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Fraudulant Claims
When I bought the program, I was told that I was guaranteed to earn my investment of $5, 600 back in 6 months. That was August of 2009. There is an active phase where you have a coaching call every week. I had never built a website before and the learning curve was steep. The main problem I was having in the beginning was I would get a different coach every week. He or she would have no clue as to what I had already done. So I would have to go over everything from the beginning, which was VERY frustrating. The most frustrating thing about it was, you got a different answer from every coach.
When I tried to use the live chat, it would take forever for someone to come on the line. Then the same thing would happen, I would have to explain where I was in the program and got a different answer from everyone. Then they changed teams and I got a new group who were clueless as to who I was and what I had accomplished with my website.
I am now in the reactive phase where I can only use email and chat. I've paid for the service, so I still heckle them whenever I can. There is only one coach out of all the coaches there that knows his stuff. Daniel has been very helpful the last few months.
So far, I have made a total of less than $50.00. I've spent hundreds and hundreds of hours trying to make this work. I know I won't get my money back, but if this complaint will help inform even one person, it is worth it.
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Rip off
I was contacted by phone, 11/27/2008. Was lead to believe they were part of Google.com and that Google wanted to use me to make a success story to be published on the internet.
Had a 3 way call with his “boss”, 11/28/2008, to see if we qualified to be accepted in this program. They said they wanted to make sure we would be a success story for Google. We were asked questions about our credit rating; I told him it was good. We were asked if we had a credit card that we would be able to charge this on, told them yes. They put us on hold to have a little conference and when they came back we were told “congratulations” we were accepted.
Was told we would be making money back within 60 days and will have made our initial cost of the program back within 45 to 90 days.
To this day I have not made one penny back. I had spent hours each day and night working on all this to get my site up and running.
I was never sent a copy of a contract, agreement or written guarantee.
I was never informed at anytime during our conversations that I had the 3 days to cancel option.
Was told I had a personal mentor I could contact when I need help and would have personal coaching calls with assignments, once a week. I only received one coaching call. After I completed the first assignment, I called them. Asked for my next assignment and was told I won’t be getting any more coach calls. I was given a list of videos to start watching.
When I would call to try to get help or to find out what to do I would have to leave a message and they would return my call in 2 or 3 days. I had to just wait, if I couldn’t figure it out on my own.
When I would finally get to talk to someone they never knew what was going on with my training. I would have to try explaining what I was trying to do. One person would tell me to do one thing; another person would tell me to do something completely opposite. Each time I would have to try explaining what I was doing and where I was in the training, all the while not understanding or not knowing where I was at. I kept being told to watch this or that video. Tried to explain I had watched those videos more than once and did not understand. Then I would be given a link back to the same video again.
Then I was told I would have to use the “live chat” only. The “coaches” were very arrogant and unprofessional. Time and time again I was left sitting on the live chat waiting for an answer. After sitting for over an hour on a few occasions I would just give up and forget it. One time while on chat I got a response like “yo mama” ( don’t remember the exact wording) to my question! He apologized, but this shows how much attention he was paying to me.
I was not given the instruction and support I paid for and told I would receive.
When it was time to submit my site to the search engines I had to argue with the “coaches” on more than 2 occasions that I had paid the extra money for the “SEO package” that they were to take care of.
Finally after I got through to them they were to do it, I was told to get ready for a flood of conformations from the various sites. I received about 8 or 10 conformations. If they had done what I had paid them to do I should have received hundreds of conformations from submissions. I ended up doing my own submissions and received more conformations from what I did then from what they submitted.
The low amount of responses I received and knowing there are hundreds of search engine sites, I feel they did not do as they claimed they would.
I also had major problems with the merchant Account, IMAX that is a part of Thrive and they recommended I use.
