Yes; my story seems to be like everyone elses here. A Sunday afternoon, and a really petite, bubbly, energetic girl knocks on my door and I know its the dreaded "magazine sales" person. But, however "put-off" I am by this, she's so nice and full of joy, I listen to her very rehearsed, yet believable schpeel (sp).
Now, the really, really stupid part,, she tells me her name is Sunny. She offers her full name and even writes it on the receipt. "SUNNY BEAMZ"!!! Really,, I mean,, really. The funny thing is that it fits her; she was "sunny", full of "sun"!
(Full of "s*t is more like it!)
Despite all the warning signs and knowing that I consider myself to be fairly intelligent, I still nevertheless purchased (thought I purchased), 52 issues of "Rolling Stone" magazine. I've never had a subscription to that one so I actually was pretty excited about it. I guess I need a life! This was a couple days after Thanksgiving last year, and I eventually forgot about it until a couple of days ago when I was going through my wallet and found the receipt. I decided to look up this company and email them to ask where my magazines were, when lo and behold, I saw all the lovely blogs about what a scam this company is, and found THIS very useful website, (usacomplaints.com).
Oops!!! What an idiot I feel like now. I really thought I was helping out this cute, hardworking, friendly, over-zealous girl when apparently what I really did was just "give" my money to Mark Shumate (President) and whoever else is in cohorts with him. Mark Shumate is, assumably, the president of this fraudulent company and, in time, (hopefully sooner than later,) he, and the others will pay in one way or another for the hideous and dishonest crimes they are committing. I will never understand why, how, or what, the thought processes are of these people, but knowing what goes around, comes around IS the way the universe works, makes me feel better about the whole crappy situation.
I do feel sorry for you idiots, but only because I know something that you all apparently aren't aware of,,, KARMA'S A B*TCH!!!
And to all the others out there like me who were "Ripped off", and whose children have been scammed into working for these morons, I am sympathetic. I wish you well and will pray that your children and family members come home safe and unharmed. And, to my SUNNY girl, if you are out there and ever find yourself reading this, please go home and go back to school. Put that bubbly personality to a good, honest purpose, and know that I wish only happiness for you.
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