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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

2 Years Waiting!

To recap, I joined SFI in 2010.  In 2011 SFI banned/closed my SFI/TripleClicks accounts.

SFI/TripleClicks accursed me of creating mutiple accounts without consulting my referrals!

SFI/TripleClicks tried to cover-up the facts of owing me a payment -- gotta ask what kind of bookkeeping they use!

After waiting two (2) years of waiting, I decided to fight back and filed a complaint with BBB.  
The results are as follows:



COMPLAINT ACTIVITY REPORT  Case # 300101225      Better Business Bureau

Consumer Info:     Friday, Diane                                                                   Business Info: SFI Marketing Group
                              509 N Chestnut St.                                                                                  8251 Northwoods Dr # 200
                              Gastonia, NC  28054                                                                              Lincoln, NE  68505-3092
                                     - 704 865-2144                                                                                402 434-8480
                              diane.friday@hotmail.com


Location Involved:     (Same as above)

Consumer's Original Complaint :
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:41:19 -0700 I rec'd an order to process immediately for 1 item for $39.90; todate tripleclicke have not paid me yet!
An affiliate of TripleClicks ordered the following without TripleClicks' released of payment.

From: mail@tripleclicks.com
To: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
Subject: TripleClicks Order Notification - please process immediately
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:41:19 -0700

A Taste Of Africa Boutique, You have received an order for the following 1 item(s):
Item No. C-M049 Men's Traditional Print Pant Set
Your payment will be 33.92 (39.90, minus 15.00%)

http://www.tripleclicks.com/ECA/ECAOrderManager.php
I want TripleClicks & SFI to pay me my money for filling the order with interest! And removal of my page http://www.tripleclicks.com/ECA/ECAMyStore.php?id=4687


Consumer's Desired Resolution:
I want TripleClicks & SFI to pay me my money for filling the order with interest! And removal of my page http://www.tripleclicks.com/ECA/ECAMyStore.php?id=4687

BBB Processing

01/17/2014                web       BBB        Case Received by BBB
01/21/2014                PH         BBB        Case Reviewed by BBB - Member
01/21/2014                Otto       EMAIL     Send Acknowledgement to Consumer
01/21/2014                Otto       EMAIL     Notify Business of Dispute - Member
01/21/2014                WEB      BBB        RECEIVE BUSINESS RESPONSE : Ms. Friday was cancelled from our program because she chose to create multiple accounts, which is against our policy. This forced her accounts to be closed with us.
                              Because her accounts were closed, any payment due to her was not automatically process for obvious reasons.
                              A check will be issued to her this week for the balance of $39.12 and her store will be removed from our site.
                              Contacting us directly would have resolved this issue much quicker.
01/21/2014                PH         EMAIL     Forward Business response to Consumer
01/21/2014                WEB      BBB        BBB REVIEWS CONSUMER REBUTTAL TO BUSINESS RESPONSE : (The consumer indicated he/she DID NOT accept the response from the business.)
                              SFI/TripleClicks never called my referrals to verify if they created their accounts or not; therefore, I will not agree with their accusation of my committing fraud. 
                              My blog,http://tripleclicks-me.blogspot.com/, is proof of many emails in regard to these issues.
                              Refund is misquoted, here is what is owed Item No. C-M049 Men's Traditional Print Pant Set
                              Your payment will be 33.92 (39.90, minus 15.00%).  Since they refuse to pay interest and an apology, I will accept $39.90.
01/21/2014                             BBB        MORE INFO RECEIVED FROM THE CONSUMER : Proof of Emails from the owner, all are not included here:  http://tripleclicks-me.blogspot.com/
01/22/2014                PH         EMAIL     Forward Consumer Rebuttal to Business
01/28/2014                WEB      BBB        RECEIVED BUSINESS' REBUTTAL RESPONSE : Diane was mailed a payment on Thursday for the balance on her account which was $39.12.
                              Diane was logging into multiple accounts, which we prohibit. We have rigorous monitoring on accounts to watch for fraudulent activity. Diane violated our policies and her account was closed.
01/28/2014                PH         EMAIL     Send Consumer Rebuttal - No New Offer - AJR
01/28/2014                Otto       EMAIL     Inform Business - Case ADMINISTRATIVELY CLOSED
01/28/2014                Otto       BBB        Case ADMINISTRATIVELY CLOSED


Anyone can see there was much communication to no avail! ...SFI Lied !  SFI has sent a payment of $39.12.

Thanks BBB!
 




Sunday, January 8, 2012

Don't Believe Everything Written!

1Upload your products to TripleClicks

2Shoppers see your products

3Shoppers buy your products

4We forward orders to you to fulfill

5Payment is transferred to you

How does it work?

In short, you'll list your products and they will become viewable by shoppers at TripleClicks.com. Shoppers may purchase your products by placing it in the Tripleclicks shopping cart and checking out. We take care of all payment processing on your behalf and then forward you the order for fulfillment.

