Celica Ywp
map-marker Tucson, Arizona

Need to cancel sale

I sold an item to someone in person and I need to make sure someone cancels their purchase online
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Valentin Ypy
map-marker Saint George, Utah

IMPACT KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTE - IMPACTKI.COM - IMPACT CAPITAL CREATIONS - EB MEDIA, LLC

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An overpriced service that does not provide workable resources and absolutely no follow up to their customers. On 1-28-12, my husband and I invested $3500 into education and guidance from Impact KI's to learn to sell on ebay and online stores with the use of Drop Shippers. It was to include instruction, resources and continued support. We were given a poor excuse for each of these. It started out with an instructor that called us once a week for each lesson. The instructor had only a 30 min time limit which did not allow for any type of real training or questions, we were only given an assignment with no lesson. We were expected to learn on our own with the time they clearly new we didn't have. As well we were not given much information or guidance to really help us continue on our own. When we asked for more time the instuctor did find a way he could talk for more time, however it was still insufficient and did not make us feel any more confident. Interestingly enough, the instructor was also on this program but had a website that was incomplete. He didn't seem to be too successful himself. They advertise that you should be able to hold a descent income on Online selling alone so it seemed odd to me that our instructor still had a second job working for Impact KI instructing. You could tell that he was not in control of instruction, just a low paid employee following proceedure. Next they provided us with some Drop Shipper websites and URLs to create our own website. One drop shipper was called DOBA. Impact KI gave us a full subscription to them without charge, but later I found out that the subscription was actually limited and did not show us all the products they had available. There were very few brand names and the products were abstract and unpopular. We had very little success selling anything on ebay. This was mostly because the products on the drop shipper sites were very limited and very overpriced. The only product we had success selling, a Helen of Troy-Bed Head Deep Waver, was regularly out of stock. I lost sales multiple times this way. In order to make a profit I had to sell it for $50. I later found the exact product in a local Sallie Beauty for 1/2 the price, $19.99! In fact that was actually cheaper than the Drop Shippers price to begin with, which was approx $24.00. Impact KI had a specific site that they prefured us to use for our buisness webiste. They trained us from it. The website was really limited and unattractive looking. You had to create links to other websites. Any inventory you had to create had to be done manually and again with not instruction how to best build that inventory. I would not shop from a website that looked this way. We could look for our own but they gave us no guidance to what would be top of the line. Impact KI was not being honest and was giving us poor and unworkable resources and telling us they were doing us a favor. Second, once our instuctor sessions were complete we were left alone and never contacted again. There was absolutely no follow up to see how we were doing and make sure we were getting our money's worth of education and assistance. It has been well over a year and there has still hasnt even been a check in. My husband and I are frustrated and upset because for $3500 we should have been treated much better. A college education is cheaper and you come out with way more knowledge than this. We feel that we should have had Unlimited Time and training, we should have been provided with Unlimited Resources until we were ready to be on our own. 6 weeks was all the training time given, not enough time for that or any other type of professional training. We were essentially paying almost $600 a week for a 30 min session that taught us nothing. With no follow up or contiued education we have definitly been ripped off. We feel we have been dupped into a scam and left with a large bill that has not, and will never pay itself off with the way they taught us to run our buisness.
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Anonymous

Impactki grinds my gears

I also fell for that *** but stopped investing when the next guy they passed me to wanted like 10k to start me up with a business bank account so I wasn't using my personal HA. I stopped trying altogether when I was listing products and noticed it's impossible to make any sales when 99% of the competition is selling the same thing below your own buy price with free shipping. No I did not get to the webpage because I was done throwing my money away for garbage. They want all your money plus what you don't have then start you out lower than dirt in marketing with a coach that holds your hand while you sign up for Facebook and twitter and in the end everything they teach you can be learned with a simple google search. These people are pieces of garbage and I hope they get sued for everything plus more and their entire company burnt to the ground. Not to mention that you payed all the employees in full before they even helped you and sorry no refunds. I look at it as a bullsh!t charity to keep me from hunting them down 1 by 1.
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Impack Knowledge Institute - SCAMMED FOR $17,000!!

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SCAMMED FOR $17,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was called and called back in August 2013. They convinced me to pay them $1000 on my credit card as a down payment and the rest was a finance loan. I have to pay for more than 5 years this loan! I worked with My Coach Melonie Campos. SHe was very nice, but not too helpful. I was told that my coach would get my website built quickly and loaded with products. THAT DID NOT HAPPEN! After becoming frustrated, I decided to lookup Melanie and found her "expert" background was that she worked at Walmart for 4 years as a Cashier!!! SO here complete "expert" background (which was supposed to enable her to teach me everything I needed to become a successfull Internet businessman was the following: MELANIE CAMPOS RESUME FROM LINKEDIN (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/melanie-campos/45/86a/779) 2002: Graduated from Pine View High School 2004-****: Cashier/CSM - Walmart: CSM - Handle cash, managed cashiers and front end 2007-****: Cashier - Walmart: Rang up people, answered questions 2011-Present: Business Coach - Impact Knowledge Institute: I coach new business owners in how to build and develop their online business. We use eBay and niche websites! So to summarize: Melanie's "extensive background" in Internet marketing, eBay, and Websites which qualified her to teach people that paid more than $17,000 is working for Walmart as a cashier!! No wonder it never worked. I called my credit card company and filed a dispute/chargeback, but the company fought me a won becuase they said it was past 3 days. I only had 3 days to cancel. If I had known what I do now I would never have done this!!!!!
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Allysson Bla
map-marker Hayward, California

