tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post8762012229075103547..comments2023-10-09T05:28:35.705-07:00Comments on Creekside: The life of a RoboCon is always intenseAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-86126792436389301032012-04-24T13:03:29.294-07:002012-04-24T13:03:29.294-07:00Five pages of detailed info on Xental DM Inc. Ethi...Five pages of detailed info on Xental DM Inc. Ethics.... NONE<br /><br />Just do a search for this in Google:<br /><br />EthicScan Canada<br />www.ethicscan.ca/docs/xentel.pdf<br /> <br />or<br /><br />Background: Calgary-based Xentel DM Inc is in the business services market.North Van's Grumpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17571810726275726952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-9194728489181969432012-04-24T12:16:53.465-07:002012-04-24T12:16:53.465-07:00A link from 2008 complaining of RMG Robocalls, inf...A link from 2008 complaining of RMG Robocalls, info on Xentel & posts by a former RMG employee- some of it is in French http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-819-483-9679/3<br />BarbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-14652367157723483202012-04-23T23:01:38.274-07:002012-04-23T23:01:38.274-07:00Thanks, Grumps. President of IMS is a corp. Heh.Thanks, Grumps. President of IMS is a corp. Heh.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-21626423944180423922012-04-22T18:42:37.610-07:002012-04-22T18:42:37.610-07:00Xentel, so many Xentel's with the same managem...Xentel, so many Xentel's with the same management personnel. Well here's another name as to who might be higher up ladder than Michael P. Platz<br /><br />using these keywords in Google<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&noj=1&sclient=psy-ab&q=monte+J+Castellano+xentel+inc.+imarketing+solutions&oq=monte+J+Castellano+xentel+inc.+imarketing+solutions&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_nf=1&gs_l=serp.3...5544.10547.0.11335.21.21.0.0.0.0.161.2277.6j15.21.0.oX0FQ9eWb2A" rel="nofollow">Monte J Castellano Xentel iMarketing Solutions Inc<br /></a><br /><br /><br />after seeing the results in Google, click on the first hit which is corporation wiki......<br /><br /> which places Monte at Vice president of iMarketing Solutions...<br /><br />And the President is a corporation:<br /><a href="http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Plano/hrs-holdings-llc/29031897.aspx" rel="nofollow">Hrs Holdings LLC</a><br /><br /><br />corporation wiki for more on Imarketing solutions ect....http://www.corporationwiki.com/search/results?term=imarketing&x=0&y=0North Van's Grumpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17571810726275726952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-45879775863206145392012-04-22T18:02:37.011-07:002012-04-22T18:02:37.011-07:00You don't have to go all the way to Missouri f...You don't have to go all the way to Missouri for a Xentel firefighters story. <br />Right here in Vancouver :<br /><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/09/21/bc-fundraising-charities.html" rel="nofollow">Telemarketer kept 87% of charity's donations</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-67796270019599011122012-04-22T16:05:47.369-07:002012-04-22T16:05:47.369-07:00Xentel DM (TSX:XDM) changed its name to iMarketing...Xentel DM (TSX:XDM) changed its name to iMarketing Solutions Group on 2010/10/27 after the Xentel-RMG merger on 2010/02/24, but prior to the $500K CRTC fine on 2010/12/17.<br /><br />Fast forward a couple of years and you can find evidence of RMG soliciting job applicants under the Xentel name on <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gTpnW8f3HvcJ:employmentnews.ca/display_job/64336/English_%26_Bilingual_Speaking_Reps.html%3Faction%3Dsearch%26searchId%3D1310559644%26page%3D1+613-627-2007+Xentel&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca" rel="nofollow">2012/02/22</a> when Xentel.com was offline. The same advertisement appears more recently under the name RMG and iMarkConnect on <a href="http://employmentnews.ca/display_job/64336/English_&_Bilingual_Speaking_Reps.html?action=search&searchId=1310559644&page=1" rel="nofollow">2012/04/19</a>.<br /><br />Makes you wonder if RMG's charitable activities are any different than Xentel's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-28066358408563385522012-04-19T14:08:28.883-07:002012-04-19T14:08:28.883-07:00And, there sits the s.o.b. Harper, as the P.M. of ...And, there sits the s.o.b. Harper, as the P.M. of our country. <br /><br />Well over half of Canadians did not want Harper as P.M....he knew it, so he cheated. This is far from the first time Harper has used, dirty tactics and dirty politics. Just ask Gordon Campbell, Herr Harper's favorite henchman.<br /><br />Harper has spread his poison all through BC. As I said, BC Liberal Premier henchman Campbell works for Harper. Boessenkoll another of Harper's henchmen, works for the BC Liberals. Van Dongen, a BC Liberal, went across to the BC Conservatives. Van Dongen's excuse is. Christy Clark refused to fix the mess of, the BC Liberals, when they thieved $6 million to pay Campbell's two patsies legal fees. Where was Van Dongen, when Campbell thieved and sold an entire railroad, with the priceless Real Estate that went with it? The two patsies Basi and Virk that, took the fall for Campbell's theft and corrupt sale of the BCR, had to sign a non disclosure, to get their $6 million of their legal fees, paid by the BC tax payers.<br /><br />Harper is a Neo-Nazi Reformer, of his Northern Foundation Party from 1989. The skinheads organized Harper's party for him. Harper and his so called Conservatives. The so called BC Liberals and the so called BC Conservatives, are all one and the same party. They all work for Harper. <br /><br />Six members of my family were in WW11. Our young Canadian boys, were shot and blown to bits, so we wouldn't have a Fascist Dictatorship government. Quite frankly, Harper most certainly is not worth their dying for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-41505996827309056932012-04-19T13:05:22.743-07:002012-04-19T13:05:22.743-07:00Thank you kindly for your additional links.
