StoresOnline

Patsy   Missouri

10:03am on Sunday, October 18th, 2009 

I purchase 6 web sight in April 07 have 3 published and so far I have 2 order from one site, about 6 form one site, and 0 form the other. I was offered a additional service that we would be examples for there company. Paid additional fee and went to Salt Lake for 3 day training. This fee was a waste of money as it did not help us at all. I will say if I had a question they were good in helping solve the problem. I have spent money with several different search engines to help me market the product. It did not help me. I think they have a sales pitch that is untruthful and product way over priced

wima vandebrink   Kanasa City Mo.

9:42am on Sunday, October 11th, 2009 

went to the meeting when i came home to get my gift the web site was no where to be found.

Jerry Jackson   Michigan

2:44pm on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 

My wife and I went to the seminar and listened and was intrigued about the business. It is a lot of money to spend to start a business. My wife and I have been working on our web site for a little over a year now and we have been live for almost a hear now. We picked a product to sell and it was the wrong choice which was no fault of stores on line. About two months ago we got on the web and started calling companies that might be willing to drop ship for us. We found a company that we thought would be a good fit and has now started to pay. In the first year we had a total of 15 orders and in the last month we have had 15 orders from our new product line already. We have worked hard at developing a user friendly site and we think have something going now and we only see and think positive things in the future.

Marvin Schulgen   Lombard, IL

4:52pm on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 

I'm another one - I was planning on retiring in 2005 and was looking for something to take care of me after retirement. I attended the Stores OnLine Seminar in October 2005 and was awed by the presentation. Being rather naive in the business world, I forked out my savings for the Platinum package and went to work with them. It took me a while to figure out that their online site for web building didn't work very well at all, at least for what I wanted to do, and I learned that their "coaching" program was really a cheer-leading program. I never did get the first site up and running. I've been dragging my feet about abandoning the project because I already have so much money tied up in it - I hate to just surrender to them, but I don't know that I have any other options left at this time. I haven't had any activity on their site for many months and apparently no one at Stores Online has noticed - I haven't had a call, an email, or any other contact wondering what' happening.

John Dempsey   Westmont,ILL

2:00pm on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 

I got sucked in by there line of crap, it costs me some bucks.Now they are calling me with a knew offer of help. If I new of a class action suite I would gladly join, Keep away from these con artist.

SERINA   california

12:12am on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 

I have been with SOL for about 2 1/2 mths. I don't know anything about building my own website. This company has been more then helpful. I do think that I have to do a lot of work but I was aware of that coming into this? I'm reading all of these reviews and I feel discouraged. Do you all put work into it or did you think it was going to be done for you?

MHH   Austin, TX

8:31pm on Saturday, August 15th, 2009 

Just attended one of these seminars. I was tempting, all the great tools they offer that no other outfit does...sounded too good to be true.I knew this could not be correct as I have seen and heard of other firms that do this so I was optimistic but cautious. We left, I decided to perform some due diligence before spending any more money than the cost of this intro-seminar..after reading these opinions I am glad we passed.

Diane   Texas

2:15pm on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 

The whole intention of this company is to see how much money they can con customers out of. Even though they initially tell you that the price is fixed, once they get you alone and you try to walk out, they miraculously lower the price. They definitely over promise and under deliver! A word to the wise...there are other companies out there that only charge a few hundred dollars to do the same things that StoresOnline promises for $$$Thousands. "JUST DONT DO IT"!!!

Larry   Mississauga, Ontario

3:27pm on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 

I was able to find something else and move on from these con-artists

Larry   Mississauga, Ontario

5:26pm on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 

storeonline is very difficult to work with … all they seem to want is more and more money … they are very smooth … too bad they don’t back up what they sell … I’ve learned my lesson and have taken the tax break and moved on… it’s a bitter pill to swallow when you get scammed but life does go on

Tom   McAllen, Tx

12:41pm on Friday, July 17th, 2009

I didn't rate because I just received 2 tickets to the StoresOnline seminar in the mail today and I don't have experience with SO yet. After reading all these reviews some informative but mostly horror stories I think I may still go to the seminar for three reasons.
1.Get a free dinner for my wife and I, after all who doesn't like a free dinner.
2.Get the free MP3 players they promise, not that I want them my Nokia cell holds all the music I need but I can regift them to nieces & nephews. 3.Maybe I can collect some ideas & info so I can search online and research more about being an online entrepreneur.
I don't expect it to be easy to get out of the seminar without a high pressure sales pitch getting passed up the chain of salesmen and price negotiations thinking they will eventually find my price. It is what it is a high priced legitimate software company playing to people's dreams of being self sufficient but the targeted audience is not informed of what it takes to accomplish this dream. Dedication & Hard work Wish me luck I hope at least the food is good!

