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Paul L.

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17 Reviews by Paul

  • Trustpilot

3/13/24

Just read this article about them: https://www.seotraininglondon.org/can-you-trust-trustpilot/
Better yet, check the Better Business Bureau, they currently have 1.8 stars there. Trust Pilot uses Review Gating and other corrupt techniques to help flailing businesses. They invite people who they think had positive experiences with the company to give a review to help a flailing business, such as Ancestry.com. This company was underwater and in the last few years from overzealous website changes. In the past few days, weeks and months, they have thousands of 5 star reviews, many of them marked "invited". Nothing special changed with Ancestry, they destroyed their website with new changes that make it more difficult to manage and give you carpal tunnel from all the clicks required now. You can see other sites that have poor reviews elsewhere will have good reviews on Trust Pilot. They have gone the way of corruption and letting corporation buy reviews, as most leftist/woke organizations have done. We can't have truth today with liberals, we must lie to people to force an outcome. Frankly, I stopped voting Democrat after this cancel culture/woke craze. I want my country back!

  • Yummly

12/2/23

This is the antithesis of a good recipe site. You must have a smart phone to get the instructions. Too many WOKE websites are inconsiderate of other people, particularly the elderly, who are still citizens that are interested to participate in the world but they cannot because of self-centered liberal people who don't consider them. They are largely left out and ignored. I'm not elderly but I prefer using a desktop to view and get instructions and information. You can't do this on Yummly. It's people like this who have ruined our society from narcissism and failed beliefs.

  • Fox Nation

5/8/23

Everything these people try to do is broken, annoying and ridiculous. The FOX Nation app is the worst ever created. It's like it was made in someone's garage and has similar support. You cannot navigate the app, it's just there and everything thrown in it. If you are lucky enough to stumble across a person or video you watched before and want to watch the next in series, you will never find it again. It's laughable that they would put this terrible User Interface and Guide up and claim it! It simply doesn't work. The support are the worst. They absolutely will not credit you, even when you've been a customer less than 1 hr and do not want to stay. You paid, too bad, so sad. I don't see FOX being around much longer, going the way of Woke companies like CNN and Bud Light. The latter went from decades as #1 to now being #14 and declining. A mexican beer is the leader in America. FOX helped this happen.

Tip for consumers:
It's the biggest failure to perform in history. FOX has gone woke, and now are going broke. Help put them out of their misery so we can get something better to replace it, the OLD FOX.

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  • Maytag

5/7/23

This piece of Junk I paid $1700 for a set is not worth $100 for the pair. It can't do 5 pair of jeans without screeching in the wash cycle, the output of water is greater that it overflows in older homes, and the rest of the engineering is just as bad. The first one delivered had a transmission failure out of the box, it's noisy and very, very cheaply made. I cannot open and close the door of the driver without it moving across the floor. It must weigh less than 50 lbs in its entirety. I've never been so appalled. The biggest issue, you cannot send it back, it's working as manufactured. I bought nothing but Whirlpool for 45 years, and that ended with this purchase. NEVER AGAIN!.

Tip for consumers:
What Whirlpool is doing to cheat the community and put out this absolute junk is against American values, traditions and work ethics. These people can go to hell. I've lost nearly 2 grand, but working on displaying this junk on a MAIN HIGHWAY in Dallas on a property that a friend owns. I will get satisfaction letting others know and avoid this junk. Whirlpool just needs to go out of business, they are corrupt to the core!

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MEDC465 Dryer and Matching 465 Washer. JUNK!

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  • Bed Bath & Beyond

8/3/22

I don't know where to begin? Items are sold to consumers that are not in stock. After you've placed the order, you don't find out for several days that part of your order is delayed 3+ weeks. If I had known, I would not have ordered as I needed the items urgently and would have purchased elsewhere. The item finally arrived a month after purchase, but was packed in a flimsy plastic bag. The tube of product was smashed, the screw on top was forcibly popped off and contents leaked in the bag. When I go to get a refund, they short me $1.00 on the item price. Trying to reach anyone is an exercise in futility, waiting more than 20 minutes at times, no less than 15. When you get someone, they just appear clueless, extremely busy, and unhelpful. I cannot understand how in the world these people stay in business! Worst I've ever seen, and it would be very easy to fix, but consistently this bad on purpose.

