I too am a victim and fell prey to Startup Essentials. Today around 2pm I was sleeping when I received a phone call from this pro of scam. What a slick talker. He told me that he had gotten my name and phone number from a web page that told me that I had won a free computer. He also told me that he understands that I was interested in starting a home business. Normally, I would have stopped the conversation there but I decided, "what do I have to lose?" If I knew then that the answer to that question was $6000, I would have hung up the phone asap. I guess I'm just like everyone else who lives paycheck to paycheck; I just wanted to earn extra money to make things financially easier on myself. The program sounded great; just want I was looking for. I went through all the things the rest of you went through: credit check, having the priviledge (ha) of being approved. I was rushed into the contract, signed, then was told how much my payments were and for how long. I believe it was something like $125 plus $14 shipping and handling. I thought the whole total would be about $200! So why don't they let you see the payment amounts before you sign?
After I got off the phone and had signed my life away with this non-cancel contract, I felt something terribly wrong. That's when I went on line and realized that my worst nightmare had come true. I had been scammed; not for hundreds of dollars but for thousands.
My "kit" is suppose to arrive by ups on Tuesday morning. I am notifying ups not to brother delivering it but to send it back to it's sender tomorrow. Also, I am stopping any payments to them and closing my checking account.
I don't know why but while my contract was still up on the screen, I saved it in my favorites. I have gone back to view it and it is now blank!!!
I am also one that cries out to anyone who can help to please help me. I am single and have no husband to help advise me on this matter. If any one else who has been scammed by this company wants to talk, I would greatly appreicate it. Also, I too want to know if anyone is taking action for a class action suit on this company. I would like to be included.
The man's name was Clay Abbey. Anybody else have him? If anyone has a remedy to this non-cancel contract without paying out $67, please share it with the rest of us who got scammed by this company.By the way, I asked him if they were a member of the Better Business Bureau and he assure me that they were.
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