Larry   Mississauga, Ontario

3:19pm on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 

geez ... I wish I had read what you folks have posted here before I bought the platinum package ... nothing but headaches and now I'm getting calls from affiliates offering other services for an exorbitant amount of money

Darlene Leverett   Vancouver, BC, Canada

4:32am on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 

I too got scammed by Storesonline. There are so many on-going lawsuits across the United States that I'm amazed and disappointed that they have been able to stay in business so long. I guess the money they scam out of people must make it worth their while.

They have been banned from doing business in Utah and that's where they're based - that says a lot.

I would like to start a class-action lawsuit here in Vancouver, BC - does anyone know how I would go about that? Please contact me at leverett@shaw.ca Storesonline should be stopped from ever doing business again - anywhere.

Thank you,

Darlene Leverett

Ethel   Portland

9:47pm on Monday, May 18th, 2009 

If I could rate them a ZERO, it would still be too high. Unlike some here, I was able to work with them to get a site up and going. Where I don't know, cuz that's when every turn had a price. I finally asked to have the hosting turned off on April 24, 2009. Today I get my cc bill and there it is again! After contacting customer (lack of) service, I am told my request was registered 2:12 minutes AFTER the recent postin! Rip Off Rip Off

online store webmaster   North Carolina

7:55pm on Monday, April 13th, 2009 

I have been a web designer/webmaster for more than 15 years. I've built tons of sites and am presently a webmaster for 2 very successful online stores and working on 2 more. Recently, I met a lovely couple that got scammed by StoresOnline. I can not believe that these smart people actually spent over $6,000 for absolutely NOTHING. After 3 months of trying to help them through the process to actually get their store online, we have now given up. WOW, it says it all...the stories go on forever and so do the legal proceedings and scams. What a scam...how many thousands of people have spent their last penny, hoping to find the pot of gold? How does a company last so long and scam so many people? I can't believe it. I am a very honest web site developer and this type of scam really boils my blood. What a shame...beware of companies that claim that web sites and online stores are easy and ANYONE can do it... Be sure you research before you give money to anyone making promises...

stanley r. chappell   west columbia,sc

4:02pm on Sunday, April 5th, 2009

i went on 4-5-09 to thier presentation, and i paid 38.00 for a license, and i was going to go to another one, but sense I've read your feed back on them, i've decided not to go, I don't have 3000.00 to throw away or higher credit card bills,I want to make money, not loose it. well thank you for the scam alert

unknown   unknown

1:03am on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 

Purchased Platinum Package and now in dept 7000$ yes they talked about the dreams and yes I'm still digging my hole as for you if you sign up you will be digging with me, please people understand that they will call you and ask you what you want to do they will understand exactly what you want and will not do nothing, they just ask to "know" if you are there "next" good website,,, for the price it was, i was thinking it was already going into action, month later after week bail notice only 1week that's all you have to escape your heavy dept, no help , i was almost out of the hole and they gave my a new one, for the price of the package my mom and me signed for i could of got a logo and small patent on the dirt i stand on, and payed a company for traffic and domain and so forth , hope this helps you people. JESUS 7000$ i never even had GONE thank you and goodbye

Tony   Virginia

2:53am on Thursday, March 19th, 2009 

I think they to use sales some pushy tactics at the seminar but that is what they do, sell. I paid 6k for unlimited sites and they would build one for you. Once I actually put my mind to it, building the site was easy. I built 3 in less than 2 month. They do over glorify it, it takes work and if you are not willing to put the time into it, you will not reap the rewards. I have written press releases, articles and submitted them to ezines, I paid for Site maps. I work on my site daily. I made my first sale yesterday. I rank locally #1 & 2 on google. I published the site 97 days ago.

I am on pg 2 of msn, 3-18 on yahoo, working on google

The customer support was so good, I had them on the phone for hours at a time helping me learn. I checked how many incoming links I had on yahoo yesterday 576 and today I have 690, articles work. Go to my website and email me if you want to learn how to use articles as long as your not selling scrubs.

They have worked hard to clean up their image

Tony

David   San Francisco

1:37pm on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 

I think they do know what they are talking about when it comes to internet marketing. However, the information that they are providing can be found on the internet easily. The biggest negative about their products are their price. $25 per month for their hosting and about $1000 for one website. It also cost $100 to sign up for the merchant credit card processing. The current break down of those services on the net are $4 per month for hosting, $150 for a professional shopping cart system, and free sign up for merchant credit card processing. Their pricing structure is the main reason I gave them a "1" - dreadful.

