Typical lies of world perfume and Scentura distributors
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False. World Perfume and Scentura ARE pyramid schemes.
With Scentura, this is easy to prove, because there is a court order
against Scentura saying that Scentura is a "Pyramid Sales Scheme." The
court looked at all of the evidence and decided that Scentura was an
illegal pyramid scheme.
World Perfume has virtually the same business model as Scentura. In
fact there are virtually no differences how these two companies run.
(See Distributor: World Perfume is nothing like Scentura below)
Therefore World Perfume is ALSO a Pyramid Scheme.
All of the classic fundamentals of a pyramid scheme are there. Both
companies depend on new recruits to survive. If new recruits stop, the
pyramid collapses.
Fortunatly for those who want to close down these scams, this makes
Scentura and World Perfume vulnerable. If World Perfume and Scentura
stop getting recruits, the pyramid scheme WILL collapse.
Media Report on Scentura: Scentura is described by the Better Business
Bureau as a "multilevel selling company." The firm manufacturers
inexpensive imitations of designer fragrances. Salespeople are sent
out, often in pairs, to hawk the product door-to-door or, yes, in
parking lots.
Media Report on Scentura: Officials describe the company, which is
based in Atlanta, as a multilevel marketing business. But some job
seekers call it a scam. Officials might soon be investigating the
incident.
Court order against Scentura:
"In our view, the consignment contract between plaintiff and defendant
is properly characterized as a chain referral sales technique or
pyramid sales scheme, which falls within the protection of section 2A
of the Act."
"By virtue of this legislative enactment, the state has determined
that the eradication of chain referral sales techniques and pyramid
sales schemes is an important interest. Although the power to declare
a private contract void as contrary to public policy is to be used
sparingly, we may utilize this power when the contract at issue is
clearly contrary to the constitution, the statutes, or the decisions
of the courts."
"While defendant contends that the consignment contract falls squarely
within the protection of section 2A of the Act, plaintiff contends
that the contract cannot be construed as a chain referral agreement or
pyramid sales scheme because furnishing names of other consignees is
not a condition precedent to defendant's financial gain. Plaintiff
also asserts that section 2A of the Consumer Fraud Act does not apply
because plaintiff did not "sell" merchandise, but, instead, it
delivered the perfume on consignment. We find plaintiff's asserted
distinctions to be unpersuasive and nothing more than an exercise in
semantics. "
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Distributor: It is not illegal to sell to business door to door
without a license.
A complete lie.
Your training manager will often state that World perfume/ Scentura
distributors sell cologne and perfume "door to door to businesses".
The training manager will usually fail to tell you that the majority
of your time is ACTUALLY spent trespassing in Wal Mart, Target, and
grocery store parking lots, selling perfume to shoppers as they enter
and exit the stores, until you are kicked out by management.
Police officers DO NOT TOLERATE solicitation on the streets.
Business-to-business is a gray area in law enforcement, and if you are
found selling on the street without a license, you will be ticketed
and possibly arrested. County and City ordinances vary on this topic,
and it would do you good to check with the laws of your city. Your
office owners need you to make street sales, so they will not warn you
about possible consequences.
Media Report: But instead of offering to buy, Bogey Inn managers
called police. The salespeople were a nuisance, restaurant managers
said, and had no license to sell. They were asked to leave and not
return.
Midwest One in Worthington recruited her and more than a dozen other
central Ohioans -- mostly women, and none of them licensed -- to
peddle Scentura Creations' line of rendition perfume called Observe L
Essence.
On top of everything else, Aston and the others were operating
illegally when they sold their perfumes without peddler licenses
throughout Columbus and some other central Ohio cities.
Niemiec said sellers are told from the start that they are responsible
for obtaining their own licenses, as well as paying taxes. Vendors
disagree.
Columbus also requires Midwest One to have a peddler promoter license,
said Craig Coloby, a licensing officer in Columbus. He said neither
the company nor its vendors are licensed.
Often, officials don't learn of peddler violations until someone
complains; businesses seldom do, Coloby said.
Unlicensed vendors roll into town offering a variety of products for
sale.
Media Report: Hardly a day goes by, said the Downtown Investment
District bicycle police officers, when they don't cite one or more of
Jentis' crew for soliciting without a permit.
DID Police said most are repeat offenders and face fines between $50
to $600 on each daily charge.
