The Zeal Sales World Headquarters!

Zeal Sales, Inc. is purportedly in the business of selling the “shells” of Health Career Agents members’ businesses that have failed (meaning they never made a dime).  What could possibly be a more solid recommendation that you’re dealing with a “legitimate” business than paying a surprise visit to their corporate headquarters address and finding this:

This is where you can learn to earn a HALF MILLION Dollars per year!  Inspired? Trusting? Are you that Gullible?

Mythology and the scam

I’ve always been a fan of Greek Mythology, beginning my studies of the subject back in High School.  One of the creatures I studied back then is really applicable to the scams perpetrated by Brian Marchant-Calsyn and Charlotte Byndas. 

The “Hydra” is a many headed monster that was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and lived in the lake of Lerna.  I’ll continue by substituting the names:

The HyCrA (HCA) is a many headed monster that was the offspring of Brian Marchant-Calsyn and Charlotte Byndas.  Charlotte, after all, has testified in a sworn deposition that HyCrA was “her baby”.  The HyCrA lives in the tony burbs of St. Louis, Missouri and White Lake, Michigan.  This many headed serpent-like monster has specific personaliities, such as Internet Recruiting Group, Strategic Research Network, Health Career Agents, Multiple Placement Service, Platinum Black, IT Recruiters of Michigan, Encore Careers, Search Entrepreneurs, Career Agents Network, and Zeal Sales.  Many heads… but one same body and one same goal.  That goal is to scam people out of their hard-earned money by peddling vaporware and promises that rely upon the dreams of those seeking their own home-based business. 

The HyCrA has poisonous blood and breath so strong that even the unsuspecting victim following in the tracks of this malevolent creature was doomed to perish.  Enter Heracles, the hero.  Heracles was sent to Lake Lerna to slay the HyCrA and at first, using his sword to decapitate the monster found that with each swing of the sabre each head grew back as two!  Similar things have been witnessed with the end of Career Agents Network and the now two-pronged Search Entrepreneurs and Zeal Sales.  Heracles called upon his nephew, Lolaus to assist him in the challenge.  Lolaus suggested cauterizing each stump after the head removal.  This worked and the HyCrA was defeated.

In our efforts we must realize that the HyCrA has regrown and is now two-fold strong.  With the backing of the 70 members that have contacted me, perhaps we can demand that the Attorney Generals in the States of Michigan and Missouri “cauterize” this monster and banish it to the depths of the deep blue constellation of the universe.  

The creative use of Testimonials

It is interesting to note that the new Search Entrepreneurs company is using testimonials in a very creative manner.  Reading these testimonials you’d never come to the conclusion that the company is a mere 5 weeks since latest name change.  You’d  never come to the conclusion that these testimonials are the result of solicitation by the management to gather materials from cronies to facilitate the continuation of a flawed business model.

Since Search Entrepreneurs is the new name of Career Agents Network, which was a new name for Health Career Agents, which was a new name for…well you get the idea; I’ve decided to lump everything together for commentary and opinion into one area that will be sustainable for the longer term and also allow others to post their opinions and experience.  This group of executives changes their corporate name more frequently than some of the slower forms of lizard and reptiles, and since Search Entrepreneurs seems to have a penchant for using testimonials, I felt it only appropriate for those that detest them to have a forum.  http://DETESTimonials.com has been setup to assist in this exercise of everyone’s First Amendment rights.  http://DETESTimonials.com will serve as a “CrowdSourcing” forum for the expression of the disaster inflicted by purchasing a “business opportunity” from this organization.  Additionally, as other people wish to add companies beyond the scope of Search Entrepreneurs, Career Agents Network, Health Career Agents, etc… new areas will be added.

For those of you that aren’t kept “completely” in the loop, Search Entrepreneurs has already begun working on a new name to use once the cachet of Search Entrepreneurs diminishes (or people catch on).  Oh! They haven’t disclosed this to you?  Imagine that… guess you’ll have to wait until it’s added at http://detestimonials.com to find out.

New Year, New Name

Sorry for the delay… I’m certain many of you have been waiting for our new sucks dot com web sites;  http://www.search-entrepreneurs-sucks.com, http://searchentrepreneurssux.com, and our blog http://blog.searchentrepreneurssux.com since we became aware of the new name of the sleazy old company.  Rest assured that our new sucks dot com for Search Entrepreneurs,  (yes, you missed a few domains) are up and operational.  Same Dog, Same Fleas, New name… not like we didn’t predict it.  Find us on Google if you put in the <keywords= Search Entrepreneurs Sux or Sucks> or just use this search link: Search Entrepreneurs .

