We were approached by sales person 'Tom' from Long Island Food Critic to produce a review of our restaurant. We set an appointment and learned Tom represented Expo Sure USA Inc. Which is a company that provides 'positive' reviews of restaurants as a free service when you order their email news letter marketing services. All for the reasonable price of $195/month. We thought it sounded great, signed up and then were asked for a check for $980. Shocked, we backed off and learned there was a hidden startup fee of $395 and they wanted six months in advance. We backed off the deal immediately and were told by Tom, not to worry about it - they would work with us.
We made payment of $590. Three months later we had not seen any attempt to begin copy on the email newsletter and no attempt to set up the restaurant review. On October 12th in a call with our representative - we expressed dismay and concern that we more than two months had passed and no review had been scheduled and they were reluctant to begin work on our email newsletter topic.
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