Complaint Review: Ameribanc National - Bloomingdale Illinois

    This 2008 complaint form "honest" Bob is honestly deceiving. If a sales rep does not want to drive all over town to hard-won appointments by telemarketings, set you own appointments in your nearby neighborhood - if you have any sales skills at all.  The company enrcourages everyone to do so and offers excellent training for novices to find business owners who are genuinely interested in improving their bottom line. Nobody is tied to the telemarketing appointements as their sole source of leads.  If you don't want to drive all over, then it is your choice not to.
    Today AmeriBanc offers extensive quality training. In fact there is so much training that it is hard to absorb and use all of it in a short period of time.  I expect to be learning for a good little while yet and still not master all of what they offer.
    As far as service, let's be "honest" and give an example.  I dropped by a new customer one day and it happened to be the day their new AmeriBanc terminal arrived.  Guess what - it didn't work.  I did some testing myself and confirmed it was defective.  Well, Customer Service delivered another new terminal the next morning via FedEx and the client returned the first one with the return postage-paid box it came in.  The client had to use their former processor for an additional day - but AmeriBanc solved the problem as fast as humanly possible. No harm.
    I'm sure this complaint is from someone honestly peeved.  But let's keep the proper perspective about legitimacy and accuracy when a quality company is bad-mouthed. 

I just spent one week only, wasting my time and gas to run these "appointments." It is true that the telemarketers rush through the call and and don't even listen to what customers tell them, so much so that appointments are set with NON OWNERS and out of all the appointments I ran, every customer's first words were "I TOLD THEM ON THE PHONE I WASN'T INTERESTED," but here I am anyhow at your place of business trying to shove another credit card processing company down your throat, turning you over to a manager that tells you anything you want to hear to get you to say yes to the deal and you fall for it... HOOK, LINE and SINKER....

A word to the wise for those of you WANTING TO GET IN ON THE HYPE THEY CRAM YOUR BRAINS WITH... there is NO BIG MONEY being made in the credit card processing business by sales people, after you expense out your costs and time, you'd be better off at McDonald's at least, there, you get benefits. If someone was making BIG money in sales for this company, don't you think you would have heard of them....Scan down to the bottom after my rebuttal and read.

That whole "training program," ~ pre-recorded videos of the owner "ROLE PLAYING" with himself... basically.

The Nice Presentation book... a bunch of color photo copies on regular paper, fed-ex'd a day after you needed it....
The appointments.... yes, you will get anywhere from 2 to 6, of course they want you to go out in between and sell to other people in the area, but why should you, they are not paying YOU to prospect or market, just to run their appointments, oops, sorry I didn't mean to say "PAY" cause I never saw any from THEIR appointments... only lost sales when I turned over the customer to the manager who then, couldn't make the customer, "HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY" as instructed to do so in the training circus, err i mean video.

If you take a position with this company, good luck to ya... here's a simple way to KNOW if you should or should not work for them: WHY ARE THEY HIRING WHEN YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THEM.... if you never heard of them, it's not growth.... if yo are just now hearing about them, it's the fact that they decided to get out of a city and advertise on Craigslist in another city where they don't have a bad reputation... that's called a "Fly by night company" basically advertising in a new area when they have ruined their reputation in the previous area...

OOOOH, btw, I can get an A+ rating with the better business bureau too....  the BBB is highly over-rated and holds no bearing on whether a company is honest or has integrity toward it's EMPLOYEES nor does it rate them based on that. And as of TODAY... keeping an A+ rating with a CONSUMER COMPLAINT BUREAU is easy, you just pay off, or refund money back to the CONSUMER to get them to DROP THE CLAIM, 13 claims to be exact... so... that's the only VERIFIABLE RATING THEY HAVE, but like I said that is based on consumer/customers, not employees and 1099 salespeople.... thats what ripoffreport is for ;)


The Best- And Worst-Paying Sales Jobs (FORBES)

If you have that magical mix of skills and personality that a career in
selling requires, you may be able to earn yourself a six-figure salary
as a real estate broker or a sales engineerbut not all sales positions
are nearly that glamorous and high-paying.
Selling securities or commodities in investment and trading firms,
for instance, pays five times what being a cashier pays, on average. And
those are both sales jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, they are the very best- and worst-paying sales jobs in America.
In Pictures: Americas 10 Best-Paying Sales Jobs
In Pictures: Americas 10 Worst-Paying Sales Jobs
The BLS survey, which reflects May 2010 salary and employment data,
calculates annual pay by multiplying an hourly mean wage by a
year-round, full-time 2,080 hours. According to the results,
securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents rake in
$95,130 a year, on average. However, some make well over $150,000.
There are 276,290 of them, and they are responsible for buying and
selling securities or commodities in investment and trading firms, or
for selling financial services to businesses and individuals. The best
states for this occupation: New York and Connecticut.
With close to 40,000 securities, commodities, and financial services
sales agents, New York has the highest employment level for the
occupation. New York is also the second highest-paying state for the
job. These salespeople earn $129,620 a year in New York and even more
in Connecticut, where they make $157,640.
Sales engineers, sales representatives for wholesalers and
manufacturers of technical and scientific products, and first-line
supervisors of non-retail sales workers are also among the highest-paid
salespeople in America. Sales engineers bring in $94,760 a year, while
those sales reps and supervisors earn average annual salaries of $84,360
and $81,120, respectively.
At the other end of the sales job spectrum, cashiers earn a meager $19,810.
The 3,354,170 people who work as cashiers are the lowest-paid
salespeople in America.  They earn an average hourly wage of $9.52,
although in Washington, the highest-paying state for them, they make $11.46 an hour, for an average annual salary of $24,210.
Gaming change persons and booth cashiers are the second lowest-paid
salespeople. They earn $24,420 a year, on average, or $11.74 per hour.
In Texas, the highest-paying state for that job, they make $31,400.
Retail salespeople trail
close behind in the No. 3 spot, earning average annual pay of $25,000.
More than 4 million workers hold a retail sales position, and they do
the best in D.C. ($28,330).
The low-paying sales jobs are very transactional, low value, and low
risk, while the best-paying positions require a higher knowledge base,
theyre riskier, and the salespeople are generally more consultative,
says sales expert Tim Wackel, founder and president of the Wackel Group,
a training and consulting firm. Also, the people in the low-paying
sales jobs are usually selling a product, whereas the high earning
salespeople are selling a solution.

What a ton of lies..... ive been with the company a very short time and my first appointment, was a sale. I didn't have to call in except to verify my paperwork was correct, i sold everything myself.... these people who waste money on gas, and all this other stuff, if u knew how to sell you couldn't have to worry, i think on average each sale is about $200 in your pocket which when i get my bank statement i will confirm, but think about it your wasting gas because you don't know what your doing....how is that anyone's fault but your own? As far as training, you get what you make of it, if you sit there and don't pay attention and don't participate then yes the training sucks, but if you engage and participate it is amazing..... Thanks everyone for reading, i hope you give these guys a try its been really fun for me so far...   :))