I have paid $295 to this website to register as an employer and find candidates for the Oil & Gas sector. After paying the moneys i havent't received any password and login details. Sent emails to a few addresses as published on the site and all bounced back. After a week I received an email from a person named Matt (I believe its a fake name) with a weblink, password and login details. I use it and after logged in there is a list of websites who are providing the services that he should have provided instead. Of course I am disputing the money with PayPal also because after some doubts I have googled oilcareer and as a result I found countless complains of scams where this site is involved and found also some official action against its owner and a fine of 100,000 canadian dollars.
Consumer Complaints & Reviews
Had taken 6 month membership with oilcareer.com costing $197 which came with a guarantee of 90 days money back if the help they extended did not result in myself getting employed on a Oil rig job.
Despite my sending n number of mails oilcareer.com has failed to reply back and repay back the amount i forwarded to them for the services they offer.
The site is 100% fraud and all the testimonials of those who got jobs using their membership is fake and the jobs listed in their members area are 5-10 years old job adds which are of no use at all.
Dear friends Dont at all invest in this fraudulent site.
this site offers career services for oil industry. i paid to become a member to access the site. the membership comes with a 3 months moneyback gaurantee in case the user is not satisfied with the service. i found the site very less productive, hence mailed them for a refund. they mailed me back the way to ask for a refund. i did send that mail too. but its almost two months now and i have not received any refund from them. the phone provided there does not work. and thereafter i mailed them many times but no reply regarding the matter so far.
I recieved several e-mails from Matt Hovila president of oilcareer.com promising to find me a job in the oil industry, for a membership fee of 197.00, but if not completely satisfied there was a 90 day money bac guarantee, once i signed up and paid my money I got a payment confirmation e-mail with my login id and password. Once I tried to login I couldnt. Since then I have tried to e-mail them, call them, they even have a live support that you can use but of coarse when yo try and use it there is somthing wrong with it.
It has now been 4 days since my membership and i have tried requestin my money back and it has been unsuccessful. I was trying to find anything on the internet about the company and it looks like they have been running scams for some time now and aparently in 2006 they were caught and had to pay a fine of 100,000.00, but yet there still doing this again.
I paid for oilcareer.com thru ESHOP5 Credit Card Order Form last November 20, 2006 to get me a job in oil industries. Until now I didn't receive any information on how to access or sign-in the members area. I have send message to them but no one responded. I even send the fax copy of the credit card statement for them to verify that I really did the payment. Please help me. Thanks. Please don't publish my name in this complaint.
well like the man on the front of this web site. i payed them money to get me a job on an oil rig. but i never heard any thing, so i justed wanted to let some one know cuz that money i used for the web site was not for that. but i felt ok with it i mean i never thought it would be a scam.
I paid for Oilcareer.com to get me a job on an oil rig but they didn't get me one. The $197 I paid was supposed to given back to me according to their pay-back guarantee which comes into affect after 90 days if employment was not gained. I sent them various emails complaining about the situation but didn't get a satisfactory response.
The last email I sent them was as follows:
"Hi Oilcareer- I applied for your services at the end of 2001 and got various, I presume, server generated confirmation emails saying that my resume had been sent out. I had never submitted my resume to you so I enquired as to where I should send it and got what appeared to be another server generated email informing me that someone in Customer Service would respond timeously.
After a period of about 6-12 weeks a credit card statement had come through showing the U$197 which was credited to your account for the Standard Package but I still had not heard from your Customer Services Department after another enquiry. You stated then that if a customer was not happy with the services rendered, then a full refund would be paid after 90 days in accordance with your money-back guarantee. For this reason I sent emails to you requesting a pay-back but received no feed-back. Because I couldn't get the money back I asked EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) to look into it, but that didn't work out due to various reasons.
Now I have searched the internet again for help and came across Cosumeraffairs.com and other sites which black-list companies who, for one reason or another, have displeased their customers. I contemplated complaining to them about oilcareer but thought I would first send you this message in the hope of settling the matter without third-party help.
Incedently, your Disclaimer on the Oilcareer.com website states that "All sales are final and we offer no money back guarantees. Oil Career services makes no express warranties or guarantees and waives all implied guarantees, including, but not limited to the guarantees at our website www.oilcareer.com." and then in an email received today you say the following: "We offer a full and unconditional money back guarantee, so if you`re not happy with our service for any reason, or we don`t find you a position within 90 days, we`ll simply refund all your money without any questions asked."
I tried to go into the Member's area today but it rejected my email at login so I presume that my information has been taken off the system.
Damage Resulting: I lost $197 which should have been paid back to me. Therefore I am now appealing for your help in this regard so as I might get my money back. Please inform me as to the validity of my arguement.