James   Athens, GA

10:33am on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 

I recently signed up in December 2008. Was contacted 1/5/09 by an April in Programming with instructions on how to send the information to them for them to take over and complete a website that I had designed and was about 80% complete with. I need specific programming designs that the designer I hired prior could not complete. So I sent EVERYTHING on 1/5/2009. I was told that a programmer would be in contact with me in 5 days. Three weeks later and no one will return emails or phone calls. I have "chatted" with their 24-7 customer service on several occasions and have been given ticket numbers but NO ONE ever contacts me. I have stopped payment on any further EFT's from my account and I am having an attorney handle the rest for me. I plan to stand outside the next seminar in my area and protest. (freedom of speech) I want to warn as many people as I can about their lies!!! I want to have this company legally investigated for their practices and breach of contracts. I have filed complaints with the Better Business Bureau and Consumer Affairs and I ask anyone else on here to please do the same. If they get enough complaints then maybe they will actually take action to put this company out of business.

Jodi   Texas

5:20am on Saturday, December 13th, 2008 

Do not fall for the SOL scam. They promise easy access and programming for online business opps but they never deliver. I have been building websites for over 8 years and I can't even use their system effectively. They claim to offer company information for suppliers that dropship inventory and that is false as well. NO customer support and the only calls you do recieve are ones wanting more money or telemarketers as they DO sell your information. We currently have a case filed with the Texas Attorney Generals office for investigation. If you are in Texas, please contact them as well. Just do a search....yes, it's that EASY....

SOL is a SCAM!!!! Don't become a victim!!!!!

Debra   Texas

9:47pm on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 

I have had to shut down a checking account I have had for over 15years because of this company. They were VERY helpful in getting me financed for this program, but they never return your calls or emails when you are having financial problems because of hurricane IKE. They wanted me to send them copies of the bills I had paid and money I had spent. I went to my bank and showed them everything I had signed and done the day of the seminar and they said CLOSE the account. What a deceitful bunch, I bet they call me now. I am one of the lucky ones, they have only gotten me for 450.00 as I am not paying the rest, they can get on my credit report right next to the last company that screwed me, Verizon, Can you hear me now? And they are all alone, because I pay my valid bills and to h-ll with those scammers.

Shad   MI

1:47pm on Saturday, November 1st, 2008 

I just went thru one of their seminars and they offered one business website for 25 dollars plus 24.95 a month hosting. I dont know? you tell me is that about industry standard? Do they get you at the pro level is that it? Twenty Five dollars sounded cheap to me, my brother who I brought with me bought one just to try it, He like I figure 24.95 a month and 25 dollars up front, if we lose we are out 25 bucks. plus monthly hosting of 24.95 guess we havent checked out the customer service on it yet so we dont really know what horror stories will come up, My brother is a programmer and so is my son so I dont think we will have any problems building a website. I guess I can see some of your points of view but like one guy above said home depot offers you tools if you use those tools to destroy your basement then I guess its your fault. Like wise storesonline offers you tools build your own basement, hopefully you can fill it with what you need....more later after we get more experience with it.

samantha   Linwood NC

4:32pm on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 

A Nightmare!! The worst seminar I have ever come across. The only thing good that came out of it was hopefully the mp3 player as long as it keeps working. The food was terrible! Cold nasty chicken salad sandwich noodles water that has been sitting for 2 hours and a dryed up brownie. If you value your time stay away from these people!

Jo   Virginia

6:15pm on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 

StoresOnline sold me 3 websites, this was the least of site you could have. They promised that they would provide step-by-step help if I didn't understand the materials. When I call to get help you had to leave a message, number and someone would call back. They only people who called were the billing people they sold my contract too. I wish this site was up back then it would of saved me alot of money, time and stress. A year after I purchased StoresOnline, the company that worked for went under leaving me with no income and there weren't any jobs open since alot of business were cutting back or going under. I could of kick my self for purching the online business, I still couldn't get any help getting my site up and running. Total RIPOFF!! is right.

norman   connecticut

10:25am on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 

hi-wow-what a burn.some day maybe i'll give the full story-but please-(-i literally cried tears over this mistake--and prayed-a lot-it works-if you love HIM--)--do not join this bunch. i had to get my state after them for a refund--..wow. my friend who is a web expert siad this thing =a total joke--scam--so...beware

MR   Michigan

9:45am on Friday, August 29th, 2008 

My sister and I have recently become involved with Storesonline - wish I had found some of these complaints BEFORE my sister handed over her credit card. In the seminar they made it clear that we were purchasing the software, however, they promise all kinds of help to get you up and running. The only "help" offers we have received are from two different business that claim affiliation with Storesonline.

