Ideazon Reports & Reviews

Ideazon LLC Reports & Reviews (14)

The company sounded too good to be true, I even did plenty of research and felt confident in them. I had several phone interviews everyone sounded awesome. I gave them 11,500 to advertise and launch my crowdfunding in the hopes to raise 200,000 in crowdfunding. That was 5months ago. It was supposed to be a 3 month process and my crowdfunding would launch June 1st. I’ve emailed and called several times for updates. I received nothing. Just two days ago they emailed me to set up a call. Well, I just got a call from a bounty hunter stating he is trying to catch this guy. After I made a post online bragging that I’m working with this “amazing” company he called me to let me know of this scam. Tho I had my suspicions the last few months now it’s been confirmed. Apparently there’s 10 lawsuits against them…but they have been open for 6 years…. How are they getting away with this?

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I signed up with them 4 weeks ago, and got told yesterday that it was a scam! So upsetting,

It would be great to get in touch with you and find out what you are doing to retrieve your money back.

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When planning a launch of a Kickstarter campaign, I searched Google for a marketing company that specializes in Kickstarter. Of the many candidates, I have chosen Ideazon.com because it appeared to be a solid trustworthy agency -- after all they had sent me a video endorsement from Kevin O'Leary (Shark Tank's Mr. Wonderful).

I had multiple conversations with Matt Green and other representatives of the company, where they presented themselves as experts in this field. They presented to me a marketing plan that had multiple stages in preparation for the launch date as well as safeguards to make sure the campaign is launched successfully. My job was to provide the basic information and upfront money for advertising costs -- $9,500 was "my contribution" to the project they were going to put more to achieve the $50,000 funding goal from which I was going to pay the additional 10% .

Ideazon was going to use the money for creating marketing material, test the effectiveness of the materials they created, and generate publicity to reach the desired funding. The contract also had a clause that I can cancel at any time and they would refund the unused portion of the budget.

I have wired $9, 500 to Ideazon from my bank and for the next 3 weeks, not much happened. Only after I complained that I have not gotten any feedback or materials to approve I was scheduled to talk to members of their supposedly creative team. The person I talked to had questions, I gave him the answers. I expected the marketing experts were going to come up with some creative ways to utilize my answers to generate a witty, effective brilliant marketing campaign. I was very naive about this – instead, they used my answers almost word by word, transcribed them, and copied the text to PhotoShop files. My guess is it took the layout person no more than 4 – 5 hours to create jpg files that served as the Kickstarter page.

Similar story with the video for the campaign, which I had to revise because was so ineffective in generating interest. The video was done by the end of month 2 – just a week before the initial launch date which was missed.

Several times during the period in preparing to launch the campaign, I inquired about the testing the message and preparations – I was assured that there was a very good response and a great mailing list interested in my product was ready. (This mailing list was in addition to the internal list of Kickstarter supporters list which Ideazon owned -- I was told -- their Kickstarter supporter list was supposed to have hundreds of thousands of subsribers).

Sensing that the company was not being forthcoming with the truth, I started digging deeper into the company background and discovered that there were valid reasons for my worries. At one point I tried to cancel the project and I was by Matt Green that they "do not refund money for the reasons I stated". This was a clear violation of the contract I had with them. When confronted with the complainants about Ideazon I found on the BBB website as well as on the Ripoffreport.com site, Matt Green told me that those were difficult customers and that matters have been settled since to both parties satisfaction.

Although I was worried about the low quality of the campaign, my professional experience is that publicity is what matters the most – even the best marketing assets are of no value if nobody sees them -- and on the flip side, even low-quality marketing assets can be effective if they have high visibility. My thinking was to let them generate the initial push and I was going to do more on my side...

I was told to launch the campaign on June 1 and assured the team was in place to provide the publicity for the campaign. This did not materialize. There was no publicity other than the bits I was able to generate myself. I run a few ads on Facebook and Google with a $5 a day budget to establish a benchmark for the effectiveness of Facebook advertising done by Ideazon.

The only ad for my campaign other than the one I run was an ad I created months earlier for the TikTok platform – and its effectiveness was similar to my ads. It became clear that Ideazon had defrauded me. There was no marketing effort to create publicity for my Kickstarter project. They did the pretend work all along – they did not provide commercially viable effort as contractually obligated. I canceled the campaign and demanded a refund. I intend to go after them legally -- as a minimum for breach of contract.

