The St. Louis BBB has issued the following statement on the reincarnation of Doug Van Arsdale from Credit Solutions of America.
More than 1,000 Internet shoppers from across the nation – including dozens from Missouri and Illinois – said they never received discount coupons purchased from the Texas-based daily deal site SaveMore.com.
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) says customers from 45 states filed complaints in the last 10 months. The BBB urges extreme caution when dealing with SaveMore.com, a business with close ties to Douglas Van Arsdale, founder of the notorious debt settlement company, Credit Solutions of America.
SaveMore.com has an “F” grade with the BBB, the lowest grade possible.
Customers said they bought discount coupons for businesses ranging from bookstores to fast-food restaurants to beauty product distributors, but ended up with nothing. St. Louis area consumers said they tried repeatedly over several weeks or months to get SaveMore.com to send their orders, without success. Several said emails and phone calls were not returned.
“This company is a complete scam,” said a customer from Ballwin, Mo.
“We were ripped off,” said a man from Florissant, Mo.
Michelle Corey, BBB president and CEO, said the number of consumers affected is astonishing. “We may never know how many people were taken in by this company,” she said.
The BBB in Dallas, where SaveMore.com is headquartered, issued a warning about the company five days before Christmas and urged SaveMore.com officials to address the complaints. Since then, the number of complaints has skyrocketed. The company has failed to respond to hundreds of them.
Records filed with the Texas secretary of state show that SaveMore.com is a name used by the company Lifestyle – Save More, LLC, at 12700 Park Central Drive in Dallas. Augur, Inc., a company owned by Van Arsdale, is listed as manager.
Van Arsdale was the founder and CEO of Credit Solutions of America, which listed an address in the same building on Park Central Drive. Credit Solutions ran afoul of several attorneys general in 2009. Suits in Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Maine, New York, Texas and Oregon alleged the company reneged on promises to help clients get out of debt. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, who sued Credit Solutions in June 2009, said that the company “promised real relief to consumers . . .only to leave them in even worse shape because they had to pay the company.” – Source
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lmao..know doug! he works for uber now, he picked me up from work one night. didn’t know he was involved in illegal dealings, read him and his company were sued for around $200 million dollars for false advertising, not contacting creditors etc. He said he worked in banking and real estate, and that he was in roofing now. lmfao, we hung out a few times, he was real cool. he stays in east dallas now, all of a sudden, he just went ghost on me it’s been like 5 or 6 months since I saw or spoke to him. smh…sign of the times.
Do you know what, if anything, is being done to shut down Savemore.com? I was scammed $15 for a Barnes & Noble gift card as several other people.