“AVOID THIS COMPANY
On February 13, 2024, I paid Blitz Web Solutions/Blitz Websites/American Web Coders/Branding Agency INC (They are one and the same) an amount of $1150 that was 50% in advance to design a website. The payment was made and confirmed with companies credit card.
The package offered was Bussiness Pro Package, that includes
Unlimited Pages Website
Custom 2D Explainer Video Animation
Voice Over & Sound Effects
Professional Script Writing
Storyboard Creation
UI / UX Interactive & Dynamic HD Design
SEO Meta Tags
Liquid Responsive
Custom WP (or) Custom PHP Development
jQuery Slider Banner
Custom Made Banner Designs
Multiple Stock Images
Unlimited Revisions
Special Hoover Effects
Content Management System (CMS)
Online Appointment/Scheduling/Online Ordering Integration (Optional)
Online Payment Integration (Optional)
Multi Lingual (Optional)
Custom Dynamic Forms (Optional)
Signup Area (For Newsletters, Offers etc.)
Search Bar
Live Feeds of Social Networks integration (Optional)
Google Friendly Sitemap
Image alt text
SEO Internal Linking
Search Engine Submission
Complete W3C Certified HTML
Industry Specified Team of Expert Designers and Developers
Complete Deployment
Dedicated Accounts Manager
100% Ownership Rights
100% Satisfaction Guarantee
100% Unique Design Guarantee
100% Money Back Guarantee
FREE On Page & Technical SEO
long list for a product but totally poor delivering what 50% was supposed to cover. Basically we received 2 templates that can be done by my 15 years old daughters in WIX or GoDaddy. After waiting for 2 weeks and receiving emails asking for the rest of the money I had cancel the service because the PM Ethan never send anything different than 2 templates of front page with no wording or text related to the 10 pictures not related to our business sent.
when I asked for my money back , they keep calling and sending emails apologizing for the poor design but we had decided at that point that we just want our "Money back Guarantee" as they mentioned on their website.
Long story short, They took our money and according to one of their supervisors " His time trying to solve my concern was more than $2000 an hour" and they are not going to reimbursed any money.
STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY. Blitz Web design is fraudulent and should be avoided to protect your sanity and money.. They will hurt you to the core and tell you to go to hell.
We work hard to make money in a decent way but they don't share the same principles.”
“Incompetent Website Developer
Back in March I signed up with Rob Hendricks from Blitz to create a new website for me. I'm in the Home Improvement industry. He told me that it would take less then a month to create it. A few days later I speak to Steve Phoenix, who tells me he's the project manager going to be creating the website for me. I explained to him about the company and gave him details of the work that I do. After weeks of going back and forth about the design. things were moving extremely slow. I don't think they ever created a website for contractors before.
I told them what I was looking for with videos and pictures and content. and they didn't understand. Steve Charged me a extra $1000. to add the content to the website which I didn't realize was already included. After about a month i get a call from Alex, who tells me that now he is handling the website moving forward. by now a second month has passed and its still not even close to being done. then I get a call from Marcelina Tisch and she tells me she's the manager and will be taking over from now on.
All of this time I've been telling them that I also need my key words entered into the content to be used for the SEO which is supposed to all be included in the price of the website. After another month or so Steve Pheonix calls me and tells me that he's back in charge and will be handling everything.
Marcelina had told me that Brian will be handling all of the SEO Key words and the content for the website. After two weeks he did NOTHING. Steve just keeps trying to sell me every extra. I told him I'm not spending anything else with him, that he should read the original contract. every else he was trying to upsell me was part of the original contract; CMS, Maintenance, SEO and any other changes to the website.
Its NOW 6 MONTHS LATER and still not done. After Steve found out that everything should be included, he passed over the website to a "New Manager" Mark Ryder, who now tells me that He's going to handle everything himself. The website is getting close to being done and I find out that its not Mobile Friendly, Mark tells me that its not part of my original contract-which I completely discussed with the original Salesman Rob. Now the new manager wants to charge me an additional $760. to make the site mobile friendly. they already owe me back the extra $1000. that they double charged me for the content.
I'm still waiting for it to be finished and all the SEO keywords to be incorporated into the content. I need the CMS so I can edit the website easily, without being a programmer, and making it mobile friendly.