RMG&#...Thank you kindly for your additional links. <br />RMG's complaint in its presser in the post is that it is being tarred with an old brush - Xentel's sorry history in the US - and that this has no relevance since RMG took it over and changed its management. Thus I kept the post to reports since that 2010 'takeover'.<br /><br />Notable that under the March 1 McMaher story <a href="http://www.canada.com/business/Conservative+call+centre+company+checkered+legal+history/6237407/story.html" rel="nofollow">Conservative call centre company has checkered legal history in U.S.</a>, the first comment is from Andrew Langhorne, Chief Operating Officer, RMG : <br />"In our long history of working with the CPC, only Canadian contact centres have been used. To make the inference that our operations in Canada were in any way tied to issues related to the company we acquired in the United States is fundamentally misleading and false."<br /><br />Now that's odd. All the Canadian coverage reported Xentel as a Canadian or "Calgary-based company".Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-75605986162688787562012-04-19T12:09:08.920-07:002012-04-19T12:09:08.920-07:00Thomson Reuters March 3, 2010:
"Xentel DM Inc...<a href="http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/Thomson_M&A/Xentel_DM_Inc_acquires_The_Responsive_Mktg_Grp_Inc-2159009040" rel="nofollow">Thomson Reuters March 3, 2010</a>:<br />"Xentel DM Inc acquired the entire share capital of The Responsive Marketing Group Inc, a Toronto-based provider of direct contact services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-58278961787463015222012-04-19T09:48:36.884-07:002012-04-19T09:48:36.884-07:00News 4 investigates non-profit fund raiser
"...<a href="http://www.kmov.com/news/local/News-4-Investigates-Non-Profit-Fund-Raiser-99044249.html" rel="nofollow">News 4 investigates non-profit fund raiser</a><br /><br />"In 2009 Xentel raised more than $115,000 on [the behalf of the Missouri state council of firefighters], but only 20 percent, or $23,000 went to the firefighters."<br /><br />"Nationally Xentel raised more than 1.9 million for the committee for missing children, 1.7 million of those donations went to Xentel only $235,000 to the missing kids committee."<br /><br />And in 2003 in Iowa, <a href="http://www.state.ia.us/government/ag/latest_news/releases/nov_2003/Xentel.html" rel="nofollow">State Sues Professional Fundraiser -- Xentel, Inc.</a><br /><br />"Consumer fraud suit alleges telemarketers trick Iowans into believing the callers are fire fighters, that donations will support local fire fighters, and that most of donated money helps fire fighters."<br /><br />Now that second Xentel is seemingly an entirely different organization, based in Florida. But if you check <a href="http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Fort-Lauderdale/xentel-inc-2607129.aspx" rel="nofollow">corporation wiki</a>, you'll find a "Michael P Platz" listed as director, chairman of the board, and CEO. You'll also find a "David Winograd" listed as president and secretary. The same names as listed for RMG's Xentel in the blog post.<br /><br />Some of the "Xentel"s <a href="http://www.corporationwiki.com/search/results?term=xentel&x=0&y=0" rel="nofollow">listed on corporation wiki</a> are different, but quite a few seem to involve the exact same people, the exact same "tactics", and are just incorporated in different states.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-45346186915810901742012-04-19T06:23:08.551-07:002012-04-19T06:23:08.551-07:00Superb work, Alison.Superb work, Alison.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-84724015392752129252012-04-19T03:53:32.712-07:002012-04-19T03:53:32.712-07:00Well done! What a depressing morning read, though....Well done! What a depressing morning read, though. :)Dr.Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00416571487451925246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-47823276193761040392012-04-18T23:08:03.638-07:002012-04-18T23:08:03.638-07:00Who owns who eh? Canadians are pwned.Who owns who eh? Canadians are pwned.Saskboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13258259356749068135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-80264389924270139082012-04-18T20:40:49.919-07:002012-04-18T20:40:49.919-07:00Heh. RepoMan reference. Good call.Heh. RepoMan reference. Good call.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-48218503449399005942012-04-18T20:07:57.663-07:002012-04-18T20:07:57.663-07:00Holy fuck, Alison! That is all. Holy. Fuck.Holy fuck, Alison! That is all. Holy. Fuck.the regina momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01450243661848540975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-92215069306909868062012-04-18T19:48:38.777-07:002012-04-18T19:48:38.777-07:00Sweet but layered like an onion. Wow Alison!Sweet but layered like an onion. Wow Alison!Toehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00469122304179858639noreply@blogger.com