Who is responsible for returns and refunds?
You will be responsible for processing and notifying us of all returned products. TripleClicks will then take care of all refunds to customers

REMEMBER: They take care of all and if they decide to delete/ban you from the program, they will without notification!

Friday, November 18, 2011

SFI Banned Me & Sending Me Emails Todate

Is this an omen? I have heard when you are banned there is no contact between the two parties. Is the ban being lifted? It seems as though SFI hates to see a good sponsor go!

Really, I think the whole deal was very unprofessional. What happened is I tried to log in and could not. I tried several times and called the office and got the news, no warning, Email, nor phone call. Then they kept my commission and money owed me from their TripleClicks member.

I know it is their business and can do whatever they want! It's a matter of principle!

However, I must admit, I miss SFI and TripleClicks. They have a great system. You can build relationships from people all over the world and I have, if nothing else! Forgive, I'm thinking outside the box!

The issue of today is Kelly said she would stop all correspondence awhile back and yet, I'm getting correspondence from them as of such date; see below:

> From: ECAsupport@tripleclicks.com
> To: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
> Subject: New Member Connection (Susi Gunadi)
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:39:18 -0800
>
> Hi A Taste Of Africa Boutique,
>
> The following TripleClicks member has just connected with you!
>
> Susi Gunadi
> INDONESIA
>
> Note: You can distribute messages to all your connections from your TConnect Website (http://africaboutique.tripleclicks.com). For instructions and additional details, see: eca.tripleclicks.com helping you grow your customer base!
>
>
> Thank you for being a TripleClicks E-Commerce Associate (ECA). We are committed to becoming a major sales outlet for your company and
> Questions? �Please e-mail us at�ECAsupport@tripleclicks.com�or call�us at 402-434-8480.
>
> TripleClicks Admin
> TripleClicks.com
>
> * If you prefer not to receive these notices, you may opt out at: www.tripleclicks.com/ECA/ECAMyAccount.php

For stopping by and remember as an affiliate of a busine$$--Beware!


May your days be prosperous!





Saturday, October 29, 2011

Who Committed Fraud On TripleClicks & SFI?

On March 14, 2010, I became a SFI Affiliate#11010313. It is a business that gave too much info at one time, so much so, I drifted. After a time, I decided to focus and give it another go.

I couldn't log-in! What's going on? I called the office to see what was wrong.
Kelly gave me another ID number #11353396...
Fraud count 1. I lost my downline and future downline, commissions, Versa Points, MSP, and content of website. Now, SFI reaps the benefit of getting free affliates from my old ID#.

Fraud count 2. Was given a different Sponsor, in which I was told she was she who lives in Tampa. Kelly lied! SfI kept my sponsors commissions!

Fraud count 3. TripleClicks kept my money from this order I filled, see the following:

From: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
To: bonnie@carsonsi.com
Subject: RE: Responsibility of a Sponsor
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:14:42 -0400


I'm sorry SFI feels the way it does. However, there is another issue at hand to be resolved in
cutting ties with me. A member of TripleClicks ordered the following without TripleClicks' released of payment.

From: mail@tripleclicks.com
To: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
Subject: TripleClicks Order Notification - please process immediately
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:41:19 -0700

A Taste Of Africa Boutique,
You have received an order for the following 1 item(s):

Item No. C-M049 Men's Traditional Print Pant Set
Your payment will be 33.92 (39.90, minus 15.00%)

The order is from: Charles Cooley

For the complete details to fulfill this order, access the ECA Orders Manager now at:

http://www.tripleclicks.com/ECA/ECAOrderManager.php

TripleClicks & SFI is a Scam and a Fraud!!! I am not the only one who has been treated in such a manner and will not be the last!!!!

I have yet to hear from Bonnie!

SFI Cancelled My Account

From: bonnie@carsonsi.com
To: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
Subject: Re: Responsibility of a Sponsor
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:01:52 -0500

Diane:


Your account has been cancelled due to fraud activity. You will not be getting the $4 in commissions.


Bonnie
On Oct 21, 2011, at 12:38 AM, Diane Friday wrote:


Thank you for your prompt reply.
Will I get my commission that is in my account and how long am I suspended
because, I'm receiving emails from SFI?

Have a blessed day!

Diane

To: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
Subject: Re: Responsibility of a Sponsor
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:50:34 -0500

Due to ever increasing fraud, we recently instituted new measures to detect fraudulent activity and the monitoring has shown that you have logged into 10 different accounts in the last few days. Obviously this is prohibited and your account was suspended.


Bonnie

Begin forwarded message:

From: Diane Friday

Subject: Responsibility of a Sponsor

Date: October 20, 2011 12:48:25 PM CDT

To: Gery Carson



Hi Gery,

My movers and I have been having problems in getting in our accounts. I even remember one erry night
while bidding in the auction. I would run from forum to forum posting messages to get help. I even listed
who were bidding. I can imagine how my downline feel when they and other new members join SFI and
can't log in and contact me. They give me their ID & password for me to check; sometimes its a bug and
sometimes have the wrong number, typed in the password wrong. Hw far is a Sponsor suppose to go?
When I returned, I was assigned another ID# because I could not log in and not given my sponsor; she
lost all commissions from sales and purchases! Today, she has not recouped!
At any rate, I began 2am this morning and no one could get into their account! I called the at 10:30am EST
office and was told my account is no longer and my downline too! I have two pending TCredit orders, pending
and lost commissions! Would you be so kind to explain?