Impact Knowledge Institute and IMPACTKI.com

Impact Knowledge Institute in Utah - Salespeople very dishonest, high pressure, lie about the products and services. Coaches are useless for the price paid. On April 10, 2013, I found a program on the internet called First Choice Home Income Plan. So,I thought I would give it a try and pay the $97. After signing up,I got a call from Impact Knowledge Institute. The salesman said that they could help me start my own online business through coaching. Did not give me much detail. First thing he wanted to know was how much credit I had available because he kept on talking about using "other peoples money". He said that I could have my debt paid off within a few months if I did everything they said. He basically said that they would "hold my hand" and walk me through the process of setting up an online business. At first I said no,I can't afford that. The salesman was pressuring me saying that I could easily pay my debt off within a few months, so I went ahead with it. The price of the coaching sessions and access to the webinars was $4250. He did not bother to mention that I would only get 1/2 hour coaching sessions once a week. If I knew that, I would have never signed up. I found out how much coaching I would get after they had my money and by that time, it was too late to cancel. Please help me get my money back from Impact Knowledge Institute. I felt I was taken advantage of and lied to. I need my money back. As I told the salesman in the very beginning, I cannot afford the amount of money that they were asking for. I just wanted to give you some more information on the webinars I was provided with. It contained information you could easily find on the internet for free just by doing some simple research. I also did contact the company before filing this complaint and they refused to give me a refund.
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Guest

I wish I had read all of the above comments BEFORE I paid $7, 900 and another $1, 750 to Impact Knowledge Institute and their affiliate companies to get started in an online business. They are so professional sounding and promise many things to help get you started -- like getting your business a tax ID number and making your business an LLC so that you can have a better reputation with drop shippers-- They scam you out of your money promising to provide a service and extensive training to get you started.

They promise to be available if you have any questions or concerns, then won't answer the phone when you call. Last Friday we had a coaching session scheduled and the phone rang three times before I picked it up. The coach had hung up and we tried for over an hour to call him back to no avail. Then I received a rude sarcastic email from him stating we need to take our business seriously and that he cant help us if we don't want help and are not prepared for our coaching sessions.

There are so many things I can say, but the bottom line is : Don't buy into this scam. You can buy and sell on Ebay on your own without spending $10,000.

Guest

I was first contacted by a fast talking sales person from Impact KI aka Impact Knowledge Institue. They represented that they would train me to be up and going and making money on the web in a very short period of 6 months.

The training consisted of some web based marketing lessons and 16 weeks of a 30 minute tutoring call. In order to go forward with the training I had to sign up with their hosting company Easy 1 Hosting at additional cost. I put $500 down and financed the remainder with their associate company Duvera Financial. These companys and many more are currently under investigation by Homeland Arbitration, 4023 Kennett Pike, Suite 519, Wilmington, DE 19807.

Phone 800-659-****. Speak to Ryan Clark.

Guest

Services were misrepresented on sales call. Phone calls pour in from lots of numbers and different companies.

Can't keep track of who is who.

In December of 2012 I purchased enrollment into a program I was lead to believe was going to help me start up my own website to sell products from distributors(who I was told would be sought out for me) with COMPLETE MARKETING SOLUTIONS/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS.Then I signed a contract emailed from a Impact KI representative which used the name 'COMPLETE MARKETING SOLUTIONS/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS' for the whole contract. It said that COMPLETE MARKETING SOLUTIONS/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS would be conducting my lessons, which I was later told was done by Impact KI. When I asked Impact KI about COMPLETE MARKETING SOLUTIONS/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS, they said they had no affiliation with them (they just sold their products and services). They couldn't even provide me with a telephone number.

Obviously confusing to me because everything in the contract(from an Impact KI representative)was under the name COMPLETE MARKETING SOLUTIONS/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS. Never once did it mention Impact KI or explain how it was a separate business that I was taking the program with.

Then, in a separate installment agreement contract, the company was listed as Internet Marketing Success Team (which Impact KI representative told me they had never heard of).

So a lot of weird things happen once you sign up.

You are constantly contacted with information on how to improve your business (for a price of course). Impact KI claims they are not affiliated with these companies yet these company's representatives knew details about Impact KI, even who my coach was and what her personality was like. So after paying $1000 upfront and setting up payments for another $3400, I also purchased a $1700 and $1200 service from Precision Corporate Services for Business credit help and tax help.Again told by Impact KI it is not them, but somehow all these companies are receiving my contact information and claiming to be part of the program. The calls never stop.

