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Charles S.

Vancouver, Canada

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About Me

Renovation and finishing company. Been in the business for more than 22 years. Pride in excellence and practiced integrity.

How I Can Help

Experienced in and well rounded knowledge in restoration, building and renovation (of almost any kind) and always open to providing solid advice to those who ask.

Interests

Writing, building and designing, mentoring. The movies, classical & Celtic concerts and plays.

2 Reviews by Charles

  • HomeStars.ca

4/2/22
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Bad business. HomeStars employ predatory sales people who place a lot of sugar on top of a rotten dinner you will be forced to eat until you can get out of that damn contract. RIght out of the gate, you will be placed on a hamster wheel where it is entirely up to YOU to make your monthly payments work for you. If you do not have positive reviews coming in on a monthly basis then you are sent to the oblivion section where your company just looks... really bad and you continue to pay for it all the while. Companies that have contracts lasting more than 30 days (mine take 6 months to a year) you are kind of screwed because if you don't have a "new customer" review come next month, your profile (and reviews) are dropped to the basement and there you stay chained to the dark damp wall with your lighter. Your assigned 'account Manager' (who changes without notice) has no power and must refer any request to the head office sales team who are a bunch of thugs. Account manager seems to act more like a buffer, the first of two or three locked doors you must knock upon before arriving at some watered down reply. You will NOT get out of your contract without paying for it dearly. By the way, they will not allow you to delete your company from their data base and they monitor and block you from making any changes to your company profile so... talk about big daddy watching. Another curios thing is HomeStars does not allow for any reviews on or off its website; did you notice that? Also, not a member of the BBB, why is that you think? Probably because of the ton of complaints they would have to deal with. I paid I think around $6000 to get out after 8 months (with penalties) and literally threw that money away for absolutely nothing. They are a very bad company and highly recommend staying away or you will pay the cost. I have included one of many invoices which does not reflect the true cost. I wish I could download the phone conversations but my experience is accurate and absolutely horrible. To this day even though I have nothing to do with HomeStars, my company is glued to their data base with HomeStars refusing to remove it which makes no sense except they want to look bigger than they are

  • Romance Tale

11/23/18

Sorry for the long story but I want to share this with you so you don't lose your money.
Romance tale (also known as AsianBeauties.com and AnastasiaDate.com) is a well-run finely-tuned International dating service romance scam machine operating globally by Jewish mafia with ties to Russian Mafia quite true.

I communicated with about 30 ladies over the course of 2 years, exchanged letters and used the special translator phone call service which is suspiciously ONLY available to men and not the ladies (think about that for a moment).
I had the good fortune of speaking with two different ladies who worked in this environment both confirming suspicions. The beautiful, hot and sexy ladies you communicate with share a room corresponding with multiple males. You will spend approximately $2 per minute chat-time, $10 per letter and $15 for each photo share and you will also pay for each time she sends you a photo and letter. Often the photos are taken from the media. It is common practice for the ladies to send stolen photos that will look similar to their appearance. Google photo search will tell you who owns the photo and when you confront the lady, she will say "OMG, someone is using my photo!" even when you provide proof of the actual owner's profile, they will deny it.
Thinking of using the phone service? It seems faster but it's a honey trap that will cost you dearly at $10 per minute by the way. First got to go through the interpreter' (whose English is not always so great either) and is always present even if the lady is fluent in English. What you think you will do is ask for her phone number and then just call her back on your less expensive phone plan right? NOOOO! Try a minimum 40 minutes up to an hour because that girl on the phone will painfully drag out every syllable for not only your information but hers as well and that phone call will easily cost you more than $600. So, you hang up and that is that right but NO! Then the service calls you back and you are further screwed when it goes to voicemail because it will continue charging you while your voicemail is accepting their call. Any normal person would hang up after 15 seconds of no response. The interpreter and the girl will continually say "hello, darling? Are you there? Hello?" for 10 minutes or more which will cost you another $100 (unless your credits run out or your phone cuts the message off). This was consistent with every female I called which totalled I think about 12 girls (or more)