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Okeefe Healthy Feet Cream and Okeefe Healthy feet exfoliating.

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  • Sam's Club

7/3/22

They've lost their zeal and embraced mediocrity. Nothing special and exciting any more. I was a member when Sam's first opened about 30 years ago. They offered products of high quality and some things you couldn't find anywhere else. Their garden plant and potting section was amazing and reasonable prices for wonderful and sometimes rare plants. The food choices were better, too. Now, you can't find many healthy food choices, only prepackaged junk food that causes diabetes and cancer. The cookies, chips, pies, cakes and snacks represent about 25% of the entire store, maybe more. Aisle after aisle of it. But, the only healthy choices are going to be the fresh fruits, vegetables and meats, of which are scarce, limited, and usually are not displayed well and are beat up. When I try to order online for deliivery, I see the delivery fee is 15% to 65% higher than other places. No one charges more than Sam's to deliver. When I order 5 items, they are shipped as 4 separate packages with separate tracking numbers. The 2 Air Wick Air Freshener Plug-in replacements I purchased arrived in a plain cardboard box with no labeling or packing information to tell what they were. It would be the same as if you took empty bottles off your shelf at home and put them in a plain box that you found. I could not tell which scents I was shipped, who they were from, and these were meant as gifts. I couldn't give these. Everything they do is half-heartedly done and doesn't meet the mark. It's sad to see them limping along like this and no one seems to care. I won't be renewing and will probably go to Costco after this. I've heard good things and certainly the food I see from my sister and other members is amazing. Sam's could be amazing again, if they tried or cared to be. They simply don't!

Tip for consumers:
If you like to eat junk food and prepackaged garbage with chemicals, this is a great place to shop! They have the biggest selection of Chips, Crackers, Cookies and heart attack food you could ask for. If you want healthier choices, there are a few fresh fruit and meat options, but you are much better off shopping at your local grocery store. The Mediocrity of this place can be seen everywhere you look. I can no longer recommend this store. Go to Costco's. Much better choices and value.

Products used:
Neutrogena Rainbath, Air Wick Air Freshener Plug-in Refills, and Crest Gum Detoxify Toothpaste.

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  • TulipWorld

6/21/22
Verified purchase

These people purposely send out failed and dead plant material and then don't take care of customers. They prepackage their products in Fall and then never look at them again, even before shipping out 6-9 months later. The plants remain in plastic or paper bags and sent out in unknown condition. When the majority of the order is rotted, smelling and bad, they will send the same failed product again and again or issue a gift card that does NOT include shipping, so they get their money and you will be forced to pay shipping again for THEIR failures to perform. You can't get a refund, and you can't speak to the owner or Manager, they don't get on the phone for obvious reasons. This is blatant fraud! These people are no friend of the community!

Tip for consumers:
Do not use this site! They are prepacking products up to a year in advance and never looking at them again before sending them out. At best, you will get hospital plants that need major care to be viable, and usually they are already no hope or completely dead.

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2x Callas, 1x Peony and 3x Clematis

  • Allstate

5/30/22

I've been an Allstate customer for over 25 years, about 12 years with my current agent. I've outlived/lasted 3 agents now. My home was damaged in 2008 and Allstate replaced a room addition that was destroyed by what was listed as tornadic activity. They approved everything and did a nice job putting it all back. This particular room has a lower pitch and a 20-40 yr. Commercial flat roof was recommended for about 14' x 36' of Spa room and Patio. In 2016, I had a roof damage and this flat tar part of the roof was not replaced and deemed as good in August of 2016. The rest of the composition shingle roof was replaced.

