IMS BARTER International Monetary Systems Represent fraudulent companies, you will lose thousands of dollars Niles, Illinois

#1) Approx 3 years ago we signed up to barter for a door to door delivery of an ad that we had designed. It was about $1000 or so. The company at first was not following up. Later on, they said that the ads had been printed and delivered. I know many people in the area, NOBODY got the ads. So, they provided a GPS printout of the delivery vehicle. Guess what? It wasn't anywhere near the delivery area that was agreed upon. They never provided a copy of the ad, nothing. A total scam. Had we been a larger company we would have just paid the bill and wrote it off as a bad ad campaign. I FOUGHT FOR WEEKS TO GET MY BARTER MONEY BACK, FROM A CON ARTIST!

#2) Approx 2 years ago, I purchased 2 vouchers valid for a flight, advertised as "good for 6 months" I received the vouchers and within the week, the airline ceased operations and my voucher that was "good for 6 months", was worthless. Out about $1500. I FOUGHT FOR ABOUT A MONTH TO GET REIMBURSED FOR THAT!

#3) the last straw... we had run several print advertising promotions. We worked with a company called Senior connection back in 2008. Ran a few ads,had fair response at best. We never continued the ad campaign. About 6-12 months later, out of the blue Senior Connection ran TWO full page ads at a cost to me of $2400 per ad! No contract, no discussion... apparently they were desperate and needed money, so they just did it and charged my account. Instead of IMS Barter removing a conman from their client roster, I left... they were not interested in listening to me, just interested in fees.

There are more examples, but this gives you a good idea of how IMS Barter operates, what their management thinks of "sleazy deals"...and the gross inaction by IMS to make anything "right".  Save yourself the hassle. IMS is a great concept run by a group of people simply more concerned about their paycheck than a happy client that has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars.