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ABC Loan - See Pacific Funding

Accolade - (Paris Texas Hardware) - 1) Poor quality "Made in China" Curtain holdbacks that don't include instructions on installation drill size. 9/9/07. Typical Chinese junk distributed by Linen's and Things, USA.

Adobe - GoLive Product (Mac) - Must jump through multiple hoops in unsuccessful attempts to keep product from "unexpectedly quitting" on Macs. No correction known at this time Product was not adequately tested. 8/24/01.
"Made in China"

Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc (AIT)- Here's a great example of a company to stay clear of and to never ever allow automatic credit card withdrawals. Poor service, such as 1)numerous downtimes and lost account info extending site downtime for weeks. 2) blaming other components of the web for down times that are really their own fault. 3) slow connections for site visitors. 4) Customer service would leave the customer chasing his tail after their problems. 4) Often Technical Support and Customer Service would not get back to you after being too busy to take calls after one finally gets phone number to call. 5) False billings requiring numerous corrections to statements. 6) Company tries to collect on bogus 6 month contracts that customers and resellers are not aware of until they try to jump the hoops to cancel account and find the exorbitant unwarranted charges on their credit card statements after closing as though it were some kind of retaliation for leaving. 7) holds domains hostage until false bills are paid for . 8) falsifies evidence to credit card companies to justify unwarranted charges . get'em's worst company for 2002. (10/27/02)

Aetna - Says you get a "free" copy of "Navigating your Health Benefits for Dummies" by visiting www.AetnaEarly.com. Then it starts you on a "Click here for free copy..." Then you are required to fill put in a Priority Code, not explained in the letter, which after looking around I found was 66721. 1) Then, it required me to fill out a questionaire, voiding the "free" aspect of the advertisement. 2) As part of the form, the priority code was already filled in and could not be altered, assuming it got it from the prior input. However, the field said it must be filled in and was missing the last digit, and again, it could not be altered, leaving me wondering if this partial number, which I could not alter, would void the free gift. We will wait and see. Do I ever trust Aetna after the fake free ad? Posted 5/11/09.

AKAI (Plasma Televisions) - Here's a company that represents all that is going wrong in the corporate world and the fact that Japan is not doing things any better than the USA. 1) Site is incompetent at best with no support option at the root level of www.akai.com. 2) calling support, once discovered, gets you an automated voice message that says someone will be right with you. That was a lie. 3) Instead, after 1/2 hour hold time, a message came on asking me to leave a message. This is a fine example of very poor customer service.

SMALL BUSINESSMAN RECOMMENDATION FOR AKAI: 1) Have a support link on the home page. 2) Have downloadable manuals available online from the main support page for all products. 3) get better website and support management.

ALAMO RENT-A-CAR (THIS IS ANOTHER HACK "TITE-ASS" COMPANTY THAT RIPS OFF CONSUMERS EVERY CHANCE IT GETS HIDING BEHIND CORPORATE POLICIES. YOU WILL FEEL LIKE YOU'VE BEEN TO THE ALAMO AFTER DEALING WITH THIS COMPANY. 1) Can't change a driver's name. Must add a driver at $9 per day EVEN THOUGH ONLY ONE DRIVER CAN BE DRIVING AT ANY GIVEN TIME. 2) IF YOU RETURN A CAR EARLY, THEY HAVE EXCESSIVE CHARGES 3) GOUGES CUSTOMER ON INSURANCE COVERAGES AND GAS OPTIONS. 4) Washes cars, but does not dry them. They are horribly spotty in Hawaii-Kona. 10/18/2010