This year, on 5/30/22, I had severe wind and thunderstorm that blew out the soffit from underneath, lifting the roof from it's anchor such that the severe winds grabbed it and peeled about 1/4 of the roof back onto the house, exposing the structure. The damage was about $10k, and I filed a claim. After such failures as asking that we send pictures 3 times in 5 weeks and never getting them, going on vacation in the middle of the claim and not communicating for 17 days, the claim disappeared from the website and no one was talking to me. Allstate finally fired their own claim team and reassigned a new team. It was 2 more weeks before an adjuster was assigned and another week before he was on board enough to give any decision. During this time I had 5 other record rains and a wind and hail storm, the temporary roof was not meant to protect from this. The damage climbed to over 3x the amount and the adjuster finally tried to tell me he was looking at a picture from 2016 where the flat roof edges were flipped up and they might not cover the roof, but they would cover all the other damage. When I told him that Allstate deemed to roof as fine at this time from a 2016, he wasn't able to find it. No surprise, their database and systems are horrific, and not friendly or very useful. Once he finally found the claim, he told me he would need more time to investigate. They finally came back and said None of it would be covered because of the roof edges flipped and "lack of maintenance" he said.

I have a great construction crew, probably the most integrity of any people I've ever worked with from any company. One of the main guys used to work at an insurance company and became so disgusted with the way the do business that he started a construction company and works against them. He told me that Allstate and some others are mismanaged and doing poorly, and have many lawsuits against them. They are denying what would normally be legitimate claims in hopes to stop the bleeding. My contractor is not walking away from me and are going to help me get whole again on my house, while their own public adjuster helps me fight the insurance company. I'll have to pay a small loan for 18 months, which is the normal process to fight these claims. If you are in the Dallas Area and need the most reputable people who do the job right x10, go with Vantage Point Construction or Vantage Point Contractors. These are the best and their reviews show it.

Sadly, Allstate is no longer a legitimate Insurance Company to consider. Please do your research and don't use any lists that have Allstate on top. They are not reputable and are paid reviewers.

Good luck! I don't know what's higher than "Dog eat Dog", but when you add blatant corruption and failure to support your customer after decades on on time payments, it's not good!

Tip for consumers:
Do not use Allstate! Anyone is better than someone who doesn't pay claims. They are under litigation and have more class-actions lawsuits now than ever in their history. I don't know if Allstate survives this.

Products used:
Home and Auto Insurance Bundle for over 25 yrs.

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  • Etsy

5/15/22

I've spent more than a decade getting ripped off from shopping on ETSY and reporting these fake websites, only to see that they continue to be allowed to sell here. This is tantamount to California, where they entice crooks to steal by not stopping them if it's under $750 and letting them out of jail within 2 hours if it is, or it's murder, or any other felony. Same mentality here! One of the biggest scam industries is the plant industry, and in particular, seeds. You can't know what you've have purchased is legitimate or accurate unless you are first familiar with what the seeds should look like and then are successful in making it grow and seeing the color. 99.9% of the people that sell rose seeds are corrupt, for this reason. No one tries to grow a rose from seed, and you need fresh seeds. A rose bush can take more than 3 years before it blooms if grown from seed. So, the seller will put up pretty and sometimes false pictures of roses, such as Rainbow Roses, or Deep Blue Roses, or other impossibilities of Nature and other seeds as well. If anyone spent even 2 minutes to search my reports and the websites I submitted, or even checked the sites of the "
Rainbow Roses" or "Rainbow Chruysanthemums", etc., they would see that these pictures are stolen from another unrelated website that hand dyes white roses or chrysanthemums to look as a rainbow of colors by injecting dye into them. They are quite beautiful, but no seed could possible do this, thus the draw from both elated buyer and corrupt international seller who can likely get away with it? The dumb buyer always gives 5 stars when the seeds arrive, rather than waiting 6 weeks to see if they grow. There are so many examples of this, I keep reporting them and they keep remaining. I stopped buying because of some of the ridiculous excuse for seeds I was receiving. The larger problem is the review system is broken and people are not reviewing properly, but instead give 5 stars before they planted or saw anything grow, simply just because the seeds arrived! These dumb, gullible people not only enable the crooks, but they hurt ALL of us, and ETSY is getting rich as an enabler!

