Northern Leasing charges outragious equipment fees ($444/ month for $200 worth of equipment.
Use high pressure and lying closers to seal the deal. Will say anything to get you to sign.
The closer that made the deal, did not have a contract on his person for me to sign. He said he would be back the next day, Some how he managed to get a fraudulant signature and cut and pasted it onto a northern leasing contract, without me ever seeing it or able to read it? After many months I asked Northern leasing for a copy of their contract.
They e-mailed me a copy of their signed contract, with what was suppose to be my signature: which was so obvious that it was cut and paste job. A truly fraudulent piece of work that was done in haste.
To date I have paid over $18.000 in aronious fees. And, had my bank refuse to accept any more monthly withdrawals of their ourageous fees. On Oct 15, 2019 I received a summons to appear in NY Court to pay the outstanding $4,000 they say I have to pay to get out of the contract. I have 30 days to reply.
They treaten to have me pay all layer fees, court costs, travel costs, etc., if I do not settle! I also added my name to the NY Attorney Generals claim against Northern Leasing. Seems like no one can stop Northern Leasing from continuing to rip-off and scam people.
I just opened a small business when 2 high pressure salesman convenienced me to LEASE 2 signs from Northern leasing with paperwork perpared they said sign here, initial here ect.. you can read over it later these signs will more than pay for themselves, they will guaranteed bring customers in to your business. After about a year I tealized I could not afford to keep the signs so I called Northern Leasing to cancel my lease the guy I spoke to literally LAUGHED and said you can not get out of this lease the only thing you can do is sell those signs and pay us. After that humiliateing conversation I did not make anymore lease payments I just couldn't afford it. Now Im being harassed and threatened to be sued. They hold their court judgment hearings in NEW YORK a small business owner doesn't have a chance, I mean who can afford to travel to New York to defend themselves against such scammers. Well my business closed shortly there after unfortunately. Northern leasing should be closed down by the courts for taking advantage of hard working people trying to start a business and earning an honest living. I recently read about several law suites against Northern Leasing and their scams not only with signage but credit card terminals and processing. Many many many lawsiuts and complaints with the BBB.
If you are reading this post, I’m sure you are also a victim of Michael Lee, who is associated with Northern Leasing and Smart Card Merchant Processing Service.
What we were offered and promised by MICHAEL LEE from SMART CARD MERCHANT PROCESSING SERVICE / NORTHERN LEASING was complete LIE and found out later that this is the PLANNED FRAUD CASE.
Michael Lee visited and offered me that our business can save a lot of money if we are qualified for the attractive rate of 1.75% FLAT RATE PROGRAM for 4 years and if we don’t like their service, we can cancel it anytime WITHOUT any charge or any penalties. Also, he even stated his service will NOT charge any of HIDDEN fees that will confuse clients. Then, he FORCED me to initial and sign on the documents that I never had chance to read and understand because he was HIDING all the IMPORTANT PART.
I heisted to do so, but he said we will NOT know whether we are able to join this LOW FIXED RATE program or not unless I signed and initial the blank documents. Somehow, he got me to do all that with his confidence in talking and repeated assurance phrase of “this is just for QUOTE purpose, NO contract or agreement, DON’T WORRY, TRUST ME, I’m doing this full time and I have over 20 years of experience and I’m here to HELP business owners to save money. I NEVER LIE.” Then later on, we found out that documents were the actual non-cancelable agreement/contract of the lease for 48 months!
As my assurance, I asked him if I can record our conversation to avoid any miscommunication. He said it is a good idea because he also wanted to be transparent on whatever he promises verbally is true. He even left me his signed hand-written commitment/promises on piece of paper. So I trusted him even more. That's how CONFIDENT he was while he was TRICKING or LYING to people. Michael Lee is born to be a SCAM ARTIST!
Calling Smart Card Merchant Services and Northern Leasing did NOT solve any issues after all! Yes, this is the PLANNED FRAUD activity; and we are in “loose-loose” situation since they have “signed” documents. Even though I was FORCED to sign them without knowing they were the actual agreement, the lawyers only trust in “writing”, unfortunately.
Since lawyers are NOT able to help us anything due to “signed” lease agreement, plus, hiring the lawyers will cost more than the lost, I’m very sure that a lot of people gave up the situation and just crying every day and feel ashamed of themselves for the mistakes that they made. Like other victims here, I have to stick with this machine until the lease is up with super high rates!
Hope these over 550+posts from all the victims of Northern Leasing including Michael Lee will be seen by good lawyer team and bring all of the people associating with this company some kind of punishments of what they’ve been doing for their living.
