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[lisolutions]

Has anyone dealt with this company before?
I am in the process of ordering iphones from them. I got the invoice from them via paypal and they are a verified business on paypal. I did some research on them and didn't like what I saw. Customers got scammed by not getting their phones but then the sales rep told me that it's because they were trying to scam them by trying to get back their money. I don't know who to believe. Can someone fill me in on this company, AR Resource Corp.

Thanks!

[Anthony]

Do they have a website? Where did you find them?

[lisolutions]

they found me. I posted something on craigslist.

[morepower]

Never ever deal with this company. They are nothing but a scam. If you got a phone # please post it. The Police in Atlanta, Ga are looking for chauncee marks the head of the company. There is no company either. Its just one lady. She has no iphones.
This lady is a big scam. I have met tons of people who have been scammed by her
Check out the link below and also do a search for the company on rip off reports. search google for chauncee marks or cnm group.

Let me give you a little info on iphones. Please pass this on in other forums.
http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/...ad.php?p=51252

min price for iphones is $390 for 8gb. Dealer cost for wholesale with contract to purchase 20k monthly is around $360 -$370. I work with Apple dealers so i know. Anyone reading this comment BE AWARE of anyone on this site or elsewhere selling iphones for under $400. Think about it. iphones are a hot commodity and if you had something in hand you knew people would pay $450 or more to get would you sell it for $200? Heck no.

RUle of thumb for new buyers just because someone can send you 20 iphones or 20 of any phone or 100 even 200 does not mean they can supply you with 5000 or even 1000.

The new iphones $199 price tag is only through AT&T or Apple retail store with activation and 2 year agreement. Of which will cost you more then $60 a month. So do not believe anyone who has iphones for that price. If they will not allow escrow.com or fly and buy or bank LC its a scam most likely. And anyone claiming to have bulk iphones does not take paypal, google or anything like that. I work with an iphone dealer they are one of our nokia customers and they dont even sell to bulk customers who purchase 15k a month or more for less then $390. Everyone chases iphones at $350 or 250 and then they end up with fakes or empty warehouses.

[canada]

Moving thread to "Bad Supplier Experiences".

Scott

[knjsg07]

Hey, THIS IS A SCAM!!!! DO NOT SEND ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. I know because i was hired on with another one of Chauncee Nicole Marks companies here in charlotte NC called Effectual Consultants Inc. located at 301 McCullough Dr. Charlotte NC 28262. My coworkers and i were supposed to receive our paychecks friday and we still have yet to receive them and will NEVER receive them. Once we realized we weren't going to get them we googled her name "Chauncee Marks" and there is a whole page plus some of rip off reports of past employees of Mrs./Ms. Marks. If you want to talk to me personally please reply to this post and we will be in contact. My coworkers and I have no problem explaining to you what has happened. YOU DO NOT WANT TO DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY OR ANY OTHER COMPANIES IN CHAUNCEE MARKS NAME...GOOGLE HER NAME BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING. HER PARENTS DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT SHE IS DOING. I KNOW THIS BECAUSE MY COWORKERS AND I WENT TO HER PARENTS HOUSE HERE IN CHARLOTTE AND SPOKE WITH THEM. HER FATHER'S EMOTIONS AND EXPRESSIONS WHEN WE PRESENTED HIM WITH THE INFORMATION WE FOUND SHOWED UPSET, EMBARRASED, ASHAMED, AND BETRAYED TO FIND OUT THAT HIS DAUGHTER IS WOULD EVEN THINK TO SCAM PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR OWN MONEY.

