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Complaint Review: Travel Lion - Internet

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  • Travel Lion Internet United States of America

Travel Lion evetravel FALSE ADVERTISING Internet

*REBUTTAL Owner of company: The Travel Lion Support

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Okay I'm only 21 and I know nothing about business or the lingo. So I'm going to describe this the best way I know how, and hopefully you understand what I'm trying to say even though I might word things incorrectly. I believe this company smart circle is somehow connected to evetravel or the travel lion/ platnum travel destinations, etc. Reading what other people have wrote, it seems smart circle is just a an immortal virus. And it wont stop multiplying! The things there doing may not be illegal persay..... however they are definately not right. For example yes a worker may choose to be part of that company and work those 12 hour days with little pay. It's not neccesarily illegal because they find loop holes around everything, however, its just not right. 


I remember I went into an interview for i thing the name was Mg marketing, or something like that. I had found the add on craigslist. i thought it weird that a marketing company (i believe it might be associated with smart circle or at least its a very similar virus) would be hiring people with no experience. i felt that was shady, but i went none-the less. the building was shady as well because it wasn't there own building, it was just some office space they rented out. and that was it. It was really weird. then i asked how much the pay is, and they said to wait till i know what the company was about before i asked.

 i swear its like they would not answer the question! i had to ask like three times, and the lady kept beating around the bush like "okay well first you'll go through the observation day, and the lead will explain the pay situation". they i had to eventually say "so is this a commission job only or something?" its like, they dont write that on craigslist. they just make u sit there for hour and hours, its like they know that if they put its a commission job on the internet, they wont get as many applicant. they try to hide that job till the very last moment. and then this "marketing" job turns out to be door to door solicitation type thing. and granted none of the things we were soliciting were illegal... the whole way it is run and set up is sneaky shady and weird. its like they take advantage of lil kids with no experience. people were telling me like the first week i'd probably make no pay because i didn't know how to get the customers to want what i was soliciting yet. WHO THE HELL WANTS TO WORK WITH NO PAY!!?

 they are so misleading, its like a man trying to buy a 5 100 dollar bills with one dollar. seriously, they just use clever (and not even that clever) syntax to get you to take a bad deal, which is the job. people take the job with the thought, that once they become good at selling, they will make a lot of money, or that they can move up to a lead. very very sketchy and wrong... not illegal necessarity but sneaky. And it sucks to be mis lead. 

in addition to all this. my stupid college had some people with a booth outside. im so dissappointed that my college okayed these people to be there. =( even my college doesnt have good filteres and protect the students. it was a booth with travel banners/ something to do with a cruise travel etc and i wanted to go to Puerto rico in the summer so i went to check it out. And im not an impulsive buyer, i must have been there for like an hour asking questions and i even took a picture of the lady i was so skeptical. she was telling me i could get discounts on airfair if i bought the package and that i could use it for discounts on hotels and etc etc. and i asked if there were any other fees and all kinds of stuff. then i said i'd think about it and come back the next day, and they said that they wont be there, its like a really good deal and there going to be gone and yatta yatta.... kind of pressuring me to buy it, like i needed to make a decision fast because once they were gone the deal was gone. they couldn't give me a phone number nothing. its very shady. but despite that  voice of reason in my head  that was skeptical, i bought the package. looking online about all the stuff that it offers, its like nothing. 

the site is confusing. the certificate i have says to logg onto www.evetravel.com then it directs u to travel lion .com or some site with that name because it says they changed names to that company (shady). and the site is misleading and confusing. i basically threw 150 dollars down the toilet for this package because there is no discount involved. it's like a lil sceme. this company may not be directly hurting me but they are indirectly hurting me because they don't care about your satisfaction with the product. 

let me explain this in lamens terms.... okay its like this... i buy 10 toy trucks for 1 dollar each, then i hire peopel to hire people to sell the truck, but not just the trucks by themselves. the peopel at the bottum of this chain don't know who i am and nothing can be traced back to me.... even tho i was the one who set up the whole operation. then i call some companies to aggree to add features onto these toy cars, like toy lights and toy people but the the catch is, people have to go online to buy them but they will be like 5 dollars for the special features when they should be like 300 dollars. and then i have those people underme sell the stuff but i dont regulate anything! like the people can say the toy trucks will come to life and fly you to the moon. people really lie to you. they you go online to get these special features and you have to pay an activation fee to type in your code for 50 dollars and etc etc and there is no real discount. ur just stuck with an expensive toy truck that u could have bought for cheap, and u were promised things from someone you can't find, cuz its not a real business and the employees aren't kept track of... so if you want to complain that u want your money back because the person that sold it to you did so through false advertising, your screwed.

its just unorganized and messy and although some people arent against this company because they haven't really been effected and they say everyone has a choice how much of a choice is it, when ur manipulated through false advertising. yea u made a choice to buy something, but the thing u were lead to believe u were getting and the thing u got are two totally different things. 

the whole reason we have this capital society is so that the businesses that suck can be weeded out by us not buying there goods. but this company makes it difficult. its not like most companys its a mutating virus and it makes it hard to place the blame of on someone due to how it is organized. and beacause of that no one can really shut it down and the company keeps prospering due to naive first time buyers who don't know they are tricked untill they are tricked. and just know this company isn't just one thing. its many things. and it doesnt sell tangible goods. it finds things that are ready are and makes money off of those companies services. for example they will hire people to go door to door to minimize people's verizion bills by adding all the lines together so they don't have to pay as much or whatever, and what verizon gets out of that is a new two year contract for those lines, and verison will pay mg marketing for doing that service for them. 

or they make money off of selling discounted cruise packages but really there is no deal in that because u pay for the package and then you have to pay for an activation fee to activate the package and then the discounted hotels are so expensive u don't even use the package but u did loose a grip of money.

con artists preying on the innocent. a dam shame

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The Travel Lion Support

AUTHOR: The Travel Lion Inc. - ()

POSTED: Monday, February 10, 2014

The Travel Lion used smart circle and evetravel to market or certificate. We are not same company. We include all our terms on certificate. We are sorry you experienced this working for smart circle as we are not that company and can not speak on their behalf. We no longer work with either company. Try addressing matter with marketing companys manager they may help on matter you experienced. We also understand sales as an independent agent a difficult thing and not for everyone. We do still work with Down Under Promos who's sales agents know and have been doing a good job explaining our conditions. We understand we can not control everything but note and read the conditions on the certificates purchased.

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