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Report: #1072223

Complaint Review: SuperMedia LLC (Tula Anagnostou) - Los Alamitos California

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  • Reported By: Sandra — Long Beach California
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  • SuperMedia LLC (Tula Anagnostou) 3131 Katella Ave Los Alamitos, California USA
  • Phone: 562.799.7100 & 800.635.58
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SuperMedia LLC (Tula Anagnostou) Refused to cancel services repeatedly; charged CC w/o authorization or contract; lied directly to owner on phone stating cancellation signature needed to be re-faxed immediately, sent an extension document instead and charged the credit card which had NOT been removed from file immediately -- again for a 2nd month AFTER cancellation; charged the business for a year while advertising that the business was CLOSED Los Alamitos California

*Author of original report: Sept SuperMedia credit

*Author of original report: Yet another BILL !

*Author of original report: Response to Aug 1 RipOff Rpt #1072223 from SuperMedia

*UPDATE Employee: Account info request

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SuperMedia LLC does not have a BBB rating or accreditation. The first week of June, when I cancelled SuperMedia the agent repeatedly ignored my cancellation, and no longer had authorization to charge my credit card so the agent overnighted a contract renewal to sign that arrived on June 11, which I did not sign and informed the agent on the phone that same day that I would not sign.

I had cancelled my contract with SuperMedia at the end of May (last business day) and the first business day in June and repeated this cancellation on the 2nd business day in June AND again on June 11 when the SuperMedia agent called to see if I'd received and signed the contract document that same day.

The agent went ahead and a few days later charged my credit card without my authorization -- this CC was also NOT removed by SuperMedia from their files when I cancelled. The SuperMedia agent then began calling to say I had renewed my contract for a year, and tried to get me to fax the document I had already previously refused to sign.

My assistant called again on June 28 to repeat that I had cancelled SuperMedia and that we would not cover any charges made for July or any months thereafter. My assistant again requested all cancellation and close-out documention and statistics (SuperMedia never send me or made available to me monthly traffic statistics etc). The SuperMedia agent continued calling and leaving messages AFTER business hours -- that is, after SuperMedia business hours and after my own business closed for the day or weekend !!! or trying to take advantage of my lack of computer knowledge and experience when my technical assistant was not there to handle calls from SuperMedia during business hours.

In mid-July the agent called when my assistant was in a meeting and stated falsely that I needed to immediately fax (not wait for my assistant to return) another copy of the cancellation because the document faxed to SuperMedia did not come through clearly. The agent stated falsely that a copy of the SAME document as the cancellation I had signed would be faxed and I needed to sign that duplicate cancellation document immediately. I did. My credit card was IMMEDIATELY charged again for another month.

I checked my online statement and saw a mid-June charge and the new charge still pending and called the credit card fraud department immediately. I faxed and sent PDF copies of all the SuperMedia documents to my CC's fraud department and my charges were reversed and returned; I am also filing a report against SuperMedia with the BBB.

SuperMedia also charged me for a year for "advertising" while advertising that my business was closed. They made it seem like that was my fault ! but they made up for it by posting 5 webpages and giving me a website and charging me 3 times as much (I did not have a computer or internet service and did not know much about computers or website advertising so I let them talk me into these services which brought 1 or 2 customers at most into my store each month!)

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#4 Author of original report

Sept SuperMedia credit

AUTHOR: Sandra - ()

POSTED: Thursday, September 19, 2013

 I wanted to post the reply I received from Super Media on Sept 4 but this is more work than I've time for ... so 15 days later I am posting the credit to the September bill. Hopefully, this matter will end and I will receive no more bills.

Does anyone want to wager the odds ... "hope springs eternal" ... I WANT to bet I will NEVER get another bill...

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Yet another BILL !

AUTHOR: Sandra - ()

POSTED: Thursday, August 08, 2013

Aug 30, 2013 received by snail mail another BILL ! They can't seem to stop generating bills on my account which was cancelled in June.

On Aug 2 -- SuperMedia representative, Margaret, closed my account and assured me I would not be bothered any further. I posted the letter I received in my Aug 2 update. I am also attaching the latest BILL and I did leave a message with Margaret earlier today but I have not heard back.

