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This company recently went out of business- they have scammed many out of thousands of dollars for a membership that we could not even collect on! I'm looking for more people who have been hurt by this scam, to possibly pursue legal action!

Company Business Name: JAMES MILLER

Country of complaint: Canada

Address: Toronto, Ontario

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daisytoronto
Toronto, CA
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Aug 10, 2009 7:53 pm EDT

I'm with you all the way. Let me know if I could be any assistance.
You can contact me at daisytoronto@gmail.com

Regards
Michelle Nguyen

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Nitro187
Oakville, CA
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Aug 24, 2009 12:33 pm EDT

I've been scammed by this company, and am looking for guidance to sue them.

Thanks.

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christinablankstein
Creemore, CA
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Sep 03, 2009 8:42 pm EDT

My boyfriend and i also have a membership and just found out tonight that they went belly up. We paid $10, 000 for this memebership and have never even used it...please contact me
Christina
cleaningforu@rogers.com

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Cmdr
Belleville, CA
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Oct 01, 2009 7:28 pm EDT

I'm interested in how this would proceed. Contact to me can be made via cmdrn@hotmail.com

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Ana45
Toronto, CA
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Oct 03, 2009 4:29 pm EDT

Hi, I have a membership at Club Par and I have never been able to use it either. I can be reached at ana.oliver45@hotmail.com. Please let me know if there's anything we can do to retrieve the money lost.

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JohnMarch69
Brampton, CA
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Oct 13, 2009 6:22 pm EDT

We also have a membership and just found out today that they are gone. Please contact me at JohnnyMarch69@hotmail.com

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DDeVore
Stouffville, CA
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Nov 02, 2009 10:00 pm EST

We also got ripped off.
I spoke with Lela at several points in time, as I accused her of fraud, and she claimed to me that they were in the process of "moving to another location".
I asked her where and she proceeded to tell me that that was still up in the air.
We stopped by 3350 American drive, and the place was shut down, she claimed she forgot to put the sign up that said we're moving, and that she had to run out on family emergency.
Over several periods in time she continually reassured me that they were in fact still in business.
Stupid me paid my annual web access fee only to find out that I can't even log onto the website.
I can be contacted at danathegoddess@yahoo.ca we too would like to puruse legal action to get our money back, or at least see these people pay for the scam they pulled.
Has anyone learned anything at all so far?

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robandchris
Brampton, CA
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Nov 03, 2009 7:03 am EST

I have been trying to contact Club Par Excellance by phone and the original number was discon tinued. I was given two additional phone number through 411 and these two are discontinued. My husband and I purchased a membership in April 2008 and like you have not been able to use it because it is basically useless. Iwas in the process of asking for a refund of my membership but am in shock that the company has gone out of business. In this case is there any legal recourse? I too want to be refunded but doesn't bankruptcy cover them in this case. You can contact me at robandchris@rogers.com

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Scorpiondoll
Mississauga, CA
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Nov 07, 2009 7:46 pm EST

I use to work in the Telemarketing department of Club Par Excellence. I worked there for about 15 days and then I took off for 3 days as I had to go to US for some reason. When I came back I found out that the Telemarketing department has been closed for some days. I called Lela and asked her about my cheque. She said she would mail me. I waited for about 2 weeks, calling her every other day to find out about the cheque but she always says that I'm not responsible for it and I'll pass your message to administration department and they will help you regarding this matter. I visited there twice to meet some one from administration department but no one was ever available around that time. After some days I called them again, but the number was no longer in service and the company was no longer available there.

My email is hiba_shamshad@hotmail.com
email me for any possible help you need.

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crosseyed45
Toronto, CA
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Nov 20, 2009 10:49 pm EST

Contact this person MARY GRANT - jaminc@rogers.com. She was the Office Manager

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SMcIlravey
Penetanguishene, CA
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Nov 26, 2009 10:52 am EST

My wife and I were also taken for over $10K in January 2008. Please contact me at smcilravey@reliablesprinkler.com for whatever you need.

