This company partners with sales people around the country to solicit fundraisers for his cartridge company. Last fall, I entered into an agreement with them and took a position as a sales manager. I brought some sale people on board and we all went out looking for business. The first fundraiser was a high school girls soccer team in Ohio. The girls were promised to receive a % of the sales with the highest % to be earned in the first 2 weeks of kickoff. The money was to be paid 2 weeks after the close of the initial start with ongoing earnings year round.in addition, they were promised incentive visa cards for the top seller of the teams and there was a kick start contest for an IPod touch.
To date, while he did keep promising to send the money, he is no longer taking our calls or responding to our emails.in December, I personally spent $275.00 to send the IPod to the wining girl so she could give it to her Father as a Christmas gift. Since it is obvious that as the sales rep, I was the only person with integrity, I felt obligated to spend my money even though, as a rep, I had not received my commission. Ben Bohannon is aware that I personally purchased the IPod and had it shipped to her and he is no longer responding to my email either.
Besides this fundraiser, my reps were promised commission for direct sales of the ink cartridges and as in the other case, they have not been paid either. We kicked off one other small fundraiser in addition in Pa and as in the other cases, no money. Worse yet, the third one was set to kick off in December and a woman on the board purchased cartridges to benefit her organization. Ben charged her visa in November and to date, January 22, she has not received her ink. I have repeatedly requested her products and as usual no response.
As the regional sales manager, I was privy to conference calls with other managers around the country who had fundraisers in schools and as always, no one got paid.
This man needs to be stopped from ripping off children.
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