Thanks and have a great day!

Diane Friday
ID# 11353396

PS: I just got a new TripleClicks sign-up too!












Who's Fooling Whom?

Subject: Re: Pricebenders auctions
> To: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
> From: support@sfimg.com
> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:02:42 -0500
>
>
> Hello Ray Richardson,
>
> The following is an e-mail sent to you by Diane 11353396 via your account
> on "sfimg.com". If this message is spam, contains abusive or other comments
> you find offensive please contact the webmaster of the board at the
> following address:
>
> support@sfimg.com
>
> Include this full e-mail (particularly the headers). Please note that the
> reply address to this e-mail has been set to that of Diane 11353396.
>
> Message sent to you follows
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> If it was running ok then that was after it was fixed. I submitted three
> help signals in the forum at different intervals.
>
> Truth: TC knows these incidents are happening. Members are videoing the
> auctions. How is it going to look to new affiliates? Ok, I'll suck up my
> loss from both ends; no refund of TCredits nor the winner of the 50 CSA's
> auction.









From: support@tripleclicks.com
To: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
Subject: Re: BUG REPORT
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 11:26:35 -0500


Thank you for contacting us.

I've had a programming review the auction you indicated and we did not
find any problem on our end as far as there being a delay or issue
with the auction. This can only mean that the problem was on your end.
There could have been a lapse or delay in your internet connection or
something that caused this.

Below is some information from our Rules & Policies regarding the
PriceBenders auctions:

TripleClicks does not guarantee that your Bid will be timely received
or accepted in a Pricebenders auction. You understand that our receipt
of your bid depends on several factors, some of which we have no
control over, including your Internet connection, the equipment you
are using to access our site, and other technological and/or
telecommunication-based factors.

There are many factors that can cause delays within the internet. We
monitor all our auctions to ensure that there are no problems which
are caused directly by our servers. Unfortunately, there will always
be things that are out of our control.
We provide a list of tips at our site that may help ensure that you do
not encounter this problem in the future. You can access that
information here:

http://www.tripleclicks.com/PBTips.php

I'm sorry that you had a poor experience with the auction. I checked
with our programmer and we did not find anything was remiss with this
particular auction.

If you have additional questions, please let us know.

Thank you,
Natalie

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Natalie S. Pounds

Office Manager
Customer Service Supervisor

SFI Marketing Group
5945 Cornhusker Hwy, Suite A
Lincoln, NE 68507
402-434-8480 (phone)
402-434-8483 (fax)
Natalie@sfimg.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:24 AM, atasteofafricaboutique@live.com wrote:

FROM: 11353396 Diane Friday

Description: The bug was during the CSA auction a little b4 3am on
June 27, 2011 which lasted beyond 5:30am. I toggled back and forth
to the forum to get help. The moderator stated my post was not
approved! The timer got stuck, it stopped, and I was supposed to
have been the winner! Who's minding the auctions? I felt cheated!
I'm sure you have a transcript of what happened! I don't see why I
was not refunded TCredits or the CSA's.

Solution: Refund TCredits or the CSA's & TCredits.
Make sure this doesn't happen again, get someone who is not going to
fall asleep at the wheel when montoring auction!

I remember this event very well! Only five of us
bidding

when the timer went crazy. The guys left and the timer
just stopped

until they called others to join the auction. Really, I
was the winner.
Ray, would have you to believe otherwise.











Subject: Topic disapproved - "Bugs In The 50 Co-Sponsored Affiliates (CSAs)"
To: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
From: support@sfimg.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:16:37 -0500

Hello Diane 11353396,

You are receiving this notification because your topic "Bugs In The 50
Co-Sponsored Affiliates (CSAs)" at "sfimg.com" was disapproved by a
moderator or administrator.

The following reason was given for the disapproval:

The reported post is off topic.

Contact support with this type of question. We're all affiliates
here on the forum and unable to help with your question.

--
SFI Forum Admin






























From: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
To: support@sfimg.com
Subject: RE: Order 135198, wrong shipping info.
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:25:37 -0400

Thank you Kelly!

I have emailed customer offering 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th choice of color. I await his reply and will
contact you thereafter with tracking info.

Thanks again.....Diane





















From: support@sfimg.com
To: atasteofafricaboutique@live.com
Subject: Order 135198, wrong shipping info.
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:11:45 -0500


Thank you for contacting us.

I spoke to my office manager and she said if we delete the incorrect information without replacing it with the correct information it could cause problems in the system. She recommends you email us the correct
shipping information so we can enter it manually.

Thank you,
Kelli