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RoseH
Mississauga, CA
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Nov 26, 2009 10:59 pm EST

I became a "member" of this in May 2007...I spent $8000 for this membership and had not been able to use it once. They lured me in with a chance to win 1 of 3 great prizes: a trip to the Caribbean, a $1000 online shopping spree, and something else I can't remember. Well, I won the online shopping spree...what a bunch of junk I had to choose from! And on top of that, I had to pay for shipping which cost more than some of the items themselves! They even gave me a so-called Free trip to Las Vegas for 3 days. And when I read the fine print at home, it said I had to pay certain costs (roughly $200 or more) for service fees. I never did end up going. I am still paying for it to this day. I realized I had been scammed when I started searching the website and noticed it was really just a website that directed you to other websites with deals and discounts. Websites that you could have just found on your own. Sure they would give you coupons to print out for 10% off a meal, or get a free something with the purchase of something else, but no extraordinary savings worth paying $8000 for. I would so love to get my money back somehow. Please contact me if you need any help or find out more info. Contact me at roseH28@gmail.com

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seanmcilravey
Penetanguishene, CA
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Dec 15, 2009 6:22 pm EST

Mary Grant is apparently the president/CEO of Club Par Excellence. The clubparexcellence.com website has them being bought by Scroll inc. None of the current passwords we have allow us to get on to the new co. website. I hope this helps.

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DDeVore
Stouffville, CA
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Dec 31, 2009 3:09 pm EST

We have yet to get anywhere with this whole situation.
Did Club Par actually file bankruptcy or did they just sell the company?
Is it possible to go after them for fraud? We may not get any money back but let's get this Scroll Inc thing taken care of befor they rip people off as well.
I was told by Scroll inc that according to Club Par our membership has expired, and that they basically did us a favor by keeping us on for a few months til our card expired.
Well wtf - we were never able to use the website. So if my mmbership has expired and the loan was to pay for a 10 year membership - then why is it that it's expired?
So we put a stop payment on the loan - and are now going through small claims with the loan company to see if we can recover any of our losses. Once finished with this I fully intend on proceeding against Scroll inc or club par whatever you want to call it.
Has anyone had any success in proceeding against club par?
I have lela's home # and address - not sure if that would really help at all - i doubt she'd be forthcoming with information.
You can do business search through the courts.
Depending on the cost I may consider doing this to see what if any info I could find out.
Its tempting to hire a lawyer problem is we cant afford it.
It would be nice to find a lawyer to do it pro bono or even we win or it's free kind of thing.
anyone please contact me danathegoddess@yahoo.ca let's not let them away with this scam.
We work hard for our money!

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levesque6
Niagara Falls, CA
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Feb 01, 2010 12:04 pm EST

Hi Everybody, We just found out a few weeks ago about Club Par. We also bought a 10 yr membership. We always had problems with the website and we would call and fight with them but we never got anywhere. Then all of the sudden we get a note, not a letter but a note from a friend that the company had closed down and they had found another company to take over our contract. Club Par never contacted us. So we called and we were told to call IDC and speak to George. This would cost us nothing. So we went to meet with IDC and spoke with Brian and George. They want to charge us $869.00 to take our contract. But they would be so kind as to let us pay in payments of two and to think about it and call them back in a week. So now I am wondering if this company IDC is Club Par under a new name because there is up to 8 people from Club Par working there. Did anybody deal with IDC which is short for International Discount Club? If so you can contact me at suzannelevesque@cogeco.ca

Your right we all have to do something here. We also paid our web fees in June/09 only to be told by IDC that Club Par has been out of business since April/09. Does anyone know when Club par went under?

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sc5
Rexdale, CA
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Feb 12, 2010 7:49 am EST

I thought this was a scam from the beginning, but was stupid enough to go ahead with it anyway! Glad to see I'm not the only one who had such doubts. every time I tried to contact them & spoke to someone named Wani all the time, sh ealways would just tell me how to navigate the site. If we can proceed with legal action, I would love to, as I am still payong for my "membership"! Please contact me at stephaniec5@rogers.com

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kunz85
CA
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Feb 14, 2010 10:02 pm EST

Has there been any update regarding law suits or court action?

We are in the same position as all of you and have sent a letter to the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services. In contrast to many of you, we were also involved with a company called Medicard Finance Inc that gave us the loan to pay Club Par Excellance.

Any update regarding legal or government action would be appreciated!
Together, we can get our money back and prevent these a**holes from scamming other people.

Thanks,

alvarado.oa@gmail.com

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sillygoose_girl
Toronto, CA
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Mar 09, 2010 11:42 am EST
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levesque6
Niagara Falls, CA
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Mar 26, 2010 12:55 pm EDT

Hey everybody! Go see this URL http://www.clubparexcellance.com/

I think I found Club Par

MSI Travel Club

Madison Centre
4950 Yonge Street
Suite 2200
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6 K1

Tel: +1.416.777.0437
Fax: +1.877.877.0437

Email Us at:

info@scrollnow.com

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levesque6
Niagara Falls, CA
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Mar 26, 2010 1:00 pm EDT

It's me again. I haev just sent them an email. I will let you know what there response is. Cross your fingers.

