Complaint / Review
Shelly Williams Trading Faces-Scam Ripoff Of The Worst Kind
Shelly Williams Trading Faces Austin Misleading Scam of the worst kind-put my kids into thinking that they were in a play that never did or will exist, Buda, Kyle, Round Rock, Pflugerville

I have read, with disgust, similar stories to our own already. Shelly Showed up at a St Patricks day event to do free face painting and recruit kids for the upcoming Willy Wonka production. Like the others, she needed $150 per kid (two kids in my case) for costumes and donation. We signed the 'trading faces contract' which said that we were to show up with smiles on our faces, good attitudes etc. And that the ultimate decision to put the kids in the play or not was shelly's decision. A little strange but we played along.

3 different practice places over 6 months, ranging from studios where they had dance classes, to dance studios, to ultimately scheduling at someones house to practice in the 'sanctuary' led to alot of frustration due to the lack of communication from Shelly, Angelica, and the rest of the players in this ruse.

There were explanations of phantom e-mails that we never got, phone calls to my phone that mysteriously wasn't working (for the first time in 10 years) when they 'tried to call', The mystery illnesses and cancelled practices that left parents scratching their heads and wondering what to tell their grade school age kids, all playing to the tune of an underlying lack of communication, structure and organization.

I talked with other parents and found out that some had been waiting for over a year and a half for this mysteriously repeatedly cancelled play to materialize. After hearing this, I realized why there was an everlasting gobstopper stuck in these production plans; It was designed to not ever happen.

I was wondering why there was about 85% turnover in the play every two months or so. I was tooled by one of the better scammers out there.

Shelly - I dare you to publicly post where you are doing your next recruiting drive under the guise of 'face painting'. Further, I challenge you to list at least one non profit organization that has benefitted at all from these 'productions', or any kids who have seen these through to an actual production. You will get busted eventually. I am no lawyer, but I am certain that your scam is against the law.

You are a scammer of the worst kind... You took advantage of my children. I will be looking for you at your next recruitment drive, so I dare you to post your locations and times.

Parents Beware - Do not get suckered in by this goat.