Tommy R.

Constellation Energy is a 3rd Party provider which handles accounts second to primary companies like MetEd OR Penelac (in my local area).
They offer an "annual low rate" (which only carries for a month or two) with a promise of a 25% "rebate" at the end of a contract; then the company hikes rates anyhow & (after being bamboozled into "fines & early cancellation fees") DOES NOT send a refund AT ALL once the annual contract is complete.
Another note to consider for the reader of this review is how this company's operators call & ask:
"Is this (so & so) & this the number to the address; which is (so & so)?"
By answering "YES" 3 times, in the call; these operators commandeer an account & force the call recipient into a contract electronically.
A SCAM.
Rates for electricity were averaged at one time by MetEd to be 8cents a kWH by default (without a carrier to solidify rates; as they tend to rise & fall by as much as 4cents a kWH throughout the year); yet Constellation starts out a claim of 6.5cents a kWH...raising it to around 14cents within 2 or 3 months.
Where is that "annual low rate"?
Where is that 25% refund?
Why has this company NOT been investigated for fraud?

Probably a pocket-filler, insider-trader & "profit-maker" for certain crooked "elites" is why.
Wouldn't surprise me if it was.

My last suggestion (if you receive a call from their switchboard operators) is to IMMEDIATELY cut them off, ask the operator who requests info (IF they are) from Constellation...& THEN...IMMEDIATELY HANG UP ON THEM.

Well...I actually have a problem with 3rd party delivery businesses "post-covid" for MANY REASONS.
This one is NO DIFFERENT.
Why oh, WHY would someone with a business "PAY a PERCENTAGE" to a 3rd party delivery system to sell their own resources to customers when the customers are already paying exhorbitant fees TO these "online ordering delivery businesses" that WOULD NOT EXIST if people had realized "post-covid businesses" like this were designed to control people & commerce?
Along comes the Doordash/GrubHub/Uber COSTLY business SCAMS designed to further drain honest small businesses of profits & business funds they no longer have.
A business exists to STAY IN BUSINESS & make a profit.
A business CANNOT operate successfully AT A LOSS.
These so-called "delivery businesses" also are overly expensive to customers.
These "delivery businesses" merely leech off everyone with no ambition to work OR are afraid to venture out.
Nothing has changed in the 3 years these businesses forced themselves to the forefront of commerce.

It's costly. Far too expensive with fees & programs.

It's unreliable. Often times, I hear that drivers fail to pick up items & customers "reject the order"...& the ones who lose out are the businesses & the Uber/Doordash/GrubHub drivers (in that instance.

It's a hassle. They call REPEATEDLY
Week-after-week even when businesses state to NOT CALL BACK.

"Reviews" are posted AGAINST businesses that do not participate.

Well...this individual studied business ethics in companionship with business mgmt. & business administration; so I understand these things entirely; as seen from study, evidence & experience.

There you have it.

NOT RECCOMMENDED.

They are rude & dismissive upon a first visit (if you are NOT a "regular) & become nasty if you are a "competitor".

Once these people find out where your business IS... they badmouth it & even send "spies" to negatively reflect on the other "business competitors".

They did it to me (my store went out of business for MANY REASONS over a year ago & it STILL gets "1 STAR "reviews a year later), they've done it to others & CONTINUE to do so to any business that is NOT theirs.

Awful place.

DO NOT GO.

I have been a Silver Member for a while now (started out at FREE base bronze & upgraded as my collection grew) & this guide/collection/trade website is good.

The app, however...is horrible.
Login fails & app errors GALORE.
I have uninstalled it for the 3rd & FINAL time.

A must-have for any collector
(with the website)
Use at your own discretion
(with the app)

One local WEIS location has mgmt that is fond of "changing hours" on a whim & often closing an hour early... making SURE customers leave WITHOUT a purchase.

I addressed corporate about the issue & it stopped... FOR NOW.

Regarding shoddy mgmt:
Not a "wise way" to do WEIS business.

Ntherm (electric & natural gas carriers) called my wife's business (amid the present global political & economic debacle since 2020) offering "low utility rates" upon end of contract with the previous carriers.

Looking into it, everything seemed LEGIT & she decided to make the switch & lock in their "decent rate" due to rising costs on EVERYTHING.

