Digital Blog World
Complaint 317121 Details

I was convinced by a representative from Digital Blog World to invest $26,000 to start a business as an agent of Washington Resource Services, supposedly a merchant services provider. I received 1,000 "leads" and was given "Executive Media Package." I was instructed to call Dave Marsh every two weeks for an update on the leads. From October 2013 through March 2014 all the leads that were in "pre-qualification" ended up "declined." Now (April 2014) Dave Marsh's phone just rings and no one answers. Other contacts I've had along the way (Joseph Vasso and Brad Schuster) also fail to respond.

In addition to the initial investment, I was convinced to invest $12,000 in December 2013 for legal services to help convert the business to an LLC (which it was), tax preparation, and help. The tax preparation happened but what was needed was so minimal that I could have figured it out myself.

If I hadn't been gullible enough, I was convinced to invest another $5,995 in February 2014 for a business plan (that was meaningless) and online marketing services. The latter included a YouTube video and website construction, which are happening but also meaningless since my "company" is an agent of a bogus merchant services business.

I believe the companies that were contracted by the original scammers to do some of this work were legitimate, but their services did not cost what those scammers charged me.