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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May 11th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
I’m not certain if it’s a scam or not yet. I did order these books almost a week ago, and I have yet to get any email from enjoythecity.com stating if they shipped out my order or not. I bought them under their promotion where you can get 5 books for $25 AND free shipping. We’ll see….
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August 31st, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Be careful ordering books because even thought they are still selling books most are either back ordered or they are out of. I have waited over 8wks for my last 2 orders and have called several times and been told I should have them by next wk. (I place another order earlier and those got to me with no problem). Needless to say next wk has come and gone several times! I wanted to use the Ult Fla ones with my children while they were on summer break and lost out on that. While still waiting for my order I still get emails with better deals then what I have paid upfront and they are not willing to give me those deals even though they do not have the books to ship out yet. The best they would do for me even though I have placed a total of 3 lg orders from them was to mail me out 2 xtra Winn Dixie coupons when the books finally do come in. Their CS is rude and unwilling to do anything (for the most part) besides trying to get me off the phone. They did also tell me they would ship me books from another cty not close to me nor is any place that we visit. I explained again I wanted the ones I ordered so I could have used them over summer break which is long over now. If your getting them for the Winn Dixie cups great just call and make sure they have that cty in their office, if your looking to use other coups in a certain cty beware! They made sure to take the money out of my acct along time ago even though they never had the books and also when I placed my ordered they never said they were on back order or out of them completely. I lost out on a mt of using the WD coupons and I also lost out on using the other coupons to have fun filled days (which was the only way I was going to be able go) with my children.
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