I did what I was told and filled out the agreement with IMAX. The next month IMAX started charging me, $45 even though I didn’t have my website up and going. I contacted IMAX and asked why I was already being charged. I was told that when I filled out the form I had signed up. I told them I was not ready on my site, I was told that didn’t matter, I signed up and that was that. She said that they have a lot of people who are paying the monthly fee that don’t have their sites up yet. I told her I didn’t think that was right and was told that I signed the contract and that’s the way it is. I left it go at that point.
I had asked about this when I was on chat with Thrive and no one would even answer me. I wrote an email about it to thrive and no one would answer me. Thrive never gave me any help with this matter.
When I was ready to open my site and activate my merchant account I went through the steps and could not get my merchant account to open up. Everything was suppose to be there and ready to go. I had to contact them and then they started the setting up. At this point I was really upset. I asked if things were not ready to go and set up why I was paying $45 a month for nothing. The girl on the phone recognized me from calling before and said “Oh it’s you again” Then she said that’s just the way it is.
I contacted the BBB and filed a report and asked for the money back for all the time I had no service. Because of the BBB report they gave me all my money back. I thought that was fair. Now that I would be using the service I was happy to pay the $45 per month but I noticed that they were not charging me so I thought maybe now they would start charging after I made my first sale.
When I contacted Imax on 9/9/2009, to stop my merchant account, I was told that I did not have a merchant account. I was told that the account had been already closed at the owner’s request 5 months ago. I had never requested it be shut down at anytime but on 9/9/2009. Never received any help from Thrive on this.
Last date of service- I called Allen on 9/9/2009 and told him to cancel my participation in Thrive Learning. Asked for my money back as they did not deliver to me all they said they would. Again I asked for a full refund of $9500 that I paid to them.
Also told him to cancel my Lightwave Builder and to take my website off the internet. Told him I wanted everything shut down.
As of 10/5/2009 I checked online and my website is still live and running. Sent him an email through the BBB in Utah and told him again I want everything stopped. Still charging me for the Lightwave Builder $39.99.
I was contacted again by Zack on 11/1/2009. He asked me about all the problems I had and talked to me about continuing with the program. He said they had changed a lot of things for the better. He told me they would wave the Lightwave builder fee for 3 months. I told him all the problems and aggravation I went through, I worked very hard to do all this and haven’t gotten anything back, didn’t know if I could go through all this again, I needed to think about it for a few days. He said he would call me back on Friday evening Nov. 6, 2009.
I had made up my mind to keep working with this. I had decided that I would also ask for them to make a payment on my credit card- like they said they would if I had not made the money back by the time the payment came due. Come Friday evening and no phone call. If he did call it was while I had my dog outside and he never left a message. If he had left a message I would have called him back at that point. I was lied to again.
Now I am done with all this. I am tired of being strung along and lied to. They have put me in a bad financial situation. I want my money back plus all the finance charges as well. Received my credit card bill and AGAIN BEING CHARGED ANOTHER $39.99!
I had to call the credit card company and put in another dispute because I had canceled the web builder. Finally they quit charging and had to refund from the time I had canceled.
I want my initial charge of $9500 plus all the interest I paid on this amount credited back to my charge card. I want All the monthly fees of $39.99 credited back to my charge card.
I recommend you do not deal with these people. Don't let them take your money.
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I was scammed by Thrive Learning in about 2010. They did not deliver what they promised. I began enquiries on getting a refund but did not find sufficient information and felt very remote here in South Africa.
If I find the transaction is it still possible to get a refund?
This company either changed names or has a twin called Vanguard. Also from Utah with the same M O. I put up with this for 6 weeks with same cenerio as you no help no results and no income only outflow. They refused to give any money back because I did not give them a chance and decided to quit. Disputed all charges on credit cards and they are reseaching from thier end. I like you wish I had done this research before being reeled into this circle of crap!
