| Country | United States |
| State | Aruba |
| City | Chatsworth |
| Address | 9909 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Suite 106 |
| Phone | 8555575566 |
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He is a scam artist on Mom & Pop stores.
He got to me 7/29/14 $574
I got onto him quickly and filed with local police department on his scam. They will be watching for him.
He went in & around my community & got several people to do the false advertising.
I back tracked his scam to the local restaurant he stated he was working with & he had no such contacts with them. He did get several surrounding cities to fall into is trap of Lies with Fraud advertisements.
Be Aware he is a Fraud People. Don't ever give a check to pushy salesmen like this man.
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Fraud Advertisement Menus
He is a scam artist on Mom & Pop stores.
He got to me 7/29/14 $574
I got onto him quickly and filed with local police department on his scam. They will be watching for him.
He went in & around my community & got several people to do the false advertising.
I back tracked his scam to the local restaurant he stated he was working with & he had no such contacts with them. He did get several surrounding cities to fall into is trap of Lies with Fraud advertisements.
Be Aware he is a Fraud People. Don't ever give a check to pushy salesmen like this man.
5752
Buyers Be Aware of this person making Menu Ad Sales
Do not do it. He ask for only checks no credit cards he said he worked old school.
Scam Artist
Do not do business with this person
Gayla Heath - RoanokeLicious Salon Roanoke Texas
817-846-1892
Robert Mahanes with Advertising Services is (and has been) scamming the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex since at least 2009. He hit dozens of businesses in the Mansfield area last September. We are all still trying to deal with this scam!
He apparently works under the umbrella of National Advertising Center. Google that name and see all the reports you find from all over the country! All the stories are the same. It is almost as if National Advertising Center trains these people to scam! Mr. Mahanes can't be in that many places across the country!
He is very good at what he does - Selling. He just doesn't deliver.
If you don't pay, they will sick Ms. Dickenson on you. She will call as a ""collection agency"", is very rude and will threaten you. Then ""Attorney"" Don Malatesta (an office of 1, established in 1983 in California) will send you letters threatening a law suit.
They have been known to get access to your checking account number and start drafting what they say you owe them! Even if you have never written them a check and charged your payments! How can they do that?!
Please take the time to write your experience. File complaints with your Attorney General, BBB and any where else you can think of. Notify your local Chamber of Commerce and put these names out there!
The sad thing is that they prey on small Mom and Pop businesses who work hard on/in their businesses and don't have the time and resources to fight them properly. I estimate, just in my small community, they have stolen no less than $75,000 from the back bone of America!
I would love to shut down both Robert Mahanes, Advertising Services, National Advertising Center and the law office of Don Malatesta! Do your part! Contact local t.v. stations, Dateline NBC, 20/20, 60 minutes - anyone that will investigate will find a great story here! I guess we just need more people screaming to them about it. Again, do your part!
He is a total scam artist
Dont associate with this person.
Rob Mahanes - Mr Manns Menu
Haslet Texas 76052 817-717-0766
He says he will give Sea World Tickets his daughter was a Marine Biologist.
On October 3, 2014 I was approached at my house where I office from home for our family business [KAM Kartway and KAM Motorsports] by a man selling who said he was selling advertising on take out menus for local restaurants. He said his name was Rob and that he was working with Tater Junction on a big order and quoted me some numbers on how many customers they had come through the restaurant and also their take out volume. Rob quoted me around $500(ish) for an ad. I hesitated and told him that I would need to think about it and mentioned that the amount was over budget for us at the time (our slow season and year-end banquet for the race track was coming up). He turned on his salesman charm and pitched me an “offer I couldn’t refuse”: reduced the price to $364.00 for a larger ad than the one first quoted and said that he would throw in another restaurant’s menu (same size ad) for free. The other restaurant was Dos Chilis (both restaurants are in Boyd, Texas about 3 and 5 miles West of my business location).
Being very familiar with both establishments and frequenting Dos Chilis an average of once or twice a month myself (and my husband often went to Tater Junction as well), so I knew that both places did have take-out menus and were indeed popular establishments, as he was using as one of his key points in the sales pitch I decided the offer was in fact a good deal and proceeded to sign a contract and write him a check (which he said he would hold until the 6th, and in fact that is what he dated the contract – see below).
Here is the contract we signed for Tater Juction’s menu ad:
Rob asked me to email his art guy at [email protected] email account with our logo and any pictures or previous advertisements we had done that they could use for inspiration to design our ad. I did so that next day.
The check was cashed and cleared my bank on 10-7-14.
On 10-17-14 I received the following email asking me for items (logo, pictures, etc.) for the ad from Rob’s “new” designer James Hughes.
To which I sent the following reply with attachments for our logo, track pictures, a NASCAR themed ad I had done with one of our young drivers, our KAM Motorsports (parent company) logo, and another ad proof from previous ad campaign and pictures of our karts and drivers. I also directed him to our facebook page and website for further information on our track for which the ad was being produced: KAM Kartway. I wanted him to get a good feel for what we did and what our business was all about.
