I would like to hear the
brand name of some of the furniture/items they're selling and the price. Mass-produced furniture (particle-board crap) is made by a few manufacturers and re-labeled for the store(s) where it's sold. Ever go to a dozen different "discount" furniture stores and see the same stuff, over and over again?!?
I find it hard to believe this is anything but a "scam" (using that word for the lack of a better term right now).
Read 'em and weep:
http://www.infomercialscams.com/scams/direct_buy_scams
http://www.topix.com/forum/business/furniture/TFEBD42LFU81T500C
(This post, from the last URL, is a beaut...
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Casey Hicks
Bolivar, MO
Jun 9, 2007
MY PETITION URL: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/drb/index....
I went into Direct Buy to a seminar type thing. They gave me the whole spill telling me I will save 40-60% off of merchandise because they get it "straight from the manufacture". They based the whole seminar on making the stores ( like walmart, lowes, home depot, ect) sound like they are marking everything up 40-60%. It all sounded good until they told me there was a high membership fee. I then said no thanks because I wasn't about to pay a big amount of money just to be a member. He kept trying to persuade me to sign up anyways and said " It sounds like a lot of money to join but you will save so much money being a member it will out weigh the cost to join". After about an hour of me refusing and he still was trying to persuade me and finally got me to join. To be honest the only thing that sealed the deal was he told me I could never come back again ( which I hear its after 7 years so he lied). I felt horrible the whole time but he kept munipulating me and reinsuring me I made such a great decision. A few weeks later I went back to the stores hoping to find the great deals everyone promised me. I couldn't find anything much cheaper at all. Some stuff seemed to be cheaper but by the time you add the cost of shipping and handling it was more than the stores. I then sent them a letter telling them how I felt and said I felt conned into signing the contract.(By the way I have a very low income and stressed this to them the whole time. I told them by the time I paid the monthly fee I couldn't afford to buy anything. Once again they fed me lies and reinsured me that the savings are incredible.) They called and were really rude to me and said they said all kinds of stuff they didn't say and denied half the stuff they actually did say. Its just basically the same old story ...I am another person scammed by Direct Buy.
Also read the posts "praising" Direct Buy. If those aren't ringers, I'm Mickey Mouse...
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