Door to Door Magazine sales is a dangerous scam
July 3, 2009
Door to Door Magazine sales is a dangerous scam
Posted by Barrudaki-Thunderchick at 7/03/2009
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Is it a scam?
Friday, July 3, 2009
The summertime is mostly associated with great childhood memories; that unbelievable baseball game,
that awesome vacation, hanging out with friends. Though ear marked for fun summertime
for some is sadly known for fraud, scam, and tragedy. Every year reports about fraudulent
door to door sales raise. The companies that perpetrate this scam aren't only trying
to scam consumers, they scam their field associates as well. These companies also are
not concerned about their field associates safety or for that matter the safety of
anyone. The only thing these companies care about is how much money can they get out
of everyone. Often times these companies will drop their field associates off in a
high crime area and expect them to go door to door selling putting their own field agents at risk.
These door to door magazine sales companies hire a variety of people. Young teens
looking to work for the summer, young adults wanting to travel, older adults
looking to start a new life, criminals on the run, convicted criminals looking
to not get caught again. These companies put everyone together on a sales team,
whisk them away to another state, place them in a hotel 2 or more people in a room,
drop them off in an unknown neighborhood and attempt to sale magazines. Now I have
to ask would any parent in their right mind want their 18 year old son or daughter
hanging out with a 20 or 30 something convicted criminal or someone on the run from the law?
If you allow them to take a job like this that is exactly who they will be hanging out
with on a daily basis.
There companies ply young teens and young adults with the easy money line.
Make great cash and we pay you for it! Travel the country on our dime and
make money doing it! Sale magazines for us and win a trip or $5,000 dollars.
Sound Familiar? To a teen easy money for the summer, to a young adult
easy money and sales experience, to a criminal easy access to a variety of
unsuspecting victims who kindly answer their door to them.
For example:
Liberator Sales Inc. (also known as Imperial Sales both companies owned by Pacific Coast
Clearing Serviecs Inc.) in 2004 when Kristina Moore one of their young field associates
was murdered the magazine sales team didn't stick around or care about what happened to her.
The team supervisor called her in as not showing up and when she was found murdered
moved the sales crew out of the state. Liberator Sales hired Walter W. Collier
the traveling sales job as their magazine field associate gave him roaming access
to rape a 9 year old girl. Liberator Sales Inc., routinely hire people who have
outstanding warrants and in addition this company violates local city and town
laws by not getting solicitation permits. In 2005 Liberator Sales was banned
from the state of Maine, but in Maine they probably operate under Imperial Sales.
Charles Crawford committed a home invasion while selling magazines door to door hired by
American Community Services, Inc.
Renard Amos committed burglary, sexual battery and rape while selling magazines
door to door for Paragon Dynasty.
Of course these are not the only door to door magazine sales companies out there but
most of these companies have numerous things in common. The companies
don't do background checks which is why it is so easy for someone with outstanding
warrants to work for them, thus putting anyone who answers the door to their field
agent at risk. These are the people companies like Liberator Sales Inc., hire to
represent them. Is it any wonder why this industry is plagued with crime and fraud?
Is this the type of company you would want to hand over your hard earned money to,
one that violates local laws and puts their customer at risk? Of course these
aren't the only complaints there are also non-delivery complaints, stolen payments
complaints. The number one complaint over charging for the magazines. The magazine
prices of these companies are outrageous, the subscription prices can be marked up
as much as 300 percent! The sales pitch to justify the prices, it's for charity,
it's for a scholarship, it's for a contest to win a trip.
Door to Door sales company don't stop by scamming customers they also do it to their
field agents as well. These companies take their sales teams all over the country
to different states far away from home. If the sales associate performs poorly,
they may have to sleep on the floor of the hotel room, be denied the daily money
the company promises them for expenses like food, be verbally or physically abused.
If they continue to under perform well then they can be abandoned in any state or town,
causing their family expense in getting them home or worse they never arrive home.
The commission and prizes are a scam too. The company usually takes advantage of their
field teams by charging them the expense of the hotel room and maybe other things.
The prize is only offered once a year and to sales agent who happen to live through
the hell of working for this company for that year and sometimes they can be disqualified
for something as minor as the lack of a sale for one day out of that year. Also, many of
these door to door sales companies are constantly being investigated for breaking
child labor laws.
So, these companies get a huge profit off the back of unsuspecting young people and the
communities they scam. Not only that but they teach their field associates to lie.
For instance Liberator Sales Inc., their door to door sales people don't give the
companies full name if asked they only give the companies initials. They tell their
field agents not to say they are making money that they are only trying to win a contest.
The field agents are also told to lie about having a solicitors permit and to lie to the
customer about why the magazine prices are so high.