Not done with this yet. 9/25/12 T, from New Jersey
Will not refund Money
This all started after i was on line and came across a site that was a blog on how this guy "Josh" made money online with google. The site claimed that it was only $1.97 and was to pay for shipping and handling for a CD that will show me of to make extra money online with google by simply filling out surveys and forms. Be very careful with Thrive learning and any "sales floor" that tries to sell you thrives service's. The sales floor in my case was Accelerated Business Solutions (ABS) which made very high pressure sales picthes to get me in to thrives coaching program. ABS made all sort of lies telling me that the more money that i spent, the sooner i would make my money back. I really wish i had spent more time researching these companies before i agreed to them charging my credit card $4225.00. Thrive now has many complaints against them for the very same problems im having with them and them refunding my money. Thrive wants people to just give up on trying to get their hard earnd money back which i think many people have done. We must continue to complain about these business and what they are doing to people's lives. I my self are still trying to get my money back from thirve. If they will never refund my money that will suck for me when i know there are people out there that are getting some kind of refund. I have even read that thrive is trying to make people take down all their complaints and blogs about how bad of a business thrive is. You would think that thrive would want to make every complaint resolved in a positive way if they want to stay in business. I was very mislead on Thrive's program and services that were sold to me and i am hoping that thrive will resolve my issue with them because if they do not refund my money, every night before i go to sleep i will spend some time reading others blogs about thrive and what we can keep doing to not let this keep going on. Hopefully thrive will change the way they do business with their customers because with out us they are nothing. We must stay strong and firm on what happened to all of us victims of these bad business's. The money that i am now left paying for could have be well spent on many other important things i my life right now. It just goes to show what type of people are out there in Utah scaming many people that are trying to get out of debt when all they are doing is making many people's debt grow bigger and bigger. Also Thrive claims that they stride for 100% custumer satisfaction which if thats true they stride like a slug, slow and slimmy. While i sit here typing away about thrive and there bad services i hope others are doing the same other wise you will continue to see complaints like mine pop up all over the internet on many forums and blogs like this one. I really dont want to say this but if thirve really cared about there business and future they should reform thier whole sales floors and clearly explain to thier potential customer on what they are really getting them selfs into. I you have lots of money and are willing to lose it and would be ok with losing thousands of dollars then give thirve a chance. If i was properly informed on what all this was really going to cost me i would have never signed up for it.
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ISI is a scam. it is full of high pressure sales people who refused to give me my money back. I am having trouble getting my money back from my CC
company. Chase! they did not call back with good help . They say their mentoring program is the best---HO HO-full of young collage sales people who were born with a computer in their hand, unlike some who remember punch cards. I found them inpatient with me and sexist. I am still looking for help to get my money back! Wish me luck!
Moon
This happened to me but I pressure Thrive and the Internet Sales Insititution from Idaho. I got all my money back, but it was a huge hassle. I contacted my CC company and filed a complaint within 60 days, so that made a big difference in getting my money. Check to see if you were given a copy of the agreement that they probably took over the phone...I never got one. That was another help. I also said I would file a complaint with the BBB in Utah for Thrive and in Idaho for ISI. Good luck to everyone in getting your money back. It's a tough fight but you have to be tenacious.
The company
Thrive Learning Institute is a scam. My experience is very similar to all the postings that you will find on this group of scam artists.
1. They used a highly skilled, trained and relentless sales agent that used all of the high pressure sales tactics to pressure me to make a deal with them.
2. They take advantage of people that have been financially hurt and are looking for answers to their money problems.
3. They quickly put you through a "qualification" process to determine your available resources, primarily credit card related. They try and make you feel at ease by saying things like, " well it's not really your money, you are just using the credit system for a while and you will recoup all of the money from the great website you will have from Thrive.
4. The training is weak, production values poor and the information is generic, dated and available free around the Net. They refused to give me my money back. There is no real customer service, you can't reach people and there are hundreds of others just like us, betrayed, hurt and looking for help from the people that should be safeguarding us. Let's get organized and launch a class action suit and put a stop to this . I'm in Washington DC and have a number of friends in a variety of agencies who will help. Let me know if you are with me.
Peace and Prosperity!
Dave
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On board completely! Now they use another name as well called EDU Consulting but when I googled the [protected] number being charged on my credit card all these complaints came up regarding Thrive. I would LOVE to nail these guys.
