Comments on: Official BurnLounge FTC complaint online

By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:18:22 +0000

Will we ever get our initial $400 back and the $14.95 per month that I have been paying since April $2005? Is there anyone to contact. None of the phoes work AND the email is DO NOT REPLY. This is not cool!

By: "Jimmy C"

"Jimmy C" — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:39:35 +0000

I also signed up and took part organizing and speaking at meetings we hosted. Many of our “suggestions” fell on deaf ears and finally our entire group opted out. Did I have big ideas and big plans??? You bet! I’m just glad it came tumbling down before the real money got spent.

What these people have to realize is that MLM companies are legit and work when you follow the rules. Too many get too greedy too fast and that’s when they cross the line just like Burnlounge. It’s really ashame because the underlying concept was really a solid one.

By: Dawn Smith

Dawn Smith — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:50:22 +0000

I spent $300.00 on “money to burn” cards. I received them 20 days after I placed the order and my account was debited. The cards did not work and burnlounge never refunded me or sent new cards -what a scam!

By: Scott F.

Scott F. — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:31:35 +0000

I would love in on this class action suit. I signed up as an artist and even performed at one of their seminars. I was recruited to be a potential spokesperson. Wow, this sounds great, so I thought. I submitted to the A&R department to have my music posted. They told me I could make five bucks per download. Cool! Months went by and my music still wasn’t posted. I sent them E-mail after E-mail. Finally they responded and said I need to do a resubmission. My CD got lost. I opted out right then and tried to get my money back. They refunded me for the remainder of my subscription but I ended up dinged for the 400 bucks on the sign up fee without a refund. They tried to get me back later on, saying they found my original CD and wanted me to reconsider. I responded and told them it was only a matter of time before the lounge burned to the ground. These guys are crooks. Another one bites the dust, and another gone, another one bites the dust…Good riddance.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:37:17 +0000

I’m right there with you RJ Fox. My wife and I signed up with the company in February 2007. What a total scam. When we started pushing for our money back, we were given the run around. I questioned a few people up the pyramid about the amount of money made off of sign-ups and was given the run around there also. I saw Rob speak in West Palm Beach. Very charismatic - I would have reached for the glass of kool-aid if asked. But I purchased a $400 glass instead….

Sign me up for class action. Not that we’d get anything.

By: RJ Fox

RJ Fox — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:19:14 +0000

I did not care for the way that burnlounge conducted its business. There were always problems in using there services & many friends had the same complaints. After a couples of months I decided to quit the burnlounge company, but received no fair compensation for the remaining months of my otherwise membership. Basically, I feel that they ripped me off pretty good & would not object to be included in a class action against them. Sincerely, RJ Fox

By: Phil Brown

Phil Brown — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:49:04 +0000

What has traspired as of today? Is Burnlounge reopening as something else. Is there some one I can talk to who is still conneted withBurnlounge or what is or was Burnlounge? , and knows what is going on?

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By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:40:24 +0000

Where can one find a large library of music like the burnlounge library; with new artists and established artists? Will we still be able to buy this music? Can people still submit their music to be sold? Is their a binding injunction that closes the business entirely or is this a temporary injunction that temporarily stops commerce?

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:49:13 +0000

The FTC is doing their job. Burnlounge.com and all of their active individual agents need to do what they say they will do and sell music (not spend the majority of their time trying to “recruit”(persuade/bother) people for signing up (online, email, in the malls, bookstores, meetings, then set up bait and switch dinners or other get-togethers that turn into “opportunity” meetings). They are doing exactly what those in other organizations (scamway, melanoma, kwikscar, etc) have done for years. People: If it looks too good to be true, it usually almost always is. Most of these MLMs are run by people that are looking to take your money (and will do anything to get it). Buyer Beware!!!

By: Al

Al — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:08:40 +0000

Waste of taxpayers’ money. Burnlounge provides a platform for digital media distribution. Its not just about selling 99c music download. Their software is “digital media”. Since when selling software became illegal? So the real question is, who is the “real” gun behind FTC, who stands to benefit from putting Burnlounge out of business?