Grantresearchguide.com Scam / Ripoff
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Just wanted to give anyone a heads up who may be out there doing research on this company. You are charged $1.95 to get access to grant information. Little do you know that if you click on the small `terms` link at the bottom you will see that they charge 49.95/month. This company is internet based and from what I hear they will not give you an address. Furthermore the website goes through Domains by Proxy, INC, so doing a WHOIS lookup does not give you any legitimate contact info. I now see why they hide their identity, as I`m sure they get complaints all day long from people like me.
To make it worse, we had someone that sounded like they were at an overseas call center harassing us for 1 week trying to sell additional documents that they can send in the mail. It was a real horrible experience.
If you request a refund they basically tell you that you agreed to the terms even though it is in `very, very, fine print`. If you ask for a manager their support will tell you there isn`t one available and refer you to [email protected]. They tell you to put Attn: Tyler as the subject - Apparently Tyler Johnson is the guy who manages this whole thing (according to another forum).
From what I`ve read it is a lost cause trying to get your money back. I cancelled my account, but I have a feeling I`m stuck with paying the $50 (No response from Tyler). I imagine this company can get away with this since they do have it in there terms, but it is a very shady company.
If you are looking into signing up with grantresearchguide.com, don`t do it: DO NOT SIGN UP, IT IS A MAJOR RIP OFF!!
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Grant Resource Guide or Grant Research Guide whatever. The number given
on their CD packet is 1-8o0-235-1364. I have called several times and
Emailed them asking for a Grant Writer. I have outlined my grant needs
to them and so far they have not gotten back to me with a grant writer.
Perhaps if one is persistant enough and tries to obtain the assistance
of a grant writer one will get results, eventually. We will have to
wait and see. When I did manage to talk to someone, they said that the
grant writers were behind and it might take two to three weeks for them
to get back to me. Again, we will have to wait and see.
After a 21 min wait, finally a girl came on the line (very snippy) would not tell me her name but gave me a name of Janice Johnson which was her supervisor, supposably). But she was in a meeting at the time. She said she could only give me a $25 refund, I said no I got a full refund from my bank, to which she said "I couldn`t do that". I believe anyone that has had trouble with this company should contact their Attorney General`s office (which is easy if you look up your state gov agencies) then contact Las Vegas, Better Business Bureau and the state that you live in Better Business Bureau. Usually the Better Business Bureau is listed under your state (e.g. ILBBB.org would be Il better business bureau). The more people that complain the faster their company will be investigated and shut down. They refused to give me the Corp phone number. I`m under the impression that "the names have been changed to protect the GUILTY"
We still live in the United States and as American`s we don`t have to roll over and just accept we`ve been scammed. I say let`s ban together and get this company shut down!! Why would anyone pay for something you can get FREE from our gov. websites? I can say after I got done speaking to 3 different people for this company they probably had a BAD DAY To other`s out there I say " STAND UP FOR YOUR AMERICAN RIGHTS" and do something about it!! In fact I told them the next time they see my name it will be from the BBB and IL Attorney General`s Office, I also told them I would blog to warn others about their practices! You get nothing from them!
The grants that most folks are searching for are not meant for small, new start ups. Government, state or local community grants are generally for non profit companies or companies that will benefit the community by providing jobs or otherwise provide some major economic stimulus.
Don`t waste your time or your money in search of free money.
I offer more information on funding a small business startup at my website and blog below.
there are many sites of this nature. i too was scammed couple years back on a similar site. it asked me for $1, little did i know in the fine details they charged $9.99 a month membership fee of some sort. when i called no one picked up. no emails either. a lot of these membership sites do this.
do you think we can start a section on SUN that lists all the scams out there? these companies need to be exposed!
thoughts?
I`m asking anyone who hasn`t received money back or money refunded to please contact me and see how much we can accumulate together as a group. Please contact me on here and then I will reply to you with my phone number to then talk to you personally. I am not able to blow off losing 60 bucks for nothing. I cannot. I was charged 59.95 plus 1.98 and to me, thats A LOT of money
Please help.... It can`t hurt to try to file a lawsuit against these people.
I will try my best to do what I can, but I do need everyone`s help on this... If it`s not worth it, no one will bother to help....
Thank you,
Kay
times I finally got through and was told that my trial period was over
and that if I didn`t go to the site it was my fault. I immediately
blocked any type of payment they would take, but after reading all
these complaints I decided to have all my information changed so this
would not happen again in the future. I too am on a fixed income and
cannot afford to pay for blocking these idiots.I however am going to
try to stop this through the Attorney Generals office and would like
anyone to email me if you want to try and get your money back. Please
email me and leave your number or some other way of contact. [email protected]
Debra Richards KY. USA
Debra095/6/2009 2:32 PM