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Complaint Review: Tri-Unversal - Los Angeles California

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I was born in Michigan and currently live in the Detroit area. I replied to an a in my local newspaper about a "event marketing" job in Livonia michigan back in 2005. I went in for the initial interview told to dress "bussiness casual" and bring a resume. So i did, and was greeted by a "manager" named Lindsay Garrison. She gave me the questions like "are you competitve?" "do u like to earn money?" "Do u get along easy with others?" and i (thinkin this was a good oppurtunity) did my best in the interview, i left with them telling me that after they finish the interviews for the day theyd pick the best candidate and if i was hoosen theyd call me back for a second full day interview between 5 and 6 that night. sound familiar? So there i was waiting by the phone and sure enough it rang! i was excited, thinkin this was a good thing. the way the Michigan economyis if somone calls you he same day over a job interview its a HUGE deal. So i go in for my interview, and was introduced to a man named Jared. He was avery profesional acting guy and seemed legit. So i give him my resume and after critizing the fact that i have NO experience in marketng, or sales.(which i was never told was a requirement) we were off to a office depot. where we stood all day and he pitched people on these child IDs and how u get One free and then u have to pay 20 bucks for any additional ones. Jared ad me really got along good, he was a good guy at heart, but he was good at what he did. so anyway we return to te office at about 5 oclock and he sits me in a room and i wait. then i go and talk to Lindsay again. they challenge me on some experience questions, and i was really "locked in". i boughtit all and the next day i was the newest "event marketer" in the city. haha

so to speed this up i was the 3rd person to join this office in Livonia. and i was "locked in" becasue Harmony Hunt who u may of hear of. was rebuiding this office personally. it grew to about 30 people in 3 months!! she brought in some sales muscle from new jersey and that was that. we even were settin up tables at the Detroit zoo at one time! inside the zoo! Harmony Hunt is like the queen of Quantum. She is the owner of tri-universal and she banks off of atleast 20 offices nation wide! probably more by now.

Harmony started with me doin the DARE drug campaign in Livonia, Michigan. they also do the toys for tots campaign too. This is where they sell child safety crap and 5% of it goes to DARE. even though they dont keep financial records. just fat pockets. my "leader" Jared and i became very good friends. we talked all the time and put in 60 -70 hour weeks together. Little did i know them he was dating Queen of Quantum Harmony Hunt. So after the office took off, he told me he was being promoted to her exex assistant and moving to LA. he said she wanted me to move with them two there and work on a new nascar campaign. it was a car wax. FW1 car wax, a no water or soap car wax.(was an ok product) and that i would live in this $600,000 house and there i would get my own office and it would be great. at that point seeing all this money flowing in to the livonia office i wanted a piece of it you know?

So at this point jared and Queen Harmony Hunt where very close to me and we were alomost like "family" or so they made it seem. so i moved to LA.
I came into the picture there sellin the wax with an office in anaheim. i was like harmony hunts rookie of the year to alot of guys. She had my back and i came in with some authority plus my best friend was screwing the boss haha. and we sold wax, alot of it. at first then it got old and sales went down our events were terrible. we all were promised our own bussiness and here we are workin 80 hours a week and barely surviving. while harmony is driving around i a hummer, and all the "quantum brasss" are drivin BMW M5's and goi to cancun and on awesome vacations.

I started havin people come up to me on the streets angry about the product and sayin its a rip off. some days iwouldent make a dollar. thats bad. and i could sell.

I was also living with Amanda Slate. Might sound familaiar to some of you. i read her name on here as well. we lived in a house rented by harmony hunt and it was pretty nice. furnished like a crack house, but nice on the outside. amanda slate was at the time running the child protection thing in the same office as us. it was all these material girls showing off there b***s and scammin moms for money to help "lost kids". amanda last i heard was running that inDenver Colorado, she still has an outside deal in anaheim too. she is a wannabe harmony and i believe would kill a man for harmony thats how cult like this bussiness is. so after 6 months in LA iwas stuck there.