The anxiety alone is enough to give you a heart attack. 98% chance the phone number she gave you goes into dead space or is someone else's phone number. Then back online you go to ask what is wrong with her phone to which she will reply it is a Chinese connection problem (or whatever country she is in) that there is an issue calling internationally and nothing can be done but should continue communicating through the site (because its her job). Now if you get that 2% chance you have her number and she answers, she will always be busy driving, getting changed, with friends, visiting relatives, etc, and have little time for you and soon ignore you and/or block you if you keep calling. If you get a short conversation on her "personal" phone, you may pick up a periodic 'whoosh' sound which is her sitting in front of her computer replying to other chats while talking to you on the phone. Sometimes you can hear keyboarding in the background which is of course her colleagues relieving other unsuspecting men of their money. Maybe she will ask you to sing a song which by the way will turn into mocking you while sharing your singing with their "co-workers". The girls also share time using the same profile as the personality changes in their message replies.

You will notice the personality of the girl changes at different times of the day. How else do you suppose (in many cases) "Sally Wang" is always online when you sign on no matter the time of day or night. Just try asking her a personal question you shared with that same girl the night before. She will take a while to reply because she is looking it up. Also, if you happened to choose that 'wealthy lady' worth millions or maybe billions of dollars because this is what her profile states and you thinking I have finally made it to easy street with a beautiful woman to boot. Well, its a honey trap. It is amazing what a good website camera crew can do. I saved profile photos in 2010 when I first saved some profiles but never really used the service and many of the profile photos are the same today. The only wealth these ladies have is what they receive from men they are talking to. This company also has FEMBOTS that have a programmed algorithm to respond to your questions. But if you suspect it is a FEMBOT and you call her stupid or that she is a waste of time, it will just reply with "I love you, honey" or "I can't wait to be with you" etc etc. This one instance the FEMBOT kept responding to me and I never typed a word. I recorded the entire experience. The company also uses computers to push introduction letters to your mailbox and chat line. Try changing your profile name to Mickey Mouse, you will never look at those love letters the same way again. This site has a direct connection to the Arab, African, Spanish, Filipino, Russian and Ukrainian sites with identical formats. They offer you the premium membership which grants you access to all these sites where you can spend even more of your hard-earned money. The reality check here is, if you have no game with beautiful girls in your own country, you are not going to get it in another and if you do, one way or another you will be paying for it. This kind of site preys on men who seek the ideal relationship and it does a great job at selling it but in the end, you will NEVER get what you invest in. They will take your money and thank you for it and you will come back for more because you need validation. You can easily spend more than $1000 per month on sites like this because let's face it, it is a little addictive to have all this attention from these beautiful ladies who want only you, right? Total cost to me was actually well over $30k. I heard some other guy spent more than $100k, more crazy than me! Do not spend your money there, better to invest in yourself and closer to home or if you really want to a girlfriend from another country, just fly there and meet them in that country. At least you know they are real and you get to experience another country. This site will rob you and there is nothing you can do about it. You have a better chance of meeting genuine Asian ladies on the Chinese social app QQ, just download the English version. Certainly, no connection problems and can meet women there for free, you just have to put yourself out there.

Tip for consumers:
Just don't go there unless you want to throw your money away

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Charles Has Received 3 Thank Yous

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Reginaldo C. thanked you for your review of Romance Tale

“My experience is that there are Real Demons around these sites England inclusive. I really don't know where is the MI5 allowing this international I call terrorism running freely around the country, Europe and other countries around the world.”

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Larry P. thanked you for your review of Romance Tale

“Yes. Your analysis it's 1000% right”

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Steven K. thanked you for your review of Romance Tale

“This is a right on analysis, thank you for confirming my observation! These bustards should be sued big time! I wish somebody would do it!”

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