Bill Gould - billgouldd.com - Avant-Garde Marketing Solutions - AGMS - Equinox International - NSA Bill Gould. Pyramid marketing scam artist. Internet

Watch out for Bill Gould. He is a pyramid marketing scam artist. He takes advantage of people of all ages and all walks of life, including teenagers. Back in the 1990s he ripped off a couple of my friends when we were just fresh out of high school through his pyramid scam company called Equinox. My friends and I were only 18 years old at that time. He had encouraged my friend to steal his dad's credit card and charged $10,000+ worth of Equinox inventory. I remember his mom nearly had a heart attack when the truck arrived with a garage full of inventory. He also convinced another friend to also take his parents credit card, which was then used to pay for $12,000+ worth of useless seminars and training material, as well as Equinox products.  The seminar was called  Advanced Marketing Seminars (AMS), which was nothing more than major brain washing combined with high pressure sales tactics.

Bill Gould has a history of starting pyramid scams going all the way back to the 1980s.  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would eventually shut down these operations, as in the case of Equinox which was shut down in 1999 by a Las Vegas judge after ruling it was a "pyramid scheme".  Here is an article discussing that case: (((link redacted))).

Bill Gould is currently scheming to start another pyramid scam called Avant-Garde Marketing Solutions or simply AGMS (www.agmsreps.com). Watch out for this scum bag! He has a serious ethical problem.

Also, click on the following link to see complaints and stories from other victims:

www.consumeraffairs.com/scam_alerts/equinox.htm

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