Here's where it gets suspicious:
Countries presently in UNRELATED civil, economic & militarial unrest "go to war"...& for some reason, Ntherm decides to "double rates" due to this (some excuse about "the global economy & resources in a global conflict" b. S.)

Those countries' economies & resources have NOTHING to do with OUR economy & resources... ESPECIALLY when resouces DO NOT originate from there OR ship to that area from HERE, economically; so it should NOT "impact unrelated resources" like they claim it has.
(Economics 101, folks).

Sure... there are oligarch-type political entities HERE in league with those oligarch-type political entities over THERE... but ALL the resources Ntherm was claiming to DOUBLE the cost here do not ship from here to there NOR originate from there to HERE.
Highly Suspicious.

"But these are hard times" operator "Shannon" claims.
"Yes...& so-called business entities such as YOURS create them, so YOU will immediately terminate our BREACHED-BY-YOU contract WITHOUT any surprise penalties, either... POST HASTE" I reply.

These UNETHICAL "business practices" are becoming a rampant problem.

We paid 6 months worth of "rates" in 3 months to Ntherm..."because Putin"

Let's Go, Brandon

Here are the reasons Riverside Payments is HORRIBLE:

1. They claim "low rates & no surprise fees", but AFTER their SURPRISE FEES... they are 2 to 3 TIMES as costly.

2. It is bothersome & difficult to use their system...& EVERYTHING has a "required add-on" which further adds to the overall costs.

3. They are bothersome to drop their "cancel at any time at no additional fee" option & the "cancel" option has TONS of cancellation fees.

4. This company is suspected of scamming.

5. They call back to pitch sales after being terminated...& often times the operators keep pushing the product like an annoying telemarketer... some going to the point of using profanity & threatening remarks to have your business "shut down" for "wasting their time".

Horrible.
Absolutely Abyssmal.

This business needs a solid class-action suit brought up on them (if there isn't one already).

They called AGAIN today!
(How Absurd)

I received notifications from a legal team showing evidence that millions-upon-millions of dollars were basically STOLEN by this "business".

My best friend was UNJUSTLY imprisoned & I was one of the FEW trying to financially help him during that whole fiasco. The NH Dept of Corrections gave me ConnectNetwork as my "only option".

Calls constantly failed & my best friend told me he NEVER saw a penny I sent him for "canteen".
That enrages me... because I am NOT a "rich man" & I knew he needed help during that legal fiasco.
I hope to see FULL RESTITUTION once the case is determined.

This UNITED MASTERS site is SHADY at best. They seem to be marketing to merely ONE GENRE because that's ALL anyone ever sees.
It will start out where you can use a "FREE VERSION" (with limited uploads) & keep 90% of royalties gained for releases (which works FINE as it is) & there is an option to "upgrade" to "unlimited uploads" & keep 100% of your royalties for your streamed, downloaded & marketed material posted on "MORE PLATFORMS" than the "9/10 Plan".
That's the hook.

Once on the "premium plan", the aggravations start:
1. Artwork is CONSTANTLY rejected at THEIR whim.
2. Song tracks repeatedly "FAIL TO. UPLOAD" for "quality issues" (which didn't happen on the "9/10 Plan".
3. There are "no refunds" (honestly expected)... but the CATCH is there are NO OPTIONS to cancel the upgrade...& YOU WILL BE BILLED on the FOLLOWING YEAR for the $70 RECURRING FEE... even if attempting to CANCEL.
There seems to be NO WAY OUT of this.
4. Request help & get the "too bad, so sad" treatment with pitiful excuses in every email... not to mention the typical patsie "we received your request" garbage.
5. NONE...& I MEAN NONE of the platform links for material on other sites like YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok actually work... ONCE "UPGRADED".

I left a 2 star rating because the tracks I have on the "free 9/10 plan" seem to work fine... FOR NOW.
It SEEMS TO WORK & have movement on the "9/10 Plan".
The "upgraded plan tracks" get ZERO traction, movement & CONSTANT roadblock issues.

I just want to simply end the "upgrade package" before the renewal date & return to the free "9/10 Plan" platform at the end of the "upgrade term"... but there's no way to DO THAT...& I am SURE they'll be happy to take the money for NOTHING.

UPDATE: Feb13th2024

The ghetto/homie label sent me a "notification" that "dey drawpp'd me, yo"...based on my complaints that they are hiding my music & keeping any & all of my royalties...not to mention I don't only "do hip-hop, homey-g, dawg-doo".