I couldn't agree more, I signed up for a service with a different marketing group and was later contacted by Paragon learning academy, they claimed to be a consulting firm and even had an "A-" on the BBB they took me through their qualification process and when it came time to register I just couldn't give them my credit card info so they said have a nice day and I thought that would be the end of that but boy was I wrong. A few days later I got a call from someone claiming to be from "quality control" they said they just wanted to get some demographic information as to why I did not purchase their service, I simply said I wouldn't pay that much for the service and didn't feel I was in a point in my life to make that much of an investment and he immediately attempted to belittle me by insulting me saying I lacked the ability to make an "on the spot decision" damn right I'm not going to make an on the spot decision with MY MONEY, I'm going to research the crap out of the company. Regardless I told them not to call me again and hung up, a few more days later I received another call from the same man continuing his harassment and said he wouldn't stop calling me until I gave him an answer for "demographic reasons" I had already told him I wasn't going to pay that much for consulting period. I then preceded to tell him to stop calling and he said he would not, my fiance, hearing this conversation pulled the phone from my hand told the man he was "number one" and hung up. He then called me back and I said again to stop and he claimed the POLICE where going to call me for the LANGUAGE I used! Really telling someone off is illegal now!? I then hung up and he continued to call so I turned my phone on silent and received a voice mail which said he was calling from a law firm in Orlando and if I did not call them back in the next 15-20 mins they would take legal action! I obviously didn't call back and let me just add the original number I was called from was [protected] and the so called law firm was [protected] so all that was changed was the area code. For anyone who has a smart phone you know you can change the number on caller ids with a simple app, further more I never entered any contract or signed anything with this company & simply told them off, and if that's a lawsuit, I'm sure New York would have much less people on the streets. (no offense to New Yorkers, you guys just don't take crap from anyone is what I mean) needless to say I submitted a complaint to the BBB we'll see how that goes if the company doesn't pay BBB off that is.
I just started with Paragon Learning Academy. I thought it was sketchy at first but thought that if it does work then its all worth it. I put down $5, 580 for the for their fees. Another 3, 850 for an LLC license with a company they had call me Daeus Financial. Now I am getting scared out of my mind. They call me once a week to do the program steps. Reading all of these complaints have now shocked me to the point where I don't know what to do now.
I fear this scam is far bigger than people realise. I nearly got conned but a bit of research showed Thrive have many companies operating under different names. The latest one i think is Paragon learning academy but they also operate under Sterling business group.
Mentor / Dave, Are you still there? We're in the DC area, as well, and would be interested in following up. These scammers are pros! Unless they face a united front - they will continue their fleecing, as disillusioned victims go off in their individual corners to lick their wounds and just fade away. Sunlight is the best disinfectant! Fenix 2 / George
How can these Companies get away with this type of busniess, ripping people off, I'm sure the goverment must know about it, they should be able to help us, do something to stop them.
I too got taken and its a shame that they get away with this. With all the rip offs out on the internet, no wonder people won't buy from us that are trying to make a little extra honest cash.
Stay away fro 3XP Web Solution too. They are just as bad, yes, They got me also.
No more trust on line
I agree highly with any whose got caught up with Thrive. I started with them in Apr 2009 . I do have a site built as well but as of yet to see any income from it. I talked to a marketing company & they told me that the directories I am using which I had gotten from Thrive were low ranking & that I wouldn't get on the first page of google with them. I feel for the the money that was charged for this was way more than what they say that you are suppose to be able to get back from it. They tell you that you don't need any computer experience to do this what a joke. They also claim that you should be making money within a month (NOT TRUE). I feel that there are far more falsehoods about this company than truths. I maxed my card out & then they keep saying you have to spend money to make money. How you suppose to do that when you don't have any money left. So therefore you are stuck not being able to accomplish what they say you can. I feel for the money they charged it should have covered these other expenses. They also what you to do all these things that if you are dummy like me you don't even have a clue how to do them. I also feel that they should have done more of the stuff for you. As another party said you can't reach anyone on the phone. especially after get into what they call the reactive stage.