Suzanne

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sc5
Rexdale, CA
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Mar 26, 2010 5:28 pm EDT

I've tried contacting the people at MSI Travel already. They don't have a clue, and pretend they're trying to help evryone. They said they were going to notify all of the club par members. It's all a scam, they have not helped so far and probably will not.

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DDeVore
Stouffville, CA
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Mar 26, 2010 11:20 pm EDT

I contacted this Scroll Inc place a while ago, and their comment to me were:
Thank you for your email. Unfortunately according to my records Club Par
went out of business we continued to offer the discount program until your
card expired on 07/2009. If you will like to join the Access Savings
program, the annual fee is 199 dollars. Please let me know if you are
interested on our program and I will be happy to send you more details.

Thank you,
Nilza
Member Services
Please share your thoughts with us.

That seems to basically say ya we took over, and we did you a favor, now too bad for you pay me more money...
We paid the renewal fee I believe in May or something like that too! After they had already gone out of business.
Let me know how things go!

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Stormy_4956
Rockwood, CA
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Jun 09, 2010 2:00 pm EDT
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We to are being scammed as well...would like to be apart of any ideas as to where do we go from here! Contact me at stormy_4956@yahoo.com maybe if there are enough of us it will help. Please give me any feed back you may have..I was told that a company MSI Travel was handleing all of Club Par Excellance clieints and spoke to a rep there named LEBA who said ahe needed to find our file, she called back the next day and told me to call her at [protected] which now is no longer in service...hmmm imagine that! So then I called the compny that we did our financial with and they gave me the scoop on both if these companies! they are both scams.

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Allan Wong1
Toronto, CA
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Jun 16, 2010 11:49 am EDT
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The news gets worse folks, I was in contact with Scroll Inc / MSI Travel Club which took over in Sep 2009. They have the same URL clubparexcellance.com, but there is a note on the front page that says all former clubparexcellance members must enrol for $125 to continue the service. I still had access to the website features until now with exception to the enjoyaccess.com membership which expired. I talked to Wilton Neale business development director for MSI Travel Club in May 2010 and renewed for $125. Repeated attempts to determine if they followed thru kept getting the response "it is coming soon". I just called them the past week and the number is disconnected and their emails are bouncing. It looks like they went out of business too.

Although I can still access the website, the Book Vacations (for the discount condos) and the enjoyaccess does not work. I called enjoyaccess and they said you cannot renew directly thru them it has to be thru a travel club arrangement like clubpar or MSI. They were not helpful at all, they just kept saying "I'm sorry but we cannot help".

I am hoping that maybe another company will pick up the pieces and honor our memberships. It makes sense that a company going bankrupt would sell off their assets of value. Our memberships and the clubpar website would be such assets.

Allan Wong
awd100@hotmail.com

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Allan Wong1
Toronto, CA
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Jun 17, 2010 11:18 am EDT
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Scroll inc has a social network site that has a forum for former club par members to discuss issues.

It can be found here:
http://scrollnow.ning.com/

http://scrollnow.com/

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afiegehen
Collingwood, CA
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Jul 09, 2010 11:43 am EDT

I am currently still paying for my club par exellence and have already spent thousands of dollars. If any one could get me any info on what is going on or what I can do about it please contact me at andrewfiegehen0@hotmail.com
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trojanhorse
Mount Albert, CA
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Jul 22, 2010 5:01 pm EDT

if any one needs the truth about cpe i have corporation profile reports listing all administrators with current home and po box address. and if any one has been threatened by ifinacialcanada or medicard they to are not what they say i checked with the RCMP and both Canadian credit unions equifax and transunion and both did not show any transaction from medicard.
i want to take this to court so if you are serious please contact me at matteochc@hotmail.com

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Furios
CA
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Aug 18, 2010 3:09 pm EDT

Hi Everyone,
like everyone on this website my husband and I have also fallen victim to this scam...to provide an update about Scroll Now Inc..this is also a HUGE SCAM! Wilton J. Neale is actually involved in a very heavy case that was brought against him by the OSC for illegal trading on the Foreign Exchange Market, and one of the companies he is affliated with is MSI Financial...sound familiar. DO NOT TRUST ANY OF THEM! especially him. I was originally charmed by his desire to assist, but the momen I mentioned launching a complaint against Club Par Excellance...the nice guy who was "trying" to help became quite irate, and so I have a case again him using the Ministry of Consumer Services. As for Medicard, they claim they no nothing about what happened to Club Par Excellance which I find very hard to believe. I also made a call to the Access Card that was the original company that provided all the 'wonderful' discounts from the varying companies and one of the representatives said that from July 2009 Club Par Excellance pulled out of the agreement citing bankruptcy so our membership has been nul adn void for sometime.
I am absolutely FURIOUS and disgusted by all of this and agitated that our hands out tied.