Their "numbers" are 100% bot & FAKE anyhow.

What a crap platform.

Use DISTROKID instead (although DISTROKID is VERY proprietary...you'll see REAL results).

Raised from 2 star to 3. The mobile site works, but the app is horrid.

On the app:
Updates cause MORE problems than they are worth.
Login glitches cause lockouts & constant password changes EVERY TIME a payment is made.
Multiple transactions may occur... throwing other financial institutions into negative balance.
The site is glitchy & buggy... ALWAYS crashing or failing to process transactions.

What's WORSE is EVERYTHING is automated... there goes efficiently fixing the glitches.

On the mobile site:
It works FAR BETTER than the app by lightyears...but going through the troubles with the app killed it for me.
I can make payments easy enough...but once I am done with M1st, I'm done.

This site is supposedly a "help self & help others" site.
Designed for "Freedom & Independence".
The operator couldn't be further in real life from what is portrayed in public.
Creating false statements against other businesses while boasting a "positive vibe" from the other side of the face.
A recent off-site experience I had with the website creator (supposedly a "professional") shows unprofessionalism in slandering others.

To be honest... NOBODY should give a charlatan like this a chance once this type of behavior is revealed.
I wouldn't.

There's a basic lesson in business ethics.

If people don't use PayPal directly... this is a good 2nd option through the PayPal team.

I use them in the "online marketplace"... on occasion.

UPDATED REVIEW:

Was 1-Star... NOW 3-Star(plus... not quite 4-Star)
Was a problematic corporate leech on small business at first... much improved since then.
Was "automated" like the others at first. NOW Live Tech/Live Operator/Live Driver "ready".
Still a few bugs to work out... BUT IMPROVING.

MOST of these so-called "3rd Party Delivery" businesses INTRUDE & LEECH off honest small businesses that DO NOT REQUEST their assistance & it causes lots of grief.
After talking with a direct rep thefirst time & telling her small businesses don't want to feel intruded upon; things changed... for the better... so far.

1. MOST 3rd Party Delivery Corporations constantly call from their corporate office with automated operators... but do not want to pay the business they are trying to leech off UP-FRONT.
Red Flag #1.

Grubhub has LIVE representation, LIVE HELP LINES & actual personal drivers.
THAT IS A PLUS.

2. These 3rd party delivery businesses try sneakily sending drivers after the business says to cease their intrusion; by using some "universal debit system" OR a aeperate kiosk NOT associated with the host business; which the system never really works most of the time...& when it goes through, they try to put a "stop payment" against the card/system & the business loses revenue.
OR the dishonest drivers use the funds their customers charge on the universal card...& the business falls victim to losses...
Red Flag #2.

BUT NOT GRUBHUB!
They actually work with the businesses now & THAT is extremely helpful.

3. Grubhub has IMPROVED honest marketing pitches & the phone doesn't constantly ring-off-the-hook with annoying calls.
The OTHERS have NOT.

The others just "hire more staff" to distance themselves from the small business they intrude upon & create more problems as a result.
Grubhub has worked directly WITH the businesses they want to cooperate with... NON-intrusively as well.

Businesses, customers & most drivers ALWAYS lose out with these automated systems... but Grubhub works WITH drivers & businesses, makes their money, makes sure drivers & businesses make THEIR money, TOO...& hasn't "intruded on small businesses" since they updated their system.

It's really a racket as far as I see it... plain & simple.
Some are more decent than others, though.

Are you someone who opposes small businesses that oppose the 2020 (& present day) small business takeover?
You have NO CLUE.
Try running a small business FIRST & get back to me.

Desire delivery options from businesses that don't have their own independent delivery system?
Choose wisely.
There are options, but research thoroughly FIRST.
Just because something has "been around longer" OR is "the most popular" doesn't mean it's "better".

Recent experience for many customers has been:
Constant Delays.
Unreliable Handling Times.
Poor package handling.
Unprofessional Employees.
Ever-Increasing costs for NOTHING.
BUT:
"Oh, we can trust the post office with ballots for the 2020 election!'
~self-serving politicians & their msm lapdogs
It was 1/2 way decent from about 1999 to 2009.
But NOWADAYS:
Get REAL!
The United States Post Office hasn't been THIS BAD since the late 70's/early 80's

UPDATE:
The USPS was considered "a reliable source for the 2020 mail-in election" BUT an item I ordered in Massachusetts went to FLORIDA "in transit" & I reside in PENNSYLVANIA.
There it has sat for 3 days.

