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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2012
CONTACT Mike Saccone Communications Director 303-866-5632
Attorney General announces consumer protection lawsuit against Evergreen duo and magazine subscription businesses
DENVER Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that his office has filed a lawsuit against Jennifer Proffitt-Payne (DOB: 12/21/1961), Cody Payne (DOB: 11/28/1963) and a series of Jefferson County-based magazine businesses. The lawsuit follows allegations that Proffitt-Payne, of Evergreen, and her businesses, including Great Lakes Circulation and D2D Consulting, engaged in deceptive trade practices.
According to the complaint, filed in Denver District Court, the companies run by Proffitt-Payne and Payne marketed magazine subscriptions using door-to-door salesmen and engaged in high-pressure sales tactics, including saying that purchases would benefit the military overseas, charities or local schools, to defraud consumers. Proffitt-Payne and Paynes businesses are suspected of using youth to walk door-to-door to make their magazine sales. As part of their pitches, the salesmen would tell consumers their purchases entered them in a contest for a trip or scholarship, but awards were rarely, if ever, given.
According to the complaint, Proffitt-Payne and Paynes businesses routinely failed to honor consumers requests to cancel their magazine subscriptions, including telling consumers who asked for refunds that the business that sold them their subscriptions was no longer in business. In some cases, Proffitt-Payne and Paynes businesses failed to give consumers the magazines they had purchased.
The conduct of Proffitt-Payne and Paynes businesses resulted in hundreds of consumer complaints to the Office of the Attorney General, the Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.
This is the second consumer protection action the Office of the Attorney General has taken against a group of magazine-sales companies over the past year. The Office of the Attorney General HYPERLINK "http://www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/press/news/2011/10/06/attorney_general_announces_consumer_protection_lawsuit_against_metro_area_maga"filed a consumer protection lawsuit in October 2011 against a series of Denver, Lakewood, Littleton and Wheatridge-based magazine-sales telemarketing companies and their principals on suspicion that they deceived and defrauded consumers in Colorado and nationwide. That case is ongoing.
Consumers who believe they have been defrauded by a business can file a complaint with the Office of the Attorney General via HYPERLINK "http://www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/complaint"www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/complaint or 1-800-222-4444. Consumers also can learn more about their rights when dealing with HYPERLINK "http://www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/initiatives/consumer_resource_guide/common_scams" \l "magazine_sales"magazine pitches and other common consumer issues by visiting the Office of the Attorney Generals online HYPERLINK "http://www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/initiatives/consumer_resource_guide"Consumer Resource Guide.
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