Media Report: "The city doesn't issue permits that allow anyone to
enter a business or stand directly outside a business and solicit that
business's employees or customers," Schelling said. "Why? Because
that's not legal."
Schelling said the only permit Jentis' sales force might be able to
get is a peddler's permit that allows for door-to-door sales.
But that would require criminal records checks, and because most of
Jentis' workers admittedly have had run-ins with the law, the
applications would be denied, Schelling said.
Lancaster Bureau of Police Chief Michael L. Landis said enforcement of
the city's vendors and peddlers law is complaint-driven, and that
legitimate operations know they need a permit to do business in town.
Media Report: Another time, her group stopped at a Jacksonville mall
and approached strangers there to buy perfume, keeping an eye out for
cops who might ask questions about permits.
Denver Colorado Business Licensing Department
My question:
"Is a business license required for door to door sales in Denver
Colorado?"
"How much does the license cost? Is it the same as a peddlers
license?"
"If the answer is yes, what is the fine for not having a business
license?"
Email response from: Helen Gonzales helen.g...@ci.denver.co.us
Business Licensing Department
Yes, you would need a peddlers license. The fine for operating without
a license is up to $999 and jail. Please let me know if you need
anything further. Thank you. Helen Gonzales
My question: "Mr. Gonzales, Thank you for your prompt reply. I have
one more question to clarify what you wrote. Do you need a license to
sell in commercial areas also?"
Email response from: Helen Gonzales helen.g...@ci.denver.co.us
Business Licensing Department
If the merchandise you propose to sell is brand new (not second hand),
then no license is needed from the Department of Excise and Licenses.
However, whenever goods are sold you need a city sales tax license.
Good luck to you. Email response from: Helen Gonzales
helen.g...@ci.denver.co.us Business Licensing Department
Mr. Cristopher Doan admitted that employees of distributors sell
perfume in parking lots in a web board posting. Christopher Doan works
in the head World Perfume office in Texas and is Johnny Whitworth's
(Ace) brother-in-law. The web board posting and my rebuttal can be
found here ADD LINK.
Experiences of former employees:
Pittsburg A police officer saw me and asked for my license to be
selling the perfume. I of course did not have any license, so he gave
me a verbal warning and asked me to stop.
I drove to Carnegie Mellon university campus to try my luck there. As
I was hanging around one of the dorms there, a campus police officer
asked me what I was doing, I gave him my story, and he escorted me off
the CMU campus, since solicitation is illegal there.
Pittsburg One guy was almost arrested twice. We signed a paper stating
we were independent contractors meaning we had no license to sell and
if arrested, the company had no obligation to back us up.
Riverside, CA You will have to hide from police if you do this.
Location Unknown [Peddling perfume] is illegal and when you get
arrested or fined by the police the company will not stand behind you!
You do not have a soliciting license and the company cannot carry one
for every person in the office. They will tell you they do! You need a
license in every city you solicit in. They will tell you that u are
not soliciting but why do u run from parking lot to parking lot hoping
to not get caught? I hope that whoever reads this takes it seriously
this company is a joke!
Alabama The team I was with where run out of one area by the police
for soliciting.
Joliet, Indiana While in Joliet, when we were to be selling "business
to business", we were soliciting outside a Best Buy to customers
walking in, the store manager called the police. We almost got
arrested.
And from that point on I quit tiring to sell. I shouldn't have to work
for a Co. where while doing my job I can get arrested for doing it.
Once again that isn't fair.
Noblesville I went on one of there over night trips got picked up by
the police twice and had to stay up all night for what?
Orlando, Florida The final thing that made me quit was, one Friday
night (when you can't go home until you sell your bottles) me and my
trainer went all the way to Tampa in my vehicle we were at a super
Wal-Mart and the cops came we were served a trespa*sing warrant and I
thought hey things could be worse he could of arrested us.
Location unknown My name is Todd, and I just want to share my story on
the business. I am still in the business after six weeks and right now
me and Sonya have done nothing more than waste gas, pester people, and
once nearly got arrested for soliciting.
Brooklyn, New York Just last night on the news I heard these teenagers
got arrested for it and the office did not want to even bail them out.
Alabama On several occasions I ran into the police and had to lie and
say "I didn't know that I needed a business license for this town."