Now 2 weeks later September 1, 2023 The so-called owner of the company, Devin Stall calls me and try to Extort another $3,000. from me. He says that if I don't pay him another $3,000. by Monday Sept. 4th my website will be useless. In the 2 weeks since I left this original review, nobody has finished my website. The changes weren't made. Nothing has been done for the Seo Either. On my original contract it states that I have a 100% Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee. I now have asked the "owner" to just refund my original money. He said that he won't and that if i don't pay him the additional $3,000. he'll shut down the website. Blitz is a Joke of a company. Nobody works from any office and all the website designers don't know what they're doing. The entire management personnel: Including Rob Hendricks, Steve Phoenix, Marcelina Tish, Alex, Brian Dean and the So-Called Owner Devin Stall Have been a total disappointment from the very beginning of this project. It's now going on 8 months, and it's still not done, and nothing has been done with the SEO for over 2 months now that my website has been live. Nobody cares about customer service, and only tries to keep up selling you things that should be part of creating a website. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY they will just RIP YOU OFF!!! The Company is writing Fake Reviews themselves, and Marcelina is marking them useful herself. If i Could leave a 0 Star Review I would.
Now on Sept. 8, 2023 the owner, Devis Stall is trying to still Extort more money from me and i wont pay him any more money. He had shut down my website for not giving him more money. I have a contract with them, which they have not lived up to. There's still so many things wrong with the website and they still haven't done the SEO work that they were supposed to do. The owner wont give me my Domain name and all the rights to the website as per our contract. He wont refund my money, even though I have a 100% Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee as stated on my contract. The District Attorney, Consumer Affairs and the Police are investigating this company for internet Fraud. They Don't Have A Physical Address as they claim to. Just Stay Away and find a Real Website developer, Before Your their next VICTIM !!!!!!!!!!!”
“Back in March I signed up with Rob Hendricks from Blitz to create a new website for me. i'm in the Home Improvement industry. He told me that it would take less then a month to create it. A few days later I speak to Steve Phoenix, who tells me he's the project manager going to be creating the website for me. I explained to him about the company and gave him details of the work that I do. After weeks of going back and forth about the design. things were moving extremely slow. I don't think they ever created a website for contractors before.
I told them what I was looking for with videos and pictures and content. and they didn't understand. Steve Charged me a extra $1000. to add the content to the website which I didn't realize was already included. After about a month i get a call from Alex, who tells me that now he is handling the website moving forward. by now a second month has passed and its still not even close to being done. then I get a call from Marcelina Tisch and she tells me she's the manager and will be taking over from now on.
All of this time I've been telling them that I also need my key words entered into the content to be used for the SEO which is supposed to all be included in the price of the website. After another month or so Steve Pheonix calls me and tells me that he's back in charge and will be handling everything.
Marcelina had told me that Brian will be handling all of the SEO Key words and the content for the website. After two weeks he did NOTHING. Steve just keeps trying to sell me every extra. I told him i'm not spending anything else with him, that he should read the original contract. every else he was trying to upsell me was part of the original contract; CMS, Maintenance, SEO and any other changes to the website.
Its NOW 6 MONTHS LATER and still not done. After Steve found out that everything should be included, he passed over the website to a "New Manager" Mark Ryder, who now tells me that He's going to handle everything himself. The website is getting close to being done and I find out that its not Mobile Friendly, Mark tells me that its not part of my original contract-which I completely discussed with the original Salesman Rob. Now the new manager wants to charge me an additional $760. to make the site mobile friendly. they already owe me back the extra $1000. that they double charged me for the content.
I'm still waiting for it to be finished and all the SEO keywords to be incorporated into the content. I need the CMS so I can edit the website easily, without being a programmer, and making it mobile friendly.
Date of experience: August 15, 2023
Now 2 weeks later September 1, 2023 The so-called owner of the company, Devin Stall calls me and try to Extort another $3,000. from me. He says that if I don't pay him another $3,000. by Monday Sept. 4th my website will be useless. In the 2 weeks since I left this original review, nobody has finished my website. The changes weren't made. Nothing has been done for the Seo Either.
On my original contract it states that I have a 100% Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee. I now have asked the "owner" to just refund my original money. He said that he won't and that if i don't pay him the additional $3,000. he'll shut down the website. Blitz is a Joke of a company. Nobody works from any office and all the website designers don't know what they're doing. The entire management personnel: Including Rob Hendricks, Steve Phoenix, Marcelina Tish, Alex, Brian Dean and the So-Called Owner Devin Stall Have been a total disappointment from the very beginning of this project. It's now going on 8 months, and it's still not done, and nothing has been done with the SEO for over 2 months now that my website has been live. Nobody cares about customer service, and only tries to keep up selling you things that should be part of creating a website. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY they will just RIP YOU OFF!!!
The Company is writing Fake Reviews themselves, and Marcelina is marking them useful herself. If i Could leave a 0 Star Review I would.”
“What this company did to my Husband…
What this company did to my Husband Soren and our family was unforgivable. We had spent so much time and money working with this company just for them to scam us in the worst way, almost breaking up our family and having to watch my husband go through so Much blaming him self. This company and the individuals orchestrating this scam needs to be stoped Reading all the negative reviews and relishing that this is still happening to so many people. Please help us in sharing this so something could be done about them.”
