Our son signed up with success express sales. First of all, they stated in their add quote unquote." over 18? Between high school and college? Travel and have fun w/young successful business group. No experience neccessary. 2 wks paid training. Lodging. Transportation.
We called success express sales because my son was going to be a father, he needed some work fast, he thought this might be a good oportunity for him, the individual he had spoke with knew he wanted to make money to send back home to his g/f for the baby to come. The gentleman knew my son was after money not working for a contest which he failed to tell us over the phone. I ask him if my son needed money to live on while he was there for those 2 weeks training, he said no ma'am he gets lodging, food, and transportation during the first 2 weeks of training. He also stated that after the two weeks of training he then would have to pay his own way and he will get paid on his commissions only. We agreed to this. He took down his name and phone number only, He did not ask for a ss# no address just his name. No fingerprint or backgroud check was done. He took it for granted that my son said he was who he was. So the statement made by mike in not true, he and they do not do background checks on these young adults coming to work for their company.
Our son was paid 20.00 a night and had to pay for his own food during the first week of his training, this is not what the ad stated at all. They moved locations in the middle of the night and slept in a truck going to LA. They had dropped my son off in an area where there was no solicity aloud and he almost got picked up by the police, his meds were stolen, which we were told to send a lock box because he didn't really know what type of young adults he would be rooming with, "shame on me for letting my son go" If you screen them and do a background check, you'd know with whom you are dealing with.
There were drugs with this group, drinking etc... And then these young adults are going to homes knocking on doors to sale magazines while being high on drugs. This is scarey to even think about.
Because he dropped the program early, they dropped him off at the california beach in oxnard and he had to wait for them there for 5 hours in the dark. They then harrassed him, took his meds and told him he was a girl for quitting the program.
I got him his ticket as we were told if he did not complete the program he had to pay his own way back. Under these circumstances I feel that they should have paid for his ticket home. He was treated poorly, they did not do what they advertised and or told us over the phone. On top of all of this, not only was he left at the beach for 5 hours, he was dropped off at the greyhound bus station 12 hours earlier then when the bus was leaving.
They did not want to take him later because they so called had to go sale magazines and make money to live on for that evening. Paid trianing? A job? This is not a job, it is not paid training. I do not care about the money part of this all. I care about my son being taken care of no matter how old he is, if that is what we were told was going to happen.
Do not lie to the consumers and tell them these boys are screened and background checks done. Do not advertise paid trainging, and job in one sentence... Through my search we found it is a contest ONLY! What and how and whose money they live on each day is beyond me.
I am upset that this man is allowed to lie to the consumers and put the public in danger by not knowing who he is sending to our homes to sale magazines, I am worried about our young people who are honest and do have families that love them, what is going to happen to them, I am just glad that my son had sense enough to keep calling me over and over and I him to make sure he was taken care of and fed.
This is truely a SCAM for our young children
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