And after 4 months of them, asking for more money that you don't have, I stopped answering. I think this is completely understandable. I busted my butt to try to make the website work. No real tools, other than pretty basic info, were given without having to spend extra money.

So I pay $4000 to Impact KI to get 8 half hour sessions(which were normally about 25 min) of basic info and access to a website that gives the same basic info? The website does offer some additional info to the phone sessions but still nothing that is worth even close to $4000. On this website, they give you links to drop shipping companies. The sites for my niche market were terrible.

I informed my coach of this. She then sent me a list of additional sites to try. They were the same sites I found with one quick google search. Obviously no time was put into looking into these companies.

Which is fine, but not for a $4000 service.

The more I look into things, there more I notice strange things going on. There are multiple addresses for Impact KI including UT and Lake Worth, FL. There also seems to be many companies claiming to be associated with and seeming to be part of, Impact KI.

But when problems arise Impact KI blames it on these companies. Which they couldn't even give me a phone number to. So no number for a company that sold your services? Impact KI only offers more of their sessions which were not very affective in the first place.

Nothing in this program is worth $4000 dollars.

During the sales process, much of what you are told is included in the program is not. What is Impact KI's affiliation with all these other company's?? In closing, I showed the example websites from Impact KI (including my coaches websites) to a local internet marketing business. He looked at them and laughed.

Said they were very elementary.

I told them I spent $4000 for there e-commerce program and I don't even want to write his reaction to that. I feel like I have been had.

Guest

This is exactly what happened to me, except I ended up paying a LOT more money.

Guest

Just got a call yesterday from a place called Impact Knowledge Institute trying to sell me into a coaching and training program for $4,400!! They asked me about my available credit

and after that, the price of the program became exactly what I could pout on my remaining Amex card!

Wow! What a coincidence! These guys are dirtbags. Afte I told the salesguy

(Josh I think) that I wanted to pray about it he said, "Sure...

go pray and stay broke". That sealed the deal for my.

Does he think that using that type of tactic would make me want

to buy their garbage? The call cam from: 855-888-**** - PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL IF THESE PEOPLE CALL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous
map-marker Saint George, Utah

IMPACT KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTE IS A SCAM

IMPACT KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTE IS A SCAM I was first contacted by a fast talking sales person from Impact KI aka Impact Knowledge Institue. They represented that they would train me to be up and going and making money on the web in a very short period of 6 months. The training consisted of some web based marketing lessons and 16 weeks of a 30 minute tutoring call. In order to go forward with the training I had to sign up with their hosting company Easy 1 Hosting at additional cost. I put $500 down and financed the remainder with their associate company Duvera Financial. These companys and many more are currently under investigation by Homeland Arbitration.
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Guest

Is their anyone that can tell me if they got web up and no

sales? I've heard reports but can't verify?

And how can they have a A-rating w/so many fraud reports? Think answer from Connecticut investigating BBB ( 20/20 report?) Granmom

Guest

I would like to know if anyone who has gone through this program has a web site that they have up ever got any sales any sales?! With impactki's " success help??! Or is it a complete from beginning to end scam ?

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I was going to be a success they wanted someone who didn't have much computer knowledge hold me by my hand, one charge does everything , then no more & don't worry this is all you need , yeah sure more, more $ $$$ from all over calls pressure I'm doing the putting all items on site not them my computer's broke here I sit I'm too embaressed to say how much they took! What a bunch of scam artists! Bottom feeders!
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Guest

SCAMMED FOR $17,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was called and called back in August 2013.

They convinced me to pay them $1000 on my credit card as a down payment

and the rest was a finance loan. I have to pay for more than 5 years this loan! I worked with My Coach Melonie Campos. SHe was very nice, but not too helpful.

I

was told that my coach would get my website built quickly and loaded with products. THAT DID NOT HAPPEN! After becoming frustrated, I decided to lookup

Melanie and found her "expert" background was that she worked at Walmart for 4 years as a Cashier!!! SO here complete "expert" background (which was

supposed to enable her to teach me everything I needed to become a successfull Internet businessman was the following:

MELANIE CAMPOS RESUME FROM LINKEDIN (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/melanie-campos/45/86a/779) ****: Graduated from Pine View High School 2004-****: Cashier/CSM - Walmart: CSM - Handle cash, managed cashiers and front end 2007-****: Cashier - Walmart: Rang up people, answered questions 2011-Present: Business Coach - Impact Knowledge Institute: I coach new business owners in how to build and develop their online business.

We use eBay and niche websites! So to summarize: Melanie's "extensive background" in Internet marketing, eBay, and Websites which qualified her to teach people that paid more than $17,000 is working for Walmart as a cashier!! No wonder it never worked. I called my credit card company and filed a dispute/chargeback, but the company fought me a won becuase they said it was past 3 days.

I only had 3 days to cancel. If I had known what I do now I would never have done this!!!!!

Guest

Has anyone put their web site up and made any sales from impactki's web sites and course or is it a complete scam from start to finish? Am trying to get money back from all I spent ?

Is there anyway to recover they sales or will I never see any return?

Is this a complete from start to finish scam?? Granmom

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