Stores Online Workshop Day

Dear Sir

On Mon 27 Feb 06 I attended the Workshop day for Stores Online Inc and am pleased ( very pleased indeed now!) to say I did not become a "merchant" on the day despite some very persuasive arguments, good and valuable teaching, and an altogether pleasant time. I have spent the day looking up some of the sites mentioned and indeed found one can set up the very thing StoresOnline are selling, as a package, for a fraction of the costs they are charging. Even some of the "good" teaching I have now found to be flawed and thus it gave the audience a false sense of security in their trust of the company many of them have signed up with.

Having been assured at the beginning anyone who left at the end of the day without becoming a member would receive a Certificate allowing them to join within 90 days at a reduced cost, when I asked about this from a senior member of the staff on duty he pointed me to a stack on unsigned certificates with a very dismissive air. This I took as a very good indicator of the real care this company has for it's potential clients.

I only wish I could go and see some of these new merchants to tell them to think again before it is too late and they lose their money. I don't doubt there have been some successes but I would venture to suggest these will be few and far between from those who attended yesterday.

I have read Alice Wisdoms letter of complaint and am even more pleased I did not sign up.

If there is any way to publish this letter and say I am available to show anyone who asks what I have discovered then I would welcome your help in making it so.

Thank you

Ian Mattison