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Report: #1424172

Complaint Review: Crowd PR - San Francisco California

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  • Crowd PR San Francisco, California United States

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Crowd PR emailed us shortly after launching our campaign that we should consider working with them. The amount of communication bordered on spam and harassment but we agreed to talk to them just to get them off our backs. In retrospect there were several warning signings we should've seen, not the least is that they refused to accept a credit card or PayPal and would only accept bank wire transfers. Any legitimate company doing business online will accept credit cards but against our better judgement, fell for the sales pitch.

1. Didn't deliver on any services.

2. Ignored phone calls and emails.

3. When questioned, starting calling us morons and our product a piece of junk.

When asked for a refund, they blew us off and threatened to cease communication with us any further if we continued to contact them. I really wish we had done our research on this company. After a quick search it's clear these guys have a long paper trail of scams going by various company names and individuals going from GlenRoss PR to their previous website crowdpr.co and going by the names of Kyle Staebell and William Henry. At this point I'm not even sure if any of these individual names are real or legit. Even their office isn't a real location and it looks like they constantly change the registration of their puerto rican domain (.pr) to hide their true location. This was honestly the worst experience with any company we have ever dealt with. At this point I think we are screwed but if anyone has any leads, please contact me directly. It looks like we're not the only ones. Thank you.

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#3 Consumer Comment

Kyle Staebell announces intent to begin legal proceedings.

AUTHOR: Robert - (United States)

POSTED: Monday, May 30, 2022

Kyle Staebell announces his intent to bring legal proceedings against this author following the publication of defamatory statements. 

Mr. Staebell is known by some for having an “unapologetically confrontational” approach to business that will occasionally inspire verbal attacks similar to the bad review in question. That is clearly the case here today. Mr. Staebell is a member of high standing in the community and plans to defend his name and reputation vigorously. 

All of this has been a cheap smear campaign orchestrated by an unknown assailant. Vague statements have been made warning readers to “steer clear” and “stay away” from Kyle Staebell. This assailant has used SEO optimization and "Google-bombs" to spread their defamation all over the internet. Their false statements have been made with the sole intention of defaming Mr. Staebell.

Following is a public record in the case of “Kyle Staebell v. Doe”

Crowd PR, LLC ("Crowd PR") and Kyle Staebell filed this action on February 14, 2021, alleging a single state law claim for defamation against Defendant [Redacted]. [Docket No. 1 ("Compl.").]. 

MEMORANDUM

Plaintiff Kyle Staebell, a public relations professional , claims that he was defamed in seven blog posts published between October, 2018 and December, 2018 on the website "RipoffReport," all authored by the defendant. Compl. (2-4, 28-34, ECF No. 1). When defendant failed to respond to plaintiff's demand for a retraction of the 7 blog posts, plaintiff initiated this lawsuit, in November 2021, asserting claims for defamation, id. (32-45), invasion of privacy - false light, id. (40-56), and intentional infliction of emotional distress, id. (50-62).

See “Kyle Staebell v. Doe” for full case text.

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#2 REBUTTAL Owner of company

FLAGGED AS A MISLEADING RIPOFF REPORT

AUTHOR: Staff - (United States)

POSTED: Thursday, February 22, 2018

We do not deny that you did not get results from our service. You hired us with 7 days left in your campaign, and you were made aware of the risks, and we told you that the PR campaign could go either way. 7 days was close to not enough time to produce results, and you were made aware of this.

We worked hard to make it happen for you, but the journalists did not like your product. We couldn't force them to write about it. Sorry it didn't work out the way we all hoped.

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#1 Consumer Comment

CROWD.PR is a scam.

AUTHOR: ImportantIntel - (United States)

POSTED: Sunday, January 21, 2018

Hello Louis,

 

I'm sorry to hear you were among victims of his scam, I've been doing research on this guy and I believe I can provide insightful information about this identity.

Is there any email where I can reach you at?

 

Thank you.

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