Auctions For Income, Success Team, PMI, IDI Links 4 Trade, NMR Coaching, Internet Development ripoff lied false claims solicitation to evade taxes hidden costs pathetic business schemes Chino California

Never Stop Trying


You need to detail everything to them exactly as it happened as it appears they don't quite understand the type of business you are discussing with them.

You must realize that your results may be partially or perhaps greatly dependent upon the representative you are dealing with from the credit card company. These are people who, with the right words, can fight for your cause. Each time you call, you usually get a different representative. Keep calling until you find someone empathetic or sympathetic enough to your cause. Explain to the reprentative you get exactly what happened in detail and relate that if 'he' or 'she' helps you, you will write a wonderful letter about how great they were to their superiors. Don't just spout this out, acquire some familiarity first and some sign of empathy and then explain how you will help them if this issue is resolved in your favor.

Also, ensure you copy and paste reports similar to yours and fax them over to your credit card company as well. Also, give them this web site address which will take them directly to the complaints against PMI, ETC... Indicate that similar expectations were expressed by others trying to start a business and they can easily observe how others did not get what they were promised and paid for as well. Sift through all of the complaints here and elsewhere on the internet by doing a search on fraudulent companies, etc..,and find others who have had similar problems as yours with this company; they might just be enough at this web site. Look for anything which shows they are being investigated by the FTC or other, examples of their (Jeff Paul) tactics, copy and paste that info. in your letter to the credit card company.

Also, copy and paste the following article in an addendum letter to your credit card company, along with the complaints of others, etc... and details of your specific situation.

The following article was forwarded to me via e-mail some time ago relative to a similar situation.

Visa spokesman Rob Shapiro said the company often goes beyond the rules of Regulation Z to assist consumers. ''We endeavor to resolve any issue amicably and within reason,'' he said.

If you are dissatisfied with a service or product, another form of rebellion
is to refuse to pay that charge on the credit card bill. This act of defiance can be done at any time, even months after you received the product.

If the credit card issuer knows you are withholding and why, and the purchase meets certain criteria, it cannot force you to pay during the investigation or report you as delinquent to a credit-reporting bureau.

Knowing the rules of Regulation Z, consumers may be in a quandary if they buy something several months in advance of getting it. What do you do if you charge $800 in January for a summer Cape rental that you won't see until
August?

If the place turns out to be a total dump, you will surely have missed the filing deadlines by August. To exercise the other option, you have to
withhold payment on that charge. Would it be wise to keep a balance on that purchase and willingly accept finance charges so you reserve the right to
dispute the charge later?

Consumer advocates say there is no clear-cut answer, as each person has different factors to consider. But overall, they say, Regulation Z can work to your advantage as long as you remain level-headed about your budget and finance charges.

'Most people don't know the degree of protection they get from Regulation
Z,'' said Jeanne Foy, head of the consumer action center for MassPIRG.
''It's almost a hidden benefit.''

End of article

You can only use the package in a piece-meal fashion. If one part of the package is faulty, the whole package becomes worthless, so it ends up you never get or got what you paid for. Explain that this is not a situation where you pay your money and you receive your package. You can't judge the package until you receive the entire package, so there should be no time limit under such circumstances.

William,

I was also scammed by them and I was trying hard to be successful.

I see that you were going after them, I'd like to know what to do or how all of us that were deceived in the same way could unite. Time has passed and I was not trying to go after them even when I felt deceived because I kept saying myself that I could make my site successful. Now I see that I had been ripped off with the same scheme and tactics and I don't know how to get a refund because it's now a year and I even transferred the credit card balance to another card that offered less interest. I was also ignored when I insisted that they were not doing what they promised, but I focused on my site and trying to make it successful and learning instead of going after them. What advise can I follow? is there hope for me to get somthing back?. At least people should be aware.

My Husband and I are another couple that this company took advantage of. However, I am not hearing one named company we are still trying to get out of (let alone no one has shut our site down yet either). Anybody involved in the Advantage Corporation? This company sold us a corporation (set up and paperwork) for $1295 and $49.95 per month for an address in Nevada) Now we must come up with $275 to fold the corporation and get them out of our pockets. This is a major scam and I am trying to get everything shut down. Unfortunately, I cannot get all our monies back through credit cards because I used a bank card for part of it. We are even still online and getting no response from my complaints to this site or the Better Business Bureau as of yet. Check out http://www.romeoandfriends.com and help get this company (IDI, Bright Builders, Links4trade, NMR coaching, Advantage Corporation, the tax club and World Wide Brands) and our site shut down! We have been trying to get this going since Nov. of 04 because I was pig headed and would not give up. Now we want some pay back for all the hard work! Please give me suggestions, it was so long ago, I really don't know who all we talked to but we have lost lots of money and time! Thanks for suggestions!

Hi Nathaniel,
Did you file your own report? Did you purchase the rip off book? I did both and got my money back, 100% of it from IDI.

You need to tell your story. Each sale is different, you need to get the details out of what is happening or more to the point - what is NOT happening. What did they tell you to get you to purchase, What did they send you and how are the two different? What costs & expenses didn't they tell you about up front, BEFORE finalizing the sale with you? Who contacted you to make the sale?