[knjsg07]

Chauncee N Marks Lives With Her Parents Here In Charlotte Nc. If Anyone Has The Name And Number Or At Least The Name Of The Investigator Over Her Case Please Email It To Me. I Have Alot Of Information To Give To Them. I Started Working For Ms. Marks At Effectual Consultants Inc July 17th 2008. Myself And 15 Other Employees No Longer "slave" For Her. Yesterday Was Our Last Day. We Showed Up As A Group To Ms. Marks' Parents Home Today 7/26/2008 To Comfront Her About Our Paychecks That We Still Have Yet To Get And Will Never Get As Well As That We Know Who She Is. (if You Want To Learn More About Ms. Marks Go To Google And Type In Chauncee Marks And Be Amazed At What She Has Done). If You Would Like To Come In Contact With Myself And The Other Employees Of Ms. Marks And Her "company" Effectual Consultants Inc. Please respond and we will be in contact. We Will Put This Lady Behind Bars. She Will Pay For All The People She Has Hurt In The Process And All The People She Has Betrayed. We Have Contacted Different Attorneys And Will Filing Papers On Ms/mrs. Marks On Monday July 28, 2008. We Need To Get In Contact With The Investigator Over Her Case So If Anyone Knows The Name And Number For The Person Responsible For Investigating Please Email It To Me As Well. I Am Still Doing My Research To Get More On Her.

[cnm]

This is Chauncee' Marks responding to this post as well as other posts regarding my company.

First I'd like to say, the internet is a great way to create positivity and negativity.

Life lesson: common sense and character is what substance is made of.

On Saturday, July 27th, my former employees showed up at my mother and father's home, which I have no reservations about residing at temporarily in route of business to establish a Charlotte office. They were threatening in nature, demanding paychecks, which I formerly asked each and every one that was due a paycheck on Friday since we worked so late the night prior for an event that was supposed to be held at the Omni hotel in Charlotte, NC, if I could prepare payroll the next day. Everyone agreed and didn’t mind. I even offered those who may be inconvenienced to help with any bills on that day.

The entire staff, even individuals which were not due to be paid that Friday showed up demanding paychecks. They were offensive in nature, calling names, upsetting my children, leaning on vehicles in the driveway, and blatantly making threats. One individual even took video footage which is ILLEGAL on private property, so I suggest they destroy it as they even went as far as to enter my family's porch and my mother was unclothed.

I am responding to these posts because a very important lesson is to be learned here. You cannot believe everything on the internet. I have concluded that, instead of coming to me and asking me about something they saw, which I even had no idea existed, they assumed it was true, used no morale, decency, or basic respect, and now everyone involved is facing criminal prosecution for trespassing, slander, breaking of privacy policies, and other charges.

This all began from one gentleman I had attempted to partner up with in Missouri. To make a long story short, we bumped heads because I was not "money hungry", and did not want to participate in business deals I knew were beyond my operating level. I got into the Iphone business when the craze were on, when basically many companies had sold iphones they didn’t even have, and were literally on the hunt for them like a narcotic. To make a long story short, the gentleman did not believe the prices I was able to obtain was legitimate, and began spreading rumors about me and my business. Simply put.

Also, anyone who has had a bad experience supposedly with buying iphones from me can only say it took a while to get their refunds, because of the lovely payment gateway PayPal.

Many people do not know about PayPal, and the horror it causes for the reputation of business, and people in general. For more information on PayPal’s horror stories, please visit www.paypalsucks.com.

When a person/business with a PayPal account has a sudden increase in transactions or amount, PayPal performs something called "flagging". Flagging is when they freeze all or most account activity, most of the time preventing you from accessing money you have received, or receiving payment for merchandise. PayPal has suppposed"customer privacy policies" which prevent someone you have received money from, to not be allowed to know when they are doing a flag. They say it is something either completely at random they perform, or because of an "unexpected increase" in your payment flow, which makes absolutely no sense because as a business grows, you should expect an increase in cash flow....

So imagine if you are someone who has purchased 300 Iphones from a business, and you paid for your Iphones using PayPal. PayPal freezes the seller’s account, which means money from your payment which is used to buy your phones can not be accessed. Mean while the seller can do nothing but tell you there is a delay in your order, because if you call PayPal, they will refuse to give the buyer any information regarding their flagging due to "customer privacy policies", which to me is more about their reputation being jeopardized. Meanwhile the buyer can’t receive their items, and the seller can’t purchase the items they've been paid to obtain. Now, PayPal claims when you are flagged, it only takes a 3-4 day turnaround for your freeze to be removed as long as you comply in a timely manner. Whenever they freeze your account they ask for you to upload company documents such as supplier invoices to show you are really buying something to sell to people. In reality, PayPal admits themselves that "it takes 3-4 days but since they are such a high volume company, it may take longer"... most of the time it takes several days, and I have had to wait a total of three weeks in certain instances.