On or about 10-20-15 the Rob came back to my house. [I am calling him Rob because that is what I remember he told me his name was and it is further indicated to be his name on the email from the “new” ad designer (James) – see email above, however the business card (see below) that he left lists a Brian Mann as the V.P. of Mr Manns Menu with a phone number of 817-717-0766 and email address of [email protected] (in addition to the art one listed above).]
He said that he just landed another restaurant account to do their menus and insisted that I place an ad with this menu too as the place was booming with business and the food was amazing. In fact he had just ate there prior to coming over to my home office. The place was Freedom Fried Hamburgers and the deal he offered was if I placed an ad he would only charge me $150.00 since I had already signed with him to do the other 2 menus (Tater Junction & Dos Chilis).
At this point he was such a good sales person I actually needed advertising and signage to be sold for my business, the dirt kart track. We discussed the possibilities and potential of what our track had to offer signage wise and being right on a major highway, sports geared towards children, motorsports being such a popular sporting venue, etc. he had convinced me that he could sell ALL the sign space that I had to offer at the track and as soon as he finished this last contract (I assumed with the burger place) he would get with me and we would have a sit down meeting with our mutually agreed upon sign company and work out the details. I admit that I was more suckered into that one and gave him my credit card information and purchased the additional ad for $150.00. I failed to get a contract for this transaction as at this point I felt that were on a “friends” basis and about to do business together ourselves. Shook hands and he told me to email him specs on signs and sales copy that I’ve used so he could do some “homework” on my industry (Race Tracks).
On 10-17-15 I sent the following email to him:
Initially we were in communications for about a month trying to pinpoint a date that would work for both of us and he answered my calls (approx. 3-4 at this point) with no problem. NOTE: He answered the phone number on the business card so I don’t know who Brian Mann is and assumed at this point that I misunderstood and that Rob was in fact Brain. However, upon researching complaints I later found his full name to be “Robert Brian Mahanes” as listed on one of the complaints – see below for link to report.
Since that time I have left numerous messages with him and emailed him several times with the last one being on 6-8-15 regarding selling advertising for my track. I have not heard back from him and the latest email bounced back to me saying there was no such email address.
I was disappointed in not hearing back from him because I can be a hard sale and he sold me, not once but twice, advertising in a market that my business is already known in and the funds could have been better used elsewhere. I had put some high hopes in him helping me make money for our struggling business by selling highway and specialty signage at our dirt track.
So in total I paid Mr Manns Menu (Brian Mann) $514.00 for ads that were never produced on menus that were never printed, nor to the best of my knowledge even authorized by the restaurants.
The latter conclusion is based on the fact that on August 1, 2015 my mother was in town visiting and I took her to eat dinner at Tater Junction (first time I had been there in well over a year) and upon settling the tab with the manager after we ate I asked him to see one of his take-out menus. He informed me that he didn’t have any at the time, and he added that he hadn’t had menus printed in some time and, as an afterthought I guess, he mentioned how he needed to get some printed up. I asked him about our ad and the Mr Manns Menu guy. He didn’t seem to know what I was talking about so I further explained that at the end of last year I purchased a large ad that was supposed to be on his take-out menu and that I had paid $364.00 for the advertisement. I mentioned that he was doing menus for him, Dos Chilis and Freedom Fried Burgers. That seemed to jog his memory and he said “oh, that guy”, “yeah I talked to him about doing my menus but the deal never happened.”
Robert Mahanes with Advertising Services is (and has been) scamming the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex since at least 2009. He hit dozens of businesses in the Mansfield area last September. We are all still trying to deal with this scam!
He apparently works under the umbrella of National Advertising Center. Google that name and see all the reports you find from all over the country! All the stories are the same. It is almost as if National Advertising Center trains these people to scam! Mr. Mahanes can't be in that many places across the country!
He is very good at what he does - Selling. He just doesn't deliver.
If you don't pay, they will sick Ms. Dickenson on you. She will call as a ""collection agency"", is very rude and will threaten you. Then ""Attorney"" Don Malatesta (an office of 1, established in 1983 in California) will send you letters threatening a law suit.
They have been known to get access to your checking account number and start drafting what they say you owe them! Even if you have never written them a check and charged your payments! How can they do that?!
Please take the time to write your experience. File complaints with your Attorney General, BBB and any where else you can think of. Notify your local Chamber of Commerce and put these names out there!
The sad thing is that they prey on small Mom and Pop businesses who work hard on/in their businesses and don't have the time and resources to fight them properly. I estimate, just in my small community, they have stolen no less than $75,000 from the back bone of America!
I would love to shut down both Robert Mahanes, Advertising Services, National Advertising Center and the law office of Don Malatesta! Do your part! Contact local t.v. stations, Dateline NBC, 20/20, 60 minutes - anyone that will investigate will find a great story here! I guess we just need more people screaming to them about it. Again, do your part!