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Complaint Review: Freedom Boat Club Of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Freedom Boat Club Of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.420 SW 3rd Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315 Fort Lauderdale, Florida United States of America
Freedom Boat Club Of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Bads deal and getting worse Fort Lauderdale, Florida
*Consumer Comment: FORT LAUDERDALE/MIAMI Freedom Boat Club WORST COMPANY EVER
*Consumer Comment: Agree with Complaints on FBC it is Misery
*Author of original report: Typos
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Unfortunately, I have to agree with the fellow from Miramar. The Fort Lauderdale/Miami franchisee of Freedom Boat Club is a bad egg. I don't understand why the folks up in Cincinatti ((513)561.4635) don';t rein in this operator.
Their latest thing (in addition to all that Miramar wrote which is all true and well written) is that their latest credit card release (which is required) states:
"All charges are non-refundable, non-dispustable and final" and "Per transaction, there will be a $75.00 adminsitrative fee for all credit card disputes and declined credit cards. A $75.00 late fee is assessed to each unpaid invoice per month"
Which really means too bad for you - if we screw up (which they did twice last year and I had corrected - under the old terms) too bad for you. Their explantation is that they are charged $75 by the bank. Having spent an hour talking with various banks and VISA, I find that this is another example of FBC BS - the bank charges them about $20 - and FBC deserves to be charges it, not $75
As Miramar more elegantly stated - the boats are poorly maintained, not well cleaned, not available on the weekends unless you reserve 5-6 weeks in advance - and then it is only a half day. Plus you better get back before the fuel dock closes - or they will screw you badly on the fuel charges - which are based on engine hours at wide open throttle!
I thought even with all the disadvantages, that this would be a reasonable deal as I mostly would like to use the boats on the weekdays. However with the latest terminology of the CC agreement - they leave you open to any charges with no legal recourse.
McDonalds is successful for many reasons. Keeping the franchissees on the up and up is one of them. Why Freedom Boat Club does not keep their franchissees in line is beyond me. Every complaint is a black mark on the whole system, and ultimately weakens the franchise as a whole. Good concept - poor execution. Fort Lauderdale/Miami is one of the worst.
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#1 Consumer Comment
FORT LAUDERDALE/MIAMI Freedom Boat Club WORST COMPANY EVER
AUTHOR: Kelly Brown - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, March 19, 2011POSTED: Saturday, March 19, 2011
It is quite ironic that when I read all these reviews about Freedom Boat Club, I feel that I have written them myself because everything stated in these reviews are ABSOLUTELY TRUE and I have personally experienced all of situations!! Stay away from this company. They are at minimum HORRIBLE. Not only is the company horrible as a whole, but as people as well. I have been threatened, taken advantage of, treated like DIRT. Everytime you take a boat out (if you get the chance to book one), your family and friends lives are at risk. I too have had boats sink due to their negligence. I can continue about all my HORRIBLE experiences. As the other user ZAK has mentioned, if you are in the state of Florida and experiencing problems, please contact the state Attorney General at MYFLORIDALEGAL.COM. Then file a claim at SAO17.STATE.FL.US and 800HELPFLA.COM.
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Agree with Complaints on FBC it is Misery
AUTHOR: Mark - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, January 17, 2011POSTED: Monday, January 17, 2011
Back in 2007 I bought a fully paid 5 year memebership to FBC for around $16000.. At that timeFBC had Marinias in Dania Beach, Hollywood, and Miami.FBC had a pretty decent fleet of boats, and the franchise owner planned to replace boats every couple of years or at least that was the promise. They fueled and cleaned the boats for you and it was truly owning the water and not the boat. There were maintenace issues, but the owner held to the commercial terms of the agreement, and the staff was friendly, and fair. Even though there were some maintenace issues, and you had to reserve well in advance for a weekend slot, it was basically a pleasant experience.
Then a couple of years ago the franchise was sold to the current folks who have ethics, & customer serviceissues. They closed the Dania Marina and moved to Ft Lauderdale. Fueling started to be required by member, after the fueling station was removed at dock, which in inconvenient to say the least. Hours of operation decreased and less flexibilty for pick up and return, and recently they have gone on a clean it your self binge. What is most upsetting for me having a fully paid 5 year agreement is thatFBC does not want to stand by the original agreement. They use the Rules and Regulations to change original commercial terms.