Now if you have paid someone for merchandise, and the money you paid has been frozen, and the seller cannot prove they have absolutely no control over the money and it is in PayPal’s hands, you will get alarmed, begin to think you are being taken advantage of, and think fraud.
People in my case began wanting refunds, which I had to email PayPal back to back in several cases to get a rush on them giving them their money back, which initially PayPal was in no rush to do, and would take 90 days. However with my continuous emails to them refunds were processed faster.

So, the entire time people thought I had their money, which in essence PayPal was causing a delay due to their volume of procedure, nonchalance, lack of care, etc.

My part regarding refunds has been done. Whatever PayPal needs to do from there is beyond my control. I knew how agitating it was from a consumer’s point of view to not have any idea what is going on, so I was insistent on getting them their money. I emailed paypal at resolution@paypal.com several times requesting refunds in detail as they required me to do. In addition when customers in Paypal's tedious ring of time delays were approached, they did not take the time to interact with me about anything, they assumed, did not have an open means of communication, and reacted irresponsibly.

In addition, it takes one, just one person to start allegations of something they have no idea about, and that is what has taken place. Those of you who were working for me should have handled your complaint just as any other company. Many major companies have had customers make complaints about service, and you don’t see the staff driving like a gang of bullies, welcoming themselves on private property, making a scene so unruly that Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department had to make them leave the property. They made threats of intimidation, they used slanderous words, and did not even take the time to use a shred of common sense to stop and ask management anything appropriately regarding something on the internet. All it takes is for one person to say whatever they want to say on a site and get something started, never minding the fact of its truth. But as of a few months ago there are stricter internet laws protecting people such as myself from slander.

I strongly advise anyone in my company or anyone with anything slanderous to say remove content immediately as you will face criminal prosecution. Regarding employees of my company who trespassed onto private property with threatening actions, termination and standard employment policies in accordance with the repercussions of legal action will be followed. Since everyone that participated in the prior day's event is in violation of a number of company and legal policies, you will now have to wait for the department of labor and my attorneys to contact you regarding how you will receive your remaining paychecks. This could have simply been avoided if whoever had concerns about allegations would have confronted management appropriately and inquired, and all clarifications, PayPal evidence, etc would have been provided with absolutely no problem.

I guess what's most disappointing is that we had a family oriented work environment, we shared many laughs, hard work, and dedication which several of you all commented on as how you saw my steady devotion as I worked hard every day several hours a day WITH my staff, in the same office. But this all goes to show no one there really had no belief or genuine character, or not enough character to take just one moment to simply ask a question.

In regards to my family's reply to the chaotic incident which occurred, my father did NOT express anything but a general response due to disbelief in the disruptive behavior which occurred. My parents are significantly older and any actions displayed like the ones yesterday would certainly cause anyone to be alarmed/frightened, especially a senior citizen.

In conclusion as well, no one was trying to be evasive by changing company names. At the time when my company's former names were "cnm" and "arc", I found in the articles of business those names were taken, so I had to change them to prevent copyright infringement. CNM which was intended to stand for consumer networking market was already taken for the certified nursing midwife group as well as a media company, and ARC was taken by several different companies as well.

In this treacherous journey of allegations I took several steps of “proving" myself such as going to extreme lengths as giving my login information to strangers (strangers in the sense they were a buyer from me, and were not affiliated with my company so they had no reason to have it) to show my transaction histories with payment processors such as PayPal, because I had nothing to hide. I realize now that was a mistake, because I guess I am too passionate, and have a very passionate heart regarding what all I am on a mission to do with business.

Due to being forced to change DBA names, any customers who have lost touch with me and need my assistance, please email: effectual_consultants_inc@yahoo.com if we can be of service in any way as I know some individuals needing clarification lost touch over time.

Again, I STRONGLY advise any employees participating in the events prior to not post anything else as it will all be used and reported in compliance with the afore mentioned parties.

Positive Regards,
Chauncee Marks

[geosamm]

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[hardwareheroes]

Nothing like airing your washing in public