I'm the owner of a day spa in VA. I met Lisa at a womens networking group and decided to sign up for her program. Lisa assured me that she would "fill up" my spa with "affluent" clients and i would make a ton of money off them. The only one making money was her!!! I was also told that clients would be targeted within a 5 to 7 mile radius of the spa (my suggestion) and that it would be up to me to up-sell. The first month i was thrilled because i was indeed seeing lots of clients, most of them tipped and a few even upgraded which meant money in my pocket. After the first month i began to see very young girls, students, clients from Maryland and DC and from the surrounding areas such as Arlington, Alexendria, Springfield and Baltimore. The above areas are not clients i can sell to and are only there for the freebies. It got worse! I had a group of ladies from DC that came, our crew did the services, they did not tip and in fact robbed us of robes, product, tips and samples left earler that day. Two days after this incident a man came to the door wanting a massage, he reeked of BO and alcohol and looked homeless (so much for affluet clients!!!) he had a coupon from Spagirl but i refused to work on him! It's supposed to be only one coupon per client but i routinely had people trying to book two months of appointments because they had 10 coupons. I tried discussing this with Lisa but only got "no, no, no, they're not supposed to do this" it fell on deal ears. I finally got smart and decided to sell my own packages. When Lisa fouind out she sent me a bill for $20,000. I asked her for a copy of the contract 6 weeks ago but i guess it takes her "attorney" quite a bit of time to respond to a simple request!!! I can say that the only one making money off the SpaGirl Promotions coupons is Lisa. I have since had several spa owners ask me about my experience and i tell them the same thing; IT'S A SCAM, DON'T FALL FOR IT LIKE I DID!!!
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