Here iam from michigan and now im in la broke, our house's lease was up, so i had to get my on place and amanda was in denver so im stuck. harmony is by then off opening new offices and her and my "leader" now exex asst to the Queen of Quantum dont give a crap about poor old me who couldent lay a golden egg or golden office for them. I couldent scam 20 people into sellin wax for me and getting my own office. they say thats the goal, and i only saw it work in Detroit, and thats when Harmony Hunt did it herself and handed it over to a guy named sean.

Dont get it twisted! HArmony Hunt could sell a ice cube in hell! she has many bussinessess and makes you feel like family just to gain profit. She was promoted to Vice President of quantum when i as on her sales team in anaheim.

So i told her in 2006 that im goin back home to be with my sick mom. which was true but also a convienent exuse at the time. and i begged my prents fo a plane ticket. she sat me down in a meetin the night before my flight and she tried to close me again on the bussiness. She said she wanted to promote be when i came back to LA.(i told her i was gonna return in a week to escape the cult grasp on me. i was never gonna look back!) and she aid she wanted to buy me a plane ticket back to LA and was gonna lease me a car and lease me an apartment!! who knows if this was true. she said i could by an FW1 consultant and id travel around the country and keep her offices in line. she almost had me. i flew home and then relized how imporant my family was to me and blew off the plane back, the following day my company cell phone was deactivated and i had a couple threatening voice mails from different "quantum brass". i coouldent care haha im not afraid to speak out.

NOW THE IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO THE CONSUMER!!! I know they have this FW1 wax in michigan now. if you see somone with a table set up at a gas station or store, sayin" come see what were doin!" or comin up to you wanting to give you a "free demonstartion" say no. tell them to go back to school and quit the pyramid scheme.

This bussiness is all about flashing lots of cash under the nose of a vernaerable unemployed person and then workin them to the bone while gaining mind control of them. Harmony HUnt is the best in thw world at this. BEWARE. lasti heard her and my "leader" Jared are had a huge very elegant wedding*(payed for by hard workin sales man brain washed in this cult) but there everywhere!! amanda slates company in endevour marketing and she has been under fire by local news stations for her Toys for TOTS scam.

well thanks for readin if you have any wuestions please feel free to ask me, im here to help.



Tim
canton, Michigan
U.S.A.

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#6 UPDATE EX-employee responds

HOW ABOUT A BUNCH OF BULLSH@T OR JUICE LOL

AUTHOR: JUICE_BY_YOU - (United States of America)

POSTED: Thursday, August 12, 2010

I was a former field slave for the Quantum division.( Dare America / Toys for Tots ) . The office I started in was based out of Charlotte, N.C. under EM Promotions. I ended up in Richmond, V.A. under MIH Promotions. I was recruited during a time I was not enjoying the position I had with the current company I was with. I ran into my recruiter at an event I was doing. When my " Leader " was at the event I thought they were military because I didn't know about companies being able to profit from selling junk toys and claiming they were helping kids. I avoided my "leader" the first couple of days I didn't want to get recruited for the military lol. So I thought.  It was during the Christmas campaign for the Toys for Tots. My " Leader " kept pitching me the idea about the business during the entire few days they were at my location. So I finally listened when I realized he wasn't in the military trying to recruit me for the military. (LOL)

After the business was broken down to me I questioned the business ethics and the practices too myself. I knew it was a pyramid building scam from the beginning. Anyway, I decided to meet the owner and see what the business was truly about from the inside. " Paint the picture" see the vision of being in my mid 20s and owning my " own business". I thought it was somewhat realistic because my age 25 the owner was my age and the companies employees age was generally in the range from the mid 20s to early 20s.  

Once I was in the field a few days and the cash that I was making I got blinded by the scam I was lost in the " JUICE " join us in creating excitement society. Which the term JUICE is used almost cult like. A term used by the staff chatting the term Juice when someone has had a good day in the field or making noise by ringing the bell for the amount of production" junk toys " sold that day. All I needed to see was the cash and I was " GREED ED" into the scam. (Suckered)  When making on average about 100-150 dollars per day I'd say not bad for a days work!

