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Complaint Review: Scentura Creations - UNIVERSAL MANAGEMENT Branch In Nazareth, PA - Nazareth Pennsylvania

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  • Scentura Creations - UNIVERSAL MANAGEMENT Branch In Nazareth, PA Gun Club Road, Nazareth, PA Nazareth, Pennsylvania U.S.A.

Scentura Creations, UNIVERSAL MANAGEMENT Branch In Nazareth, PA DO NOT WORK FOR THESE PEOPLE IT'S A SCAM! They offered false promises and lied to everyone they hired, as well as the people they solicited to! Nazareth Pennsylvania

*UPDATE EX-employee responds: I TOO WAS SCAMED BYTHEM

*UPDATE EX-employee responds: 350 pages of evidence against Scentura and World Perfume

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I answered an ad in the paper on Monday May 5th, the ad said "Fun work environment, MUST LOVE MUSIC" so I called them up. I spoke to Mel, who incidently was an air head, who asked me if I was looking for a full time job, where i was from, etc etc.

I was told that there were many people calling and that i should come in asap for an interview, so i scheduled one for 3pm that very same day. I went in and filled out this half sheet long 'get to know you' form, before being called in by Rob, who was the 'owner' of this branch of SCENTURA CREATIONS, called UNIVERSAL MANAGEMENT.

well i had a 5 minute meeting with Rob when he told me that he would be calling me back by 5:30 that day to tell me whether or not I had a 'second interview', well low and behold i got a call back from Noelle, the other 'owner' of UNIVERSAL MANAGEMENT, telling me that i had s second interview that Friday, the 9th, and to bring a notebook and plan on being there for an hour and a half.

so i go there on friday and we're all told we're hired and that we are "BRANCH MANAGERS" for the company and that we were to have a month, 4 weeks, of training then we would be put in charge of our own location and salesmen.

Rob went into a huge long lecture about the company and the perfume that they sold and how we wouldn't be out selling, that we would hire salesmen to sell for us and how we would be bringing in 5-700 dollars a week and making close to 45g's a year. he ended the meeting with "i'll see you on monday to fill out paperwork" i pulled him aside and told him i had to give some notice at my other job and couldn't start until the following thursday, and he said that i could start the next tuesday, may 20th, since he didn't want me to miss anything in the training.

no biggie in my head so i show up early on tuesday may 20th and once everyone showed up i'm meeting all people who work in the 'company'...i'm the only new person. well Rob starts up the meeting, and along with alot of yelling a swearing and chanting, i'm meeting the other people. i'm told that i will be out 'footing it' with another trainee and 2 branch managers.

the others come up to me and ask where my car is, since none of them drove, i had to drive! this was where i really started getting suspicous. so we head out to union boulevard in allentown, pa...we begin to go business to business to 'sell' this perfume.

i'm not talking like business building type things, this is CVS to Taco Bell to bowling alleys to anywhere. When the women at a Catholic Charities place threatened to call the police, I decided that was enough for me. I asked the girl I was "training" with if this was how things worked, if we were the ones who had to go out and sell the perfume, she replied with "Ya know why don't you write that question down and ask Rob when we get back this afternoon, cuz I can't answer that"...I told her that was it and I was taking them back to the office and I was out, she ran over to Mel, another branch manager and talked to her...

While they were talking I spoke to this guy who had been training for 3 weeks, when I asked him how many days of the 3 weeks he had been out soliciting this perfume, he told me every day!! well mel and the other girl came back and got Rob on the phone and told him what I was saying/planning on doing, he asked to talk to me. once he had me on the phone he told me that i wasn't giving this a chance that this wasn't how things were run and all kinds of other things he must have thought would convince me to stay.

i told him that there was no way i was going to continue with this and that he totally misled me in the way he presented the company to me and that i wasn't interested in this scam they had going.

i ended up leaving those other people in the middle of allentown and leaving. THIS IS A SCAM PEOPLE SO NOT GET SUCKERED IN...IF ANYONE ELSE HAS BEEN SCAMMED BY UNIVERSAL MANAGEMENT AND ROB AND NOELLE PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME, LETS BRING THEM DOWN TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Becky
Belvidere, New Jersey
U.S.A.

