Y Janet Spangler
This is now a few hours later and I must say I am shocked and appalled about what happened to me with iGoMogul.com tonight. I joined 5 days ago for $199. I was to meet with my coach yesterday to help choose a domain name and for him to begin working on my website, but a new phone system was being installed, so we agreed to meet at the same time today instead.
Tonight at 5:30 EDT, my coach told me about the 4 ways to make money on-line, through their company. Then he began talking about how I should "upgrade" for six months and I would get 2500 products to sell on-line through my RockBottomPrices link (remember, Christmas is coming, he said). He promised me 120 articles for my site and would have his best bloggers pointing out my website to others on-line, so I would develop traffic. Then he gave me a figure of $5,945.00! I was dumbfounded. I am on disability, he knows I'm on disability and won't get off of it, knows my income is low, so he would ask me to invest this much? And then when I didn't go for that, he suggested, $3,220 for three months (same deal, except only 40 articles). My jaw was still on the floor! He disappeared off the phone line and came back and offered me the 3 months for $2420, rock bottom deal. Well, I said I wanted a day to think this over, to be able to talk to my son and my boyfriend about this investment. This is big money to me. And from what I've seen, it didn't look all that easy to recoup this money in 6 months, as he said. He got mad and "showed" me what $199 would "buy" me. Michael Donaldson, who'd made the initial call, told me that my site would look like divineattraction.com (but with 500 products rather than 2000 like she, "the owner of that site", has). This site is simply beautiful! My coach, Andrew, told me to open up igogolfingusa.com. This brought you to a very barebones website, with none of the appeal of the one I'd been told to expect for $199 5 days ago. When Andrew and I kept arguing about what I'd been promised and what was getting delivered, he said he'd send me an e-mail with the information to teach myself. Then he hung up on me. He'd cut me off a couple of times this evening, due to the new phone system supposedly. He'd called back before, but not this time!
So... I waited about 30 minutes, then I called Michael Donaldson who "sold" me the package 5 days ago and asked him to contact me. Oh, how sweet he was on that day, but I have NEVER been able to reach him again, despite his promise that he "loves" his clients and would be happy to speak to them anytime.instead, I got a call back from a man named Josh Murray, who has to have one of the most wicked tongues in creation. I began by saying that I didn't like what I was seeing and wanted a refund of my money. I pointed out that Andrew had neither prepared a website for me, nor sent the alleged "papers" to teach myself yet—and that I wanted out now. I'd cost them nothing and wanted my money back. Josh Murray insisted I'd cost them a LOT by utilizing the employees' valuable time. To whit, I said, "Well, they took up MY valuable time. I spent just as long on the phone with them as they did with me, plus I spent many hours doing the training that was on the site. For nothing, now, because I don't want to be part of this thing! I don't like it, I don't want to be a part of it."
This was the beginning of a heated 15 minute conversation in which Mr. Murray demeaned me up one side and down the other. I stuck to my guns about wanting a refund. He accused me, multiple times, of wanting the company to do all the writing for me. I pointed out that a) I have written 5 books; b) my mother is a multi-award-winning journalist; c) my father is a poet; d) I am related to Shakespeare and was born on his birthday, and e) that my friends' tease, "It's another of Janet's novels!"—they'd write a sentence, I write pages... No, I was NOT asking iGoMogul.com to do the writing for me.
How angry Mr. Murray got when I pointed out that in their very own training information, it appears to take 3 weeks to earn $5 for an article. The writer has to finish for the "asker" within 48 hours, then it seems to get batted back to editing ad infinitum. Because I remember the example in the training in which the writer had finished on May 6 and it was released by iGoMogul's editing staff on May 23. Mr. Murray sputtered and fumed and said, "Oh, that's just a made-up example!" Then I added, "And without the protection of a coach, I'm limited to 2 writing assignments a day. If I spend the thousands, I'm promised a 'sidestep' around this rule, allowed to write 4-12 articles a day."
I continued to ask for my money back. Mr. Murray said, "You're like a little person with their hands clasped, saying, go ahead, YOU do all the work for me." He even said that I'm a quitter and that I won't be a successful person. I retorted, "So, I'm unsuccessful. Dish it out. I can take it." His words and tones dripped with venom. He is like a (wo) man-eating shark.
I told Mr. Murray that I smell a rat and that I just want OUT.
Josh Murray accused me of being poisoned by my son, who'd warned me against the company after doing research on Complaints Board last evening for me. Mr. Murray accused me of being poisoned because I'd run across this site accidentally today and read the anger in the lead writer's letter about his company. Mr. Murray even tried to say that he could prove that those who had complained against the company, most of them, had never been clients! I said I didn't believe it, what I'd read from other unhappy customers rings true with me, because I know about the simple e-mail igomogul.com sends out asking if you want to make money at home BY TYPING. Then, within hours, you get called at home and you get a sales speech that is oh-so-good (you're asked for 20 minutes of your time and you can kiss away an hour...), and you're going to be doing the WRITING. And against my judgment, because I believe if someone starts out asking YOU for money, you better run the other way, I accepted the offer based on what Michael Donaldson promised. After all, I LOVE to write and this seemed right up my alley, so I "caved".
Mr. Murray screamed at me that how dare I expect a talented team of expert website creators to spend hours and hours on MY site, when I was giving them $199. Did I have ANY awareness of how much it cost to have a professional website creator work up a site for you? I pointed out that my son got 2 websites through godaddy.com for $26. Mr. Murray said, "godaddy.com" in synchrony with me, sneeringly. The godaddy's websites/domains take some extra work on one's part, but where does iGoMogul.com go about asking THOUSANDS of dollars, within days, for their "product". My son had warned me yesterday that they'd be working me over to get more and more money out of me (but my son had guessed, slowly) and my son had also stated that he wouldn't be surprised if I ended up being asked to spend $7000 for my domain name and my website in the end. I could hardly believe it when I was asked, within 5 days, to fork over almost 6 thousand dollars!
I kept trying to keep the conversation calm, saying, "Now listen here, Mr. Murray, I just want to back away gracefully. I just want my money back." To which, he'd reinsist that I TRY his program for 90 days. I could back out after 90 days and get my money back. He kept on the attack that I am a quitter. I kept stating I want a refund NOW. I felt like I'd been ravaged by a pitbull by the time the conversation had reached the 15 minute mark because of all the evil things he did to "attempt" to make me feel one centimeter high. His words were cruel, his tone was cruel. Which did not work, by the way. I'm WAY too strong for it.
Then voila, my attorney walked past. I handed him my cell phone and within 30 seconds, Mr. Murray had agreed to refund my money and had hung up on my lawyer! Because my attorney had said that if my funds were not returned pronto, both he and I would contact the Arizona State Attorney General regarding iGoMogul's company and its practices! The (wo) man-eating shark turned into a mouse and ran away!
Warnings to one and all! Do not place your trust nor your money here!!!
The New Jersey Tigress
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