Tip for consumers:
It's much harder than it should be to get reliable product because this site is SO mismanaged that it allows every Charlatan in the world to have a shop, and so it seems they do. It should just be shut down or taken over under new responsible, smart and caring management. The current situation is a fiasco and I wouldn't spend more than $5.00 unless I had already dealt with them. It's infested with corruption! Enter at your own risk and expect you have about 64% chance of a successful transaction

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As this site is a collection of sellers, the free shipping and returns vary per seller. But, the site has also not ever gotten off of the ground well because of lack of support.

I've purchased everything from lighters, to bats, but the thing I purchase most predominately is seeds and plants, and it must be in the multiple thousands by now. Sometimes you can find a good seller and reliably get good product from them. But, my success rate on seed sellers is just barely over 60% here. Very frustrating when I keep reporting these frauds and nothing is done but enabling them.

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  • Jackson & Perkins

5/6/22

These people have no clue what they are doing and they must be bumping into each other while doing it! They can't fulfill orders and always having things canceled before delivery. This time it was a VERY SPECIAL Mother's Day present for my 94-yr old mother who wanted this rose. 2 weeks before Mother's Day, they first said they would keep a little longer to grow it out, then a week before Mother's Day, they cancel the order with a measly $10 certificate that is only good for 3 weeks! I have had this consistently happen to me from these people and other errors and mistakes from their own poor business practices and won't be trying again. It's too much disappointment either to try to get something or after it arrives and it's either poorly packed and broken, or its so small that you could seriously win a fraud case! The left hand NEVER knows what the right hand is doing and they don't take care of customers or take them seriously. After over 25 years TRYING to conduct business with them, I'm done! They have gotten too ridiculous and too complacent with being this way. They are NO FRIEND of the gardening community, that's for sure! Just business people trying to make a buck and not doing what they should be to earn it.

Tip for consumers:
Any other rose company is better than these people, will be cheaper and have larger and better product. They also won't cancel at the last minuite, leaving you in the lurch on Mother's Day! Try Heritage Roses, Rose Emporium, Edmund's Roses or most others. David Austin is an option, but their customer service is as bad as Jackson and Perkins, also leaving me without roses on 3 successive seasons.

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None, they canceled the entire order without prior notice!

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  • FoxNews

4/30/22

The title says it all. This company was the only bastion of Conservative watchers and now they are nearly unwatchable. It is unwatchable on the weekends, as they hire the Trump haters to try to sway Conservative votes and opinions. This is part of the attack on our Country and it's permeated FOX with the liberal sons of Rupert Murdoch. Rupert might as well have stabbed us all in the heart after making this company and then allowing it to be destroyed. Yes, you will get milquetoast, wanna be Dems and deluded children of Conservatives who have been brainwashed by our media against their parents. FOX is an enabler and one of the most dangerous platforms for Conservatives today. The wishy-washiness of having such extremes on the same platform will destroy Conservatives, their values and their numbers. After being a strong supporter for Decades and having donated and promotes FOX to what Rupert made them, he snubbed us all and took his money and ran, not giving a second thought to what his sons would do to our Country and our way of life. This is destructive, divisive and is hurting the Conservative party and it's movement to save this Country from Socialism and destruction. I hate FOX News/

Tip for consumers:
Try using One America News, Newsmax or one of the smaller and more accurate reporting sites for Conservatives. Make FOX cry and come back to Conservative values or make them another failing leftist rag.

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  • Angi (formerly Angie's List)

4/27/22
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Angie's appears to have become corrupted by money! Companies get to pay to remove bad reviews and hide their true character. Angie's enables this. As a result, you cannot wholesale believe what Angie's says or what's on their website. It requires you to do your own investigation on these people to find out if you are being lied to by Angie's. The Corruption is deep, as they would rather hide bad reviews than represent someone honestly. It's collusion and I won't use Angie's again! Fortunately, there are other ways to find good people! Angie's is corrupt and are crooks, liars, not a reputable organization, and it's getting worse!

Tip for consumers:
I've found some great workers here, but it's not worth the games and having to learn how things work. Once you do, you will leave. Typically, the most hungry workers are the first to call you because they've destroyed their brand such that no one calls them. So, you have to know who to answer and accept, and who to ignore. Angie's will allow companies to pay to remove bad reviews, so they're lying to you and hide the bad people, so you end up picking them anyway. Do your own search, avoid this!