Very upset & disappointed
What is your website? I hope it works out for you and you make all your money back and some. Did they give you any kind of guarantee that if after a year with them you have not doubled your money they will refund it or continue to work with you for "free" until you do make your money back. The problem with this is that you are stuck paying your CC bill in the mean time and all the web hosting fees, merchant fees, and all the other hidden fees. Please let me know how your making out with this.
I too am a student of Thrive. I was very frustrated in the beginning, not ever having built a website, I faced a big learning curve. I enrolled in July, 2009 and it is not November, 2009 and my website is built, but I have yet to make any money. For some reason I have been assigned a designated coach and things are going better. But I wish, in the long run, I had not signed up for this course.
False Promises
I got suckered in big time by this company! They make all these promises to hold your hand and assured me to help until I was online marketing successfully. That lasted for 2 weeks and the converstaions then were brief very brief almost robotic. I felt like I had no right to keep asking questions because I was rushed. They would always refer me to videos and tell me I had to do this and that. I sincerely people do their due diligence before spending one cent with them. Everything is online for FREE the coaching is not professional if coaching is what they call it.
I'm so done with anything online now because of them!
Hi,
I'm willing to fight and do whatever it takes KONA. Companies like that need to be stopped. What is being done?
Bev
I got suckered big time by thrive they promise to help you make money online all they did was take my money on my cc and i call and never get a real person unless they are going to charge you more money, this must stop who do i contact to try to get my money back?
Please message me to join me in stopping these people.
false promises, lied about product
This company made several promises. It all starts with a sister organization, like Infusion Media, they have very smooth con men telling unsuspecting customers all sorts of things. They make a lot of promises, none of which are true. After you trust them and get involved you later find out that it was all a lie. It's too late then, Thrive just says that no promises were made, they say, "if you have proof, if you have a recording of the conversation then we will give your money back, if not, too bad, we didn't promise you anything, that is beyond their control, the sales company that sold you the plan in not part of our company". If anyone out there has any hard evidence lets pool our resources and get these guys. You can contact me directly at nvestnu2002 at yahoo dot com
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same thing happened to me, I'm still fighting to get my refund. We must not give in to these companies and let them get away with keeping all of are hard earned money.If your reading this please post a comment on what your doing to get a refund or have done.
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i have found that thrive has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. i have made six thousand in my first 4 months. dont believe what you here on here. most of these people are complainers that probably did not even get of the couch and try. i reccommend thrive to my own family. scott
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Scott: Let's see the proof. This is B.S. put there by a Thrive worker to try and fool us. No way Jose'---let's see the proof! Crawl back under your rock you liar!
Thrive learning is nothing but a scam. They made false promises, a lot of them. When called on it, they claim they are not associated with the sales company that sold the program. They claim they have nothing to do with that and can not be help responsible for any promises made by the sales people that sold the product. But, on the other hand if you could prove that those promises were made, then you could get your money back, otherwise, too bad. The sales approach was nothing less than fraudulent, a scam, it's as simple as that. There is going to be a big surpise coming soon for them, I can't wait. It could be in the form of a class action suit, if they were smart they would pay back the money before they end up not only broke but in jail.
Scam charges
Thrive learning says it can get your money back in 90 days, well thats a lie. it takes a minimum of 1 year to start making any money doing an affiliate web site and from time to time, they say they will work with you till you recoup your investment... thats a lie.
I used to be a coach for the internet businesses and i know for a fact that it takes 1 year to get anything back.
Save yourself your hard earned money.
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I have no idea why my typing came out with symbols instead of words, but they did. sorry.
I should've seen it coming, but I know there are people making money online. Just not with these people. I just wanted so badly to quit my job and make money from home. Again, shame on these guys. "As you sow, so shall you reap" In other words, what goes around comes around. They've got a lot coming around!