Of course the crowning fraud of all this, if someone happens to buy magazines and give up
some of their hard earned cash, the magazines never arrive. The receipt are usually
generic with no company information on it. By the time the consumer figures it out
the traveling sales team is gone from the area and the check has already cleared
their bank or worse. Fraud has been committed on their bank account because the
check contained their banks routing number and their account number.
These traveling companies change their names or start a new door to door magazine
sells company all the time which makes it hard to track them because of the multiple
offenses in soo many different states.
Some tips to avoid such door to door scams:
1. The best way to not get caught by this scam don't answer the door.
If you aren't expecting anyone ask who it is through the closed door.
If it's a door to door sales person tell them to leave.
2. Putting a No Solicitors sign is one way to go but it doesn't stop them.
At least if they do knock on your door, you have every right to tell them in a
not so nice tone if you choose to get off your property.
3. If you chose to answer the door, don't open it wide and don't invite them in.
Even if they say can I use your phone to contact my sales manager or can I get a
glass of water or can I use your bathroom, it's really hot out here and I sit inside
where it's cool? Once inside this stranger can steal, hurt, or do worse to you.
4. If you do open the door and they won't leave or they try to stick their foot in the door,
scream. Yell at them, yell "Fire!", or anything that will get attention.
5. If you live in an apartment complex with a security door remember don't buzz
someone you don't know in. Door to Door sales people are known for buzzing everyone
in the building to see if anyone will let them in without checking to see who it is.
6. If you see a neighbor being harassed by a door to door sales person call the cops.
7. If you happen to talk to a door to door sales person and don't feel comfortable,
call the cops chances are they don't have a solicitors permit and are breaking
the the law by just knocking on your door.
8. Don't buy anything! Don't give them a check or credit card information.
A check has your bank account and your routing number on it, if you don't
use gel ink on the check, the check can be washed in an acid wash making it a
blank check with your signature on it, how scary is that!
9. Don't take the door to door sales person word that they have a permit or that
the company they name is reputable.
10. If you do call the police try to give a good description like identifying marks, tattoos,
scars, hair color, type of clothes the door to door scammer is wearing.
Want to find out more?
Related research links:
http://www.travelingsalescrews.info/door%20to%20door%20sales%20profiles.html
http://www.travelingsalescrews.info/index.html
http://edumacation.com/PacificCoastClearingServices
http://edumacation.com/MagazineSalesScams
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081700684.html
http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com/news/2009/jun/16/sheriffs-
office-warns-against-door--door-sales-fra
List of key words:
Pacific Coast Clearing Services Inc
aka Classic Sales aka Creator Sales aka Elite Sales aka Explorer Sales Inc aka
Family Reading Program aka Imperial Sales aka Infinite Enterprises Inc aka
Island Sales aka Jaguar Sales aka K T S Inc aka Liberator Sales Inc aka Magazine
Rewards aka North American Clearing Corporation aka North American Subscription
Services aka Northwest Clearing Corporation aka NCS aka Pacific Northwest Clearing
Corporation aka Pacific NW Clearing Corp aka Pacific Sales aka Platinum Sales aka
Prince Sales Inc aka Road Runner Sales aka Roadrunner Sales aka Signature Sales Inc
aka South Pacific Sales aka Starfleet Subscription Services Inc aka Storm Enterprises
aka Success Express Sales Inc aka Superior Sales aka Super Star Sales Inc aka Superstar
Sales Inc aka Superstars Sales Inc aka Tnt Sales aka Tornado Sales aka Travel USA aka
Universal Sales aka Unlimited Sales aka Untouchable Sales
AHP – Always Helping People Alliance Service Company AllStar Promotions American
Cash Awards American Circulation American Circulation Enterprises, Inc. American
Circulation Services American Community Services, Inc. American Global Services
Aristocrat Sales ATM Sales Atlantic Circulation, Inc Atlantic Periodical Sales Inc
Beyond Our Dreams Chapel Sales Circulation 1 Circulation I, Inc Circulation II Inc
Circulation II LLC Circulation 2 Inc Classic Sales Coast to Coast Circulations, Inc
Colvin Sales Condella Sales Divine World-Wide Ministries Double Douce Subscription Inc DP Sales
Dynasty Sale Dynasty Technologies, Inc Editorials International, Inc
Elite Circulation Inc Elite Sales Empire Sales, Inc Entrepreneurs Across America, Inc