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Response to Aug 1 RipOff Rpt #1072223 from SuperMedia

AUTHOR: Sandra - ()

POSTED: Friday, August 02, 2013

 

Aug 2, 2013 c. 1 PM PDT -- I received a call from SuperMedia in response to my RipOffRpt #1072223 file at 5:42 PM PDT on Aug 1, 2013. Margaret in Client Care called from Massachusetts "on behalf of the director" and spoke to my assistant (on file with SuperMedia to discuss legal and technical matters). Since Target Red Card had already reversed the 2 charges to my CC made by SuperMedia on June 16 and July 18 totaling $266.00 Margaret noted to me that she would clear an additional charge for $133 still pending for a total on SuperMedia records as of today's date of $399.00. My assistant requested documentation by email from Margaret with attached scanned PDFs including (1) an alleged "legally binding one year contract" and all documentation associated with this "contract" i.e., Terms & Conditions, etc, (2) all invoices from the date of the "yearly renegotiated contract", and any other documentation, letters of credit, etc as I had received copies of none of these by mail or fax over the last year; or previous years.
 
NB: the "contract" -- attached in today's email -- is an authorization by fax for initials and signature sent 6/28/12 to charge $133.00 and there is NO term or limit defined in the "contract" -- which on a credit card charge authorization would indicate a month to month commitment and cancellation policy, which was my understanding based on my conversations with SuperMedia agents, or and unlimited monthly charge of 133.00 until ? -- no terms of cancellation are defined -- so the charges and contract can be cancelled at will or continued indefinitely. My initials allow a "monthly" charge of $133.00 with "Estimated Pub. Date" -- "08/22/12" and "Current Monthly Total -- 133.00" and "New Monthly Total -- 133.00" and "Cust Initial Changes -- [my initials]". Only on the monthly invoices, is there a space for "Current installment # --- 12" . The faxed "contract" for my initials and signature has a footnote for my initials that reads (I)... (II) ... (III) acknowledges that he or she has received, read and agrees to the Terms and Conditions that are a part of this Agreement. Initial here X___"
 
Don't initial anything just because the Agent is pleasant and you think you have been properly informed by the Agent. I was only faxed the one sheet to sign and initial. No "Terms and Conditions" or any other part of a contractual document were faxed, mailed, emailed or read to me. I still do not have a copy as these Terms and Conditions were not among the PDF scans sent to me today. I have added below the email and PDF Credit Letter I received c. 1:40 PM PDT Aug 2, 2013 after Margaret's call from SuperMedia. I am happy to post this resolution to the matter and expect no further invoices or bills or charges to my CC.

via EMAIL with attachments

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1:20 PM (18 minutes ago)

Attached is a copy of the 12 month contract for the August 2012 SP.COM charges that billed $133 per month from August 2012 through July 2013.  I have also attached a confirmation letter regarding the credit of $399 that I am processing to your account as a goodwill on SuperMedia’s part.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this matter has caused you.  We value your business and are sorry to see you go.  If you decide in the future that you would like to give SuperMedia another chance to win back your business, I would be more than happy to have your account re-assigned to a different Super Media Consultant to discuss the various advertising opportunities we offer.

P.S.  SuperMedia had an A rating with the BBB.   Perhaps this hasn’t been done again since the merger with Dex One.   

Best Regards,

Margaret

Advantage Client Care Representative

SuperMedia LLC

T: 978-762-3263  F: 866-430-9821

SuperMedia.com

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Aug 2, 2013

This letter confirms your acceptance of our offer to credit your SuperMedia product advertising program account as described below.

We are now in the process of making the following adjustment(s) to your billing, which will take effect within 60 business days.

PRODUCT                     ISSUE            1x CREDIT

SP.COM AUGUST           2012                $399.00

This credit is retroactive to the first date that the disputed advertising charges appeared on your bill. We consider this credit to be a full and final settlement with respect to your claim. If for any reason you believe you have not accepted this offer as full and final settlement, please contact me at the number below within 10 days from the date of this letter.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this matter may have caused you. We value your business and hope to be of continued service to you.

If you have any questions or comments, or if I can provide further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Me.

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The RipOff report update system kept giving me an error message "cannot find that report" each time I tried to attach the jpg image; instead it was actually attaching the image multiple times and will not allow further editing or deletion of the duplicates (a bug that needs fixing on the RipOff system). 

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Account info request

AUTHOR: SuperMedia LLC - ()

POSTED: Friday, August 02, 2013

 We are never pleased when one of our clients is unhappy. Please give me the opportunity to review your issue. I promise someone will get back to you within 48 hours with an update. Please provide me with the following information and e-mail back to me at: customerservice@supermedia.com Your full name and title: Business Name: State in which your business resides: Your contact number: Best time to call you: E-mail address: Brief complaint description:

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