Is “Enjoy The City” Fundraising Program a Scam?
So I’m afraid I may have been scammed again, and this time by a fundraising organization.
ENJOY THE CITY http://www.enjoythecity.com is a Fundraising company that allows you group or organization to sell fundraising books to earn money for whatever it is you are raising money for.
For Example, a group at my church was selling these coupon books for $20, and I believe that the church group gets to keep 50% of that money, or $10.00.
Initially, these books with hundreds of restaurant and other coupons seems like a great deal…mostly because they have several pizza restaurants involved that actually offer you a coupon for a FREE pizza is you meet the manager.
For Example, Today I drove 40 minutes to Happy’s Pizza at 6045 S. Cedar St. in Lansing, MI to use my “Enjoy the City” coupon the says the following “MEET THE MANAGER SPECIAL: ENJOY ONE FREE LARGE TWO-TOPPING PIZZA” No purchase necessary, carry out only! Valid through December 31 2012. I was VERY excited to use this coupon to try a new pizza place, and truly, these types of coupons was EXACTLY why I bought the coupon book in the first place.
When I go to use the coupon, the girl at Happy’s Pizza tells me the following, “We are not accepting these coupons! This is fraud, and we never signed up for this program. We feel terrible, and have upset a lot of potential customers.” I was very upset, and she told me the following…”The coupon book companies phone number is 1.866.359.2489, you can call them to complain.”
I, of course, try to call ENJOY THE CITY to ask for my $20 back…but as you can expect, no one at the company will answer the phone. My only option was to leave a message…we will see how that goes.
This seems a little bit like my Restaurant.com problem!
Has anyone else had a problem with the ENJOY THE CITY Fundraising program? Let me know!
Thanks, -TAM
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January 5th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
I had the same problem yesterday, same place, the Happy’s Pizza on South Cedar in Lansing This is the 3rd year I have bought this fundraiser from chidren in our area for their elementary school. I have NEVER had a problem with any other place that is listed in this coupon book. I think the problem is NOT with the Enjoy the City fundraiser, it is with Happy’s Pizza backing out of their obligation and are not willing to accept these coupons anymore. They use to take them up until last week, that came straight from the managers mouth. Perhaps Happy’s Pizza is the fraud here! I will NEVER go there again.
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January 5th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Sounds like a complete scam to me.
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January 9th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
This same thing happened to me at the Papa Romano’s in EL. It’s definitely the book, cus they didn’t let me use it either.
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January 13th, 2012 at 8:29 am
It’s terrible that someone is able to misrepresent companies like this. I hope they track down whoever’s responsible for these coupons.
-Jean
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January 16th, 2012 at 6:00 am
A great deal of individuals believe that they often ought to produce new fundraising ideas every single time they are doing a fundraiser marketing campaign. To save lots of time, you could just get outdated fundraiser ideas and add new important things to them to generate them one of a kind again.
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January 17th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
If you call the company, they would inform you that they are currently in legal with Happy’s Pizza. Happy’s apparently changed management after the book was printed and the new management refuses to honor the contract that the old management signed. BUT there are several other awesome coupons in the book. My Daughter’s cheerleading group raised a lot of money in a short period of time. Even with the Happy’s deal I would do it again next year. Most couponers realize there is more value to the book than ONE COUPON!!! So they buy the book.
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February 1st, 2012 at 3:40 am
I figured that there must be a dispute somewhere. It seemed to elaborate to be an outright scam. Tough break for everyone involved though.
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