How Much Does it REALLY Cost?
Despite reviewing the site for a week, the professional grant writers didn't find any free money. Also like us, when they signed up, they thought it would cost just a few bucks.
"Well, I would expect it to be, for the shipping of the CD, $2. $2.99, right," Savidge said.
Many consumers are surprised when their credit cards bills arrived with bills for 20 times that amount.
When our bill arrived, we were billed for the original $2.29, but we also got hit with recurring monthly bills on our credit card for $7.95, $39.95, and $9.95.
When we called customer service to complain, they pointed out the fine print on the site, warning of recurring monthly charges. That fine print appears under a large banner warning consumers they only have a couple of minutes to fill out their credit card information.
Tracking Down Those Responsible
We went looking for the grant expert cited on neverpayitback.com and on multiple other grant information membership sites. His name is Dr. John Porter.
After searching, we found the actual John Porter, Ph.D., who is a nationally known expert grant writer in Florida. He says he's not associated with the sites in any way.
"I have no idea who that person is," Porter said pointing to the picture used on the grant Web sites using his name. "I've never seen or met that person. But somehow this picture gets associated with my name."
As for the company's supposed founder Alan Friedman, we couldn't find him, but we did find the picture that the Web site uses to portray him.
The man in that picture is a model, whose picture can be found along with hundreds of other models in several poses on Internet stock photo sites.
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