guru.com Well this post of mine about guru.com has been a long time coming, but I’ve refrained from telling my story because I was still using Guru. I used them because I needed staff, and I wasn’t going to let Guru’s nasty treatment of me prevent me from finding potentially positive independent contractors. My experience … Read more
My Luv Crush http://www.myluvcrush.ca/ 1-888-846-6939 WARNING!!!!! If you sign up for this stupid service, you will get billed for text messages through your cell phone carrier. To unsign use the number above. They don’t even tell you that you are going to get billed or that you will be receiving text messages, one only finds … Read more
Nicholas Davidson RepairBucket, LLC http://repairbucket.com/ ndavidson@repairbucket.com 616-633-7304 This company is very unprofessional & borderline nasty. I found them on a business networking site which is fairly new & since I don’t want to tarnish the networking site, I won’t mention it here, as I know the owner of it. Anyway, I read one or two … Read more
Yak Communications (Canada) Corp 48 Yonge Street, Suite 1200 Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1G6 1-800-490-7235 http://www.yak.ca TERRIBLE company they have become. They weren’t like this years ago when I used to deal with them. They have now contracted out to the Philipines, first I was on hold for almost 30 minutes & I e-mailed them about … Read more
Idearc Media – Verizon Super Pages P.O. Box 619810 D/FW Airport, TX 75261-9810 This company is absoultely the most unprofessional company I’ve ever come across. The people here seem to be very stupid, & I experienced this from almost day one. I can’t give you very accurate information only because I tried their advertising back … Read more
Freelance Host – http://www.freelancehost.com I signed up only to waste my time. I can’t log in, so I thought something was wrong with my password. I requested it to come to my inbox. It didn’t the first time, finally I got it the second time, but in that e-mail there wasn’t even the login URL … Read more
Well I’ve had problems with Sears about 3 times now, once at the Erin Mills location, another two times at the Bramalea City Centre Location. All and all, Sears has very very poor customer service. No one is around to help you when you go into the store, and no one ever comes up to … Read more
Factory Direct Deals (Can’t read the name on the receipt clearly, but I think it’s that) – Scarborough, which is in Toronto. 54 Lingarde Drive M1R 1X6 416-840-9212 or 647-436-3827 So I was looking for a laptop for my trip out of town, and I had one all set until the guy screwed me over. … Read more
100% Pure & Aquadessa http://www.100percentpure.com/ www.puritycosmetics.com www.aquadessa.com I have purchased twice from this company spending anywhere from $80-125 both times. The first time I had a problem when one of their shower gels came to me only 3/4 of the way full. The man (can’t remember his name) was very nice & sent me a … Read more
Axe Music in Calgary & Edmonton Alberta (Canada) http://www.axemusic.com/ So I never bought from this company, but I was ready to. I called them when they were still closed & their voice mail message recording was totally unprofessional. The girl recording it stopped midway through finishing, there were people calling her in the background, & … Read more
Ralph J. Pellicori (owner) DebtCollect Inc. Risk Management Solutions phn 905-602-8700 ext 101 toll free 1-866-602-8701 ext 101 fax 905-602-8702 email ralph@debtcollectinc.com mobile 416-722-1308 Well with this company I’m at a loss as to what even happened, but I’ve since found out that the collection industry is very shady & at least the 2 (this … Read more
Papas Pizza – Brampton, Ontario www.papaspizza.ca 905-793-3500 This review is only for the Brampton location. I ordered from them & me & my son didn’t like their chicken, but enjoyed their pizza. The first time I ordered, I had to deal with a slow order taker because he had to stop & ask almost every … Read more
Hi all, This is my first post I guess, so I hope I’m doing this right 🙂 I’ve been having an ongoing battle with HSBC which I thought had stopped until tonight. I must be the ONLY Canadian in all of Canada who has a US HSBC account (sarcasm here). So far my problems have … Read more
Ok, after giving my loyalty to the Scruples Salon out in Woodbridge, I’ve had enough. I’ve ignored the fact that many times I’ve been treated like nothing more than an inconvenience. I hate it when hairdressers run in between clients, or stop & talk to their staff or other clients while working on me & … Read more
Hi all, I’m not ready to post all the details, as they are long, but I thought you should know that in the next several weeks when I find the time, I will be detailing every incident that has happened with me & Whirlpool Canada. I’ve had a lot of negative experiences with companies, as … Read more
Moving Company – 416-705-8881 – Toronto Yeh I’m sorry I have no more information for ya. If you read my other post about the mover who did a no show, you will know I was stressed to find someone new to replace him the day of my move. After going through the Renters News where … Read more
Well I’ve had 2 different negative experiences with Elance. The first one was about 3 years (2003) ago when I hired a desktop publisher, & gave her 50% upfront which was $600. Of coure Elance offers a payment system, & most companies pay through their payment system, so that’s how I paid her. She had … Read more
I have been a member of Chowhound for a few years now, & I watched it grow from a terrible message board (the software & lack of organization, not the people) to a much nicer graphical interface, but whoever set up the new application clearly doesn’t know much about message boards in general. I don’t … Read more
Alfa Optical Ltd., 110 Pertosa Dr. Unit 6, Brampton, Ontario, L6X 5E9, 905-456-2733 – Tejinder (TJ) Cheema – Licenced Optician – alfaoptical@yahoo.ca This is my first time ever being ripped off by an eye glass place, & I’ve been wearing glasses since I was in 2nd grade. Obviously I didn’t start buying my own until … Read more
Mate1 the dating site I complained to them several times that not allowing people to exchange e-mail addresses was taking away our freedom. Yes I was being melodromatic, but I started my journey online via dating sites, & although I haven’t been using them in a long time, never before did a dating site block … Read more