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Ipa Business Consultants Lied about thier sevices and overcharged

I'm pissed about the company IPA. When I first hired them they promised a 3 to 1 investment return. IF it didn't happen they said they would tear up checks. Never happened and they didn't tear up checks. They saw my books, they knew where my co. was at. They claim that you'll be guided through the process, but you are pushed through with no support. Once they see that your company can't make payments they leave. You get a hand shake good luck, a spread sheet, a folder that my bookeeper laughed at, and alot of Empty promises.

This was a huge mistake on may part to let them in. Now I'm left with a bill of 65 thousand, and being harrassed by thier collections dept. This is money that I could have used to keep employees on in these slow times.I feel bad for them that I've been ripped off at my employees expense. I've paid IPA over 30 thousand of the 65 thousand I was billed. This is nothing but a con, and I will not be making any more payments to them.

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Noral Rental
Hobbs, US
Oct 19, 2011 6:53 pm EDT

I just had my business analyzed by a company named SMS and Global Resources, and while I feel the BA made a lot of good suggestions, I don't feel he had my best interest at heart.
Any company that would come to your small business, and try to strong arm you into an agreement that could cost you thousands and thousands of hard earned dollars, for a little information, that is readily available online, or from a local attorney, for a fraction of the cost, is not good for America.

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Jay Rippedoff
Beverly Hills, US
Jun 17, 2010 6:50 pm EDT

HCMM appears to be the solution to the IPA bad name which includes:

Attorney General Lawsuit:
http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/pressroom/2009_04/20090422.html

Two Multi-Million Dollar RICO Lawsuits:
http://newsblaze.com/story/2007031513400200002.ew/topstory.html

50 PAGES Full Of Complaints:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20000601/19115.html

Sexual Harassment Lawsuit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8-zbmZTTM0

My HCMM IPA complaint:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/ -

How much longer until businesses are finally aware of HCMM, IPA, etc. ? The sooner the better!

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bdex101
Bend, US
Jun 15, 2010 8:03 pm EDT
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Embarrasingly enough in a desperate manner I attended the "Training weeK" completely worthless time, perhaps better suited for future wannabe used car salesman. Anyone who has spent one day as an employee or client should know what I am talking about.

SUrprised to see they are still in Business..

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not fooled again
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Jan 23, 2010 7:35 pm EST

Good for you, don't pay them. They don't pay their bills! They owe us over $600 in expenses racked up in the three weeks my husband managed to work for them. What a bunch of slim balls. They treat their employees horribly too. Everyone needs to stay away from them. They prey on vunerable business owners and desperate out of work people. There needs to be a class action law suit filed against these clowns.

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Ipa Business Consultants Severely Overvalued Services

IPA Consultants had us baffled with self help book talk and nice suits at a time when we really needed some assistance and smart looking / talking people.

They were one day away from cashing $40, 000 worth of business checks when I decided to perform an after hours "Google" on IPA.

I was astonished at the number of complaints and their similarities to our recent IPA experiences. I panicked and dreadingly instantly initiated stop payment orders on all our checks. One letter from our lawyer quenched IPA's attempts to continue collection efforts.

Good companies don't act like this. They don't have to.

IPA is questionable, to say the least.

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Lord Nelson
Charleston, US
Mar 10, 2010 6:25 pm EST

To that Canadian who placed stop payments on checks, checks which were to pay for services ALREADY PERFORMED, I say that you are the crook. A consultant's time and knowledge is his or her product -- once the time is spent trying to help idiots like you, it can't be replenished. I hope that their lawyers took you to court, as they should.

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Amby
Jacksonville, US
Oct 25, 2009 9:48 pm EDT

I recently put my resume on careerbuilders.com and within mins I had three emails from them looking to give me an interview for their sales position. I googled them as well, as I shall all potential employers from now on, because its strange to get not only one but 3? emails exactly the same and just MINS after posting my resume. I had a bad feeling and looked them up. The first link was SCAM! lol and I read into it more and ended up here at this website. From now on I will be sure to look up companies I'm not familiar with. Glad I'm not the only one.

