I was watching the morning news and saw a commercial for "work at home businesses". My wife urge me to 'get information' since I am disabled and the current economy is burdening us more than usual.
I went to the website '14noboss.com' which required some basic information in order to find a homesed business for me. I was under the impression that this would be a "clearing house" for numerous 'legitimate' HBB's. I was directed to just ONE site. I was still under the impression that this was to be information from NUMEROUS sites for HBB's. There was a reasonable assumption that the initial $9.95 would be returned if I was unsatisfied. Under those reasonable expectations, I agreed.
I was contacted just a few hours later by "Thomas Patterson" who explained that a package would arrive in two days and that he would contact me the day after to help me through the instructions. He lead me to believe that this was instructions for any number of HBB', that I would be taught the best way to run ANY HBB.
I am normally a very inestigative consumer and won't agre to spend a dime without an 'FBI' style investigation.in this case, I said "what the hell, they said it was 'money back' if not satisfied".
The short of it is that this is an HERBALIFE franchise as a 'grunt' for Thomas Ray Patterson, who is the co-founder of 'Architcnic' at the hbarchitec.com website. A company that 'supposedly' built multi-millions of dollarsa of real estate in Florida. Before I even recieved the package, I called my bank to reverse the charge, called the Attorney General in Florida, who told me that the name of the company which debited my credit card, 'Syntonik', had never renewed there 'incorporation', this company was listed as a "fireworks, trophies and gravestones" business, called mister T. Ray Patterson at his architec firm, who did not return my call until I called Herbalife, who was a little 'upset' with Tom, who then called this guy and only then did he return my call.
I told him that I expected the $9.95 credited to my account, that I had refused the package and wanted nothing to do with him or his Herbalife franchise. He tried to tell me that the $9.95 went directly to FedEx. I explained to him that it was his business 'Syntonik' that took the money from me and that he should just except this as the cost of doing business and that any further attempt to debit my account would result in a HUGE lawsuit against him personally as well as an investigation from the Florida Attorney Generals office.
The following day, I recieved the same 'return' message as described in other reports against Herbalife franchisers. I gave this yo-yo 48 hours to return my money, he's got less than 24 to go. I'll keep you posted.
BOTTOM LINE: Whoever authorized this commercial to run on FOX NETWORKS made a huge mistake. It violates all the tenants of 'informative advertising' by not mentioning the exact product. They will be contacted! Herbalife has been made aware of these actions and, as they said, they were not aware that this commercial was airing to 'lure' individuals into Herbalife franchises.
My question is; what does a man who 'supposedly' owns a multi-million dollar architectural firm doing selling Hebalife? Are time really that tough?
Bob
Somerset, New Jersey
U.S.A.
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