EcoQuest International sells 'Success Packs' to marketing representatives at $2,595 financed through their affiliate, Best Finance. Each 'Success Pack' contains five FreshAir air purification units, as well as various printed materials and some DVD's.
The FreshAir units have a suggested retail price of $699-$750 each. What EcoQuest does not tell its marketing representatives is that these very same units are selling on EBAY for $150!
The reason FreshAir units are selling on EBAY for $150 on average is because EcoQuest marketing representatives, who have been purchasing these units at five units for $2,595, are unable to sell them due to competition from rival air purifier salesmen who offer products that may or may not work as well, but cost hundreds of dollars less!
Customers who are looking for an air purifier for their nail salon, or veteranary clinic, or home, or other use, don't necessarily look for quality during times of layoffs and economic strife - they look at the bottom line; PRICE.
This leaves EcoQuest marketing representatives with FreshAir units that cannot be sold, debt to Best Finance which cannot be paid, and FreshAir units which end up on EBAY being sold for a fraction of EcoQuest's suggested retail price!
To add to this 'Christian' method of business, EcoQuest will accept ANYONE as a marketing representative, including persons with disabilities both mental and physical, some of whom succeed, some of whom do not. Best Finance, EcoQuest's associate, does not care one way or the other, they just collect money!
As a person with a disability, I found myself unable to sell the FreshAir units I ordered in my 'Success Pack', after placing them in homes and nail salons, after selling one and reinvesting the money into marketing efforts, selling two to a hock shop in a desperate effort to raise more money for marketing, and failing. I even tried to return the remaining units to EcoQuest, but they refused to take them back because they had been 'demo'd' out.
This has left me with $2,595 debt, which is now increasing, to Best Finance. They have declared my account to be in default, and have started adding interest. When I spoke to Best Finance, they suggested that I try to return the remaining units to EcoQuest, which had already refused to take them. I am just glad it is all unsecured debt.
EcoQuest made all the promises in the world to me, to go so far as to promise me that this business would help me to get off of Social Security Disability for good, and turn my life around. They said their training calls were everything I needed to get me going in a direction that would make an incredible change in my life while helping my business to soar.
I feel very comfortable in saying that EcoQuest is a ripoff, and whether you are a person with a disability or not - stay away from EcoQuest and their 'Christian' ethic. If you want a FreshAir unit, buy it on EBAY and save yourself several hundred dollars.
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