If others join it may be possible to go after them for fraud https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-484.html (I am not a lawyer, so this would need to be consulter with the experts)

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sorry it is polarny @ ymail.com (still yahoo, but wrong the domain )

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Email me at polarny @ yahoo.com (minus the spaces)

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I have also been scammed by them, your story sounds extremely similar to mine! So frustrating and upsetting

Are we able to connect to find out what you're doing? Really need help figuring this all out

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Hi I'm definitely interested in pursuing legal methods of exposing them. Have you looked into it further?

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I forgot to mention Ideazon claims they have done 300-400 campaigns. They only show old ones and the odd newer one that worked from the stars aligning I feel. But both kickstarter, and indiegogo do not have them as approved/verified crowdfunding experts, and a bunch of others firms in the industry when i asked them about Ideazon said they never heard of them.

Ideazon crowdfunding company is one to STAY AWAY from, just move on to someone else with a well know reputation.

Please ignore my iphone typing errors... i just wanted to share all this to help save others from being scammed.

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I believe they are are very shady for many reasons. I have been around the block when it comes to business deals, contracts, and reputations.

These guys are real pros and disguising reviews to look like third party sites, there are no real positive reviews from any of their clients anywhere but one your tube video. I reached out to all their past clients nome would speak to me about them. Many of their campaigns were huge scams them selves, and when i got their contract and saw they had a gag order in it meaning us as clients can never talk about them or mention in anyway we used ideazon and what we think of them, that was the final straw and i knew they were out to take money from startup ppl.

I spent a couple days digging into them. they are master at settling disputes and having complaints removed from the web.

Unfortunately, their shady team are professional con artists and they know their stuff. Their marketing guy i spoke with was incredible, we really hit hit it off but I could still sense something fishy.

Their ads followed me around for weeks online, but once i called them out for all the things they do, i never was contacted back for them to answer any of my questions, and ads stopped following me.

They are good, the feel like the best solution but please avoid them, last thing you need is $7-15k to vanish and crappy results/failed campaign on your dream project .

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So what are people doing to companies like this to get them punished and fined. Also, why aren't anyone reporting them in ways that none of the owners and or employees can ever work in any of these fields ever again so that all of these scamming companies will be weeded out and be brought to justice?

It doesn't do much justice to only just posting the issues on line. FINRA Should be in play for these companies to keep at bay among other things.

"Folks are loosing their last or hard earned money that they hoped to make a better future and it's being ripped out from beneath them and no repercussions is really taking place!?"

PUNISHING EXAMPLES HAVE TO BE MADE WITH SOME OF THESE COMPANIES SO THAT OTHERS CAN SEE AND KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT UNTIUVHABLE.

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I am another victim of Ideazon - they created a lot of fake information around to attract new victims. I lost more than $10,000 and got a 1-star video and few poor articles, which I should fix by myself. Be aware of these cheaters! Nothing close to what they advertised. All created to get your money. After you paid you're not interesting for them anymore - no response for emails and phone calls. Scam business! Real reviews are so carefully hided, so hard to find real information about them. SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!

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Were you able to recoup any of the money? Did you try?

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I had the same experience they took 9,500 of my money. We were supposed to launch in 60 days it never happened. I would send them emails and they wouldn't return my email for weeks and never returned my phone calls. I have asked them for my money back after 6 week and have yet to see it. Do not use them. Go to rip off report and put in IDEAZON there are 3 posts there by different people. I know one person who lost 12,500 one that lost 14,000 and others as well.

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- El Segundo, CA, USA

Scammer's phone 800-669-4078
Scammer's website ideazon.com
Scammer's address Los Angeles CA, CA, USA
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location CA 90245, USA
Total money lost $7,250
Type of a scam Online Purchase

With a Google search, Ideazon seems like a reputable business. But they created those websites. I gave them over $7,000 as a deposit on a crowdfunding campaign. I had a call with one person at the very beginning. But they did nothing creative. Then they disappeared for three weeks and only started replying when I threatened to sue them and call the police. They hadn't even yet received a sample of my product. They were going to do a crowdfunding launch with zero effort and they got paid so who cares. I cut them off before paying the second deposit, thankfully.

Their phone number is just a virtual assistant and you will never get calls from them or learn their direct phone numbers. You will see that their social media has almost no engagement and that is because their followers are fake. I contacted several of the "clients" on their "products we've launched" web page and learned that Ideazon did not do the crowdfunding campaign for a single one of them. (There were a couple of clients that they helped, but not one where they led the campaign)

I do not know if they are actually located in Los Angeles. Check out https://ideazon-is-a-scam.com for more.

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