I would like to count my recent experience with Mr David Scott of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. I had bought the Forex robot " FAP Turbo " just before the New Year, around Dec. 27 2010. Seems like " Thrive " is still going strong when it comes to scamming people. They use different company names & different tactics, but in the end its just to scam you out of your hard earned money.
Around the 7th of Jan. 2011, I get a phone call from a person by the name of Taylor ( Tel [protected] ext. 214 ). He asks me how about FAP Turbo, is it making money, etc. Leads me to believe that it is a follow up courtesy call from the makers of FAP Turbo to see how everything doing, am I happy with the product, etc. He then starts talking about my goals in life, where I want to be financially in 3 yrs. time, etc. He gets me to write down my goals, he sounds really sincere. He then explains that he is looking for a few select students to become part of a Forex mentoring team. Long story short, after more than an hour on the phone with Taylor, I get approved for the next level of qualification & will speak to Mr. David Scott the next day.
Mr David Scott bells me the next day. He starts with how they are looking for a few select serious students who want to learn to trade the Forex market from a pro. Pro´s who have been doing this for a living for many years & who want to help people become financially independent trading the Forex market. He then explains that you will be putting all the cost of opening a trading account & paying for tuition on a Credit Card. That was when the alarm bells started to sound in my head. The 1st sacred golden rule of any trading plan, is that you only use risk money, money that you can afford to lose; not rent money, not mortgage money, not your food money, etc., you get my meaning. He then explains that the banks, lending institutions, brokerage houses, etc. use OPM ( Others Peoples Money ). I answered back to this that this is the main reason for the current worlds financial mess. Mr Scott answers back saying if they can do it, so should the little guy ( me & you ). The subject changed & I ask Mr. Scott what broker would they recommend & how important the broker is on a Forex trading account. The wisdom of this idiot is that he tells me I can use any broker I choose & a broker is not that important when your trading. The 2nd sacred golden rule when your trading is that choosing a good broker. A broker will eventually make or break you. Alarm bell num. 2 sounds in my head. He then puts me on hold saying that he will get my account approved by his financial dept. I had yet to agree to sign up for anything at this point. My hand held tel. then goes dead because of low batteries. I haven't heard back from Mr David Scott yet but it is just a matter of time before he calls me. I will have to tell the smooth talker that thanks but no thanks on his offer.
In retro spec, Taylor´s sales pitch was too robotic. It was obvious that he was reading from a well written script. He knew how to give a compliment at the right time & urge you on.
In reference to Mr Scott David, it was the same. A real smooth talker. But at times when I argued a point with the guy concerning trading, he got really huffy & tried to brow beat me into thinking I was mistaken. He had so many years as a trader & he knew what he was talking about. When he calls back, I will say no thanks to his wonderful offer & scam.
I did a Google search " David Scott scam/fraud" ( among other key words ) & came upon this site. It seems that Mr Davis Scott is well known for this type of scam. This is the web page that the fraud Mr David Scott gave me to look into their company. http://globalforexeducators.com/. I did some research on the web page & it is new from 2010, not years old as Mr David Scott told me. My advice is to stay well clear of the scam that Mr David Scott is promoting. They have complaints logged with the Utah BBB.
I just quit Thrive. They lied about being accredited, for one thing. I was in almost a year and spent over $6, 200. My story is similar, with the phone calls, lower cost after a "hold" during the initial conversation. Not much direction during training-pretty much do-it-yourself, but they push you to get that merchant account up, knowing it will cost you each month. Personally, I think Thrive has an agreement with the merchant account companies. I agree - 60 Minutes or SOMEONE needs to expose these people. The shame is on them, especially praying on people who need the money most.
