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You made a very smart decision not to go to work for IPA. It is a very bad company to work for as my experience there a year ago testifies. Yes their reimbursements are so puny they are laughable. They deliberately assign you a sales territory about an hour's drive from your home. I burned three tanks of gasoline a week chasing their "appointments" which were mostly bogus. In addition, you run up a lot of minutes on your cell phone on the road and with their inane conference calls.



Their payroll system is a relic from the 1980s. You get paid when the analyst is paid (which I understood), but then there is a three to four week lag from then the analyst visits the business and you finally get paid on the case. I guess from reading a lot of postings on this site, the three to four week lag is because so many checks paid to IPA are later stopped or bounce. Then they do not direct deposit anything. You still get a paper check in the mail like I used to back twenty years ago.



As a rep for IPA, the "senexes" and zone managers treat you like dirt. They scream at you if you can't "break down the door" to get into a business that doesn't want you in there. Getting paid on your air fare is like pulling teeth. I was told that as soon as my first field sale was made, it would be reported to their "travel department" and a reimbursement check would be cut. That was a bald faced lie. There is no "travel department" and one has to complete a reimbursement request form. This could have been explained in the training class, but was somehow overlooked. It took more than a month after the sale was made in the field before I received the reimbursement for the air fare.



Turnover in this company is very high. I have worked with some companies where there is a high turnover of sales reps, but I heve never seen a revolving door spinning so fast as IPA. There were 14 people who completed the training class the first week of May, 2007. By Labor Day, all 14 had left IPA. That is a 100% turnover of that training class in four months. Most had left within the first month.



These weren't young inexperienced sales reps hoodwinked by a slick recruiter. All had significant sales experience in the field and some had even operated their own businesses. Many had more then twenty years sales experience, yet they felt that IPA offered a great opportunity to not only make a good living, but help other businesses as well. All were badly disillusioned with the result.



IPA is a scam and the sooner that company is put out of business, the better. Right now the buzzards are circling as a class action lawsuit is making its way through the courts. Check out (((ROR redacted))) for information on it.



CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

You made a very smart decision not to go to work for IPA. It is a very bad company to work for as my experience there a year ago testifies. Yes their reimbursements are so puny they are laughable. They deliberately assign you a sales territory about an hour's drive from your home. I burned three tanks of gasoline a week chasing their "appointments" which were mostly bogus. In addition, you run up a lot of minutes on your cell phone on the road and with their inane conference calls.



Their payroll system is a relic from the 1980s. You get paid when the analyst is paid (which I understood), but then there is a three to four week lag from then the analyst visits the business and you finally get paid on the case. I guess from reading a lot of postings on this site, the three to four week lag is because so many checks paid to IPA are later stopped or bounce. Then they do not direct deposit anything. You still get a paper check in the mail like I used to back twenty years ago.



As a rep for IPA, the "senexes" and zone managers treat you like dirt. They scream at you if you can't "break down the door" to get into a business that doesn't want you in there. Getting paid on your air fare is like pulling teeth. I was told that as soon as my first field sale was made, it would be reported to their "travel department" and a reimbursement check would be cut. That was a bald faced lie. There is no "travel department" and one has to complete a reimbursement request form. This could have been explained in the training class, but was somehow overlooked. It took more than a month after the sale was made in the field before I received the reimbursement for the air fare.



Turnover in this company is very high. I have worked with some companies where there is a high turnover of sales reps, but I heve never seen a revolving door spinning so fast as IPA. There were 14 people who completed the training class the first week of May, 2007. By Labor Day, all 14 had left IPA. That is a 100% turnover of that training class in four months. Most had left within the first month.



These weren't young inexperienced sales reps hoodwinked by a slick recruiter. All had significant sales experience in the field and some had even operated their own businesses. Many had more then twenty years sales experience, yet they felt that IPA offered a great opportunity to not only make a good living, but help other businesses as well. All were badly disillusioned with the result.



IPA is a scam and the sooner that company is put out of business, the better. Right now the buzzards are circling as a class action lawsuit is making its way through the courts. Check out (((ROR redacted))) for information on it.



CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

You made a very smart decision not to go to work for IPA. It is a very bad company to work for as my experience there a year ago testifies. Yes their reimbursements are so puny they are laughable. They deliberately assign you a sales territory about an hour's drive from your home. I burned three tanks of gasoline a week chasing their "appointments" which were mostly bogus. In addition, you run up a lot of minutes on your cell phone on the road and with their inane conference calls.