After time being in the field you start climbing up the pyramid into " Leadership roles " lets not forget with the " leadership roles " traditional companies typically increase your salary not with aka " Quantum " they 're explanation is your developing the skills needed to run your own business and once you become owner unlimited earning potential. Which was the answer explained to me. Although I never made it to ownership, I was a field rat as I like to call it. I was d**n good in the field merchant out " blowing port " daily meaning selling everything that was consigned out to me for the day. Each week  I was in the top 3 for the companies sales reps nationwide representing the Richmond, V.A. office. My average was 60 pieces ( junk toys ) a day. I was  in the Quantum campaign division  not fast wax. The Richmond, office was Dare America.

I remember a road trip from the Atlanta, G.A. office visited the Charlotte,N.C. office when I was still at that Charlotte,N.C. location before moving to Richmond, and helping that office start out and build my team. I volunteered that a couple of them  from  the Atlanta, office could stay at my place for a few days.******WARNING HIGH ALERT ***A word of advice if your in the business currently and a road trip is coming to visit from another office make there azzes stay at a motel***** don't offer your place.One of them that stayed at my place stolen the companies rental car  that the Atlanta, owner rented for the guys staying . The person stole the car skipping town and the cops found the rental car and arrested the guy. Needless to say the person that stole the car was literally a crack head he left his bag of junk at my place. The other guys that were left behind started smelling something horrific coming from the persons bags and decided to see what the stench was and it was dope hard drugs, and a sht rag he left inside the bag! We tossed the persons crack into the dumpster outside at my complex. You never know with this business they type of person your working with there is no background,drug screen or nothing.  Just be cautious.

This is only the beginning of the stories I could tell someone for not being apart of this scam. Everyone basically uses you until your drained out and then your called " neg ed out " your considered a virus others are told not to associate with you because you'll start getting neg ed out also with negatives.  Just thought Id share my introductory about the business from my 2 years in the field. Just be cautious about the company there nothing but users poor business practices and ethics. It's a waste of time, your money,and health. 

Chris Braxton     
MIH PROMOTIONS  Owner Kristina

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Brain washing at its best

AUTHOR: Simply,wrong - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I was in need of a job here in CA and I recieved an e mail through monster.com that Rockstar Marketting (A branch of Tri Universal) wanted me to come in for an interview. What seemed to be a great opportunity, I called them back immediately and an interview was set for the next day. I was interviewed by a young woman that I later met and her name was Crystal, she then had a very quick and energetic interview with me, which I later realised this girl just "5 stepped me".

I was called back that same day, and they told me to come in the next day for an observation interview. Where I met my future leader (Mentor) Edward Washington, we drove out to Wal-Mart supercenter where Ed sold a bunch of Safety I.D's (his specialty, and a bunch of junk with the D.A.R.E logo. That exact day I was hired, by Amir (ed's boss).

Ahmir had told me he was only going to hire 3 people, but because Ed was so excited about me, he was going to make an exception. however the next day 6 brand new people showed up for work, when Ahmir had said he was making an exception with me being 4. I worked for Rockstar Marketing for almost two months, and in these months I learned that Ed was dating another Leader named TIffany, Ahmir was dating a leader named Jen, and Harmony Hunt, had married a former leader for Tri-Universal, and Crystal was dating a leader named Dustin.

So it seemed to me that the top performers of the companies had an alliance kind of, cliques were established segregating the top salesman and the bottom salesman. Most of the top salesman lived in a mansion in San Jacino, Ca that was owned by Harmony Hunt, Where all the salesman that migrated from the east coast, would reside in. Usually the reason the bottom salesman weren't being able to perform, was because they would send them to "events" (stand outside a store and sell junk) that alot of people wouldnt attend, for example towards the end of my work in Rockstar Marketing I went to a Ralph's that was going out of business in 2 weeks due to lack of customers.

