ADCO Media

I will go in with anyone that wants to fight this company. Class action I'm all in!
I was ripped off of over $1000 and they made a fake check when I refused to pay the rest till I had something from them. This check had all 0000 at the top. I have all the paerwork still and a fraud case against them.
The mag I got was about 5 pages long (the sample had more). That nice comment at the top calling us [censored]es I'm sure is working at that company. That is about how professional they are after they have your money.
So if anybody needs any help fighting them I would be more then happy to help. This is my junk email address: briihl2000@yahoo.com
I will watch it for your emails. But it is a junk one so no worries about spam if the wrong person gets it.

We were also scammed by this company. Luckily, we only paid our deposit, but now they have a personal injury lawyer chasing us for the balance due on advertising that never took place. Shame on you ADCO. They never returned e-mails that questioned them on what was happening with our advertising. Of course not, that would be written proof of their scam.

We used Media Corp several years ago and it is SCAM! Media Corp produced a semi-professional commercial for our company and aired it randomly on several stations in test markets. We didn't pass the "test" and after speaking to a real PR firm, were informed that their format of random commercials at random (cheapest) time slots were proven to FAIL. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH MEDIA CORP. I'm surprised the company hasn't had a class-action law suit filed against them...huh, maybe I'll call my attorney.

I have spent a year looking into ADCO Media and I am here to tell you it are NOT what they tell you! PERIOD! They most often do provide the paper ad but it might take up to six months and you may have to redo it several times(the art work is done by one of the office staff Chris who does many other things at the office). One fact is that Comcast (owned and operated by the NCC and provides 90 some percent of all cable ads in the US) has terminated all advertising with ADCO Media as of Dec. 2009. In an effort to cover their butts, ADCO has snuck on Comcast under another name called American Home Today and I'm sure they will continue to change names to get onto Comcast.
The Problem is...most ADCO contracts require for 20 cable ads...( VERBALLY promised 30 seconds). Where they are STILL breaking contracts is when they do not book "guaranteed" ads with Comcast. They actually book "UNGUARENTEED" time slots or otherwise known as "Direct Response" ad space. This results in many ads not actually running or possibly a few may run for 5 seconds or so with no guarantee how many times. Comcast reps consider them “FILLER ADS”. THIS IS A RIP OFF AND NOT WHAT YOUR CONTRACT STATES. THE WORST PART IS AFTER YOU GO THROUGH ALL THE TROUBLE (which takes a lot of hours and digging to get details from Comcast if you can figure what name they used to even sneak ads onto Comcast), ADCO in turn wants to only give you a refund of $100.00 or $200.00. They mislead you upon selling you the ads. You think that the money is going to your expensive (20 ads at 30 sec. each) Cable ads but it is not. It is their PROFIT! You actually get (if any) the cheapest ads available at 5 seconds or more and most likely not 20 of them and they keep the rest of the money from your ads that didn’t run. This is a breach of contract.
I have confirmed this with Comcast and the NCC as of July 2010. If you need to check call yourself and confirm with Comcast Spotlight and the National Cable Commission (California), that ADCO and American Home today purchase and run "Direct Response" ads and not guaranteed ads. They can actually tell you how few seconds and how few times your ad did or did not run. They are usually combined with a few other companies onto ONE 30 second run at a few seconds per company which makes your ads difficult to find and makes it APPEAR that ADCO is running 30 second ads. REMEMBER, these most times do not run 20 times each as contracted.

I was almost duped by Dyson Media Corp with the same promises, but I stopped payment on my check as it just did not feel right. They called offering deep discounts $500 off, and then threatened me with the fact that this is a non-cancellable contract. I told them I was not going through with the ad and that if they wanted to sue me they could try. Rick the manager then called and knocked the price all the way down to $800. He stated the rep was no longer with the company as they had a lot of complaints about her. I declined and he stated they were not going to pursue anything. Yesterday I received a call from the rep who sold me the ad telling me that I made a good decision because she found out the company was a big scam and that the parent company is ADCO MEDIA CORP. and they have been scamming people for years. Not sure what to make of it disgruntled employee or what! I know it did not feel right and I am glad I passed it up!

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The artwork is horrible. We had it redone several times and they tried to copy another ad to the T that I sent to show them what a REAL ad looks like. I had to tell them NOT TO COPY someone else’s work but to LOOK at what good work is. The art director has several other jobs in the Co., I don't think he is really trained in commercial art. It is not just the reps. The home office rarely returns calls. The caller ID alarmingly says UNKNOWN (what kind of legit co. hides phone ID?) if they do call you. It has been 5 months since signing with them Paper ad did come out but no commercials as of yet. I have called numerous businesses listed on the www.localsupersavings.com website that lists all businesses that had purchased ads through ADCO. Not one of the business I have spoken with has seen the Comcast commercials promised. When I told ADCO this they threatened me and told me to stop calling other businesses. Every reputable company I have worked with in the past asks you to call others for TESTAMONIALS of great service, ADCO threatens! I encourage others to do the same. Go to the wbsite, put in the zip of companies in yyour aera and call some of them. Ask if they are satisfied with the work and service and if they saw and liked THE COMMERCIAL. Ask them if they actually saw the commercial...hmmmm.
So you $$$ with you comment using profanity on this site, do the math. The numbers are totally against you, ADCO DOES NOT appear to be a company that ROCKS!

If anyone is considering an ad with ADCO Media of California - read all of these complaints. Sure wish I had before I spent my advertising dollars with them. We have had a VERY unpleasant experience with them with numerous problems and feel that our money has been WASTED! The rep MacKenzie Ruhnke will not even return phone calls. DISGRACEFUL!

You all deserve it =)

I agree with Burned Too ^ ... I know feeling like you've gotten ripped off sucks and you just need someone to blame, but how about looking past your self and try seeing the big picture...
THIS COMPANY ROCKS! Not to mention the art dept. There work is flawless so long as you(the client) aren't [censored]es!
Most of you will most likely go out of business anyways so how about just shut the ### up and start filing your papers for bankruptcy!
You all deserve it =)