santa-monica-california-90401/lear-financial-customer-satisfaction-commitment-lear-financial-is-committed-to-customer-s-272797. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report. READ: Foreign websites steal our content

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AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Tuesday, September 18, 2007

I am the plainiff of the above dispute. As of 9/13/07 all charges have been removed from my credit card. After a discussion with the CEO of Lear Financial I was given a full refund in accordance with our agreement that the gold coins in question were never received and were never meant to be purchased.

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Response to client that accuses Larry Germain of false activities

AUTHOR: Bill Nelles - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Tuesday, September 11, 2007

On 3/9/07 Mr. Howell contacted Lear Financial from an advertisement . On 4/26/07 Mr. Howell make a purchase of coins on a recorded confirmation line. A copy is being sent to the customer. In that recording Mr. Howell was explained the exact coins that he was purchasing and the exact price. He was asked if he agreed to purchase and he clearly states YES. Not a hold on the coins but a purchase. He is then asked how he would like to pay for the order and HE states a credit card.

We never coerced him into giving the credit card, he offered it. We did not receive our agreement from Mr. Howell after the sale. The credit card was run and we even received an authorization number from his bank. There was NEVER a forged signature on the credit card. The credit card slip was faxed over to the credit card company with Mr. Howell's name printed into the signature field.

The reason that it was placed there is that there is no place on the printed credit card form that indicates the credit card number is Mr. Howell's. This credit card form is our internal form and never sent to the bank unless requested. Thus, EVERY slip has the customers name on it so we can find the person in a case like this. The bank was NEVER told that the name was placed there by Mr. Howell.

The reason that the charge was held is that his bank authorized the transaction. We feel that the forged allegation and the fact that we coerced him into the credit card payment is false. The tape clearly illustrates that both the purchase and the use of the credit card was clearly his idea.

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Dear Lear Financial Customer or Prospective Customer:

AUTHOR: John Q. - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Friday, September 07, 2007

We represent a former employee of Lear Financial, Inc., a company that sells gold coins, other metals to individuals for their personal accounts and also for their IRA and other retirement accounts. Our client has sued Lear and Kevin DeMeritt, its President, and other employees of Lear alleging that Lear and DeMeritt wrongfully terminated his employment in retaliation for his complaints about the widespread and systematic fraud and illegal tape recording of customers' phone calls perpetrated against Lear's customers, among other wrongful acts.

In lawsuits, our clients contend that Lear systematically misled its customers about the amount of commissions they were paying and overcharged them. Our client also contends that Lear also systematically violated the California Penal Code by unlawfully recording and eavesdropping on conversations between Lear salesmen and Lear customers without the customer's knowing consent.

Under California law, Lear is subject to a $5,000 civil penalty payable to the customer for each such violation. We have obtained a declaration from one Lear customer who has stated under oath that he was told that he was only being charged a 7% commission to purchase coins. The Lear documents we have obtained, however, reflect that he was charged 40%. We have obtained from Lear other documents reflecting that it charged another client 40%.

We are investigating whether you had a similar experience at Lear and would greatly appreciate it if you could call us to so that we could determine if you also were subject to Lear's wrongful conduct alleged by our client. Peter R. Dion-Kindem P.C. at Dion-Kindem & Crockett Office, Woodland Hills California. We look forward to hearing from you in this regard.

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