Depth gauges are typically not operational, yet they expect member to pay for any prop damage. They want a credit card on file to charge too, they have added admin fees, etc. They no longer allow you to buy your own owing insurance but have to buy from them, and more expensive given it only covers their boats.
I have been rescued twice by the coast guard. The most serious incident was whenthe boat was 10 miles offshore and sinking because the bilge pump failed and hull was leaking. Radio would not work and luckily within cell phone range to get help. FBC fixed bilge pump but continued to send this leaking Center Console out, and never installed backup bilge pumps in their boats as promised.
Bottomline avoid the headache and hassle. There are other clubs or simply rent, or charter. It will be cheaper and safer in the long run. What was once a nice club has become misery due to current franchise owners.
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AUTHOR: Waterman480 - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, December 23, 2009POSTED: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Again, I advise everyone to seriously look before you leap. All is not as it appears to be. Just as with a used car salesman's patter - all that you hear does not matter. The written contract is all that matters - and this one is very one sided and all in their favor.
The sooner they go out of business or the Attorney General shuts them down for fraud (unfortunately unlikely in Florida), the better.
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Complaint Review: Pimsleur Technique
Pimsleur Technique1600 JFK Blvd. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Stroll-Pimsleur Approach-Pimsleur Technique-Rapid Reading Institute Received a product i didn't want. Never received a bill. Received an overdue bill and tried to return it but was not allowed to do that. Will not refund me and I want to send the product back. Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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I odered a starte version of the Pimsleur Approach to learning a language. I paid 9.99 for that and was happy to receive it.
About a month later I received a box with the Platinum version of this product without a bill. Now two monthl later I receive a bill for $256.00 saying that the payment for this product is past due. I called and spoke with a representative of the Internet Order, LLC and they said that since its past the trial period which I never received a bill or even ordered this product that I could no longer send it back. They said that I didn't read the fine print. I told them I never received a bill during the trial period, or I would have sent it back then. They had nothing to say and am now waiting for a supervisor to call me back.
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Adventure - enjoying every day, not planning to much ahead - ready to adapt to changes.
Nice person, with good energy and easy to be around. Courageous and independent. Good humor, big smile. A free bird and adventurous spirit. Intelligent and generous massage therapist, working with holistic healing, involving CST and Reiki - helping the body unwind and heal itself. Love to contribute with holistic healing to those who can offer a couch or friendship during travel.
Enjoy life while living; day by day, minute by minute. Be ready for change and appreciate all lessons learned. If we take the lesson and leave the shit we can grow to be more mature and vice and thus we can at any time appreciate both the ups and downs in life.
All emotions are human and still we are frequently told to hide our emotions, keep them to our selves, giving ourselves heartaches and stress. And at last when we confide with a friend or a person, passing through our lives, we find out that all these emotions are understood and known by EVERYONE ... why make life so hard - when it can be easy!
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Great first encounters ... look forward to future connections and making new friends :)
I travel with my camera close to me, regard it as my best travel companion. I post my pictures on Flickr (web site: www.flickr.com/photos/thorgerdur_mattia / www.flickeflu.com/photos/thorgerdur_mattia/interesting. I also keep a blog, written in English: www.mattiais.com
I started my adventurous travel in January 2011 - went back home to Iceland in June 2011, stayed there until August 2012 and am now staying in Bahamas, where I took a seminar in Dolphin Assisted Therapy, and prolonged my stay. Went from the Bahamas to Jamaica and took a road trip in America, all the way to the Grand Canyon.
I love water therapy and the amazing energy of holistic healing, the body's inner ability to heal itself with a little assistance.
I have three grown up daughters, and enjoy every marvelous opportunity to follow my dreams and travel around the world. I love investigating, taking adventurous trips, meeting people and getting to understand different cultures. Never finished my studies to become a anthropologist, became an accountant instead, before I took my U-turn in life a few years ago, becoming a massage therapist, working with holistic healing treatment.
