Complaint / Review
Platinum Promotions - Tri-Ad Promotions - Tri-Ad Universal - AMN Advertising - Capital Advertising
Platinum Promotions, DS MAX, Tri-Ad Promotions, Tri-Ad Universal, AMN Advertising, Capital Advertising rip-off! Falls Church, Virginia

To all of you who are applying to Platinum Promotions and Capitol Advertising (off Leesburg Pike in Falls Church) and AMN Advertising at Ziggy Lane in Gaithersburg, MD—beware of what these companies are about.

I worked at Tri-Ad Promotions for a few month. The company now has moved to LA and the new company name is Platinum Promotions. The manager back then was Harmony Hunt who now is in LA. The new manager is Amir Zagarian.

I recently found out that the administrator at Platinum Promotions submitted recruiting packets to area universities and colleges for a position with their company. While working with Harmony, we are trained to screw people, provide vague answers and dodge the truth. The opportunity is more like a pyramid scheme. You get paid on what you sell. At the interview, the idea is presented based on the fact that we are not salespeople but merely promoting free fingerprints. Consumers get to buy gifts that support the fingerprinting program. Those gifts on the table are products from other offices of DS MAX like AMN Advertising in Gaithersburg in MD and Powers Imports in Houston, TX. Those products are cheap and break easily. Yet, we lie to consumers about this. We harrass customers in the false name of fundraising or community safety.

Lastly, if you encounter any DS MAX office that talks about sales/marketing/pr/non-profit/advertising - hiring a new management team, hiring new managers - BEWARE. Their advertisements in newspapers usually read like that. Report them to your local newspaper or school counselor.

A typical interview would have 3 rounds. The first round is usually with the manager or assistant manager. If they like you, there would be a call back that evening to invite you to a second interview. The second interview is when you spend an entire day with the training manager. Some DS MAX offices make you follow them business-to-business or door-to-door or stand behind a table all day for observation. If you encounter any of this, leave. You can leave anytime during the second interview. Of course, the third interview is for those who like the job will be interviewed by a manager that very same day.

Thank you.