Mari Marketing

I’m not sure how all these people leaving reviews say he was so “persistent” in getting their account reactivated after so much time. All I received was the initial appeal letter, one call to Amazon and an email draft to send to a variety of possible fake email addresses. I expected Francis to make stronger efforts to work directly with Amazon. He claims he is one of the "top five" in the world but I don't see how this is possible. I also used his management services but almost every product pick was a loser except for one. My risk tolerance rapidly dropped. He did discount services for a few months but I lost thousands of dollars on bad product choices from two of his team members. Don’t let him pair you with “Zain” - I would go days at a time without hearing anything. I work full time which is why I hired Mari Marketing to manage my account, but it was far more maintenance and occasionally babysitting. I finally terminated the management services and the bad product picks are still sitting on Walmart racking up storage fees. *UPDATED* - I've reported Mari Marketing to the proper Secretary of State offices and the BBB for fraudulent behavior. This is a scam he is running and if you complain, he will slander you. Responses to Francis' comments below: Francis is now proven to be a blatant liar. I received one initial appeal, no revisions, and he made one call to Amazon's general call intake line. I provided him every file, document, and each record of communication I had in my possession. I had even sent him privileged attorney communications and included him in conversations with my attorney. His comments make it sound as if I neglected to provide information for his services - very slanderous. He is trying to preserve his income streams. He asked me to provide documentation that simply didn’t exist and would have been fraudulent to create. Like I told him, I can’t retroactively enter into a contract with a bad supplier, and creating those documents would have been further damaging. At best, we spoke intermittently, and he was always preoccupied with other clients. We have had one call since May of this year where he called Amazon and I was on the line. The lower-level Amazon employee blew him off, and he sent me a handful of emails to forward my existing appeal to (one including to Jeff Bezos) and told me to advise him if any bounced back. If he doesn't know who to contact at Amazon and is having me email Jeff directly, perhaps the issue is not me. My issues with his management services are below: -Staff lost track of inventory being shipped to Walmart (100 units) and I had to research and discover the issue rather than his staff. How does the management company lose track of 100 out of 200 units of inventory (on only my second order…). -He could not manage vendor relationships and I had to work directly with third-party prep centers to negotiate payment methods and recoup charges for bad labeling when Walmart rejected the labels. -At one point, his staff went ten days without advising me of anything going on with my account. -His staff, after promising a third-party vendor would be purchasing inventory that could not be sold on Walmart, failed to make the connection so the transaction could be completed and dragged me along with my money hanging in the balance. -I advised him that my risk tolerance was decreasing due to numerous bad product picks and I could not continue to waste money. -I had to make six or seven requests for sales reports (which were supposed to be routinely provided under our contract) and when I received them only one time, the numbers were inflated and selectively included information to make his efforts look stronger on paper (for example, your numbers included accounts receivables but lacked expenses, increasing your margins). If there are any people considering using these services, please contact me and I will be happy to share my accounting records, communications, product recommendations or any other information you need to make an informed decision before proceeding.

Please read before doing any business with Francis… I signed up for Francis for him and his team to take over my Amazon account and help me get me more relationships with vendors, dealing with any Amazon issues and also getting more products/sales. Since then it has been a HUGE headache and nothing but lies. It originally took me over a month just to get started in the process after continuing to pay their fees. This was because of a state issue so not on them. But even once this was resolved, there was a major delay on Francis and his guys part but he was still wanting paid full price at the end of each month for little to slim work done. When you ask for anything to be done from his VA’s you should expect 2 weeks minimum for them to get I done… maybe up to a month. Even though you are paying them a good amount each month they will take their time because Francis says they have too much “back end” work going on. The first rounds of products we started selling the first item was a red negative item losing me money… how could this already be happening? Paying such a high fee and then they get me red products? This took over another month with Amazon to resolve and was a sizing issue in the warehouse. Next product is something I get and is sitting at my house because I am not approved to sell it on Amazon.. even though his guys instructed me to buy that item. Now after canceling his service I am now getting listings taken down because I was never approved by the original brand to sell these products. Francis will overcharge you for some guys he got together from upwork/fiverr and says they are very experienced. They will do nothing but cause delays and lose you money. Unfortunately Francis never wanted to offer a refund so I had to open a case through my bank, but yet he “understood” my frustrations and wanted to offer me a free month of service but never any refunds. This guy is a joke when it comes to Amazon services, he is only good as a lawyer and should stick with that. But if you love to lose money than Francis is your guy

Not recommended. Stay far away from