Explorer Sales Inc Extreme Marketing Face to Face Technologies, Inc Family Reading
Program Farmers Publications Inc Fidelity Readers Service, Inc First Class Sales
FLLRD FNT Force Foster Sales Free X Press Freedom Sales Inc Fresh Start Opportunities Fun Sales,
Inc Furman Future Gemini Sales Gemini Subscriptions Global American Solutions Go For More Inc
GoDoers Enterprise, Inc Gold Coast Circulation, Inc Gold Key Company Greater Image, Inc
Great Lakes Circulation, Inc Heartline Foundation, Inc Hoosier Magazines Subscription
Service Ice Publications Imperial Sales Infinite Enterprises Inc Infinity Sales
Integrity Sales Intercontinental Subscription Service, Inc Intergity Program
International Clearance Exchange Interstate Subscription Service IP Marketing
Island Sales Jaguar Sales Jamison Sales K & S Enterprises K T S Inc Lamb Sales Inc
Liberator Sales Inc Love Technologies, Inc Lrumar Publacations LLC
M.O.S.E.S. Inc. Magazine Fulfillment Corporation Magazine Fulfillment Services Magazine Rewards
Magazines, Inc Mag Fun LLC Mags R Us Marketing Associated Group Inc.McLemore Sales Midwest
Clearing Inc Momentum Sales Money Train Express Mountain Subscriptions MSI MTX My Travel
Job National Circulation Services LLC Nation Wide Travelling National Community Clearing
National Community Clearing, Inc National Magazine Exchange National Publishers Exchange
NCS New Beginning Association, Inc New Direction New Edition New Generation New
Generation Reader Service New Image Sales, Inc New River Subscription Service New
Vision No Limit Sales North American Clearing Corporation North American Subscription
Services Northwest Clearing Corporation NPE – National Publishers Exchange NRSS Offbeat
Services Oh New Generations Old World Elegance Omega Sales Inc. Omni-Droppers Omni-Horizons
Inc Otis Sales Overachievers Overachievers Enterprises
P.C.C. - Publishers Consulting Corporation Pacific Coast Clearing Service Pacific Coast
Clearing Services Inc Pacific Northwest Clearing Corporation Pacific NW Clearing Corp
Pacific Sales Palmetto Marketing Paragon Dynasty Paragon Management Paragon Marketing
Group Paragon Sales Paramount Sales Payne Sales PCCS Performance Clearing Services,
Inc Phoenix Imagery, Inc Pitts Sales Platinum Plus Platinum Sales PMA Sales PMA, Inc.
Points Across America Powerhouse Sales Precision Sales Prestige Sales Prestige Sales,
LLC Prince Sales Inc Proformance Clearing Services, Inc Prolific Marketing, LLC Pubco
Printing Public Marketing Association Publishers Certified Service Publishers
Consulting Corporation Publishers Entry Service Pure Platinum Raiders Rainbow Sales,
Inc Red Hot Sales Regulator Sales RLA, INC. Roadrunner Sales Robinson Sales Rollout
Promotions, Inc Ron Szitas Sales Roussaw Enterprise SB Magazines Inc Schaefer Sales
Schaefer Sales Scoropions Second To None Inc Seedtime Publications Senner Sales Services
Unlimited Plus Shirley's Globetrotters Shumate Sales Sierra Solutions Signature Sales Inc
SKS Services South Pacific Sales Southcoast Circulation Inc Southern Marketing Group, LLC
Southwestern Company Starfleet Subscription Services Inc Storm Enterprises Strictly
Business Inc Stubbs Sales Subscriptions Plus, Inc Success Express Sales Inc Success
Unlimited Associates Inc Summit Publishers Service Summit Sales Sun Circulation Sunshine
Subscription Agency Superstars Sales T&B Sales Team USA Team Xtreme Teamsterz Sales The
Experience Company The Real Deal Threedom Sales, Inc Ticoa Corp Titan Sales, Inc - 046 TKO
Sales Tnt Sales Tomohawk Sales Tork & Associates, Inc Tornado Sales Torque Power Sales
Total Dedication Inc Tower of Power Sales Travel USA Trinity Public Relations True Vision Inc.
Tsunami Sales
Ultimate Empire Sales, Inc Ultimate Power Sales, Inc Ultra Kleen Unified Unified Family
Circulation Unified Gold Key Inc Unified Producers Unified Stars Union Circulation
Co United Entrepreneurs United Family Circulation United Reader Services United
Subscription Agency United Subscription Service Corp United Subscriptions Bureau,
Inc Unity Management Universal Sales Universal Subscription Agency Unlimited Sales
Unlimited Sales Inc Untouchable Sales Urban Development Solutions, Inc Urban Nation
Vadar Sales White Sales Wilson Sales Wood Sales Inc World Media Inc World Media International,
Inc World Wide Circulation World Wide Readers Service World Wide Reader's Service World Wide
Reader's Services WorldWide Circulation Worldwise Subscriptions Corp WOW Industries Xtreme
Marketing, Inc Y & S Magazine Y.E.S. Yingst Sales Yoli and Associates, Inc Youth Employment
Service Youth Incentive Marketing, Inc Youth Incentive Promotions Youth Incentive Promotions of
America Youth of America Program Inc
Posted by Barrudaki-Thunderchick at 7/03/2009
Labels: door to door fraud, door to door sales, door to door sales scams, Imperial Sales,
liberator sales inc., LSI, Pacific Coast Clearing Services Inc
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