There are a lot of good reports that have a lot of great advice. Look for REFUND, REFUNDED, I GOT MY MONEY BACK in the titles to see what others have done to sucessfully acquire their refunds.

I did a lot of research and reading of reports. I searched: Interenet Treasure Chest, Auctions for Income, StoresOnline, onlinesupplier.com, Links4Trade, IDI / Internet Development / idiglobal.com, Professional Consulting Service, Summit Consulting, PMI / Professional Marketing Inc/International, NMR / National Marketing Resources, Mentoring of American, John Beck, Jeff Paul, etc. When researching Better Business and reading BB reports, the list of DBA's and phone numbers and addresses lead you to more searches. I printed out everything I could find. It proves how some of these companies will move to a different address, or even a different state, change their names, all in the effort of getting more consumer money, hiding from UNSATISFACTORY BB reports and hiding from ripoff reports. It usually catches up to them though, but so many consumers get ripped off.

Don't give up !!!! File your own report. Add a rebuttal here, let us know what your report address is.

Talk to you soon!

I am in week four of the IDI program. I am having an experience similar to your own. I was hoping you could make a suggestion as to what I should do. I feel trapped.

Hi William,
Have you obtained your refund?
Reports filed on Interenet Treasure Chest, StoresOnline, onlinesupplier.com, Auctions for Income, some report being sold Links 4 Trade or services from The Tax Club or mentioned both.
If you haven't received your refund yet --
suggestions -- take all of the items they sent to you and look at all the different logos, company names, addresses, phone numbers. Update your report listing all of them: the company name, address, phone, fax numbers and all the names of people you have talked to.

Who's name is on your charge card statement? That is who you want to be talking to. Compile all your information and call your credit card company and dispute the charges, then send them all of your documentation. BBB has unsatisfactory rating on Auctions for Income in CA & AZ, Unsatisfactory on Summit Consulting who hid behind the name Auctions for Income success team and The Summit Group, & PMI which is also NMR.

Who is responsible for the web page building software? Links 4 Trade? & billing the monthly fees? I found a report online that stated no one can control the search engines. So no one can guarantee any number of hits to any specific web page. The Tax Club, give me a break -- Summit sells you their services and then the tax club calls to sell you again, for the most part, for the same services.

Check your paperwork & Start filing reports with all local, state and federal agencies. Many report forms are available online. AFI received Cease & Disist order in the state of Illinois. Your reporting efforts help states go after them. Good luck.

Hi William,
Have you obtained your refund?
Reports filed on Interenet Treasure Chest, StoresOnline, onlinesupplier.com, Auctions for Income, some report being sold Links 4 Trade or services from The Tax Club or mentioned both.
If you haven't received your refund yet --
suggestions -- take all of the items they sent to you and look at all the different logos, company names, addresses, phone numbers. Update your report listing all of them: the company name, address, phone, fax numbers and all the names of people you have talked to.

Who's name is on your charge card statement? That is who you want to be talking to. Compile all your information and call your credit card company and dispute the charges, then send them all of your documentation. BBB has unsatisfactory rating on Auctions for Income in CA & AZ, Unsatisfactory on Summit Consulting who hid behind the name Auctions for Income success team and The Summit Group, & PMI which is also NMR.

Who is responsible for the web page building software? Links 4 Trade? & billing the monthly fees? I found a report online that stated no one can control the search engines. So no one can guarantee any number of hits to any specific web page. The Tax Club, give me a break -- Summit sells you their services and then the tax club calls to sell you again, for the most part, for the same services.

Check your paperwork & Start filing reports with all local, state and federal agencies. Many report forms are available online. AFI received Cease & Disist order in the state of Illinois. Your reporting efforts help states go after them. Good luck.

Hi William,
Have you obtained your refund?
Reports filed on Interenet Treasure Chest, StoresOnline, onlinesupplier.com, Auctions for Income, some report being sold Links 4 Trade or services from The Tax Club or mentioned both.
If you haven't received your refund yet --
suggestions -- take all of the items they sent to you and look at all the different logos, company names, addresses, phone numbers. Update your report listing all of them: the company name, address, phone, fax numbers and all the names of people you have talked to.

Who's name is on your charge card statement? That is who you want to be talking to. Compile all your information and call your credit card company and dispute the charges, then send them all of your documentation. BBB has unsatisfactory rating on Auctions for Income in CA & AZ, Unsatisfactory on Summit Consulting who hid behind the name Auctions for Income success team and The Summit Group, & PMI which is also NMR.

Who is responsible for the web page building software? Links 4 Trade? & billing the monthly fees? I found a report online that stated no one can control the search engines. So no one can guarantee any number of hits to any specific web page. The Tax Club, give me a break -- Summit sells you their services and then the tax club calls to sell you again, for the most part, for the same services.

Check your paperwork & Start filing reports with all local, state and federal agencies. Many report forms are available online. AFI received Cease & Disist order in the state of Illinois. Your reporting efforts help states go after them. Good luck.