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Ipa Business Consultants Terrible experience

The IPA system is unethical! I spent $2k on a laptop, flight tickets, etc..., to go to IPA training for a week. They said the Biz Analyst (BA) does not sale anything. The BA sales consulting services. They BA will ask biz owner questions that nobody would know, just so the BA can gain credibility and make the owner feel stupid. The BA calls the research staff in front of the owner, but there is no research staff. The BA is calling the boss and talking to the boss as one that would talk to a subordinate, so the BA looks as though he/she has power. IPA hires anybody to be a BA. You do not need a financial background to work for IPA. There were people there with little to no financial statement analysis experience. 80% of the new employees quit in 6 months. The job burns them out with long hours, like 5am-10pm. They only pay .30 cents on the mile for your car or a rent-a-car that you use. They say that this .30 cents will workout, but I doubt it. They will also say that they have a 99% satisfaction rate. They will tell you the Better Business Bureau (BBB) complaints divided by number of client's serviced equals 1%. This is not how you measure satisfaction. It should be calculated by the number of complaining phone calls to IPA divided by number of client's serviced. I would guess this is 50%. I never asked. Many dissatisfied biz owners will not bother to call the BBB. So if you are considering working with or for IPA-IBA, I would reconsider.

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Jonnyapplesead
Phoenix, US
Jan 07, 2015 1:33 am EST

I am not sure how this whole process works, but I will ask lots of questions when they call tomorrow for my interview.

My thought is that when you're going into business their are risks (LLC, franchise, etc.). Not limited, but all or nothing. When GR generates a lead for the "salesman" or Senior Analyst, the person(s) in business are in dire need of help and probably the last thing they want to do is talk about it to some random telemarketer. I would be appalled that they would call me stating my business is in the dumps and you need my/our help. Especially over the phone and after reading the reviews. I'd say put me on the do-not-call-list and hang up. It would be insulting. Does this mean they don't need it or it hit home?

In fear of loosing everything, and/or being dependent on another person to assist, they're not going to be happy at all (in most cases). Now the SA is to squeeze every dime from them to consult (AKA GET YOUR PAYCHECK)? Is it worth it? That is for the business owner to decide and for you to ask in effort to take their money and re-invest it into a plan of action for their business (consulting). Their is no doubt this type of service comes in all shapes and sizes, and the continuum of customers are very happy to completely pissed off. Duh! Not to mention, it comes with a heavy price tag, no guarantee, and they will have to WANT TO MAKE THE CHANGE(S).

The thought alone of loosing my business is horrifying, but the risks you take to get to start or continue (capital, competition, process needs, growth, etc.) are sometimes just as horrifying (more money to invest in assets, equipment, technology, products, promotions, better services, employees, etc). If you jumped to soon or didn't think before making decisions, and are no facing personal and financial risks, when saying "yes" to a telemarketer for help, that is in my opinion, just as irrational as jumping the gun. I would not personally, and think the owner's rational thoughts are not being used "at one's best" when making this call. When frightened, pressured, scared tactics, etc., are used they may in fact need though. Maybe walking into their firm in person would be a better approach, but maybe not. My point being, reorganization is not pretty. Either way, I feel the clients are irrational when they agree to have a SA come to your office the next day (aka..being phone forced with a immediate assistance with a large expenses and no assurance your business will succeed even after the survey and implementation is complete) is purely emotional and a less of a rational decision. But, what else do they have to lose? What would they do if they were being rational? Everything. Regardless, the leads in any case will be an emotional wreck. You're the messenger and data gather, and for me, I don't believe in avoiding proper or truthful comments to someone who needs it, regardless of their emotional state and how "cold the lead is or not." I get why the PR says get back in there and sell that ###.

I don't know, and I haven't worked here, but I would assume being their is such a high turnover, that I'm missing something (maybe the 4 week not commissioned or loose everything tactic so they get paid and you don't, no start up funds, reimbursement, etc.). That is a jacket up, but I've not heard of anyone here on threads working at GR long enough to get commission (at least a year), and not make money, or being left out to dry after a sale or leaving. I did read one post where a gentleman was awaiting it, which would suck if your leaving, but it's kind of like using your sick days before you turn in your two weeks. Leaving always suck and the employer holds the cards. You have a lot to loose with commission base only (based on their leads) to a point, and are treated like ### apparently by not closing, but your job is to get the struggling client to commit to providing your services (AKA your paycheck).

Only time will tell!

