Unfortunately, some business relationships sour and one bad apple can spoil a bunch.
The poster here - both anonymously and as a commenter is Cindy Meldrum of Doodles and Poos, LLC. (doodlesandpoos.com) located in Manasquan, New Jersey. Ms. Meldrum has filed many and multiple complaints even using fictitious names to post and contact our current clients. Her methods have been unscrupulous and un-professional and her attempts are to paint us as such.
Ironically, Cindy came to us on a positive referral from another client who, in 18 months, grew her business 400%, earning revenues of 5 digits monthly on our system.
One of our core strategies is to help and encourage clients to build up buzz and momentum by building an audience base during pre-launch so that, at launch, their site already has momentum and energy.
While Ms. Meldrum's site was progressing and developing to her satisfaction which was stated repeatedly, her pre-launch plan of bringing in large affiliates was not working and her financial pressures were mounting. She then began attacking us and demanding more and more features and changes without regard to her fixed budget. Despite our best and repeated efforts to self-mediate a resolution, we were unable to do so. Having done so many things above and beyond the agreement in order to help her business, we could not continue as it was to the point of affecting our other clients.
Ms. Meldrum delayed receipt of her files by filing a complaint to reverse her account charges/payments citing fraud, dishonesty, non-delivery and much more.
Last week, third-party mediators ruled against Doodles and Poos and allowed the transactions citing evidence that Ms. Meldrum's charges and claims were false, malicious and grossly over-exaggerated.
Dave
This page is a complaint against Cindy Meldrum misrepresenting the likely earning potential of selling pet products which she advertised such opportunity on her website. She her self does not make the kind of money she promised which is a fraudulent claim. The only way she can increase her MLM income is to either a) sell more product as she claims with an extra 6 hours per week or b) get others signed up under her so that their sales will make her income. The fraud is that she has been doing this MLM product/business for years and still isn't earning what she claimed. What a shame.
Ms. Meldrum also stated that we have no idea her income when, in fact she emailed exactly what her last income was:
"My last check was for $204.29, Personal group sales $2, 643.47, Personal sales $2, 298.98, Personal commissionable sales $910.71, Not much for a lot of sales. They don't have the best commissions. I know Life Force (the vitamins) I would get a little more than half of what I sold."
Again, she is lying by stating that we had no idea because she needs to distort facts to save face.
I would bet that once we file our lawsuit against Cindy Meldrum and Doodles and Poos that a subpoena would show her earning of 1 month last year to match exactly as she told us.
Cindy also wants to attack personally rather than deal with the facts as she also stated "You are so "in tune" with people, guess that is why you are a life/business coach as well. I am getting frustrated, my personality does not allow for delayed gratification...I am working on that! I feel much better after this email and do want you to take as much time as you need to make it perfect. Because I am also a perfectionist!"
Cindy has perfected the art of stirring up emotions and playing the victim all the while, the odds are that somebody has signed up to sell her products to be disappointed that the income was nothing like Cindy promised.
Designer Dogs and Pet Lovers Beware! Do not sign up to sell MLM products with Cindy or Doodles and Poos - she isn't earning what she's claiming.
BTW, what the Meldrums think about and what their intentions are IS relevant because they are claiming that they are 'all about the pets'. Nope. They wanted to make EASY money. There is no EASY money - but they are selling others that they can make easy money with MLM pet food. Wrong. A great product, but it takes a lot of effort to make money at it - just like anything in life.
A couple of notes here about Beth McCaskill of Tennis Players Network and her complaint.
Beth was a great client that we stayed with during her divorce and extended work without payment for months while she got back on her feet again. In over a year of working with Beth, she stated repeatedly how much she appreciated the work we did and how much it helped her and her business.
When she started working with Dave Power, a great tennis player/coach, to sell his paperback and audio books, she approached us with a dilemna. Her current webhost threatened to charge her more for Dave's large audio files as the files were well beyond the size allowed by her current payment plan.
Our solution? To help her save face with Dave and minimize her financial strain, we moved every single audio file within 24 hours at no cost and hosted those files for over a year without ever charging Beth for hosting. Beth also self-admittedly had planning/timing issues in which we had to rush for her several times and deliver printed materials to Texas, Ohio, Indiana - never charging her the full rush fee or rates that we would normally.
That is just 2 examples (there are more) of how we worked with Beth to keep her costs down by not charging her for the additional services that any other company would have. But at payment time, several times we were given excuses that she was sorry that account was rejected and blamed it on her husband or she asked us to wait while she transferred from another account or another.
For her website, like before, we went above and beyond the contract and delivered above and beyond.
But because we were the 3rd team attempting to work with her to build her website and with a history from Beth McCaskill of not paying on time and stalling her project for half a year, we could not rely on her to follow-through. We did not ask for the final installment in full as suggested in this complaint - we suggested 3 equal payments based on milestones to limit everyone's risk and get to the goal.
