A certain Thomas Wright representing E-Commerce Advertising contacted me on Sept. 30 to promote and send traffic to my e-store ricoandkungstuffunlimited.com... I signed up for their starter package: 833 "demographically viable shoppers"/visitors a day for $950 a year. I disclosed my credit/debit card # and routing # and account # (stupid me) on the phone... I gave them a check # but they used a different check #9999, which I did not authorized. The funds were taken and SMC, my supplier, called me and warned me of bogus web ad agencies.
National Marketers LLC also called me saying that E-Commerce Advertising stole their scripted market strategy, word for word... E-Commerce sent me a link to check for progress on my site (http://www.mystatscenter.com) and to date (Dec 20) their report site states that I should already have 2,313 visitors on my e-store, which is obviouly a load of crock since I had installed a site meter on my webstore and to date I only have no more than 113 visits and most of it are just myself logging in a few times... Got really worried so I changed my bank account # a few days after Mr. Wright (if that's even a real person) contacted me...
I had called E-Commerce Advertising on several occasions to get a refund but to no avail... Their phone just keeps on ringin'... Before I paid them I got customer service, after they took my $950 I get nothing but busy signal... Emailed them too but they emailed me back to promise to call back but never did... I tried to resolve this issue with my bank but they turned me down saying it's between me and the merchant... Even Better Business Bureau to which I filed a report on Oct 13 couldn't help me...
E-Commerce was cunning enough to respond that I had authorize the payment... The fact is that that's not the real issue... The issue is that their promised services was not delivered... Ergo, I had full and justifiable reason to suspect that they are A FRAUDULENT COMPANY! I did not want to hire a lawyer for I am really strapped for cash these days, most of the money I saved went to getting my e-commerce website off the ground and it's really disheartening that companies like E-COMMERCE ADVERTISING preys on people like me who only wants to earn a little money selling stuff online...
To this day I have not had any business on my site because I am afraid to call anybody to promote my site for I am afraid of getting ripped off again... I hope somebody out there can help me at least contact these people and get my money back...$950 is a lot of money for me especially that times are hard... I do not exclude myself from the blame here, I should've researched this matter before I jumped into disclosing my bank account on the phone! Pretty stupid, eh? Serves me right i suppose!
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