Northern Leasing Systems, Inc. Reviews
Northern Leasing charges outragious equipment fees ($444/ month for $200 worth of equipment.
Use high pressure and lying closers to seal the deal. Will say anything to get you to sign.
The closer that made the deal, did not have a contract on his person for me to sign. He said he would be back the next day, Some how he managed to get a fraudulant signature and cut and pasted it onto a northern leasing contract, without me ever seeing it or able to read it? After many months I asked Northern leasing for a copy of their contract.
They e-mailed me a copy of their signed contract, with what was suppose to be my signature: which was so obvious that it was cut and paste job. A truly fraudulent piece of work that was done in haste.
To date I have paid over $18.000 in aronious fees. And, had my bank refuse to accept any more monthly withdrawals of their ourageous fees. On Oct 15, 2019 I received a summons to appear in NY Court to pay the outstanding $4,000 they say I have to pay to get out of the contract. I have 30 days to reply.
They treaten to have me pay all layer fees, court costs, travel costs, etc., if I do not settle! I also added my name to the NY Attorney Generals claim against Northern Leasing. Seems like no one can stop Northern Leasing from continuing to rip-off and scam people.
I just opened a small business when 2 high pressure salesman convenienced me to LEASE 2 signs from Northern leasing with paperwork perpared they said sign here, initial here ect.. you can read over it later these signs will more than pay for themselves, they will guaranteed bring customers in to your business. After about a year I tealized I could not afford to keep the signs so I called Northern Leasing to cancel my lease the guy I spoke to literally LAUGHED and said you can not get out of this lease the only thing you can do is sell those signs and pay us. After that humiliateing conversation I did not make anymore lease payments I just couldn't afford it. Now Im being harassed and threatened to be sued. They hold their court judgment hearings in NEW YORK a small business owner doesn't have a chance, I mean who can afford to travel to New York to defend themselves against such scammers. Well my business closed shortly there after unfortunately. Northern leasing should be closed down by the courts for taking advantage of hard working people trying to start a business and earning an honest living. I recently read about several law suites against Northern Leasing and their scams not only with signage but credit card terminals and processing. Many many many lawsiuts and complaints with the BBB.
If you are reading this post, I’m sure you are also a victim of Michael Lee, who is associated with Northern Leasing and Smart Card Merchant Processing Service.
What we were offered and promised by MICHAEL LEE from SMART CARD MERCHANT PROCESSING SERVICE / NORTHERN LEASING was complete LIE and found out later that this is the PLANNED FRAUD CASE.
Michael Lee visited and offered me that our business can save a lot of money if we are qualified for the attractive rate of 1.75% FLAT RATE PROGRAM for 4 years and if we don’t like their service, we can cancel it anytime WITHOUT any charge or any penalties. Also, he even stated his service will NOT charge any of HIDDEN fees that will confuse clients. Then, he FORCED me to initial and sign on the documents that I never had chance to read and understand because he was HIDING all the IMPORTANT PART.
I heisted to do so, but he said we will NOT know whether we are able to join this LOW FIXED RATE program or not unless I signed and initial the blank documents. Somehow, he got me to do all that with his confidence in talking and repeated assurance phrase of “this is just for QUOTE purpose, NO contract or agreement, DON’T WORRY, TRUST ME, I’m doing this full time and I have over 20 years of experience and I’m here to HELP business owners to save money. I NEVER LIE.” Then later on, we found out that documents were the actual non-cancelable agreement/contract of the lease for 48 months!
As my assurance, I asked him if I can record our conversation to avoid any miscommunication. He said it is a good idea because he also wanted to be transparent on whatever he promises verbally is true. He even left me his signed hand-written commitment/promises on piece of paper. So I trusted him even more. That's how CONFIDENT he was while he was TRICKING or LYING to people. Michael Lee is born to be a SCAM ARTIST!
Calling Smart Card Merchant Services and Northern Leasing did NOT solve any issues after all! Yes, this is the PLANNED FRAUD activity; and we are in “loose-loose” situation since they have “signed” documents. Even though I was FORCED to sign them without knowing they were the actual agreement, the lawyers only trust in “writing”, unfortunately.
Since lawyers are NOT able to help us anything due to “signed” lease agreement, plus, hiring the lawyers will cost more than the lost, I’m very sure that a lot of people gave up the situation and just crying every day and feel ashamed of themselves for the mistakes that they made. Like other victims here, I have to stick with this machine until the lease is up with super high rates!
Hope these over 550+posts from all the victims of Northern Leasing including Michael Lee will be seen by good lawyer team and bring all of the people associating with this company some kind of punishments of what they’ve been doing for their living.