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Deceptive Advertising
Norwalk, CT: (Apr-02-08) Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's office brought charges against Storesonline, Inc., which also operates under the name Imergent, Inc., alleging that the company's online businesses made unrealistic and deceptive claims regarding its virtual storefronts. The company sets up online businesses or creates websites for existing companies. Blumenthal stated that the company made deceptive claims about its products, cashing in on consumer dreams, promising superior and state of the art products, which it failed to deliver. Sources at the AG's office stated that the company had agreed to settle the matter, agreeing to pay $130,000 to the state and in restitution to consumers.
Under the terms of agreement, Storesonline, Inc. will pay the state $65,000 and another $65,000 in restitution to CT, consumers who bought its services. It is estimated that around 10 to 12 consumers will be eligible for restitution. Additionally, the deal bars the company from making exaggerated and deceptive claims about its products and requires restitution to consumers, creating a process for handling any future consumer complaints about alleged company misrepresentations. [NORWALK PLUS: $130,000 SETTLEMENT WITH STORESONLINE, INC. AND IMERGENT, INC. RESTITUTION TO CUSTOMERS]
Published on Apr-3-08
Under the terms of agreement, Storesonline, Inc. will pay the state $65,000 and another $65,000 in restitution to CT, consumers who bought its services. It is estimated that around 10 to 12 consumers will be eligible for restitution. Additionally, the deal bars the company from making exaggerated and deceptive claims about its products and requires restitution to consumers, creating a process for handling any future consumer complaints about alleged company misrepresentations. [
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READER COMMENTS
Doreen Cook
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Deborah Barton
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B&N Dreger
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And like others mentioned, when you called, if you were able to get in touch with a person, there were more fees attached for the help, or when you went to publish your site again there would be more fees.
It was just a cash grab and onto the next seminar for this company.
I am glad someone has put a stop to this scam and hope that people who have lost money will be compensated down the line. But I for one am not going to put good money over bad, as this too could be a scam.
Obviously people didn't want to come forward feeling embarrassed that they were pulled into such a scam but there is strength in numbers, and there are a lot of us out there.
Bonnie Gleason
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Sandy Stickles
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. I have all my receipts and documents of certificate of all three licenses. Thank you Sandy Stickles
Eddie Sanders
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Tracy Urban
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I had purchased 6 licenses and have all the documentation
Erik J Shannon
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DEBRA WISHARD
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Could not get the support we needed to get things up and running to make money. At least try to get my cost recovered.
Fill like a fool!
Leanet Newman
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Barbara Reichert/Comens
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Wilson Burns
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Suzie Sranko
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Noel Napolitan
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So I own three sites to do with as I please but they are being held hostage and I cannot, in fact, do a single thing with any of them!!!!
Nichole ,Boorman
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Abel Gallant
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Mahshid
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I still have the website but what they did was to transfer the services to other different cheap companies. The site building site got a different name like the Keychain. most of the links not working. They are all blank. No instruction. Web hosting's billing suddenly transferred to another system called Crexendo!I! So I never knew if they were going to share my credit card # with a third party.They just through me up in the air. I didnt know it till today which I read about them in this site. They ripped us all.
Lajunia Crowell
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Bryan mink
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Michael Smith
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Rainy DeLauder
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Bryan mink
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James B Warren
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Michelle Hebert
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David Rennie
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Tamara Allen
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Trish Giroir
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Judith Harding from England UK
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Since then I tried to use 1 of the websites I bought and it was so complicated to use I stopped using it but since I bought the sites and started using 1 of them they took an additional £20 per month for web and email hosting so those payments have been taken out of my bank account now for approx 14 years so a lot of money in addition to purchasing the 6 x sites
Ty Smith, Joqueze Miller
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Cynthia Benton
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Michael Orr
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Angela McLaurin
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Teresa Cole
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Claudia Grayson
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Linda Jones
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Cheryl Forshner
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Diane Garrison
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Please let us know if anyone has a class action suit from Washington state Still have all of the paperwork.
Ziyad Abuqubo
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Donna Spence
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Jill Dunphy-Hanns
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Dean and Rebecca Foster
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Georgianna Hanson
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Gary Shields
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Robert Voss
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Its been several years ago that my wife and I signed up for this program and never had any return.Spent 4500 or around there. Is there anyway we could possibly get any of that back? My brother and his wife did the same thing in another state but failed miserably at trying to make it work in helping a friend to market his business
Sandra
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Elizabeth Reyes
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Christina Burgess
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Richard Schlottman
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Teresa Olszanka
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StoresOnline subsequently shared my details with The Tax Club and PMI Direct International without my prior knowledge or permission. I good faith, I was persuaded to purchase the tax and bookkeeping services from Tax Club and internet marketing + website building coaching service from PMI. The PMI representative assured me that with their coaching failure is not an option. I had no business or internet experience so I felt that taking up the services will make my entry into the online business easier and faster. Unfortunately both The Tax Club and PMI turned out to be rip off merchants. The Tax Club had since been taken to court by authorities and agreed to refund the fees charged to customers, consequently I had some 50% of the money paid to Tax Club refunded.