“This company is part of a larger scam group.
This company is based out of Pakistan, and it's an alleged and confirmed case of a scam ring, with its mother company being SalSoft Technologies. It is located at 47 Street No 6،, Darul Aman Society PECHS, Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan.
We have gathered tons of evidence, hundreds of client testimonials, and first-hand experiences of those scammed or manipulated by this company. There are multiple cases where a single client lost over $75k.
Until now, their clients could not put a face to these con companies. Salsoft is running over 20 fraudulent companies in the USA. Their employees use Christian names to gain the trust of USA citizens and fake USA numbers. They use fake addresses [those are actually warehouses, parks, etc.]
The key individuals involved in this scam:
Salman Anis Ghaznavi, CEO (located in Pakistan),
Omair Ahmed, President (located in Pakistan),
Imran Latif, VP/SVP (located in Pakistan),
Usman Anis Ghaznavi [Salman’s brother] (located in the USA and currently affiliated with Silicon Valley Graphics and Signs, https://www.svgprint.com/), and
Ameer Hamza (top management, previously associated with Digitonics, a company implicated in previous scams and with a former CEO who was arrested).
Most of their top management employees were associated with Digitonics Labs. That implies that both companies have the same business philosophy.
SalSoft has several subsidiaries in the USA:
Design Central Ltd
American Logo Designers
Greenlake Designers
Wiki Publishers Online
Online Book Writers
ProCreative Writers
Videojeeves INC
Logo Design Café
SEARCH MARKETING EXPERTS
Blitz Design, or Blitz Web Solution
American Wiki Writers
Online Wiki Publishers
Design Solution 101
Vintage Animations
Video Wizardz
Logo Mechanix
National Logo designers
Logo Jeeves
Brander Web Studieos
California Logo Designs
American Web Coders
National Logo Designers
American Marketing Experts
Resume Pros Online
Professional Wiki Writers
The list is too big; they are all over the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and many more places. Whenever we finalize the list, our research team comes up with more names.
For further information on this case, please refer to the following articles:
https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/01/27/an-android-police-investigation-a-ring-of-scammy-app-development-websites-uncovered-meet-salsoft/
https://www.bolnews.com/technology/2021/01/digitonics-fraud-case-witness-confesses-the-truth-exposes-ceo-burhan-mirza
https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/article/bribery-impersonation-abuse-shocking-details-revealed-in-pakistan-fraud-case-targeted-uspto-users
They are heavily manipulating reviews on Trustpilot, Review.io, and SideJabbar. All five-star reviews are fake. Read one-star reviews on every review platform to see a pattern.
Our employer lost over $60k.”
“This is the worst company I’ve ever had experience dealing with not only did the extorted me for close to $30,000 and not deliver with Any aspect of creating my platform. they even tried to make an amends after a year and a half I was contacted by someone by the name of Abid pleading with me to give them another chance despite my better judgement I gave them another chance we had came to an agreement that I would be reimbursed $7000 of overcharge and they would work diligently on finishing the platform. Not only have they fell through on that commitment but now I am unable to reach anybody from their office this is what this company does they take your money and ruin your life and laugh about it literally. Anyone who is thinking about using this company I would suggest you don’t they worked very hard on taking down the actual real zero star reviews and flood their review pages with their own made up five star reviews. This company is not only going through numerous lawsuits at this point and all they’re trying to do is extort their existing customers who still believe in them just To keep afloat if you have done a wire transfer to this company make sure you get your money back before three months because after that it’s lost, do yourself a favour and do not use this company. Please read legal pay LLC and see all the other companies that they have made up and I doing the same thing through all of those other companies. I also get numerous phone calls in a day from numbers in the states (not only with information about my project that had started with them but my own personal information as well)”
“If I could rate this company below zero I would. DO NOT use their services. They will extort you and try to upsell you every chance they get. I am currently being extorted by an individual that goes by the name of Brandon although fake names are known to be used. I paid almost 25,000 for website development and hosting only to not have my website at all. They PURPOSLEY put everything in their name so that you cannot get access to your own website and try to make you pay 7500 or more in order to get it transferred into your own name ,then threaten if you do not pay the money by a certain date then they will put your project on hold. It will be a never ending chain of extortion with bogus services that you do not need. A former employee also had reached out and confirmed all of this to me as well.
They also conduct business through another company called American Logo Designs.”
“Consumers beware once they get your money you get nothing.
I spoke to Daniel initially and he promised that upon purchase our website would be up and running by January 1st 2022. That didn’t happen we were referred to Felix White who is suppose to be the project manager who only gave us a shell of a website and kept telling us he was working on it. This week we’ve reached out by email and phone and no one is answering. I called from another number and once the person realized I wasn’t a new client he hung up on me.
At this point I want a full refund and nothing else to do with is shady so called company.”
