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FIB - Scams 101
Re: Info on My Shopping Genie
Posted By: michelle In Response To: Re: Info on My Shopping Genie (jeff)
Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, at 8:37 p.m.(pst)
I am here to tell my story of My Shopping Genie. I signed up, and paid $215.00 on 3/19/09 for the "license" to give away the My Shopping Genie. About 10 days later, I did a search on google for my shopping genie just to see what would come up, basically to see how saturated affiliate ads were for the genie on google. Lo and behold, the second listing was called "my shopping genie scam". Turns out that the co-founder of the myshoppinggenie is Bruce Bice. To hear it told by several on line, he is a internet scam artist. (see the link below). After reading these post and doing some other research on Bruce Bice, I decided I wanted no part of this my shopping genie thing, and I went to the site to find out info on how to claim a refund. Well, I was to print out a request form, and fax it in so I sent it on 4/10/09.(which is well within the 30 day period in which one can request a refund) I get an e-mail that same day that I sent the fax stating that "If it is within the 30 days, you will receive your refund in 7 to 10 business days." Hum, my guess is they are hoping they can charge my credit card in the meantime for the monthly membership fee. I wrote them today, and guess what? no reply....anybody looking to get into the my shopping genie network, just do your homework and research before you invest is all I got to say. I personally wish now that I hadn't got involved. I would be willing to bet I won't see a refund, but I will be back here to post in about a week to give you an update, and then anyone who reads this can draw their own conclusion.
>> I know how the genie works. At the time I posted this there were no
>> affiliate commissions being paid. Only $1 per download.They were paying
>> only ebay commission but then ebay said nope. Maybe things have changed
>> since then and if so it will be a great idea. If you can get an affiliate
>> commission from all the companies on the bottom that would be great. Good
>> luck
http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?p=474799
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