Health Career Agents is still alive and kicking, I guess.  The company is still showing as active with the Missouri Secretary of State and the “re-scam” … (I mean resales) website is still operational. Out of curiosity, is Search Entrepreneurs, Inc. now contracted to support the Health Career Agents membership since Career Agents Network ceased to exist?  Just for informational purposes, it appears that Brian Marchant-Calsyn is also undergoing somewhat of a name change.  He isn’t using “Marchant” as part of his last name and also tends to spell his first name BrYan.  It would also appear that he is planning on sticking around the digs on Topping Road.  Although he conducted a “Moving Sale” last July it doesn’t appear that the house is listed anywhere on the market.  Couple that with the fact that he just paid his tax bill of more than 15 thousand dollars in November and it seems he’s settled in for the Winter.  Anyone interested in owning property next to him should line up for the Tax sale on his adjacent property (at 1803 Topping Rd.) in the late Summer, when it is sold for 3 years of delinquent taxes.

A Penny For Your Thoughts?

Anyone that has had the displeasure (torture might be a better term) of listening to Charlotte Byndas performing one her trademark “I” monologues knows that although I may have said “A Penny For Your Thoughts”; I’m way smarter than to actually mean it since I know firsthand that once she begins speaking it is very difficult to get her to shut up.  So, what’s the significance of a penny?  After seventeen months from the onset of the spurious, unfounded, and baseless litigation against me for exercising my Freedom of Speech in calling them out as a scam, we settled by paying them 1 Cent.  Actually, my counsel was the one that finally said to their counsel in one of the forced mediation meetings “Listen, I’ll give you a penny out of my own pocket if you dismiss the case”.  He was somewhat shocked when it was accepted, as he was not completely serious when he made the offer.

You have to ask yourself if you’ve followed this saga, If $40,000 was considered to be a “bargain” by Charlotte Byndas, what is an amount $39,999.99 less?

Now that this legal vendetta by the Chief Reprobate Officer has ended, with them being spanked by the Federal District Court not once, but twice and finally realizing the 6th Court of Appeals would have ruled similarly there is a need for some reflection.

1. If Charlotte Byndas, the pedantic nitwit, had facilitated the refund of the $49,900.00 she scammed me out as COO of Brian Marchant-Calsyn’s scam Health Career Agents, I wouldn’t have had as much to gripe about.  The other 900+ people that were scammed would have had to pick up the gauntlet and carry it forward.

2. Performing surveillance on my home and sending me creepy text messages at whack hours of the day and night went way too far over the line of conduct by a Chief Oooops-erating Officer; firming my resolve to put them in their place for attempting to “bully” me.

3. Bringing my four-time Cancer surviving Sweetheart into the fray of this litigation was a fatal error and cemented my willingness to expose the foul stench of their business practices.

Everything aside, I’d still be willing to assist these people in reforming their unethical and unprincipled ways and offer to provide consultation to their company to achieve this goal.  In my opinion it would be a very long journey, and it might seem to be an insurmountable task; however, as an optimistic person I’d hope that there is some shred of decency in their corporate leadership.  My thought is that Paul Helm, President of Career Agents Network, might have actually “grown a pair” and told Byndas to get this resolved.  They were already 0-2 with the courts, facing 0-3 on appeal and paying (if they’ve been paid) Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer, and Weiss a huge amount to pursue almost certain defeat.  My counsel would have enjoyed allowing Career Agents Network to pay for the establishment of further precedents, like the award of my attorney fees did for other baseless Lanham/ACPA litigation.  Most likely they would have wound up paying my attorney’s fees on appeal also.

If they’re upset with their attorneys, perhaps they should consider a website like JaffeLawSucks.com.  Oh wait, you can’t use that one since I already own it and will be using it in very short order.  There are a few surprises waiting in the virtual world Christmas (or Hannukah) stocking next month for this law firm.  Hey Jaffe, wanna go a few rounds and face equal humiliation as your client?  I’m *alot* more savvy now than when Michael Khoury (Super Lawyer?…LOL) tried to bully me in June of 2009.

In conclusion, no hard feelings, you were a scam, remain a scam, and even when you change your name next year will still be a scam.  I’ll be there to call you out on that one also.

By the way Charlotte, I’d like to thank you for being the Number 1 visitor to my websites both on your Verizon Wireless connection as well as Comcast.  It’s nice to know you stop talking for at least a few moments while reading.  Even if many of your visits occur very early in the morning and presumably when there’s no one around for you to bore senseless with your jabbering, I’ll still give you credit for momentary silence.  You REALLY should try to practice the words of the Greek philosopher Epictetus (sometimes attributed to Socrates):

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and one tongue — to the end that we should hear and see twice more than we speak.

Final question:  I understand that there have actually been people stupid enough to buy into one of these ”business opportunities” since I started the websites.  Are these people complete morons or was P. T. Barnun truly correct in stating “There’s a sucker born every minute”?

A very interesting comment

There was a very interesting comment made in response to the post regarding the judgment awards made by Judge Judy Preddy Draper and Judge Ellen Hannigan Ribaudo.  The comment was:

“Big deal on the Revoked HCA accreditation and scored a F…..LOL……. Just because someone gets a judgement doesn’t mean they get any money. You then have to collect the judgement. Look at the O J Simpson judgement. If you got money, you can get lawyers to help you with asset hiding.”

Sounds like a true scofflaw wrote that and feels there is some sort of immunity afforded to certain people. 