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#2 UPDATE EX-employee responds

I TOO WAS SCAMED BYTHEM

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

POSTED: Saturday, November 22, 2003

UNFORTUNATELY I QUIT MY JOB TO WORK FOR THESE PEOPLE. THEY TOLD ME I WOULD RECEIVE MY OWN OFFICE IN 6-8 WEEKS. THEY TOLD ME I WOULD BE RECEIVING $150.00 FOR THE FIRST WEEK AND AS THE WEEKS WENT ON THE PAY WOULD INCREASE BY $50.00 OR SO.

I WOULD ALSO BE RECEIVING ASSET BONUSES AND OVERRIDES. THAT NEVER HAPPENED! I WORKED FOR MORE THAN 150 HOURS IN 2 WEEKS AND THE OWNER ROB TOLD ME THAT BECAUSE WE WERE NOT AN ASSET TO THE COMPANY BECAUSE WE DIDN'T SELL MORE THEN 30 BOTTLES A WEEK HE WAS BREAKING COMPANY POLICY AND WAS GIVING US A BONUS ANYWAYS OF $25.00.

THEY TOLD US THAT THE PRODUCT WAS AUTHENTIC AND IT WASN'T THEY TOLD US 2 WEEKS LATER THEY TOLD US TO LIE TO THE COPS AND TO THE CUSTOMERS. AND THEY HAD "CONTESTS" SUCH AS "HOLES VERSUS POLES," "UNIVERSAL MUSICAL CHAIRS," "PASS THE RHINO," AND FIELD "CONTESTS." ROB WOULD TOLD US THAT WE NEED A CAR TO BE ABLE TO GET TO WORK BECAUSE IT DIDN'T LOOK RIGHT IF WE PULLED UP TO OUR "OFFICE" AND WE WERE BEING DROPPED OFF.

HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A VEHICLE OF HIS OWN. HE WAS GETTING RIDES OFF THE EMPLOYEES THAT WERE THERE. HIS "TRAINERS" NEVER HAD MONEY TO GIVE THE PEOPLE FOR GAS TO GO "MERCH." THERE'S a lot OF FRESH THINGS GOING ON LIKE GUYS COMING ONTO THE GIRLS AND THEY DON'T RESPECT THE FACT THAT YOUR INVOLVED.

THE PLACE IS LOCATED IN THE BACK OF NAZARETH BUILDING SYSTEMS AND IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW ITS THERE OR TOLD IT WAS THERE YOU WOULDN'T HAVE EVER THOUGHT IT EXISTED.THEY ALSO CALL PEOPLE REALLY OFFENSIVE NAMES AS IN "B@TCH" P@$$Y" WEPO AND LOSERS. SO ANYBODY WHOREADS THIS PLEASE TAKE WHAT EVERYBODY IS SAYING INTO CONSIDERATION AND GET OUT NOW AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!

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#1 UPDATE EX-employee responds

350 pages of evidence against Scentura and World Perfume

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

POSTED: Tuesday, July 22, 2003

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You can easily shut down your local world perfume or scentura distributor:
http://dcregistry.com/forums/employment/messages/8037.html
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I have over 370 pages of info on Scentura and World Perfume. I collect the info to

warn others of this horrible scam:

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161 pages of testimonies from people like you who have been ripped off and cheated by world perfume or scentura:

http://www.dcregistry.com/forums/employment/messages/8356.html
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81 pages on world perfume and scentura, 17 news articles, 1 court order:
http://www.dcregistry.com/forums/employment/messages/8233.html
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"Losers never quit": a heart wrenching story from someone who stayed with Scentura for 5 months--EVERYTHING that Scentura does in this story is exactly the same as World Perfume tactics
http://dcregistry.com//forums/employment/messages/8692.html
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100+ pages is an adobe acrobat file that a former distributor sent me describing the

unethical, behind the scenes pracites of Scentura (available from me by request)
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Hope this answers your questions.

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You can easily shut down your local world perfume or scentura distributor:
http://dcregistry.com/forums/employment/messages/8037.html
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