AliP
Avoid at all costs
If I could give no stars I would! Like many on here, I responded to an ad on LinkedIn. I was called by a young lady in NY, interviewed, told I had been accepted and asked for my credit card details to pay a one-time membership fee of $199. My higher judgement told me to ask for written details and think about it but I went ahead anyway. I felt sorry for this young lady as I could hear her baby in the background. I thought here's someone trying to cope with being a new mum and doing (what seems to me) a very difficult job in lockdown. Anyway, I paid and received a welcome email immediately. So far, so good. I got busy and did nothing with the membership for a couple of months. Then I got a call from another woman in NY. I thought perhaps they were calling to say that as I'd done nothing with the membership, could they help me make the most of it in some way. However, this time it was a bullying older woman. She instructed me that it was "time for my press release to be made up and sent out". She said that it would be written inhouse with my input and sent out to all the search engines and that it would get me to the number one spot in all searches for my area. I work in marketing so I knew immediately she'd no idea what she was talking about. She then said $330 would be taken from the credit card they have on file for me the next day. I said "hang on, I don't agree to that" and she'd already hung up. I immediately emailed to say NOT to go ahead with the press release and NOT to take the payment. They had already done so! They point blank refused to return the money. I had to cancel my credit card and order a new one and go through a dispute process with the bank. Result: I got the $330 back but I am still out the membership fee. Anyway, being as they refused to cancel my membership, I am still a member and so I logged in and updated my profile. I changed my name to Daffy Duck and uploaded an image of a rubber duck, lol!!!!