The tax info company wants to "help" us get our business set up properly for the low cost of $3000 plus $50 a month! No money? No credit left on your credit card? Why...we'll help you get even more credit so you can go even further into debt!!!

The other company, forget what they called themselves, wants to help us market our websites, which by the way, will also cost another $3000 or so. This company was very high-pressure and the guy got very upset when I told him we didn't have the money so we would not be using his company.

My sister and I are going to make every effort to get at least one store up and running, however, it will be done without spending more money that we do not have.

bushu   virginia

9:41pm on Sunday, April 13th, 2008 

To Diana in Washington. I fell for Storesonline in 2003. I tried to return the next day and they refused. I had a lawyer send them a letter saying that during the seminar they implied they would provide instruction in setting up a website and it was only after I got the package (they covered up the paper they made me sign at the end of the seminar when they delivered the package to me) and read it at home that I found out, instruction was not part of what I had bought. They were quiet for a year (the statute of limitation on fraud is a year) then the collection agency tried to come after me. I went to small claims court in Virginia. In VA, you can file a warrant in debt for $50. I explained to the judge how they sold to me using the false implication of accompanying instruction and refused to refund even though I tried to return right away. They claimed that since this was a business to business purchase, federal cooling off law did not apply, but I said they knew I was not a business, they'd asked me that at the seminar and so the contract I signed was invalid. The judge asked me about the arbitration clause and said that the law of VA pertaining to contracts could not uphold a contractual clause that purported to invalidate the laws of VA. He ruled in my favor and I didn't have to make the payments any more.

John   California

9:51pm on Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 

Like many of you, I got sucked in back in 2005 with Stores Online. As I was looking for a way to get out of debt, I thought Stores Online was there answer. What StoresOnline did was put me in more debt

People, do your research before getting involved with this company. There websites are not that great and they don't give you the full story on what it takes to become successful online.

I would stay as FAR away from this company as possible. Any ALL IN ONE BUSINESS that comes in a BOX (STORES ONLINE) probably is not going to work.

Although I got sucked up, I was able to finish paying for the contract that I signed. Lucky me, I was able to pay the $3500 off. But I sure would like that money back right now.

STAY AWAY FROM STORES ONLINE if you like your money. Dealing with this company is like throwing money in the street.

DIANA   WASHINGTON

10:56pm on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 

HELP, I WAS SUCKERED INTO BUYING 6 WEBSITES. ALMOST 9 MONTHS LATER I STILL DO NOT HAVE ONE UP AND RUNNING. I HAVE TRIED TO RETURN EVERYTHING BUT THEY REFUSED TO LET ME OUT OF THE CONTRACT. I HAVE PAID OVER $1700 SO FAR AND HAVE A DEBT OF OVER $6,000. THEY MISREPRESENTED THEMSELVES AND WHAT THEY COULD DO FOR ME. HIGH PRESSURE SALES AT THE SEMINAR DID ME IN. DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN GET RID OF THIS? I AM WILLING TO TAKE THE LOSS OF THE MONEY ALREADY SPENT, BUT I WON'T PAY THEM ANOTHER DIME. THEY ARE THREATENING COLLECTION. I EVEN TRIED TO SELL THE WEBSITES WITH NO LUCK. ANY ADVISE?

Melane   Tennessee

10:29pm on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 

I wish my husband and I had done the necessary background stuff on StoresOnline. They are a RIPOFF...I would never ever recommend their service to anyone! My cousin went to one of their seminars and asked if she should do it because the people were so convincing. I told her to RUN and don't answer your phone if you see that it's StoresOnline on the caller i.d. I rest assured that one day they will have to answer to a higher power on ripping off people that are already struggling and was looking for a way to make a little extra money....

