There is a company called USA Movie Quarterly. They are out of Davenport, Iowa. They call businesses and say they produce movie guides for local theaters and want to place an ad in their magazine for your business – THIS IS A SCAM! They ask you to pay upfront for your advertising and then they never print a movie guide and they don’t return your money. They told me they would have guides in my local theater, the Highland in St. Paul, MN on January 1st that would run through March. There was never a guide delivered to the theater, no copy ever sent to me as they said I would get, and the theater says they have never heard of them.
Their website address that they gave me www.usamoviequarterly.com, doesnt exist anymore but they do have a new one www.usamoviequarterly.net. On there they show a movie guide for Indiana but a lot of businesses are in Minnesota. On the website is a copy of the ad for my business but not the one I approved for print and it is listed in an Indiana guide but I am in Minnesota. They refuse to give me back my money and say they will eventually get something printed. I talked to a woman named Nancy who was completely rude to me. Don’t waste your money with this company as I did. They are a scam.
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February 4th, 2009 at 7:25 am
USA Movie Quarterly is also called Midwest Business Holdings. The have had several complaints of fraudulent sales and acts as well unethical business practices. The theater I talked to said they did decide to try out their service but are now discontinuing them because of the poor quality of magazine they produced and all the complaints the theater received.