Location unknown I can also tell you that you do have to have a
license for selling - and no each location does not carry the license
for their people - they carry one license that allows them to sell a
bottle of perfume from their store (not for them to send out people
into parking lots)
If you get caught in a parking lot selling and the cop decides that
he's going to "take you in" or whatever then you - personally - are
liable. After all - the company you were hired for as a licensee in
the company's name and since you didn't fill out W-2's (because you
aren't being paid a pay check) then it's your word against theirs if
you are an employee and trust me - you're not. At the most you are an
independent contractor (and that's stretching it because there should
be a 1099 involved in that) and in that case you are liable for you
and the company is only liable for the company and it's "owners".
Location unknown But remember, you're your own boss since you're an
independent contractor. If you get in trouble for soliciting, they're
not going to help. If you're fined or taking to jail depending on what
state you're in, they don't care nor do they pay, that's your problem.
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Distributor: Only this one person thinks that World Perfume and
Scentura are a fraud.
Ridiculously untrue
Please read the 300 pages plus of testimonies against World Perfume
and Scentura.
Also the 18 + media reports against these companies.
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Distributor: People who are saying these things against World Perfume
and Scentura are "Weak Peices of Sh*t" (WPOS) who couldn't make it.
Chat messages:
9) Trainers try to convince you that you are a quitter if you cannot
sell to your family and friends. First of all, I have a degree in
Management and Information Systems and I did not work hard to attain
that degree so that I could sell bottles of fake perfume to my family
and friends. This is not a job. You are being scammed if you believe
this. It just burns me up that they took up my valuable time to try to
convince me into this.
One last thing, for the people who support the Scentura way, the rest
of us are not losers, wimps or quitters. We are just smart enough to
know that slavery went out of fashion two centuries ago.
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Distributor: The practices that this webpage explains are the
exception, not the norm. Most World Perfume/Scentura distributors act
differently.
World Perfume and Scentura distributors use a script. Every
distributor uses the same script. World Perfume stole the script from
Scentura when one of Scentura's top distributors, Johnny Whitworth,
decided to quit Scentura and start his own mulit-level marketing
pyramid scheme in 1994.
For the Scentura training manual, vividly illustrating the many
decpetive practices of Scentura and World Perfume, click here.
For evidence of the same exact training practices world wide, please
read the 300 pages plus of testimonies against World Perfume and
Scentura. Also the 18 + media reports against these companies.
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Distributor: We do not market our rendition (fake) perfumes as
originals.
Scentura and World Perfume distributors decieve customers by selling
their perfume as authentic designer perfume, not as an imitation.
In my group interview, I asked the manager of the Salt Lake office,
Joe Maner if we were supposed to say these colognes were the originals
or imitations, Mr. Maner told the group that we were supposed to tell
our customers that these were originals, not imitations, an obvious
lie.
Media report on World Perfume:
Regan (reporter): McCoy claims he convinced women they were buying
expensive designer fragrances--the real thing...for the half the
price. In fact, they were expensive knock-offs.
McCoy: "From there, we can make up any lie, any story to make the
sale. And if I asked if this is the real thing you say--"its the real
thing."
Media report on Scentura: "We didn't have these products until the day
after we sold them," he said. "And then they brought in the different
types of cologne and perfumes, and that's when it really caught me. I
said 'Wait, this isn't what I was selling to people.'"
Media report on Scentura: They told would-be customers they were
selling famous- name perfumes dirt cheap as part of a promotion.
Buyers reported the scents were similar, but not identical, to the
originals.
World Perfume Jacksonville, FL During training and the rest of the
time there, we were all told that this was the original fragrances and
we sold it in parking lots, gas stations, businesses, family, friends
etc.
Emails that I recieved from people decieved by Scentura and World
Perfume distributors:
"I just go a run in with "World Perfume." I almost bought the perfume
and then I thought why isn't it in the original bottle? The women got
really upset when I would not buy the perfume. She said they were from
Dallas Texas and the only difference between this bottle and the
original Cool Water for women is that it will last longer. I am so
glad I did not waste the money." (World Perfume distributor)
"My name is Heather and I work at a Hooters Restaurant in Rockville,
MD. The other night just as I was getting ready to leave work two
seemingly nice gentlemen came in and asked me and a friend/co-worker
if we would like to buy some perfume. This is not the first time
someone has come in, but this is the first time I was actually able to
maybe purchase some. My friend and I followed the men outside to their
car where they had a TRUNKLOAD of perfume! I was pretty skeptical at
first because they were selling us 3 bottles of designer perfume for
$65.00. (normally the price of one bottle!) The men then explained to
us that they buy the perfume at wholesale and used other big words to
try to fool us, and they did. Me and my friend bought 3 bottles each
and headed off to out cars. When I got to my car I opened the bottle
of Ralph and the perfume was BROWN! It is normally blue at the store!