Allstate (Homeowner's Insurance) (Are you in good hands???) - Insurance is confusing and too many folks are ignorant enough to shop price only. 1) We made a claim for a fence that blew down where after the deductible, Allstate paid out $250. We'd been with them over ten years and that was the first claim. That year, we bought a rental property in Hawaii, and Allstate wouldn't insure it. We were told it was because we had made a claim in the last 3 years. 8/28/06 2) Because we liked our Agent, we stayed with Allstate anyway and insured our Hawaii property with someone else. 2) This year, we bought a new home and having been with Allstate 18 years, asked to have it insured. They refused on the basis that it had a shingle roof in a non-fire hazard area that they defined by city and therefore a fire hazard area. Farmer's Insurance quickly picked up our policy for the new home. Here's yet another company that represents all that is going wrong in the corporate world and shows itself to be perfectly capable of shooting itself in the foot. However, insurance is one industry where "you're in good hands" marketing to confused buyers will pay off. Allstate's stock doesn't seem to reflect its underwriting discriminations. 3) Neighbor's house burned down at 2 a.m. Sunday night with their losing almost all their possessions and barely getting out with their lives. Allstate's response, someone will call you on Monday morning. 8/3/08

(Life Insurance) Of course I have a sense of humor about life insurance because it doesn't insure that you will live. Instead, it ought to be called survivor benefit insurance or post death disbursement plan or something like that. One things for sure; as the economy worsens, some companies will try every "legal" trick in the book to get out of payments. One only has to look at the exclusions for starters. 1) For example, I had my option for monthly payment form with cancelled check faxed to Allstate from the Allstate agents office to put me on a monthly payment plan. Instead, I get a letter from Allstate that says my policy would end on March 16. At first, I assumed the letter crossed the fax and was already addressed. The 16th was a Sunday, so I called on Monday the 17th to be sure my payment plan was in effect. Allstate claimed to have never seen the fax and 2) MADE NO EFFORT whatsoever to contact my agent. They assumed I would. 3) Furthermore, Allstate informed me that my life insurance policy was no longer in force!!! In other words, if I died, it was as though I had no policy (which I had been paying on for over 10 years and my beneficiary would get nothing. I HAVE DROPPED ALL MY OTHER ALLSTATE POLICIES OVER THE YEARS. Unfortuntely, it is not economically feasible to drop a life insurance policy (or I would have dropped Allstate for that too). There ought to be a way to trade a policy over to another company. 4) A message was left in the manger's inbox, which the supervisor discouraged. No call back has been received yet. 5) I went to my agents office only to find that it was closed during normal business hours, (possibly due to lack of insurance sales??)- 3/18/08

Amazon.com (Border's Books) - 1) Site is incapable of listing books by title in search engines in alpha order. For example: you type in "The Greens" and you get 25 or more titles that are not exactly "The Greens" prior to seeing the title. 2) They said they would fix this months ago and didn't. 3) Do not easily offer webist listing of its phone numbers. Since combining, you would think they would have fixed these issues. 4) as part of the new Amerika, Amazon requires you leave your credit card number and other personal information in order to review their movies, etc. Then, they filter the reviews. This is one screwed up company.

America Online (AOL). - 1) Junk mail 11/2/01. 2) Sales wouldn't take no for an answer. 3) When cancelled, they dropped the call. Couldn't find membership to cancel it. 4). Had to go online to cancel therefore causing AOL to claim I used the account and charged me for a month where I never used it other than to cancel. Would recommend against this aggressive company. 5). Difficult to get rid of interfering with operating system. 6) Tendency to get lots of gross junk mail.

American Airlines - 1) Overbooking Flights 2) Lost luggage 9/12/04

American Diversified Insurance Services, Inc. - 1) Junk mail 11/2/01.

American Express - 1) For the first time since this site has opened, American Express finally gets itself listed and it's a biggy. They made numerous changes in card holder agreements where when a holder pays the minimum, their balance may actually get larger!!! That's a big no-no. 2) They send these changes by sending the whole text of the agreement so you have to read all the fine print (3 pages worth) and there is no comparison to the old agreement to show you where the changes were made. That way its too confusing for most people to bother arguing about. I think American Express knows that. Don't you.

American Furniture Galleries (Sacramento, CA Area) - 1) 99 cent pricing 2) Ads show more furniture than included in the obviously displayed price. 3) Junk Mail 4) In fine print, you can discover that prices are for "cash" only. 6/20/08.

AmeriTrade - 1) 99 cent pricing 2) tied with ads that associate the company with American integrity. 5/8/06.

Michael P. Murphy
DBA The Small Businessman - www.smallbusinessman.com
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