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I have used nearly every service they've offered until becoming disgusted with the ineptitude and corruption. The same failed companies are the ones to hound you first, so you have to know who to say no to. I've had Roofing Companies, Pool and Pool Equipment repairs, Plumbers, Sprinkler Repair, Home Improvement and light construction, Stone Masons, Carpet, Wood and Tile flooring, Gutter repair, you name it! I will NEVER use Home Advisor or anyone they are related to, which means Angie's, too, now!

  • Sling TV

8/29/21

These people are crooks and pathetically hide from their customers. Any failure on their part does not warrant any discount, refund or extra days of watching. If you struggle for 2 days while they flounder to fix a problem, it's yours to eat. Now that they've installed a failed new app on Fire TV, I've experienced weeks of lockups and viewing interruptions. Sling is aware that their crappy app wasn't well tested before they released it, but it's just tough luck, customer's problem, and no further consideration is given. It's difficult to reach anyone and all they are trained to say is No, we can't help you. Literally, the only reason to call is to get a credit for a problem, and they don't do credits, period! These people are corrupt and crooked! If you want corrupt and crooked, save another $20 and find one of the Indian streaming companies that uses Lenox MP app. There are several and they have about the same issues that Sling does, but they have more channels. But, a little shady, like Sling. Sling can go screw themselves.

  • NewsMax

2/5/21

As a conservative, I don't appreciate many of their reporters, specifically Greta or Bob Sellers. Greta is still a leftist with her failed opinions that are protected by her delusion, no facts. She brings on guests who share her delusion about the world. She belongs back at CNN, this is the mentality of liar she is. Bob Sellers is another one who pokes conservatives in the eyes and his delivery and comments are boring, monotone and pathetic. His comments rarely contribute to the story and you usually scratching your head wondering if he's on drugs? He has NO energy, no spark, and elicits no interest. Newsmax also has tendency to punish you with ridiculous bombardment of emails, 4 or more a day sometimes. They just aren't very bright and don't know what customers want. They have a leftist bent while pretending to be conservative, and it just comes off of disingenuous. Get right with yourselves and figure out who you want to be when you grow up! It's not fun to watch now and you are abusing your customer base. I don't know who is running the company, but he should be fired as it's running in the ground.

  • Yahoo News

11/17/20

Their news is garbage and anti-American, and they seem to be equally hated by the left and the right. The only thing half worthy is their Financial section and charting tools, and it's severely broken and dysfunctional.

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  • Bonanza

7/29/19

This clunky website is not only severely broken, but they have enabled a network of scammers and thieves. This is the largest complaint of people that frequent the site, by far. This is worsened by the way they attempt to do business and implement features that make the experience much worse and protect no one! In fact, Bonanaza looks the other way to allow this. When trying to do your best to identify these problems through the only means you have, which is feedback, Bonanza further makes it difficult by using a robot that attempts to analyze what you are typing and will block you if you use certain words (shipping, delivery, etc), which is just ludicrous. Why not tell me what to say, too! Feedback is feedback, and damage from shipping by poor packaging and handling by the seller of the product is damaged in shipping from poor handling. It should be able to be identified in the product feedback, otherwise, product feedback is useless. Trying to get help from support is an exercise in futility and they don't seem to care but repeat policies and instructions that are already on the website. They don't stand in your corner or help you to resolve issues, but rather leave you hanging. I don't give them much chance for success when they appear to operate in a vacuum and function in such a corrupt and mindless way that enables a terrible and dangerous shopping experience! Really Epic Fail!

  • Accuweather

6/19/19

These scares of hail and tornadoes in Dallas without any time frame of when it starts and ends are completely worthless! Not useful or helpful at all! Accuweather has been consistently inaccurate compared to other sites, like weather.com, and they don't provide near the detail. It's just worthless and aggravating to listen for 20-30 minutes and still not know what is happening or whether there is concern. By far the most disliked of all weather services! Completely Worthless!

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