PMI coaching never eventuated. The service I paid for included 10 over the phone one-on-one coaching sessions, along with training videos on demand. The coaching sessions were important to me. The online videos on demand were practically worthless. Only about 3 out of 10 one on one sessions took place, each time with a different coach, so there was no continuity whatsoever. Moreover on occasion I'd have a date and time set for my follow up session, and no one would turn up. PMI did create a website for me but the standard of it was so bad I wouldn't want my name associated with it. I would be able to create a more cohesive and functional one using Go Daddy template.
I did ask for a refund on the grounds that what I paid for was never delivered and enough time was given to PMI to make good. The refund was refused. Instead I was offered another round of coaching with all the promisses. Unfortunately nothing changed: first coaching session took place, date for the next one was set. The coach did show up but only to tell me that he was leaving PMI, and that I was assigned to a new coach. He provided me with the name and email address of my next coach. No communication from the new coach was received, and my email to the coach remained unaswered. In the end I had enough and lodged a complaint with BBB. I didn't get anywhere here either. BBB listed my dispute as resolved even though it wasn't. BBB did not respond to my email.
I went somewhat off the subject of StoresOnline here, but the StoresOnline and PMI connection is a common thread in the reports.
I did write a letter of complaint to the StoresOnline head of customer care, addressed as per details found on the official StoresOnline company information I found on the internet.
Unfortunately the particulars listed were either out of date or altogether false, because months and months later, the letter was returned to me marked address/addressee unknown.
If there is any action against PMI, count me in too, please.
It appears that there already was a legal case against PMI. I am surprised I wasn't notified.
In the case of The Tax Club, I received a letter from the US Trade Commission that the company was taken to court, and that my details were found among the list of customers. I was just asked to provide details of how much I paid to The Tax Club and other affilliated businesses. Apart from that I didn't have to do a thing. Several months later I received a cheque.
C Crawford
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I believe they have to refund us.
Dave Davies
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Brenda Emilio
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Paul Ineson
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Please let me know if there are options for me.
Dawn Devine
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J Baldus
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Brandon J Conrad
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It is no surprise that they are no longer in business, and were bought out by a company named Crexendo. So now that it is many years later, I find on my credit report a collections that I owe $4,000 for a website that I never used.
This is a huge problem for my family. We were in the process of selling our home, and have a solid offer. We were looking for our next house and just about to et a new home loan when I found my credit score had dropped over 80 points!! Now I cannot sell, move to FL, and have the kids enrolled in their next school. This is a huge problem for our family, and I join you all in this fight against this horrible company. If Crexendo is taking over for Storesonline, then they are going to have to accept responability for their lies and deception as well. They should reslease us all of any debts, and pay resitution for the money they soaked us all for.
I'm in, we deserve our money back!!!
Ronald Hamilton
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Natalie Crawford
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I would be interested in knowing if a lawsuit is being filed in Massachusetts.
Natalie
Boston, MA
Richard Ochoa
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For more money to cover the I interest to pay for the websites. Count me in
Carol Inman
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Althea Johnson
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dorlene Bloom
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Rosalind Knox
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Dawn N. Ravenel
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Ronald Johnson
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And never got help setting them up in Georgia.
Rainy Kemp
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oswald,johnson
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Maryann Kettman
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Arneida
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Arneida McDonald
Luis A. Mora
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Valeri Rhea
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Kimberly Parker Marcet
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Edie Feiste
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Karla Stevenson
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Linda Privette
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Faye Read
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Cassandra Holderness
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Dorothy Duprey
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Also bought 6 sites....
Timothy Schildknecht
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Valerie Jones
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Jacqueline Hayes
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Fances McFarland
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Debra Mininfield
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Kathy
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Karen Husted
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Chris Bell
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Deborah Kitchen
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Lawana & Herman Howard
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Keith Russ
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LeoMay Shoatz
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Sylvia Habel
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To Date the Stores Online and hard sell seminar has been a failure.
We too have tried to find Drop Shippers they claim is so easy to get and start selling product right away. Alibaba, other DOBA,
and other wholesalers that will drop ship the products.
Every bit of this is hype and hard sell, and false advertising,
as well as scam artists. There are more people with complaints it seems than the people who have been successful with OnLine Stores. The people you speak with at Stores Online simply don't have time for you and they let you know it up front.
Class Action Law Suit against Stores Online, Count us in.
Coralea Mckillop
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I rang them up and they said I had to email them and send the details but they never responded to my emails.
So I have been left $2700 out of pocket.
Is it to late for me to do anything about it.
I live in Lavington N.S.W Australia.
looking forward to hearing from you
Curtis Whipple
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Derek Hinkle
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Joanne Vonhoff
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Jordan Colburn
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We purchased the PMI deal for $8500 and they used SOL for the same deal.
If you're handling suits with PMI as well, please advise.