I love writing, have written poetry and short stories, working on my novel while travelling. Sometimes I combine poetry with my pictures. Creativity is a very important part of my being.
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I always have hard time listing favorites, enjoy so many. Love reading books that leave something behind, books you don't want to end - because you would like to keep on reading them. Paulo Coelho is of that kind. I like to listen to music, but at times I also love listening to nothing at all. One time favorite movie which I try to view every year: The Bridges of Madison County.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
The amazing generosity and helpfulness of the Irish people, when I was facing problems. Swimming with dolphins in Bahamas. Snorkeling at a reef in Bahamas, seeing the underwater world, which is so different from what is up on land ... the colors, the nature down there made me realize where ideas get born; had often wondered how the makers of the movie Avatar got their ideas, feel now that I know!
The magnificence of the Grand Canyon can not be described, it has to be seen ...
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I am a massage therapist and love holistic healing. I can contribute in that way, helping people unwind from all kinds of physical problems, aches and pains. I can assist their bodies in healing themselves and I don't need a massage table, candles, scents ... healing therapy can take place everywhere, in a chair, on a couch or on the dining room table.
I would like to learn more in my field, advance in my spiritual wandering. I feel there is so much I still don't know, so many tools I might find and use in my own therapy (tools being a metaphor for knowledge and ways of working). Everyone I meet, everyone I treat is my teacher in a way - Although we all share the same emotions, no one has the same experience and everyone has a special gift, whether it is acknowledged or not.
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by Sylvia Plath
Stanza 15 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Line 71
If I've killed one man, I've killed two –
- Here we are, back to the speaker's claim from line 6 that she killed her father. We know from that stanza that he died before she actually killed him. But here she is again, claiming that she's killed not one man, but two.
- We can guess that the first man she claims to have killed is her father, and since the only other man in this poem is the model of her father, we're guessing that's the second man.
- But we're also guessing she hasn't actually killed these men, except in her head.
Lines 72-74
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
- Now we get more indication that the second man the speaker has killed is, as suspected, the man that she modeled after her father and married. We're guessing this because that man, whom she's calling a vampire, "said he was you," so is very similar to her father.
- She's already made this man out to be like Hitler, and now he's a vampire too. He's such a vampire that he actually drank her blood. She starts by saying that he drank her blood for a year, but then changes her mind and says he's been drinking it for seven.
- Drinking blood could be a metaphor for the speaker's relationship with this man, which, as we found out earlier, was marriage. It sounds like this man has been draining her life away, like a vampire would drain his victim's blood.
- We're not sure why she changed her mind on the time span. Maybe she was only married to the man for one year, but knew him for seven. Or maybe she thought he was only cruel to her for one year, but upon further thought, she realizes that he's really been cruel for seven, which could be the totality of their marriage.
- (Interesting fact: In real life, Plath was married to Ted Hughes for about seven years.)
- The speaker adds the "if you want to know" at the end of this line in what seems like a jab to her father, who could be either disinterested in or hurt by his daughter's distress.
Line 75
Daddy, you can lie back now.
- After the speaker has asserted that she's killed both her father and the man she married (who reminded her of him), she tells her father to lie back.
- Normally you'd think of this as something comforting – like lying back and relaxing. But it's kind of weird that our speaker is telling her dead father, whom she seems to hate, or at least be angry at, to lie back and relax.
- It's also a little strange that she calls him "Daddy," which is an affectionate name for someone she has aligned with so much evil.


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ESCALON - When the planning commission meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday, it will be looking at a proposed 32-unit apartment complex at 1260 Lillian Ave.
The planning commission had last discussed the project, which would also include a manager's unit and would be ADA adaptable, in October.
Public comment is allowed at the meeting, to be held in the Escalon City Hall Council Chambers, 2060 McHenry Ave., Escalon.
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Ex-College Student Pleads Guilty In Online Coupon Scam
A former college student admitted Wednesday to creating and disseminating counterfeit online coupons for consumer goods and electronics.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had alleged that Lucas Townsend Henderson, a former student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, created fake coupons for products ranging from Procter & Gamble Co.'s Tide laundry detergent to Sony Corp.'s PlayStation video game system. As a result, retailers and manufacturers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, prosecutors said.