I was pissed! I knew then that I had been scammed! Unfortunately, it's
too late now to get my $65.00 back! Do you know if the perfume sold is
of the same quality as the actual designer perfume in the stores?
Also, I am interested in doing what I can to help you shut these
a$$holes down! Please email me back if you can!"
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Distributor: We are just like (legitamite company here).
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Distributor: Those people who are complaining about World Perfume/
Scentura were only with the company a couple of days
TESTIMONIES AGAINST World Perfume,
Former employees with World Perfume up to two years
TESTIMONIES AGAINST SCENTURA,
Former employees with Scentura up to two years
MESSAGES FROM MIKE BARRICK
WHO SPENT TEN YEARS WITH SCENTURA
HISTORY OF SCENTURA,
FROM SOMEONE WHO SPENT YEARS IN THE BUSINESS
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Distributors: We are not World Perfume/Scentura. We are independent
distributors of World Perfume/Scentura world perfume rebutal by
Jaqueline
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Distributor: World Perfume is nothing like Scentura
A complete lie. World Perfume and Scentura are almost exactly alike.
World Perfume was started by Johnny Whitworth, one of Scentura's
biggest perfume distributors. (See the email from Johnny saying he
left Scentura in 1994) He left to start his own perfume business.
World Perfume uses all of the same tactics as Scentura.
Both Scentura and World Perfume Distributors:
*Sell perfume in parking lots
*FFAAR (friends family associates and relatives) contest
*All distributors buy products on consignment
*Same fraudulent classified advertising
*Same Multi-level marketing scheme
*Very similar training, using the same analogies, promises, lies, and
acronyms
(K.I.S.S. FFAAR, Training=Torture, Fear of Loss, "Drop", P.M.A.=O.P.M.
).
World Perfume and Scentura have identical business practices,
different name and headquarters. That is why many of Scentura
distributors quit Scentura and go to World Perfume: Johnny Whitworth,
Dan Long, and Josephine Vilasenor, to name a few. It is not a tough
transition because they have IDENTICAL business models.
Still not convinced? See Are World Perfume and Scentura the same
company? and the
daming comparison of World Perfume and Scentura training side by side.
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World Perfume Distributor: He takes the name Scentura and deletes and
puts in the name: "World Perfume"
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World Perfume Distributor: The lawsuit against Scentura was against a
World Perfume distributor, therefore World Perfume is different than
Scentura (lawsuit and dan long)
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World Perfume Distributor: There was never a World Perfume distributor
in Salt Lake.
Christopher Doan works in the head World Perfume office in Texas and
is Johnny Whitworth's (Ace) brother-in-law. Christopher Doan,
fradulently claimed on the Ripoffreport website:
"I work for World Perfume,Inc. We are NOT in Salt Lake City. That
report is false, that business name DOES NOT EXIST in Utah. That
address DOES NOT EXIST in Utah. I am NOT a distributor, I am a simple
EMPLOYEE of World Perfume, why do you let this person post false
information about me? Why do you allow people to post false
information, period?
Christopher - Dallas, Texas
U.S.A. "
The Utah Better Business website contradicts this lie:
Waterfront Design World perfume
3640 W 2100 S
Salt Lake City, UT 84120
Type-of-Business Classification: Retail-Cosmetics & Perfumes
The information in this report has either been provided by the
company, or has been compiled by the Bureau from other sources.
Customer Experience
Our file shows mail sent to this company was returned by the Post
Office as moved, left no forwarding order, forwarding order expired,
or unable to locate.
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Mr Johnny Whitworth, President of World Perfume: I post all of this
information because I am trying to extort him.
In one of many Johnny's feeble attempts to discredit the over 400
pages of daming evidence, Johnny Whitworth has claimed that I am
trying to extort him.
He offers no evidence. Based on the previous blatant lies of Johnny
Whitworth and his brother- in-law Christopher Doan, this accusation
has no merit. Mr. Whitworth and Mr. Doan make a living encouraging
others to decieve people.