Don't make our mistake
Complaint
Polly Globe
Country: United States
We attended their presentation and after some calculation decided to pay for the membership which was $4990. We wanted to update our kitchen and bathroom cabinets, as well as bedroom furniture. We put down about $1000, and the rest was financed through their lender Beta Finance.
A month later we started planning our purchases and realized we were about to pay more by buying through them than we would otherwise. What the don't tell you on their presentation is that while you save about 10% on furniture they add 8 % handling charge in addition to 7% tax, and that doesn't include shipping.
I am now trying to get our membership money back. Do not become a member! Buy from other stores.
A month later we started planning our purchases and realized we were about to pay more by buying through them than we would otherwise. What the don't tell you on their presentation is that while you save about 10% on furniture they add 8 % handling charge in addition to 7% tax, and that doesn't include shipping.
I am now trying to get our membership money back. Do not become a member! Buy from other stores.
Comments
Direct Buy may be filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy
good news for those that have not joined, bad news for all the ones that got scammed
We are in our 70's and they wanted us to sign up and pay for 10 years!!
I feel this entire concept is a scam much like any pyramid scheme out there. I would suggest you save your money.
Who does business like that? I'll tell you who - SCAM ARTISTS. People with something to be afraid of.
If any Direct Buy owner or employee cares to post a defense to this practice, I would love to hear it. What could be wrong with allowing people to go home and think about that several thousand dollar investment. Let them mull it over for a day, a week, a month. WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
Db was an honest company when jim gagan owned and operated it. You only heard of db when we called you or word of mouth. Now trivest has raped the market with happy go lucky ads and jacked up membership fees so that consumers are practically turned into unexpecting victims.
If anything its just another ponzi scheme where they promise a high ROI but they the franchise operator and his wife/partner blow it on coke and the new mercedes suv.
The reason why a lot of clubs have horrible service is because the only focus is on obtaining new members because of the astronomically high advertisment prices that trivest enforces. Some clubs put so much time and effort into dressing up the center that they forget a business plan or to train employees on protocol.
But people get treated differently depending on what club you join. If you do join. Find a club that been in business for 10+ years. There's less chance of the club folding and taking your money. Plus, that owner has paid their dues and you probably can talk them down on the membership. But its ridiculous to pay that sum of money to buy this year's something out of a catalog and save twenty or so dollars when you can buy a recent model, brand new from the store and save a couple hundred all while taking it home take day. Because the time db gets the item in its 8 maybe 20 weeks later and you have to pay a third party to deliver it or you gotta go get it.
Now adays if a female calls you to set a tour time, she's a fat [***] that thinks veggitables are for rabbits. Or that peppy young man telling you that you have been entered in a $50thou home makeover give away, its all because he's just peaked off his line of coke he did in his cubicle.
Just if you decide to go in for a tour, just don't go in with anynice jewelry. Cause if you tell them your broke or don't have any money. The sales directors will go as far as asking you to go pawn your wife's wedding ring and your blackberry and come back to put $500 down on the membership.
I honestly don't know anymore. Db good, db bad for people? Supposedly its up to them who becomes a member or not. That's why you have to come and attend a 90min tour. 80% is spent on your ass while the sales director is eyeballing what kind of car you came in, googleing you, learning about your jobs and children, curious about important it is to keep up with the Jones'. They act like a db membership will increase your size by 6inches gentlemen!
[***] they are.
Bottom line is... don't do business with db unless you are sure that you are signing up directly with the franchise owner and you are secretly voice recording the conversation. Cause they record the phone calls and a lot of the time the tours, all with out telling you.
Their attitude is, "its a private club. Not only that, its my club. Screw you!"
Db was an honest company when jim gagan owned and operated it. You only heard of db when we called you or word of mouth. Now trivest has raped the market with happy go lucky ads and jacked up membership fees so that consumers are practically turned into unexpecting victims.
If anything its just another ponzi scheme where they promise a high ROI but they the franchise operator and his wife/partner blow it on coke and the new mercedes suv.
The reason why a lot of clubs have horrible service is because the only focus is on obtaining new members because of the astronomically high advertisment prices that trivest enforces. Some clubs put so much time and effort into dressing up the center that they forget a business plan or to train employees on protocol.
But people get treated differently depending on what club you join. If you do join. Find a club that been in business for 10+ years. There's less chance of the club folding and taking your money. Plus, that owner has paid their dues and you probably can talk them down on the membership. But its ridiculous to pay that sum of money to buy this year's something out of a catalog and save twenty or so dollars when you can buy a recent model, brand new from the store and save a couple hundred all while taking it home take day. Because the time db gets the item in its 8 maybe 20 weeks later and you have to pay a third party to deliver it or you gotta go get it.
Now adays if a female calls you to set a tour time, she's a fat [***] that thinks veggitables are for rabbits. Or that peppy young man telling you that you have been entered in a $50thou home makeover give away, its all because he's just peaked off his line of coke he did in his cubicle.
Just if you decide to go in for a tour, just don't go in with anynice jewelry. Cause if you tell them your broke or don't have any money. The sales directors will go as far as asking you to go pawn your wife's wedding ring and your blackberry and come back to put $500 down on the membership.
I honestly don't know anymore. Db good, db bad for people? Supposedly its up to them who becomes a member or not. That's why you have to come and attend a 90min tour. 80% is spent on your ass while the sales director is eyeballing what kind of car you came in, googleing you, learning about your jobs and children, curious about important it is to keep up with the Jones'. They act like a db membership will increase your size by 6inches gentlemen!
[***] they are.
Bottom line is... don't do business with db unless you are sure that you are signing up directly with the franchise owner and you are secretly voice recording the conversation. Cause they record the phone calls and a lot of the time the tours, all with out telling you.
Their attitude is, "its a private club. Not only that, its my club. Screw you!"
Please pass on any information on the law suit, I would like to join also.
post his and other db workers pictures on the net.
if you see them in public, confront them and imbarass them in front if their family.
keep up the pressure
you would think 20/20 or 60 minutes would love to follow up on this.
but then agin, most stations late night have infomercials for all kinds of stuff that is a ripoff.
like
Kevin Trudeau , a marketer extraordinaire, with a more-than-checkered past. A twice-convicted felon, he served time in a Federal penitentiary, ...
the stations know its crapola, and they keep allowing the ads in favor of $$