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jonnydoplar
Lancaster, US
Sep 27, 2013 2:29 pm EDT

Wow, I was just about to accept the offer to attend training and join the Global Resources team until I read these reports. What is confusing is that [redacted]s now list them as a business you can trust because they have committed to some client satisfacion agreement with RR. I'm glad I went a little further than RR in my research.

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Robert Murray III
Mc Murray, US
Aug 09, 2013 11:40 am EDT

After engaging in several in-depth conversations with a recruiter/IPA employee who had contacted me telephonic ally, I committed to attending that firm's training session and subsequent employment to assist small and medium size businesses who were in dire need of upgrading or rescuing their operational capacities. Arriving on the February1, 2009, I was whisked to a hotel outside of Chicago and provided with a very large binder which included training agenda, schedule, materials and exercises for completion. As a retired military officer with significant experience in the Army's revolutionary Organizational Effectiveness Course and recent, relevant managerial consulting experience in both the medical service and higher educational settings, I looked forward to this opportunity. However, very early on in the training it became apparent that what had been described to me by the recruiter and what the job entailed were too completely different things. The master trainer...a female...made no attempt to disguise her ad vocation of high pressure, "scare tactics" in dealing with perspective clients. Her training lectures were interspersed with unsolicited commentary about her own sad past and how those experiences...both personal and professional... appeared to justify her "approach" as a Business analyst. After four days, I realized that the disconnect between legitimate business practice and intrusive, virtually unethical assessments would only result in follow on implementations of dubious if not counterproductive implementations and evaluations by the consultants that would follow should the client commit to additional services. I departed Chicago and never was ...as promised reimbursed for the price of my airline ticket...which in retrospect was far less damaging than the insight I gained into IPA and its advertised versus actual mission.

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Michael Lowe
Hayward, US
Feb 01, 2013 5:10 pm EST

Do not do buisness with these guys. Go out hire a good CPA and Tax Lawyer and get the same thing for about 20% of IPA IPT ABS GPS SMS or whatever they call themselves today. Total scam. Buyer beware. Google search International Profits Accociates and the negetive are about 100 to 1. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out!

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jimski
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Jul 31, 2012 4:10 am EDT

went in for an interview conducted by a very creepy man, knew immediately it was bs telemarketing gig, did not attend the group training on Monday morning. they called me every five or ten minutes all day. legit company would have just said your loss pal and given the next guy who wanted it more a job. these people are weird and aggressive and allegedly have staff dedicated to rebutting negative comments about them online, which doesn't surprise me given the staggering volume of such feedback. thanks

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almostasuckered
Arlington, US
Feb 15, 2012 8:43 pm EST
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You all have saved me a lot of pain. I was going to take a position with them until i read this.

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Global Resources(IPA) Scam::BEWARE
Plainfield, US
Oct 21, 2011 3:03 pm EDT

Hello:
Most of the complaints with IPA(now changed to Global Resources) are resonating with my experience. Most of the SBA are made to leave to grab the commissions they generated. I was hired as SBA after a training program that was practically free. They told us that the average income of a SBA was $147, 000, which is a lie. Immediately after graduation, I was sent to three most ordinary clients only to find that none of them agreed to get Business Analysis done by GR! Then, the SSD(my boss) blamed me for not getting a GO!The travel expenses have not beed paid yet in full! Then, the supervisors started behaving in a strange way blaming everything and every one for their fault. I need my two weeks to be paid.

Dr. Asoke

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HC Customer
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Oct 17, 2011 5:07 am EDT

Huntington Copper is NOT part of IPA. They worked with our company after IPA had damn near ruined us. Thank God they called us. IPA had pushed us so close to bankruptcy that my husband was on the verge of a heart attack. They were understanding. They did NOT push us. They encouraged us to research them before we signed. They gave us references. Because of our experience, I did the research and called the references and all checked out. We moved forward and I truly believe they saved our business.

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TucsonJenn
Tucson, US
Oct 05, 2011 8:19 pm EDT

We were contacted by Huntington Copper, a consulting firm out of Mason OH...can anyone confirm or deny that this company is affiliated with IPA or any of it's affiliates? It sounds like exactly the same however they claim to not be affiliated and have condemned IPA and it's affiliates in a meeting we had with them...of course they would!

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just dont
long beach, US
Sep 16, 2011 10:14 pm EDT

Hey curious... DON'T ! it is one BIG scam !

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