good2go Wrote:
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> Beyond Hello advertises a sunglasses shop with a
> required $50-$75 purchase and optional return. In
> the store I went to, after spending 20 minutes
> forcing an interaction, I finally asked what their
> cheapest pair of sunglasses was. I was told the
> $89.95 Oakleys. That is $20 over what I had
> budgetted for the shop and could not be done. I
> asked for a card and they didn't have one so the
> sales associate wrote her name and number and the
> sunglasses I had looked at on a sticky note.
> Because I remembered that only a pair of
> sunglasses would be accepted I made no purchase.
>
> Today I have in my inbox new emails advertising
> this same sunglasses shop with a required $50-$75
> purchase and optional return. Also today I
> received an email from the same one falsely
> advertising the shop saying I will not be paid
> for the shop despite my great comments about mood
> and interaction and everything else.
>
> I have emailed these false advertisers telling
> them to stop falsely advertising the shop but
> they continue.
>
> Beyond Hello cannot be trusted. They know they are
> lying and they continue to put shoppers in an
> impossible situation where we invest our time in
> the shop and then get to the purchase and have to
> chose between sacrificing an obligation to our
> family and making an unplanned, unbudgetted
> purchase to benefit Beyond Hello and its
> commitment to falsehood.
goodtogo, Beyond Hello is a reputable company, and the instructions for these shops are not misleading. You underestimated how much you might have to pay to do the shop, that's really the main problem here. I've done plenty of these purchase shops, as well as ones for other companies, and the minimum purchase requirement is just that, a minimum. I can't tell you how many purchase shops I've done where absolutely NOTHING is available for the minimum amount required. A lot of people do not do purchase shops because they don't want to or can't, which is perfectly understandable.