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Robyn B
toronto, CA
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Dec 02, 2010 11:43 pm EST

I have Medicard Financial coming after me hard for the money that I never received from Club par Excellence. I don't feel that i should owe money that I never received. Please contact me at dreamez22@hotmail.com.

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Robyn B
toronto, CA
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Dec 02, 2010 11:58 pm EST

I have Medicard Financial coming after me hard for money that I never received from Club Par Excellence. I don't feel that i should owe money that I NEVER received. Please contact me at dreamez22@hotmail.com

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bpearce
Warkworth, CA
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Jan 17, 2011 7:08 pm EST
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I was also got ripped off by this company and am interested in any legal recourse available. I can be reached at brianpearce@xplornet.cm.

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J_fast
CA
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Jan 18, 2011 8:35 pm EST

We are also victim of the scam. Please contact me fastlane@hotmail.com. We would like to know what is going on, if there is any legal action taken place.
Thanks!

John

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miss mir
brampton, CA
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May 02, 2011 3:49 pm EDT

hello eveyone, i am also victim of club par excellence fraud and i am still paying to medicard finance for the loan payment which i should have stopped some years ago. i was scared of my account going in bad rating so i'm still paying please let me know how you got rid of the payment anyone please contact me at mir_aaliya@hotmail.com

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Jane Collver
Wainfleet, CA
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May 08, 2011 1:46 pm EDT
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I just recently had to pay off Medicard and what a ### Co. to work with...they too are in on the scam I believe now! as a single I gave to Club Par and medicard over $10, 000.00 ..of which started as $6700.00approx. I'm still waiting from the complaints review board...they sent me a letter saying due to the high ##of complaints it would be 8--10wks. still waiting! since Jan.2011..any other suggestions? Jane Collver [protected]

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Tom224617
somewhere, CA
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May 16, 2011 6:34 pm EDT

this place is ridiculous. I'd like to run into the peeps running these scams. If anyone is taking legal action, please email me tom224617@hotmail.com. I've been paying off a 5000 loan for the last couple of years. Stupid Medicard is no better. Can anyone let me know if they have stopped payment on Medicard and if so, did they take you to collections or just harrass you?

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rosborne
CA
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Jun 22, 2011 5:27 pm EDT
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Hello everyone. My name is Robert Osborne and I'm a producer with the CTV show W5. I would like to talk to people who had experiences with Club Par Excellance and MSI Travel that they don't mind sharing. My email address is robert.osborne@ctv.ca Many thanks.

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M. W.K.
Angus, CA
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Aug 01, 2011 3:17 pm EDT

Update Re: Club Par Excellance

Earlier this year the owner/operators and the company was found guilty on charges(See Ont Government Comsumer's Services website) and placed on 2 years probation and have to pay approximately about $55000 in damages towards thier victims who filed complaints against Club Par Excellance. As for the loan company Medicard I still am paying for Club Par Excellance 's membership. Even though I phoned and emailed the company about the situation, they insist that I continue to pay and warned of legal action against me if I stop paying the loan. At this time I am filing a complaint with Ontario's BBB, Ontario Consumer Services and even considering going to the media to expose this scam! M.K

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mauricesambra
Scarborough (Toronto), CA
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Aug 20, 2011 12:50 pm EDT
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I got this club par membership in 2008 and I have not found any benefits on having it, is the biggest scam ever! Please contact me mauricesambra@yahoo.ca. We would like to know what is going on, if there is any legal action taken place.
Thanks!

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dgesr
Toronto, CA
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Oct 13, 2011 10:34 am EDT

Has anyone heard anything about Club Par Excellence? Are they being investigated by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs or the Peel Regional Police yet for fraud. Selling memberships they never intended to make good one. Scamming people out of thousands of dollars. You would think the Ontario Government would care. Since they are licencing them to do business here. Did they go bankrupt shouldn't members receive some kind of notice by Ontario law Please comment if you know anything Thanks

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Super_Charged
Trenton, CA
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Nov 27, 2011 5:54 pm EST

Also purchased a membership back in 2007. I called to cancel but was informed I couldn't and that my last payment was slated for Sep. 2011. Now being November 2011, they are still deducting the fees from my account. Came online to get their contact info and found this site. Now very concerned I was also scammed as I never once used the program either. Is there a lawsuit or something that I can do to recover my money? please contact me at super_charged74@hotmail.com