I received an unsolicited phone call from StartUp Essentials and signed a 36 months lease for training, a webpage with advertising, and credit card services. The 36 months lease was for one year of website hosting, $200 of pay-per-click advertising, pay extra for credit card services needed to run a business. There is no evidence of what you are leasing. They deliver nothing except access to a training program.
When I contacted them to inlquire about leased services, they stopped debiting my account and blocked access to the training program. Since that time I have contacted the FBI/Federal Trade Commission at www.I3C. Gov. They promised to go out an investigate if enough reports come in.
I got them to stop debiting my account by contacting the fraud devision at my band, not closing the account. I also contacted the Attorney General of California and they already had three other reports on A-1 leasing. There are three additional places to register your on-line fraud report.
Remember: Fraud division at your bank, don't have to close your account.
Www.I3C. Gov — FBI and Federal Trade Commission
Start-up Essentials and A-1 Leasing. They don't like people who seem capable of challenging them. They cancelled their own non-cancellable lease. I think they should deliver all they said that they would for the $109 per month. They charged me $8.24 per month extra for California business tax which they, a Michigan company, said they collected for me and sent to California anually. They paniced when I challenged this and told them I would discuss it with the Attorney General of the State of California. They stopped debiting my account the following month.
I still followed up with formal complaints to federal agencies.
Jaime
Oakland, California
U.S.A.
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