- Report: #101705
Complaint Review: The Adoption Connection - Dennis Duffin - Colorado Springs Colorado
-
Author Not Confirmed
Why?
The Adoption Connection - Dennis Duffin
103 Swope Ave Colorado Springs, 80909 Colorado, U.S.A.
Phone:
719-205-5581
Web:
N/A
Categories:
Business Rating:
(0)
Tell us has your experience with this business or person been good?
The Adoption Connection (Dennis Duffin) rip-off! Took over $5,000 of ours and we never received a child! No refunds! Colorado Springs, Colorado
We entered The Adoption Connection in 2002 and as of today we have gave them over $5,000. We had probably 7 couples in our class and they have not recieved a child either! They are planning on closing their doors with no refunds!!
Rendi
Lamar, Colorado
U.S.A.
Rendi
Lamar, Colorado
U.S.A.
4 Updates & Rebuttals
Ravenslvr
Grand Prairie,Texas,
U.S.A.
for 10gs
#2Consumer Suggestion
Sat, June 06, 2009
for that much money, i'll have you kid for you. you set everything up. pay me 10k and pay the doc bills. i'll have your baby for you. healthy, non smoker with 1 child. let me know.lol.sadly i need money so im not kidding. i'll do it for that.(((ROR REDACTED))) CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.
Ceo
Colorado Springs,Colorado,
U.S.A.
Complainant was offered an alternative
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, September 18, 2008
1. The Adoption Connection went bankrupt, so this report isn't warning anybody about anything existing. 2. An office manager had never filed withholding or social security taxes for any employees; as a result, The Adoption Connection owed the IRS over $18,000 plus thousands more in rent, utilities, yellow page advertising, etc.. 3. I came in as a 15-hour a week employee to try to raise donated money to save the agency. We got the IRS bill down to less than $10,000 but weren't able to do any better. The IRS seized the bank account (under $50) and that was the end of the agency. 4. Arrangements were made for another agency to take over all of The Adoption Connection's clients, at no additional cost to them. Clients paid as services were performed. The complainant and her husband received a parenting class required by state law, a home study, and various other services, totaling the $5000. They were offered a chance to move to another agency, picking up right where The Adoption Connection left off: ready for placement of a child. Had they made that move, they could have received an adoption placement from that agency, received monthly home visits and required reports to the State, and legal services to complete the adoption. Even their caseworker would have stayed the same, as she moved to the new agency also. For these additional services, they would have paid approximately $5000 more, but would not have had to pay for the initial services already received from The Adoption Connection. All records of those who accepted the offer were transferred to the new agency.
Maria
San Juan,Other,
Puerto Rico
Lets be a little sensitive about it.... refer to a human being as "never received a child
#4Consumer Comment
Wed, March 23, 2005
I am very sorry you and your husband had been rip-off for $5,000.00. I had been a victim of some inescrupulous persons in the past too. But for God sake, ", as it was a credit card or a trip to Las Vegas, it's a person you are talking about!!!!, not some goods or merchandise....lets be a little more sensitive about it please!. Maite
Baylee
Dallas,Texas,
U.S.A.
Here to help
#5Consumer Suggestion
Sun, November 14, 2004
I was adopted in 1982 through a state adoption agency. The only thing i can suggest is that you file a report with the state against the adoption connection I think there is a law against what they did. Always try a state program or something like the Gladney house. They will never run off with your money. It might take a little longer than you wanted but it will be worth it to the baby you adopt.