I was also sent to the lower class minority populated areas, because I was of Hispanic Origion, and Jen, your typical Caucasian, was always sent to the suburbs Supercenters, where her sales reflected alot more positively then mine. I was working under ed, and he would take care of me, sending me to descent events, i trusted him, and he taught me and 5 new comers to go on a "Road Trip" to Encino, Ca which was a requirement to recieving a promotion.

All we had to do was drive there, a hotel was going to be paid for; however they did say we were probably going to share a room with at least one co worker. When we got there all 5 of us slept in the same room, shared a bathroom, and would pull minimum of 10 hour shifts, selling merchandise. When we came back, Eventually some leaders including ed went on to work at a different campaign, and me and my other co workers who were under ed and his little branch were left out, by the end of the week I was the last one standing, reason being, is because they make you quit, so they won't have to pay unemployment, they send you to all the worst events until you will not make enough to make a living, forcing you to get a job somewhere else.

They will never fire you, they will give you a week off, but they will never fire you. Overall my experience of Rockstar Marketting was bad, and would not recommend it to anyone. They Would stress the fact, that we were not working for D.A.R.E but DARE america, something I have never heard of. Several times people would recognize me, from the streets, and they would be angry because of the SAfety I.D's packets that I sold them were incomplete, and I was instructed to just give the office number.

They're was an incident where a certain salesman was visited by a news crew, and she was instructed to not answer any questions. All of these things, made me feel un easy to one day I just din't show up, I changed my phone number that same day, and never looked back.

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#4 Consumer Comment

Tim , YOU are STILL a JOke

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

POSTED: Thursday, October 23, 2008

Tim, FIrst of all, I use to work with you in California, and you were lazy,a pot Smoker and thought you would be given something for nothing. Harmany is a great person, but not everyone will agree because they have not a accomplished as much as her. They Never ripped you off, they gave you a chance to be successful in this world yet you were to much of a coward to push urself and try to make it here. That must be why you are still in Michigan and doing nothing but writting crap about people who tried to better you and your situation. I guess the intensity we taught you here didnt work for you. That must be why your still doing nothing with yourself. Please for your sake and everyone elses , GET A LIFE. DUmmy.

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Tim , YOU are STILL a JOke

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

POSTED: Thursday, October 23, 2008

Tim, FIrst of all, I use to work with you in California, and you were lazy,a pot Smoker and thought you would be given something for nothing. Harmany is a great person, but not everyone will agree because they have not a accomplished as much as her. They Never ripped you off, they gave you a chance to be successful in this world yet you were to much of a coward to push urself and try to make it here. That must be why you are still in Michigan and doing nothing but writting crap about people who tried to better you and your situation. I guess the intensity we taught you here didnt work for you. That must be why your still doing nothing with yourself. Please for your sake and everyone elses , GET A LIFE. DUmmy.

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Tim , YOU are STILL a JOke

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

POSTED: Thursday, October 23, 2008

Tim, FIrst of all, I use to work with you in California, and you were lazy,a pot Smoker and thought you would be given something for nothing. Harmany is a great person, but not everyone will agree because they have not a accomplished as much as her. They Never ripped you off, they gave you a chance to be successful in this world yet you were to much of a coward to push urself and try to make it here. That must be why you are still in Michigan and doing nothing but writting crap about people who tried to better you and your situation. I guess the intensity we taught you here didnt work for you. That must be why your still doing nothing with yourself. Please for your sake and everyone elses , GET A LIFE. DUmmy.

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Tim , YOU are STILL a JOke

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

POSTED: Thursday, October 23, 2008

Tim, FIrst of all, I use to work with you in California, and you were lazy,a pot Smoker and thought you would be given something for nothing. Harmany is a great person, but not everyone will agree because they have not a accomplished as much as her. They Never ripped you off, they gave you a chance to be successful in this world yet you were to much of a coward to push urself and try to make it here. That must be why you are still in Michigan and doing nothing but writting crap about people who tried to better you and your situation. I guess the intensity we taught you here didnt work for you. That must be why your still doing nothing with yourself. Please for your sake and everyone elses , GET A LIFE. DUmmy.

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