Elite, Taylor & Co., Kismet (all the same people, different names) put out Craigslist ads for "Office Assistant" needed. Pay listed as $16-17/hour. Lists duties as general office, with vacation pay and benefits. Lists a phone # to call for interview. Ad changes every few days from one Tel # to another Telephone # as shown on this report. As posted at 10:17am on March 05 the phone # listed is 253-235-5315. Prior to March 05 the Tel # listed was 253-517-3401.
During the brief interview they will scarcely glance at your resume/references. They might discuss their personal lives. They tell you a little bit about the job but are not very specific about anything. You'll then ask you to come in for a second interview, which turns out to be group orientation of some sort, with up to 40 people there for that job. Then they have you come into the Federal Way and ONLY office location in existence for "training" daily from 9am to 11am, but ask you to be there by 8:45am.
They'll ask you to take copius notes, which I did. When I asked if the fragrances being sold were genuine fragrances, they said Yes. I asked point blank that if I went to Macy's or Nordstrom's and bought, for example, a bottle of Drakkar Noir, that the bottle, name, and packaging would be identical to the fragrances Taylor & Co. Is selling. They said YES. THEY LIED.
They will ask you to do a "contest" and offer to sell as many fragrances as you can to your friends and family at "their cost of $25.00 a bottle" and they PROMISE that the next day they will pay to winner/s $3,000.00. They take a short "vote" to see how the group wants it divided. Our group apparently chose to give the two top winners $1,500.00 each. Andrew, one of the "owners", also then tells us that we can be awarded amounts up to $500.00 each of us for selling bottles of perfume during the one-day contest.
One of the ladies at this group sold more than 80 bottles of fragrance to her family and friends. She let Taylor & Company charge them to her Chase credit card with the intent of getting the money from individual customers when she gave them the fragrances she ordered. This means Taylor & Company has stolen from this lady more than $2,000.00 at this juncture. They gave her, privately, $500.00 for selling enough bottles, and then tossed her, privately, another $125.00 stating that our group didn't reach the "350 bottle mark" to "qualify" for the $3,000 prize.in their contest rules they simply said our group number was 350 but added no other significance to that number. They lied. They never paid out the prize money, and they have given this lady only 5 bottles of ripoff fragrances (not the actual name brand fragrances). They stopped answering her phone calls in askance of where the product is and where her money is. She then texted this Andrew character saying she wanted her money back since there was no genuine product and needed to see it soon as she had contacted an attorney regarding this matter. He texted her back saying, "I don't like to be threatened." They still will not answer her phone calls.
BEWARE!!! This company will tell you that you have to "train" for 2-4 weeks AND later in the first week will ask you to plan, with one other person in the room, an "EVENT" that YOU FUND. They say you must hold an EVENT and find the venue, decorate it, advertise it, furnish the decor and food, and all at your own expense, and you must hold this event BEFORE you are considered finished with "training". You will not get paid ANY WAGES UNTIL YOU FINISH "training". When asked about the I-90 employer/employee tax paperwork that all employers must have filled out by new employees, they get around the subject and never actually answer the question, and never fill out those forms. Debbie, the only worker there that appears to be over 30 and in fact tells everyone she just had her 55th birthday party last Thursday, and tells folks daily for a few days how she "got drunk" and partied it up. Very unprofessional.
do not get involved with these people!!! At the very least you will lose time and gas going to and from their federal way location. You could lose a lot, as this lady lost more than $2,000.00 and they have her credit card information. She now is having her credit card number changed and the old one cancelled to protect herself from further charges by these thieves.
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