How "reliable" is this useless parcel carrier?
UNreliable.
Pay a few dollars more & use UPS for parcels (still use the post office for letters, I guess).

If you wonder why I DON'T recommend FedEX... just look at my review of continuing experience issues with THEM.

Heck... DHL is more reliable than USPS OR FedEX.

Glarry is an international instrument manufacturer & distributor from Asia.
Low Prices.
But lower prices through Glarry DOES affect quality overall.

I rated a 3 because I couldn't, with good conscience rate it a 4 OR anywhere CLOSE to a 5 (& I'm not a jerk who'd rate a 2 OR a 1 out of arrogant spite)... but it is solidly between 3 & 4.

I picked up these low-cost instruments (I teach guitar, bass, ukulele & banjo) for beginners so the parents didn't "break the bank" in prematurely purchasing a finer instrument... should their child NOT continue. Range for Glarry Instruments is between $40 & $100 for any beginner quality instrument (basically what they manufacture), but cost truly reflects the average quality with these.
I had to utilize my luthier skills on EVERY SINGLE INSTRUMENT to adjust them to easy & tonal playability. I was expecting SOME "fine tuning" but I had to literally adjust hardware!

Beginner Instruments: YES
Low Cost: YES
Quality: Average
Playability: Maybe with PROPER adjustments

This is basically a "beginner's toy" with a "little bit of musical potential".

This bank (PNC) is reputable as a decent financial institution as they come. The only complainers are people who don't know how to manage their money OR at fault because they run up an unmanageable debt & that's no fault of any financial institution.

My wife and I were tired of being an impersonable "account number" at banks where a fee is extracted just for having money in an account & an exorbitant fee for any activity. We were tired of banks giving my wife the "we only lend to millionaires & you'll never be one" treatment as well when inquiring for a loan for her already established & moderately successful business. The last financial institution before we moved our resources & funds to PNC called my wife's MODERATELY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS a BUSINESS FAILURE & A HIGH RISK OF BUSINESS CLOSURE.

Needless to say, I told the smug banker at the previous establishment those were unwise words.
We transferred everything effortlessly to PNC within a week.

We each have private accounts, my wife's business account, loan power, our home mortgage...& I have a surprisingly VERY LOW INTEREST credit card through PNC with a rather good credit line.

It's all because my wife and I have impeccable credit scores & a reputable business prowess. She will even be buying the building her business is located in through PNC.

The local & national teams are amazing to work with & very knowledgeable about any financial aspect. Their finance team is stellar.
Best thing is I can monitor everything via ONE app.
My wife's business is secured differently (another amazing PNC failsafe) & only she can use a "key" for management, but I can monitor THAT as well as every other account (& I'm a stickler for internet security being I once worked in a computer shop).
PNC makes it so simple for my wife & I to partner on everything & for us to partner with PNC!
Definitely WORTH checking out if you have time, are extremely financially stable, business savvy & are looking for a good financial institution.

Well, if anyone looked by now at my sitejabber profile reviews, one would think I'm "the customer that can't be satisfied"; but that couldn't be further from the truth.

Repeated & continuing troubles, mishaps & snafus bring on these reviews.

While I understand FULLY that nobody's perfect, the repeated instances from certain entities bring on my heated response.

Take THIS business for instace: FEDEX
I have an item purchased from another site (I've reviewed here on sitejabber as well) that involves FedEx (the subject of this review).
Item was purchased on March 3rd. Seller (through the other online site) made a shipment pickup call to FedEx for a rather huge 2 box shipment on the 5th. FedEx got around to getting it at its location in California on the 6th in the VERY LATE EVENING.
Projected delivery date via tracking (the 11th) wasn't going to work due to a conflict of me not being present at signing for the package & I decided to call the corporate office via the number provided on their site & see if the delivery could be delayed until the 12th. Odd, YES, but reasonable. So the projected delivery date was changed to the 12th/13th. Reasonable.