What is particularly interesting about this comment is that it came from an Internet Protocol address of  68.184.201.239 which is allocated to Charter Communcations, St. Louis (Town & Country), Missouri.  Unless someone else is accessing, reading, and posting information on the blog from the same town as Brian Marchant-Calsyn it would be my opinion and conjecture that this was posted by Brian Marchant-Calsyn (or whatever name he’s using this week).  If  Marchant-Calsyn would like to deny that he is the author of this comment I’d welcome him to supply his internet providers name, if different than Charter, and we’ll track down who was using this IP at the time it was posted.

It’s interesting to note the author’s comparison between these cases and the O.J. Simpson case.  Comparing oneself to O. J. Simpson wouldn’t seem to be the way to go in justifying your actions nor attempting to persuade others of your intentions.  Flaunting your inherent disrespect for the legal system and taunting others that have received a judgment against you is somewhat like wagging a steak in front of a pitbull with only a chicken-wire fence of separation.  The dog might bypass the steak once the barrier is removed and take a larger chunk out of your ass instead.

I’ll send Judges Preddy and Ribaudo a link to this blog and perhaps they can assist in the judgment enforcement.

Plaintiffs receive $157,218.00 in judgments against Health Career Agents

In the lawsuit that really brought much of the fraud allegations to the attention of those that were scammed, Gary Schwarz who brought suit against Brian Marchant-Calsyn and Health Career Agents was awarded $35,000.00 by Judge Judy Preddy Draper in a St. Louis Court.  Also receiving judgments from Judge Draper were Dan Friesland ($35,000), Janet Sykora ($35,000), and Pine McCullough ($35,000).  In a separate courtroom, Judge Ellen Hannigan Ribaudo awarded Aaron Wallick $17,218.00 in his litigation against Health Career Agents and Brian Marchant-Calsyn.

In other action there has been a new lawsuit filed against Health Career Agents by Mart Franchise Venture, a company that specializes in holding Franchise Expos.  Did Health Career Agents refuse to pay for space they rented at a franchise expo show claiming that they are a “business opportunity” and not a franchise?

Entrepreneur Media has its case ongoing for whatever they supplied to Health Career Agents and didn’t get paid for.  Maybe that was why the Better Business Bureau (not that they are relevant for any information) revoked HCA’s  accreditation and scores them an “F”.  View it here

Meanwhile, back at the mansion at 1761 Topping Road, the Bylo Brothers have a writ of execution/garnishment against Brian Calsyn (aka Brian Marchant, aka Brian Alan Marchant, aka Brian Marchant-Calsyn, etc etc) for $4,239.21.  The wording of the docket entry for the garnishment states: “This is garnishment 10-GARN-69347 for BRIAN CALSYN; ASSETS LEVY: LEVY UPON ANY AND ALL ASSETS BELONGING TO THE ABOVE NAME DEBTOR WHICH CAN BE LOCATED ON THE PREMISES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INVENTORY FIXTURES FURNITURE EQUIPMENT CASH CASH REGISTER CASH DRAWER OR ANY OTHER ITEMS OF VALUE @ 1761 TOPPING ROAD ST LOUIS MO 63131?.

In my opinion, Brian Marchant-Calsyn as a matter of “Truth in Advertising” should be compelled to revise the slanted “History” page on his resale website.  Instead of painting himself and HCA as victims of the people scammed, he should come clean and admit that people have been defrauded and make restitution.  Furthermore, anyone relying upon the information  posted online should be certain to make copies of any published material so that they will have evidence for presentation at their eventual civil trial seeking remedy.  Not legal advice, just common sense when dealing with this individual.

It looks like October might be a good month for litigants seeking action against Health Career Agents.  Perhaps now is the appropriate time for the 35 of us (those expressing interest in a class action suit) to file and seek our legal compensation.

A discounted dog with fleas is still a dog with fleas

One of the most recent ploys by Brian Marchant-Calsyn and the officers in the corporate spawn Career Agents Network is to re-sell Health Career Agents memberships, most of which never made a profit or anything even close, for a steep discount.  In this scheme, a fully “entitled” Health Career Agents” membership that was purchased for upwards of $50,000 can be “had” for as little as $15,000.  The former membership owner pays for software licenses (crapware in my estimation) and training (mostly recordings) and a commssion for the sale ($5,000).   Apparently it is irrelevant that there is a reason that the vast majority of these memberships failed… the business model simply doesn’t work for 94+ percent of those that work it.  Even the remaining 6 out of 100 or so, aren’t using the “Agent Approach” to the business.  Further proof that it is simply a scheme to perpetuate the flawed model.

In his own words, Brian Marchant-Calsyn left a message on the voice-mail of one owner admitting that “Health Career Agents is a train that is dead on the tracks, stuck at the station”.  It seems to run in a cycle of about 4 years before people catch on and realize that this business model benefits only a very few “chosen” individuals that are carried from one organization into the next, whereupon they simply change he name, keep the same crew, and run the same scheme.