I too was scammed by Thrive. Why I signed up is a mystery to me. I always tell telemarketers NO. I still am baffled after 18 months. I have complained and complained about dfferent things for the entire time. Someone needs to call 60 Minutes and get them to research and do a story. I do think that they charge to all that they can when you give them the balance on your credit cards. I'm going to have to clean out my IRA to pay off the bill. I made $489. between August 2009 and the end of December. I had to fight them to get them to let me go public with my website. Then Google Adwords kept wanting me to up the limit to $10.00 per day so I would have more business. That is about $300 a month. They don't tell you up front that you are paying $39.95 hosting fee, $35.00 to accept credit cards, an additional $5.95 if you accept American Express. Go daddy is $20.00 plus tax and then there is Google Adwords where you decide how much you want to spend per day to get your website to the top where people can see it easily.
Someone needs to call 60 Minutes. I don't know if it would get our money back, but it would let people know about them. Baffled
I too have to agree to all the posting's above mine in that I was taking for the same lies and promisses Thrive had to of made lot and i mean LOTS of money on scamming all of us out of thousands of dollars. I'll say it again DONT DO BUSINESS with thrive all thrive does is THRIVE on other people money!
I have written a long report on: antifraudintl.org about these crooks. I had the same awful experience as every one else and have tried to get my charges reversed by Discover Card. They did not think that this constituted fraud and in fact the CSR in that department was almost hostile towards me. Like I told him if you went to buy a BMW and were delivered a POS KIA --doesn't that constitute fraud? There are a couple of Utah laws that may be in play and the Feds are getting tempermental regarding these things so I am going to pursue this vigorously. Any body who knows a good attorney in Utah should contact them and lets all of us file a "class action" suit! Any body willing to stand up for what's right? Contact me if you are interested or have a solution.
Peace and hope for us all!
Dave
I was approched by this company WHY THRIVE and was asked to make a decision yes or no by the end of the phone call, no time to think about it, pray about it or mull it over. The first person I talked to said I would be investing about $4000 but I would need to schedule and talk to another person. The conversation started with "If I was accepted to be a student of their company". The first part of the conversation was working around the bush to see how many credit cards I had, what the limits where, and how much I owed. I did not like this type of questioning, so I made up some numbers which were over 10 cc's 100, 000 credit limit and about $50, 000 debt I had a credit score of 756 and paid my bills on time. After the sell pitch, I ask what this would cost me to start and the figure went to 15, 000. When I challanged him with the first price of $4000, he jumped out with I could be eligible for a scholorship, could I hold and he would be right back. The right back price was $4890.36. Then I asked for a blank copy of the contract and was told, they could not mail it, because it contained information that was confidential and would discose programing information that could not be disclosed whithout membership . What a bunch of crap... So I was hustled to the part of which CC would you like to use... I told them I did not keep my credit cards here, they were in a file at my office, so I would not be tempted to use them foolishly... They agreed to call back the next day, which they did and I said, I decided not to accept their offer, because I did not feel I could devote the time (12 Months) to get a return on my investment. They asked why I decided against them and I mentioned the 2 prices and said I did not like the time frame of 12 months to make my $5000. and they said oh no you can possibley make it back in 2 months.. The last words they said when I said no, was "we figured that is what you say". I am so glad I did not invest.. But my heart is out to you that have. Check some of the other web sites on these scammers and see what other names they are doing business as... There is a HUGH list. They are big in the UK also... the same scam, just a new name.. These guys must be rich on us gullibles trying to make a few bucks.. They are pushing the BBB site, and I went there and noticed they had a C rating and were not accredited. They fast talked and said, we are listed by the BBB, so we must be accredited and quickly changed the subject. THEY ARE SMOOTH..
I have a copy of my original receipt and their "warranty". I have to say I've had a website with thrive for 1 year and not have made my money back but that is because I don't have the financial means to continuously market my site. I can't affor cpc marketing and thousands of sites trying to get into free directories and search engines and lord knows I can't afford to pay for submission because I too max my credit cards. My site does well in shopping sites like shopzilla, shopping.com, etc but again I can't maintain the funds to keep it up because their also ppc. My point is that if anyone would like to see their "warranty" I'd be happy to post a copy. I wish you all the best and hopefully my site will pick up once I can afford to get more traffic their.
Thrive scammers have now changed their name to www.internetpowersellers.com same state, city, scam .
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