Secondmeta reviews and complaints

if you have a copy, and iTunes on your machine, iTunes will try to automatically import it every time it scans for music when opened if you don't have it imported, or cancel the import.

Screw Christian and his Empire55 ( that's what he called this iteration of his scam) and what ever other empire he has moved on to. #pyramid -scam / fake products

All that music they had came from Christian, Sia, oona, Sara, Shaun, Brett, Mike. And Mindy. If you got a copy from any of them dont use it.

All the equipment was seized when they got closed down. and you can bet the law got a copy of it all. and could be trying to track down all of christian assets. But we all know he has all his money hidden.

if you were on the second floor, or talked with managers we all heard the talks about how he used to syphon off money to pay his forty thousand dollars a month rent and live his life style.

Employees beware. Christian and Sia used to give the managers and some call center employees his password for his itunes / apple account. so they could listen to his music or play it in the call center. And they also gave copies of all their music away to people.

someone is using that to track people who used it to authorize their computers to listen. Also some of his music saved the password and auto plays it the first time when imported into itunes. beware it flags the computer its imported on.

If you see christian@bargainnetwork.com pop up, don't try to enter his password. you will be flagged.

I worked for SecondMeta for two weeks at the 'training rate' of 10 dollars an hour. When I applied for the job I was told that they would pay 10 dollars an hour base PLUS comissions. This coincided with the various ads they placed on monster.com and craigslist seeking employees for the call center.

It turns out to be a completely different story. After 9 days of working there at the purported rate of 10 dollars an hour, I was told in a meeting that included my coworkers that the base pay was only in Lieu of commissions. It wasn't 10 dollars an hour base + comissions, it turns out it was 10 dollars an hour OR comissions. I immediately produced one of the job postings and asked for an explanation. After about 15 minutes the supervisor came back into the crowded room and explained that it was a 'typo' in the posting. I immediately showed him another job posting from monster.com. He left for a few minutes, and then came back in the room, visibly troubled, and said that it was also a typo, and that he was not responsible.

Ok.. so i can understand that.. no problem I think to myself. But it gets better. During this time it seems 2ndMeta decided that the top producers were making too much money in comissions. They openly said that they were restructuring the pay to penalize the top producers. In no way did this benefit people new to the company, or for that matter anyone who worked there. Of course I discussed this change with my coworkers, never thinking that it was not allowed to engage in conversation about compensation.

Two days later I was called into an office and told I was terminated. The reason being is that I discussed the compensation plan (common to all employees) with my coworkers. Additionally I was being terminated because I had taken 3 cell phone calls that lasted no more than 10 minutes total over a two week time period. ( I said I would have been happy to sign out during those times). Just as one does when he/she needs to take a restroom break at this company.

After I was terminated I waited for my compensation for two months. It is nigh impossible to call them and get ahold of anyone there, and they will not return a call. Finally today I managed to get in touch with the director of Human Resources and ask about my paycheck. She told me I could come pick it up (after being told by the accounting department that they had no record of me). My math may be wrong, but as far as i can determine 10 dollars an hour times 2 weeks of full time work works out to about 800 dollars. The check was for 200 dollars. That works out to about $2.50 an hour. Since there is no record of hours worked on the pay stub, I can only assume it was hastily printed out while I was on the way there.

Of course I left several messages asking for an explanation, but as usual have not received a call back or any effort on the part of the company to contact me.

The CEO of this company is a person by the name of Christian Hunter . The name of the company is SecondMeta, or 2ndMeta. the address is 3018 N Lamar Austin TX 78705 .
The company is engaged in the business of getting subscriptions to lists of foreclosed properties, lists of public auto auctions, and the sale of coupon books. They take credit card information over the phone and sell these subscriptions on a recurring charge basis. (they charge the credit card once a month unless the customer cancels). (good luck with that).

The two main areas they focus on are,

http://www.nationalreponetwork.com/
http://www.foreclosureagency.com/web/home.do

the company website is http://www.secondmeta.com/

The name of the CEO is Christian Hunter. http://www.myspace.com/christian_hunter

Check out all the local Austin news coverage about this ### scam artist, Christian Hunter, on KXAN NBC News:

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/employer-failed-to-pay-workers-and-rent
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/workers%3A-we-were-taught-to-deceive-
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/workers-to-get-pay-after-checks-bounced
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/owner:-floods-caused-payroll-problems
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/business/employees-line-up-for-past-due-pay
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/mtm-checks-written-from-bogus-account
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/past-due-checks-have-not-been-cleared
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/bbb-gives-f-to-business-owned-by-hunter
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/hunter-declines-comment-to-kxan-camera

And here's a picture of Christian Hunter, the evil idiot behind all of these terrible stories.

yea i went in to go get my check and the lights were already off, im still unable to cash my check due to the many fee's they owe these companies its ###. Im basically seeing it as they gave us a piece of paper that we cant do ### with sucks! and THE TRUTH your freaking ###ed to come at us like that...how about you go work there and see if you like being scammed and lied too...oh wait thats rite their out of business because their prob. looking for another city to go scam on... some previous employees and myself are looking to file a law suit against this company and one of my friends that did work here, is putting all this information in the news or newspaper...if anyone wants to have a say or want to help with this law suit email me dulce_defond_07@yahoo.com the more we people we have the more easier it will be to get this company to go down

I just heard that SecondMeta/My Town Media locked their doors yesterday (April 16th). It's sad that all of those employees aren't going to get the money that's owed to them.

"THA TRUTH", you are an idiot. This place is a complete scam with nothing but losers in superior "roles". Be "greatful" that you are stupid enough to believe anything about that company.

You do know that myself and "annavin" are making fun of your "greatful" for incorrect spelling, loser.

I hear checks are still bouncing too, wonderful!

They do shave sales off of checks (I heard it talked about). This company is so scammy that you can't really track your hours or sales. They don't give you records of that and they won't produce them if you ask for it.

Of course people are worried about their paychecks! I don't know how many people would be wishing they had a job where they couldn't count on the paycheck being legit. That's not something to be "greatful" for.