Their payroll system is a relic from the 1980s. You get paid when the analyst is paid (which I understood), but then there is a three to four week lag from then the analyst visits the business and you finally get paid on the case. I guess from reading a lot of postings on this site, the three to four week lag is because so many checks paid to IPA are later stopped or bounce. Then they do not direct deposit anything. You still get a paper check in the mail like I used to back twenty years ago.



As a rep for IPA, the "senexes" and zone managers treat you like dirt. They scream at you if you can't "break down the door" to get into a business that doesn't want you in there. Getting paid on your air fare is like pulling teeth. I was told that as soon as my first field sale was made, it would be reported to their "travel department" and a reimbursement check would be cut. That was a bald faced lie. There is no "travel department" and one has to complete a reimbursement request form. This could have been explained in the training class, but was somehow overlooked. It took more than a month after the sale was made in the field before I received the reimbursement for the air fare.



Turnover in this company is very high. I have worked with some companies where there is a high turnover of sales reps, but I heve never seen a revolving door spinning so fast as IPA. There were 14 people who completed the training class the first week of May, 2007. By Labor Day, all 14 had left IPA. That is a 100% turnover of that training class in four months. Most had left within the first month.



These weren't young inexperienced sales reps hoodwinked by a slick recruiter. All had significant sales experience in the field and some had even operated their own businesses. Many had more then twenty years sales experience, yet they felt that IPA offered a great opportunity to not only make a good living, but help other businesses as well. All were badly disillusioned with the result.



IPA is a scam and the sooner that company is put out of business, the better. Right now the buzzards are circling as a class action lawsuit is making its way through the courts. Check out (((ROR redacted))) for information on it.



CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

You made a very smart decision not to go to work for IPA. It is a very bad company to work for as my experience there a year ago testifies. Yes their reimbursements are so puny they are laughable. They deliberately assign you a sales territory about an hour's drive from your home. I burned three tanks of gasoline a week chasing their "appointments" which were mostly bogus. In addition, you run up a lot of minutes on your cell phone on the road and with their inane conference calls.



Their payroll system is a relic from the 1980s. You get paid when the analyst is paid (which I understood), but then there is a three to four week lag from then the analyst visits the business and you finally get paid on the case. I guess from reading a lot of postings on this site, the three to four week lag is because so many checks paid to IPA are later stopped or bounce. Then they do not direct deposit anything. You still get a paper check in the mail like I used to back twenty years ago.



As a rep for IPA, the "senexes" and zone managers treat you like dirt. They scream at you if you can't "break down the door" to get into a business that doesn't want you in there. Getting paid on your air fare is like pulling teeth. I was told that as soon as my first field sale was made, it would be reported to their "travel department" and a reimbursement check would be cut. That was a bald faced lie. There is no "travel department" and one has to complete a reimbursement request form. This could have been explained in the training class, but was somehow overlooked. It took more than a month after the sale was made in the field before I received the reimbursement for the air fare.



Turnover in this company is very high. I have worked with some companies where there is a high turnover of sales reps, but I heve never seen a revolving door spinning so fast as IPA. There were 14 people who completed the training class the first week of May, 2007. By Labor Day, all 14 had left IPA. That is a 100% turnover of that training class in four months. Most had left within the first month.



These weren't young inexperienced sales reps hoodwinked by a slick recruiter. All had significant sales experience in the field and some had even operated their own businesses. Many had more then twenty years sales experience, yet they felt that IPA offered a great opportunity to not only make a good living, but help other businesses as well. All were badly disillusioned with the result.



IPA is a scam and the sooner that company is put out of business, the better. Right now the buzzards are circling as a class action lawsuit is making its way through the courts. Check out (((ROR redacted))) for information on it.



CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

Hey there Ira,



I am an analyst with IPA.



I don't have a lot of time to respond, but the income potential is great (only if you are good at the job).



I make well over the 6 figure mark.



Travel expenses aren't as terrible as they seem, initially the expenses start off very low, this is to avoid people who aren't very good at the job living off the reimbursable expenses. Once you establish yourself well enough, they go up dramatically.



IPA is a good company, who helps many people get out of bad situations. I wish you the best in your search, but the portrait you may see is just a bunch of white noise, and nothing like reality.