I have been researching companies that offer aged corporations for a long time, I came across Go Risk Free about 6 months ago contacted them via their chat, called and talked to one of their reps.
Then things went crazy for us and I had to leave it aside until I had some more time to do a research before acquiring an aged corporation.
In August I called and talked to Lalanea Peek from Go Risk Free and asked tons of questions, I was interested in 3 to 5 year old aged corporations with credit that they offered on their website.initial price was 9999$ for 3 year old corp with established credit, I asked her if the corp has a paydex score with Duns and Bradstreet she confirmed that it has, then I asked her if it has experian business score as well she confirmed that too.
Then I started negotiating about the purchase price for a 3 year old Nevada corp with established credit, she placed me on hold and had to talk to someone, finally she said we can have it for 7000$ (that's what I said I was willing to pay) but I have to pay using my checking account, then I asked if I can split the payments since they offered net 30 payment options on their website, she said that we can pay 3500$ and the remaining 3500$ will be due in 30 days. I asked her numerous times if the corp that I was acquiring had a paydex score and experian business score, she confirmed that again.
After that they emailed me a contract and asked me to sign it, so I did. I provided them with my checking account # and authorized them to debit my account for 3500$.
After we finished with all the paperwork, I was just waiting for the name check through Nevada department of state, since we picked a different name for the corp, then they said name change will take at least 40-50 days but we might just use DBA instead, we did not want to use DBA so we asked if we can leave the name as it was, they said we could.
After that Lalanea Peek said that she transferred our corp and all the paperwork to a different rep from Go Risk Free, whose name was Justin Tuesburg, kind of strange but he said he was an office manager for Go Risk Free, but he was our representative and he said he will take it from here, we said ok.
Then he filled all the papers with the state, IRS, with previous owners of the corp.
We called daily to get updates, since we wanted to finish everything up within 30 days (When I talked to Lalanea she said it will only take 2-3 weeks at most) we gave them a week extra in case something pops up.
As I said above we called daily to get a progress report for the newly acquired corp, and most of the time Justin had to place us on hold to go and ask someone about the question we ask, then we noticed that he asks almost every question from someone and we decided to call Lalanea to tell her that we werent happy with him, she said she wasnt sure why he cant answer out questions, that Justin is the person who actually does this stuff every single day, we said ok and kept calling him everyday to check the status of the transfer of the ownership for the corp, one day we called and asked how the transfer is going, then he said we are just at the mercy of the previous owners, to be honest we were shocked, we called Lalanea but she was away so we called again (as usual Justin was the only one who answers the phone calls) and asked Justin to transfer the call to a manger or the owner of the company and we said that weren't happy with his performance, we left a message but nobody called us back.
Then we received FEIN from IRS which was mailed to my home address?!
Common corp is in Nevada and they mailed it to my home address in different state? I immediately called Go Risk Free and asked Justin why he put my home address in FEIN application (I leased an office in Las Vegas just for this newly acquired corp and provided Go Risk Free with the company address, business phone# and email) he said that Go Risk Free uses my home address for internal correspondence and IRS was provided with the business address (I have copies of the emails he sent).
Then I asked if I can talk to Lalanea, he tried to transfer me but she wasnt available, I asked if I can talk to a manger again left another message but this time I said that I want my money back, that its been 2 or 3 weeks I havent received anything as if today, for our surprise I got a phone call from a manager named Josh, I told him that I don't think Justin knows what he was doing and I said that he was rude in last few conversations we had with him. He apologized and he said that they will take care of it, in few days I received a package from them with Corporate kit and articles of incorporation for the corporation.
Justin called and said that we will need to purchase some office supplies under the corporation and then scan and email receipts so he can add them to our DNB file.
To be honest with you that seemed very odd to me, corporate credit or however you might call it business credit is not new to me, we own several corporations with excellent business credit profiles, but what actually bought us was Lalanea she said that she worked for DNB for many years and she knows everything, and she still has contacts that she can call any day.
Then I asked Justin how come if the corp we acquired had an established paydex, we still have to do this?! That seemed very odd, he said that it will help him to transfer the credit profile.
After the conversation with Justin I realized that something is wrong and they are just waiting to get the second half of the payment for the corp which was 3500$
I called Lalanea directly and explained her everything that Justin told me, I asked her again if she remembers our initial conversation, when I asked if the corporation we are acquiring had a paydex score as well as experian business credit score she said that there are other scores in DNB file, and that the corp that we acquired will have other scores but not a paydex score?! I was very upset, since I felt like I was scammed. Because on their website you can clearly see (but not lately, all the links have been removed I think they are just fixing them, so we wont sue them for mis leading customers and false advertisement) they were offering corporations and LLCs with established credit.
I told Lalanea I paid 7000$ for a 3 year old corporation with articles of incorporation and a corporate kit, corporate seal and a minute book?! She said yes...
I called my bank and filed dispute as well as a stop payment for the 2nd half since I felt that was unfair on their part, I mailed them back the package with the corporate kit and articles of incorporation.
And nobody called me since then, no emails nothing.
I was going to file this complaint but I was busy, since I was pregnant at that time and guess what happened??? Today I received a letter from a law office which represents Go Risk Free saying that I have to pay them back 7000$
Before even using this company, please read my report carefully, if you have any questions please email me, I can provide anyone with the copies of the emails from Go Risk Free.
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