Internet Speedway
Misleading and Unscrupulous Business Practices

Internet & Web

I fell for this hook, line, and sinker... Make money while you sleep! Never have to handle any inventory! Become an instant sucess! It is all just a ruse to get to hooked. I made the same mistake thousands of people made, and now I am just trying to get them to stop taking money out of my account. I canceled my "membership" in May, and they are still deducting $69.99 from my checking account, unauthorized deductions at that. I called them and they could see that my account had been cancelled, but could not tell me why the deduction occured. Oh, yes they would be happy to credit my card, in 7 - 10 business days, or maybe up to 15. So they get to use MY money for that amount of time, free of charge! Something has to be done to stop these, and people like them! I should have checked out the BBB before stepping into this, but when I made my initial call, the lady made it clear that this was a "one time offer", and if I called back, the price would be in the thousands of dollars! So I went for the "basic" plan, which was 9.99 initially, plus 19.99 to transfer my domain. I started with only 51 items to sell, and already had an established business. I waited for the 1st "free" month and never sold one item. So I "upgraded" to the next level, and had 100 items to sell.in the meantime I kept getting calls urging me to upgrade to the "Super Store" to really begin making money, and for only $2500.00! Needless to say, I didn't do that. But even after upgrading to get 100 items, and having over 600 hits in less than a month, I had no sells! And I was advertising all over the internet and locally! Plus, because I had my own merchant account, my shopping cart never worked properly in capturing the credit card numbers. It would only catch the first 4 and last 4, which is useless in processing through you merchant account. Even after working with their support personnel for a week, they could not fix the problem. It was then recommened to me to process my credit cards through them, for a set up fee of $129.99, and a 3% transaction fee per card! My merchant company, Innovative Merchant Solutions, is only charging me 1.5% per transaction! And I got free setup, free QuickBooks 2008 Professional, and 2 free months!

In addition to all the above, while I had this account, I decieded to check out some of the Wholesale warehouses, like Evertek and XSDepot, and I found out that I could buy the things I wanted to sale at prices well below what ISpeedways Warehouse Direct was selling them to people out there. And I'm not talking just a few pennies or a dollar or two, but 10 - 15 dollars on some items! It's no wonder I had no sales, anyone out there could beat my prices! And e-Bay was the worst! Example, if I wanted to try to sell say a 512 Diamond Stealth Video card on e-Bay, my cost was something like $235, plus shipping and all that. On e-Bay there would be dozens selling at that price or slightly above. So where do you make any money? Now if you are buying in bulk, yes, but they don't offer bulk sales. And why would they? Then they wouldn't make any money off suckers like me!

So, if you want to open an on-line store, don't use these people, find someone reputable. Or better still, buy from dealers like Evertek and create your own on-line store. And remember, if someone tells you that you can make a lot of money in a very short time, don't believe it. There is a reason they are call get rich quick "schemes".


Company: Internet Speedway
Country: USA
State: Arizona
City: Mesa
Address: 1201 S. Alma School Rd. Suite 15500
Phone: 8888773336
  <     >  

RELATED COMPLAINTS

Jim Rosen Webadsystems
Ripoff on-line fitnessgeardeals site that fails

Fidelity Merchant Solutions
Consumer Report

United Platinum
Ripoff con artists On-line

Getestore
Universal Banner Network scam to rip people out of about $80 for membership and deliver junk to us and not refund out money afterwards ripoff

MaxEbiz
Make promises of selling income but they never stop to tell you about all the expense to setup an online store up front

Thrive learning Institute
Phone and internet scam

Innovative Merchant Solutions
The company misrepresents themselves as our bank or Merchant Account Service to get our business

Doba, Doba Dropshipper, Doba.com
Doba drop-shipping company Presured me into contract over phone. Refuses to give refund even though they are not offering what they claimed they would. Took my money under false pretenses. Lied to me about wholesale prices

Wholesale shopping
Benefits of Wholesale Shopping Online

Fidelity Merchant Solutions
Consumer Report