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• Review fromDenise B

  Date: 11/20/2024

  1 star
  This company and their employees are VERY unscrupulous. My company was contacted by one of their employees asking for donations for a local school. They referenced a "cheer coach", by name, at the school, stating they were working on the project for/with her for the ** cheer team. I was happy to support one of our local schools so verbally agreed to "next steps" in the process. They wanted a credit card payment asap and were very pushy trying to secure that, even when i mentioned I didn't feel comfortable providing over the phone. I asked if they could send an invoice and my accounting ***** could pay through our normal channels. They were reluctant but sent it. I received the invoice and it only gave the option to pay with CC. Then someone called me who was not very professional-sounding again pushing for payment and eventually provided a signed contract from the cheer coach. I contacted the school for verification. Long story short, the school/cheer coach had never had any dealings with the organization and they were not soliciting donations to support their cheer team!!!! I provided the signed contract to the coach which I had been provided by **. The coach had no knowledge of such a contract and needless to say she was very upset and so I am! This company is trying to scam companies in the name of fundraising for local schools, without the school even being aware! That's just wrong, underhanded and unethical. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!

• Review fromMaria Alejandra C

  Date: 10/24/2023

  1 star
  This company took my money to hang a banner Im very disappointed. I thought I was trusting a real company.. supposedly they sent the first banner and the school never received it. They send the second banner and still not up.I talked to the person in charged at the school and he told me they only put it up fall season. And he has to remove it after every game.So the manager *********************** lied to me saying they were going to keep it all year IThe manager *********************** hasnt been helpful at all shes super rude. She keeps telling me that sent the banner twice. & refuses to give me her managers information. She basically told me that they did their part. Is my problem now. company will take your money and not keep up their end of the agreement They resuse to give me my money back. This company is a Scam!!! Please do not do any business with them.

• Review fromShawn N

  Date: 01/12/2023

  1 star
  This company took my money to hang a banner and never followed through.. I went to several football games and never saw it once.. they kept telling me to email some lone star the school even though I never had any agreement with the school at all.. this company will take your money and not keep up their end of the agreement

• Review fromBryan F

  Date: 01/03/2023

  1 star
  Academic Productions has been calling me for two years trying to get me to advertise with them. At one time before I was hired, we paid Academic Productions for banners to get hung in local high school stadiums. When I went to go see what the banners look like to see if I wanted to renew the agreements, I never saw them at the stadium. At $500+ per agreement, it becomes very irritating. I went to one stadium four times to see our banner, and it was never hung. They would call me promising me it was up, and it never was. Plus, they call me for all the schools in the district. They don't say they are with Academic Productions. They pretend to be representatives of the individual schools. Once I ask who they work for they reluctantly tell me Academic Productions. Then they tell me the cheer coach set up the agreement with their company to sell banners, but when we spoke to the cheer coach she didn't know who this company was. I've told the company a dozen times now I will not advertise with them, but they keep calling in hopes of there being a new marketing person here they can slide this past. Now, I go right to the booster for my advertising and don't have any issues, but Academic Productions keeps calling trying to get a sponsor check from us. This company collects sponsorship checks under the disguise of being from the local school, and then they don't fulfill the sponsorships. Now, I will only cut sponsorship checks for people at the school that I know personally.