Mr. Henderson, of Lubbock, Texas, pleaded guilty Wednesday to wire fraud and trafficking in counterfeit goods in Manhattan federal court.
He faces two years and six months to three years and one month in prison under federal sentencing guidelines. However, prosecutors, as part of a plea agreement, agreed that a sentence below the guidelines range would be appropriate.
A lawyer for Mr. Henderson didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment Wednesday.
Prosecutors had alleged that Mr. Henderson created coupons designed to look like legitimate online print-at-home coupons found on www.SmartSource.com, which is operated by a division of a News Corp., which also owns the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.


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Complaint Review: Planet DVD Store
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Planet DVD Store I puchased a new DVD set; they sent me pirated copies. Internet
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First, I had to sign for a box from CHINA. I opened the box. Inside was a plastic box made for VHS tapes. The case was labeled Angry Beavers, (a piece of paper was haphazardly slipped into the label sleeve encasing the box). Inside were a series of disks, in office store purchased CD sleeves, with plain "Angry Beavers" labels. Numbered by hand. NO listing of episodes in the box or on the disks, no "liner notes."
This is a PIRATED DVD set, sold as a new, original set.
I sent an email to the website, and I do not expect a reply, as they have yet to reply to one I sent a week ago about shipping concerns.
Everett, Washington
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CUI offers an array of food choices and services for students. Bon Appetit, CUI's premiere caterer has won many awards in the food service industry for their healthy food options and home cooked favorites. They provide all the food in the main cafeteria and Eagle Rock. They also prepare all of our on- and off-campus catering needs.
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(BURBANK, CA) -- Heidi Joy Pike is an adult industry veteran whos done a little bit of everything and met just about everyone. Editor, director, writer, and more, Pike is also the latest addition to the Ynot.com editorial team.
"I worked with Heidi for years while she was my senior associate editor at /AVN/ and was very pleased when she was one of several highly qualified candidates who responded to our call for writers," Ynot.com editor Darklady says of the new hire. "Heidi is a savvy, sassy, and experienced professional with a big heart, a sharp mind, and at least a few opinions all of which I expect will lead us into many mutual adventures and result in some great site content."
Prior to her work with /AVN,/ Pike held the editorial wheel at John Stagliano and Evil Angels /Buttman Magazine./ One of the few industry writing talents who possesses professional erotic experience both in front of an audience, as a Seattle peep-show girl, and behind a camera, as a director for New Machine and Bad Seed, Pikes unique insights are expected to further strengthen Ynots editorial offerings, while her commitment to communication and excellence should fit in well with the Ynot editorial ethos.
As for Pike, whose work began appearing on Ynot this week, the prospect of renewing a professional acquaintance and expanding her professional focus is a positive one. "I was so very happy to be asked to write regularly for Ynot," she assures. "I loved working with Darklady previously and could not pass up the opportunity to work with her again. Ynot is a lively, informative news site and Im looking forward to adding my voice to it."
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Ynot Network, Lp (Ynot.com) is one of the oldest and most respected companies in the online adult entertainment industry. Founded in 1996, Ynot.com is a valuable resource for individuals with an interest in the operation of adult entertainment websites. Ynot provides daily industry headline news, educational articles for adult webmasters, a comprehensive listing of professional services, and tools for online marketing and networking. For more information, please visit http://www.Ynot.com.
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Easy to use and administer however needles seemed large for my kittens. The injections were tolerated well with no adverse side effects.
I found this vaccine great, I highly recommend it, easy to use and an excellent price!
Very easy to use, you use the needle to withdraw the mix solution from one vial and inject into the other vial , shake well , then inject into the scruff of the back of the neck , no reaction from the cats at all, all were better from symptoms with in 2 weeks
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No, this isn't a still from an upcoming horror film starring Lisa Edelstein and Josh Charles. It's a shot of the pair hamming it up between takes on the set of CBS' The Good Wife, where House's former leading lady is playing a morally flexible lawyer with ties to Charles' Will. READ MORE & VIEW IMAGE