Now comes the problem.
My rather large packages have been sitting in California with a "severe weather exception" on them. They're "parked". FOR ALMOST 2 WEEKS! After 3 phonecalls, I've finally convinced them to move the packages OUT OF CALIFORNIA the day before yesterday. Not to mention the weather has been great (although rainy) in my state of destination...& the freight has to move across the country. I won't see this package group until tomorrow (Tuesday) & I was told by the last operator (in his barely understandable Hindi accent... odd because they usually speak better English than most Americans I know) THAT THE PACKAGES AREN'T EVEN GUARANTEED THEN after he just ended the conversation & hung up on me with a "so sorry, have a nice day"!
I haven't come CLOSE to yelling & being aggravated until NOW.

Basically, I'm told the item arrival MIGHT be in my state today for a POSSIBLE delivery TOMORROW.
This is FedEx.
Actor Tom Hanks portrayed Gary Nolan, a FedEx corporate obsessed with time who was stranded alone on a south pacific desert island in the movie CastAway.
One of the lines in the movie was:
"Time is a relentless taskmaster. If we fall behind an hour, an hour becomes a day, a day becomes a week... before you know it; we're the US Mail!"
Amazing how art imitates life.

GOOD GRIEF!
To make matters WORSE, this was $150 "express ground delivery" but my packages have been in California since the 6th. If that's "express", might as well be on Rip Van Winkle time.

Good thing this item wasn't vital to someone's life.

I just hope they didn't smash the boxes & its contents to $#*! & are unwilling to deliver them (another thing FedEx is famous for & has done to me on another instance).

This is absurd...& I guarantee anyone reading THIS I'm going to get every penny paid refunded to me... despite delivery.

Basically the ONLY business mistake I made in helping my wife's café business start-up (& it was a business ethics ordeal).

Their business layout is simple.
They provide a service & you pay only for what you use... in theory.

What my wife & I paid for over 3 months was MORE than we did independently for the following 4 years.
WHY?
Because the sales agent had one report we were charged for & the truck driver had another we were charged for... FOR THE SAME SERVICE!

And to make matters WORSE, we were charged for items we didn't even use yet (contradicting their "pay only for what you use" claim) at their double rate.
Absurd.

The truck driver's excuse was it was "estimated usage" (another contradiction to their "pay only for what you use" claim).
After talking with the sales representative, he said we had to pay for what we already bought & hadn't used yet TO CLOSE OUR ACCOUNT.
Wait-WHUHHH?!

Come to find out, this company pays commission bonuses to truck drivers & sales reps for sales volume.

What a racket.

To quote my wife:
"We paid for nothing."

She's Buddhist. We gave them their business "cancellation cost" fees... as a fool's offering for crooked & dishonest people. Basically a "pity-pay" because it won't make them happy.

Every time we see one of their trucks, I point it out & say something sarcastic. We laugh. We've learned.

SUMMARY:
We DO NOT recommend!

Usually, a "screw me once shame on you screw me twice shame on me" situation is a valid explanation for many a great things, but two products in a row from one business source having faulty products and slipshod service is beyond reproach.

First, last year... it was a refrigerator that had a motor for the cooling fan on the cooling system that the metal was no better than a hot wheels die-cast metal and it broke upon starting. We had to wait almost a week and a half to get this fixed. Overlooking that situation a year-and-a-half from that point, we had to purchase another unit from the reputable place that we get the restaurant equipment from... brand new equipment, mind you.

We ended up buying a Fagor dishwasher from this company. It overflows, it won't shut down on drain cycle, and this equipment is utterly useless. The tech from onnera group tried to claim it was all water pressure. How absurd! Even our general contractor said that is an absurd explanation, and that it is faulty equipment. Onera DID send a tech from another part of the local county to look it over and he was just as baffled as our general contractor & his team, who originally installed the equipment.

Strike one was the refrigerator. Strike two was the dishwasher. Strike three was the tech saying that it was our equipment problem and not the fact that Fagor has horrible equipment.

I could expound, but it bothers me too much to do so.

Notice:
Do NOT call OR inquire to National Debt Relief.

I made a basic call about their "services" & was put on hold for a very long time... no biggie at first... inquiries about something like this can take some time on an initial call.
I was told that I would be getting a "callback".

This is what they do:
They "correspond" & put a caller "on hold" for unbelievably long durations...& when you request they STOP calling/texting AFTER you discover they can't "help you" if your debt isn't "unmanageable", they call every 30 minutes trying to put that caller on-hold

VERY UNPROFESSIONAL.

I had to contact the BBB & make several reports to my call blocker app to get it under "control".