I was contacted by Rugged Productions about doing a TV show. Chris sends out people to yu to scout your location and to make a little scout video of you. Chris later calls and say we have interest in you and we can make a show about whatever. The scam is he says you can buy into the production of the show, be an executive producer. He gives options of what percentage you can buy, you sign a contract, pay 1/3 of the money up front and two other payments later on. Chris strings you along and sets up shoots and then gives excuse after excuse why he had to cancel the shoots. This goes on for months before you finally just dont hear form him untill your payments are due. When you ask where you money is going and why you have nothing to show for it he gets angry and sends nasty emails blaming you for the problems. There are multiple victims i have talked to in the last month with a total of around $50,000 scammed from us.
My opinion of Rugged Productions and Christopher Goettsche is the following. I was contacted by Rugged Productions about doing a TV show. Chris sends out people to you to scout your location and to make a scout video of you. ( with a cellphone ) Chris later calls and names three specific networks that have interest in you and WANT to make a show about you. The scam is he says you can buy into the production of the show, be an executive producer. This according to him will give you a large return on your investment when not if the show sells. He has victimized MANY small business owners across the USA with this scam. I paid this guy a lot of money and he disappeared. Only after multiple calls and emails would he respond with excuse after excuse. Two years later and still no finished product. In my opinion all they want is the MONEY. I see on Yelp and rip off report many people have written about this company. This guy is so low he even scammed a disabled Marine Corp veteran. I have found all of his credentials online are self created he claims to be producer on shows and was not.
I believe that (Chris) Christoper Goettsche did his best to defraud me out of several thousand dollars. He was not successful because I simply would not give him money. I believe Chris got my name from a legitimate Casting Director, who had asked me to do something on a show named Lizard Lick Towing. I was too busy to do the part and so I handed it off to my son. My son was working on his Physics Degree finals at NC State University so he turned it down. The next call I got was from Chris. He said that he was interested in doing a TV series on the investigations I had done over the last forty years. I told him I was busy, but he insisted that his guy Don Sahan could take my information and put everything together. He said he would do a sizzel reel and pitch it to forty TV Networks. He later called and told me that he had pitched my stories to the Networks and three of them wanted it Netflix, Discovery Channel and the History Channel. He asked me to sign a contract that included an area that I could agree to where I would invest several thousand dollars to become a producer and share in decision making and the profit. I was unsure of Chris and his organization because I could not find any TV productions that he had done, so I said no to the investment. He told me that was okay, and I never heard from him again. I put a bad review on Yelp for Rugged Productions and had several people call me that read it, who told me they lost from six thousand to thirty thousand dollars in initial investments. Some lost a lot more as they continued to give money to Chris to keep the so-called production people working on their TV series. Of all the people who called me not one had a production completed and of course as I continue to watch for anything he has done and have found nothing as of 07/29/2020. I believe this is all fraud, but of course it will be up to the F.B.I. to uncover the details. The F.B.I. has been called by me twice and apparently by the victims and they so far have done N-o-t-h-i-n-g. Shame Shame Shame on you.
In my opinion many people have been victimized by this scam. I had a very similar experience. Many promises made, paid this guy a lot of money and he disappeared. Only after multiple calls and emails would he respond with excuse after excuse. Two years later and still no finished product. In my opinion all they want is the MONEY. There are MANY victims out there including the unwitting interns facilitating this.
Rugged Productions Reviews
I was contacted by Rugged Productions about doing a TV show. Chris sends out people to yu to scout your location and to make a little scout video of you. Chris later calls and say we have interest in you and we can make a show about whatever. The scam is he says you can buy into the production of the show, be an executive producer. He gives options of what percentage you can buy, you sign a contract, pay 1/3 of the money up front and two other payments later on. Chris strings you along and sets up shoots and then gives excuse after excuse why he had to cancel the shoots. This goes on for months before you finally just dont hear form him untill your payments are due. When you ask where you money is going and why you have nothing to show for it he gets angry and sends nasty emails blaming you for the problems. There are multiple victims i have talked to in the last month with a total of around $50,000 scammed from us.
RUGGED PRODUCTIONS, CHRISTOPHER GOETTSCHE
My opinion of Rugged Productions and Christopher Goettsche is the following. I was contacted by Rugged Productions about doing a TV show. Chris sends out people to you to scout your location and to make a scout video of you. ( with a cellphone ) Chris later calls and names three specific networks that have interest in you and WANT to make a show about you. The scam is he says you can buy into the production of the show, be an executive producer. This according to him will give you a large return on your investment when not if the show sells. He has victimized MANY small business owners across the USA with this scam. I paid this guy a lot of money and he disappeared. Only after multiple calls and emails would he respond with excuse after excuse. Two years later and still no finished product. In my opinion all they want is the MONEY. I see on Yelp and rip off report many people have written about this company. This guy is so low he even scammed a disabled Marine Corp veteran. I have found all of his credentials online are self created he claims to be producer on shows and was not.
I believe that (Chris) Christoper Goettsche did his best to defraud me out of several thousand dollars. He was not successful because I simply would not give him money. I believe Chris got my name from a legitimate Casting Director, who had asked me to do something on a show named Lizard Lick Towing. I was too busy to do the part and so I handed it off to my son. My son was working on his Physics Degree finals at NC State University so he turned it down. The next call I got was from Chris. He said that he was interested in doing a TV series on the investigations I had done over the last forty years. I told him I was busy, but he insisted that his guy Don Sahan could take my information and put everything together. He said he would do a sizzel reel and pitch it to forty TV Networks. He later called and told me that he had pitched my stories to the Networks and three of them wanted it Netflix, Discovery Channel and the History Channel. He asked me to sign a contract that included an area that I could agree to where I would invest several thousand dollars to become a producer and share in decision making and the profit. I was unsure of Chris and his organization because I could not find any TV productions that he had done, so I said no to the investment. He told me that was okay, and I never heard from him again. I put a bad review on Yelp for Rugged Productions and had several people call me that read it, who told me they lost from six thousand to thirty thousand dollars in initial investments. Some lost a lot more as they continued to give money to Chris to keep the so-called production people working on their TV series. Of all the people who called me not one had a production completed and of course as I continue to watch for anything he has done and have found nothing as of 07/29/2020. I believe this is all fraud, but of course it will be up to the F.B.I. to uncover the details. The F.B.I. has been called by me twice and apparently by the victims and they so far have done N-o-t-h-i-n-g. Shame Shame Shame on you.
RUGGED PRODUCTIONS, CHRIS GOETTSCHE
THIS GUY HAS SCAMMED MANY PEOPLE
RUGGED PRODUCTIONS 2020
Do not believe anything he says, promises many things delivers zero. Warning stay far away!
RUGGED PRODUCTIONS, CHRIS GOETTSCHE
In my opinion many people have been victimized by this scam. I had a very similar experience. Many promises made, paid this guy a lot of money and he disappeared. Only after multiple calls and emails would he respond with excuse after excuse. Two years later and still no finished product. In my opinion all they want is the MONEY. There are MANY victims out there including the unwitting interns facilitating this.