Ryan   California

11:17pm on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 

Stores Online is a SOFTWARE company. Not a business opportunity company. Plain and simple. They do not provide a Biz Opp, they provide software or tools for those who would like to start a business. Just like Home Depot is not a construction company, they provide excellent tools to build what you decide to build.
If you read the material they give you before your 3 day right of cancellation (which they remind you about over and over again when you buy) you will know clearly what you have versus what you need.
It's not overpriced unless you feel you don't need all of the tools they provide like the reverse search tool, or the merchant account. You get what you pay for when it comes to ecommerce and Stores Online gives you more than most that buy even realize.
I don't work for Stores Online, I have 3 websites, one of which makes me about $500 a month and the others are still in the works.
I feel bad for those that buy and don't make money, because quite frankly it's their own fault, don't blame Home Depot if your basement isn't the way you want it, blame yourself

Carol Tinnea   St. Louis, MO

5:54pm on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 

I bought 6 websites (as advised by the StoresOnline "experts"). I have one up and running: I spent another $2,000 (highly over priced) doing the PMI training (separate but same company). I learned pretty much stuff but I realized that I would be the one doing all the work and couldn't have done it without the PMI online training course which should have been included in the StoresOnline purchase price.
I spent many endless hours getting product descriptions, images, etc. laid out for their programmmers to copy and paste into a website template. I complained to the programming manager that I was not happy with my first programmer (didn't return my calls or emails) so he assigned a different programmer. Both of these programmers got to a point and stopped working on my site and said it was finished and I should approve it and they would release it to me. I refused because it wasn't finshed and it didn't work properly. After threatening to go to the manager's boss, I finally worked directly with the manager who fixed and taught me how to fix and finish the website which was about 6 weeks later than expected (missing the Christmas sales).
I was extremely frustrated and upset that I had spent so much money and time on the project and had uncooperative support that I almost pulled out and filed a complaint with the BBB and the Attorney General.
Since publishing my site, I have been satisfied with the online chat support when I have a website problem that I can't figure out. They do a good job explaining "why and how" and usually apply the fix to my site for me.
I would advise to those of you who really want to make a go of this to be persistant and go to the boss and the bosses boss until you get satisfaction. Expect to do alot of work but ask them for help.
If you haven't bought through StoresOnline yet, shop around for better prices. I wish I would have. Good luck.

Marie Vogel   British Columbia, Canada

5:48pm on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 

I Say dreadfull, because I have fallen victim too the same situation. went to their presentation, got hooked to their wonderfull sales pitch. ohh and it's ok that I couldn't afford it they'll just get me financing, cause then my Credit was good. well after alot of work, alot, to have a website up, is one thing, but to acctually market it like a proffesionally rated at the top website, it is all plus plus plus, & more and more money. now I am going broke, my regular bills are bouncing & I can't afford their payments anymore. & opps too bad, that is now not their problem, no refund.!!!

Sharon   Oklahoma

2:41am on Friday, February 1st, 2008 

My husband and I purchased 6 websites from Stores Online. Big Mistake!! They put on a very impressive presentation, but I feel that we were very mislead. We explained to them that we were already in a business with a wonderful product that we love and are provided with a beautiful, professional FREE website. We told them that we just needed a way to drive more traffic to our website. They said that Stores Online would be perfect for us to get that done. We were sent to another workshop after our purchase and everyone there was so lost and confused, nobody seemed to know what to do. I totally feel like this is a RIPOFF!! Also we have had 2 different companies calling us saying that they're partnered with Stores Online. One is The Tax Club and they're wanting to go over tax benefits. They say the service was included with our purchase. I told him how unhappy I was with Stores Online and he said that he hears that from almost everyone that he calls. The other one that keeps calling says that they want to help us get our business going but they charge for their services and they are very pushy. We are actually hoping to get a refund from Stores Online and I am planning to contact the BBB and the State Attorney General's Offices.

Bob   Middletown OHIO

11:18am on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 

StoresOnline sold us, we had 3 websites and a dream. They promised web hits and they always managed to make the number they promised. Of course, we paid for those hits and this cost us several hundred dollars. Of the thousands of hits, we did not sell one signel item. No one even looked at the "checkout page" - ZERO HITS on the check out page. Do not just walk away from Stores Online, RUN AWAY and do not look back!

Edward Thomson   San Bernardino, Cal

11:15am on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 

I am one of the big losers with StoresOnline. After investing almost $7000, they refused to accept my business idea, and would not refund my money. My advise to anyone seeking an internet business is to aim totally away from this company. They grossly misrepresent what they offer, and exaggerate their role. There are many other blogs on StoresOnline. They are ALL negative. Buyers beware of this scam.

Jim   Illinois

1:44am on Thursday, January 10th, 2008 

I'm was one of the individuals you spoke about, inexperienced but was overly impressed with the presentation. I paid about $3500 for 3 so called license certificates good for 3 websites. I received a software CD that was suppose to make designing my website easy. Well, here I am roughly 5 years later and all I have to show for my money are the documents I signed, the so called license certificates and no website. Maybe there are others who were more succesful than I was getting up and running but this company preys on your hopes of creating an online business with minimal support at a major financial cost. Are there any others out there who experienced the same?