Our contracts allows either party at any time to cancel - exchanging monies or assets due at that time. It was January 20th, not December as stated in this compaint, that we notified Beth that we could not do work that she may not be able to pay for and cancelled the agreement. Approximately 2 in 5 clients since this recession began either stopped their project/payments and shut down or have walked away never to be heard of again, we simply cannot take too many risks.
The ONLY reason Beth did not receive her files (including the work done above the contract) was that she defaulted on a payment which per the contract must be resolved before files can be delivered. She emailed with intent to pay stating that her 'check was in the mail', but it never arrived and she has not made any arrangements with us to pay her balance due which proved our instincts to be correct that she could not pay for everything she was asking us to do. It is very frustrating as we have done so much above and beyond to help Beth succeed in her business.
Also, Beth McCaskill filed this complaint under "Bad Business Partners" which is odd because, when I notified her in December that an email strategy she wanted to use historically returned bad results and that we should revise the message to create the biggest impact, she responded with "It is NOT your responsibility to make my site or product sales effective."
Again, if Beth would pay her balance of $210, all files could be released. If she can't pay the $210, then how are we to believe that she could have paid the remaining $3840?
As to Cindy Meldrum of Doodles and Poos - you filed a credit card fraud charge which was an attempt to gain both the files/assets AND have the money used to create such - theft by your definition. Once the mediation process (which was ruled in our favor by a third party) is finalized and the funds have been returned to us without further claim, we have no problem sending you the files. This was explained to Harvey Meldrum on January 15th - instead, you chose a protracted third-party mediation which has to run it's course.
As to Beth's complaint - you have not denied the fact that you told us your check was in the mail nor the fact that the check was not in the mail nor the fact that per the agreement, you violated the terms by not settling your account nor the fact that you had problems making payments for our services delivered nor the fact that you were thrilled with our service for over a year until Cindy Meldrum contacted you and convinced you that we were suddenly out to get/hurt you. As we communicated directly to you, if you pay that balance, we have no problem sending the files per the agreement, including the work that we did that was above and beyond the agreement. Since you haven't disputed the facts I've shown, then I suggest we take this to a third-party as well which we are more than happy to do.
Cindy's statement of 'all lies' should probably be addressed too: do you dispute stating that your business could be a million dollar business with not much effort? Do you deny that you received services not listed in the agreement? Do you deny that you keep claiming erroneous numbers of complaints to distort your claim? You stated 3 complaints with the BBB (all of which have been pulled for response) - 2 of these were you and your husband - your numbers are distorted for your attempt at personal gain. Again, we are happy to address and even have a third-party mediate any disputes as we did with yours. Anybody can stir complaints, but lets let a 3rd party mediator decide.
Your assumptions again prove nothing except that you are continuing your act of libel which we will address post-mediation. From your last 2 posts, one can only conclude that your 'proof' is that you've now lost the 2nd round of arbitration in addition to the first (both of which you were confident you would win) and because of both losses that we should have initiated file transfer/ownership to you.
We have called twice a week for 5 weeks since our last rebuttal and the 3 weeks since you posted above that you lost mediation once again - this time with your own long-term bank - however, they continue to tell us that it is pending.
It is insane that it takes this long and that, as the cardholder, you are getting updates faster than us from the mediation, but this was the course of action you chose, not us.
Once we have confirmation that you cannot try to take both the work and the money paid for the labor, we will of course send files which is what we could have done 4 months ago had you not started this process.
Your assumptions again prove nothing except that you are continuing your act of libel which we will address post-mediation. From your last 2 posts, one can only conclude that your 'proof' is that you've now lost the 2nd round of arbitration in addition to the first (both of which you were confident you would win) and because of both losses that we should have initiated file transfer/ownership to you.
We have called twice a week for 5 weeks since our last rebuttal and the 3 weeks since you posted above that you lost mediation once again - this time with your own long-term bank - however, they continue to tell us that it is pending.
It is insane that it takes this long and that, as the cardholder, you are getting updates faster than us from the mediation, but this was the course of action you chose, not us.
Once we have confirmation that you cannot try to take both the work and the money paid for the labor, we will of course send files which is what we could have done 4 months ago had you not started this process.
Your assumptions again prove nothing except that you are continuing your act of libel which we will address post-mediation. From your last 2 posts, one can only conclude that your 'proof' is that you've now lost the 2nd round of arbitration in addition to the first (both of which you were confident you would win) and because of both losses that we should have initiated file transfer/ownership to you.
We have called twice a week for 5 weeks since our last rebuttal and the 3 weeks since you posted above that you lost mediation once again - this time with your own long-term bank - however, they continue to tell us that it is pending.
It is insane that it takes this long and that, as the cardholder, you are getting updates faster than us from the mediation, but this was the course of action you chose, not us.
Once we have confirmation that you cannot try to take both the work and the money paid for the labor, we will of course send files which is what we could have done 4 months ago had you not started this process.
