I'm So Tired of Being Lied To

Do you ever get tired of being treated like an absolute idiot and blatantly lied to? After a few days of testing out the customer service departments of various virtual currency companies I reached a breaking point. Do you ever get tired of being treated like an absolute idiot and blatantly lied to? After a few days of testing out the customer service departments of various virtual currency companies I reached a breaking point.

I was on Gamepal.com’s site doing the test purchase for our review. The owner of which, Eric Smith, has historically had close ties to IGE (used to be a supplier early on before starting his own company). I heard some rumors that he had fled the company (with its debts and workers who filed a lawsuit against him) and had to sell a customer service center in the Philippians to Atlas Technology Group (IGE/MySuperSales) to make ends meet. Anyways, I go through our normal testing policy and order some sample currency, however when I go to pay it directs me to Atlas Technology Group’s PayPal. Then when I go to the customer service prompt I notice they use the exact same system, setup, and network (even canned responses and greetings) that IGE uses. So I ask the customer service agent if Gamepal got bought out or is affiliated with IGE:

Johnard L: IGE is not affiliated with GamePal.

I then asked why the PayPal was Atlas Technology Group (the same as IGE):

Johnard L: The Atlas Technology Group is an independent payment processing company that handles all of our online payments and other financial transactions on our behalf. Atlas serves a number of e-commerce businesses with their payment outsourcing solutions.
Johnard L: We have no association or affiliation with any of the other companies that employ Atlas' services.

That could be a possibility, if I didn’t know that the customer service agents were the same for both (well the same) companies and they were drawing from the same stock supplies and backend. So, as a little test since I know virtual chat agents often have multiple customers at the same time I head on over to IGE’s website and open up a virtual chat request, and guess who pops up? Johnard L, who then proceeds to use the exact same canned catchphrases and when I ask him about the Gampal.com affiliate he denies it. At this point I confront him, and reveal that I’m actually the same person talking to him in both chat windows:

Johnard L: I could be possible that they are using same chat names.

Right, and use the same catchphrases, the same backend, the same PayPal, the same everything. When I confronted him with this I got the typical response that all Atlas Technology Group agents use when you ask too many questions and they realize you aren’t an idiot:

Johnard L: As much as I want to answer your claims, I am not privy to that information.

How are you not privy to your own identification? Atlas Technology Group denies their workers selfhood? Then just to make things a bit more fun I decided to talk a bit more to “both” customer service agents and ended up confusing poor Johnard L so that he responded to a question in a Gamepal window in the IGE window fatally confirming that it was in fact the same person and Gamepal is just a front for IGE (with much more expensive prices).

When I asked Gamepal for a refund, because I told them I didn’t trust a company that lied to me I was told to send an e-mail not to a gamepal e-mail address, but to: cs@readyclickpay.com

And to add insult to injury the domain name information for readyclickpay.com indicated that it was registered to none other than: Atlas Technology Group.

All, I can ask is why? Why lie when it is so obvious that you are the same company? What type of company does that? Are they just trying to trick loyal Gamepal customers who don’t mind paying the 30-40% markup over IGE’s typical prices for the exact same customer service, delivery, and product? Either way it’s unethical and insulting to the consumer’s intelligence. Hopefully Atlas Technology Group addresses these claims and stops these deceitful practices. I thought all of that was behind them and the company had matured a bit more. Maybe not...

Posted by Andrew on May 15, 2008 | 10 comments
Comment by John Nevile on May 20, 2008
Remind me not to use Gamepal :) But really that is funny. I use THsale myself. Thanks for writing all of those reviews however (even if you had to go through that misery so we don't!).
Comment by THSALE AWFUL on Sep 29, 2008
OMG do not use THSALE. They are the worst. I had one slight issue with gamepal, but other than that 6 solid orders.
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Comment by MysticKnight on May 12, 2009
BE CAUTIOUS. Atlas Technology Group, Inc. a.k.a. GamerKing will sell you a "promise" to get you the currency quantities you pay for BUT it will take them over 48-72 hours. They're website claims "SWIFT" delivery, but seems the only thing they're swift with is accepting your payment.



They weren't bad in the beginning, but now they've been consistently delinquent with their deliveries. They're order status is a SCAM as every order is marked as "Flagged for priority delivery". Even their 24/7 support is a joke as it's an automated reply stating the same thing. AND if you try to dispute a refund via PayPal, they'll try to give you the run-around again:

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From Seller - Atlas Technology Group, Inc.



Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused. I acknowledge that we have yet to meet our commitment to you. No excuses.



We would still like an opportunity to deliver your currency and we are doubling our efforts to secure the currency. I will schedule you for priority delivery so your order can be filled as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

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...and the message above was during a dispute - they again stated they would schedule for priority delivery BUT all they say is priority delivery THEREFORE you'll end up with a headache.



ADVICE - Avoid Atlas Technology Group, Inc. a.k.a GamerKing (and affiliates)... you'll save yourself from a severe migraine.
Comment by Marcie on Aug 27, 2010
I just had a run-in with these people. I ordered gold and they said my account had been "flagged" (they wouldn't tell me why) and I had to provide them with my phone number so they could call me to confirm my name, age, bank and credit card number. It all started to sound really fishy to me because I paid with Paypal! I asked for a refund which took several exchanges and they then finally gave me one. I bought gold from WOWTREASURES but I guess it's all one and same place. I bought from them several years ago and it went great, no issues, but now I'm very suspicious. I did mention what my bank is (but not my phone or credit card number) so now I'm a bit nervous. I called Paypal and complained.
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