In 2001 I was made VP of sales for a small business in Maryland. It was a big title and thats about it. The first client I got wanted to pay the company with a credit card. I went on the web, etc. And put feelers out for information on how to obtain a machine so I could land the client. A couple of days later a woman shows up, machine in hand and says I can get started that day. Fine, I was stupid. At first she wanted the company president to sign for the machine, but he was unavailable or something, can't remember. Do remember that it got down to me signing for the machine and I called the owner of the company and hassled him until he said it was OK for 59$ a month. This woman assured me and him that if there was ever a problem it could be mediated. The first problem was after she left I noticed she had not given me the whole contract, only part of it.
My boss was insisting on having a copy of the whole contract. I called her a half dozen times on her cell and finally she sent me another page of the contract, a copy, that said I had signed as President of the company. But I specifically remember changing the title when she found out the owners were not there, she had already pre-filled it for him to sign at some point, so she changed it to VP but the contract I got from her in the mail says PRESIDENT in big block letters. She finally sent another copy with President scribbled out of it and somebodys initials next to it. (I have no idea where this is now, although I might be able to find it) The second problem was it was always a lot more than 59$ a month that the company got charged, and I was always in trouble for that. But since the owner heard the rep's promises also, not too much gripeing.
So to make a long story short, the machine stopped working at all a few weeks after we got it. (I see this complaint on every 'Leasecomm is a scam-site' I go now) The woman I got the machine from no longer had the same cell number and no one at Leasecomm could tell me how to get in touch with her. They were also no help whatsoever in helping me try to get the machine fixed or get new equipment, and kept telling me I had to find the original rep who signed me up but I could not find her. So we just stopped the whole credit card thing and clients had to pay with a check. Well I later left that company and it later went out of business anyway. Four years later Leasecomm sues me as the president of this company!!! So they get the judgement and now I have to fill out all this paperwork detailing the past few years of my life... Tax returns, everything. If I don't do it they can send a Sherriff out for a "body attachment" and put me in JAIL if I can't make bail. (This is for about a $2000.00 judgement) I filed for Bankruptcy last month before the October deadline, but Leasecomm is not concerned about that. If I go to court or something, don't I have a right to face the original person I dealt with? It's like a bunch of mean voices over the phone now that are going to get $2000 no matter what they have to do.
0 comments