(605) 275-8555

thanks donna we do what we can

I am sorry to all who have been effected by this worthless companies fraudulent sales s***ch. Myself and 2 others used to work for this awful place. What is stated here is indeed the truth to how this place is run. We left the place with in a month because of shady operations between its employees. One of our employees was ***ually ****d by "Jason" and when the information was brough to the owners attention the company let the woman go but kept Jason on as****istant Manager. We felt this was ridiculous and so walked off the job. When we left they tried to withhold our pay checks saying that we owed them for not making our sales quota. I am happy to inform everyone that as of today, the place is no longer in operations that we are aware of. Thank you to all those that wrote and complained about the company to help it get terminated.Had we known that such a place was scamming people we would of never been a part of it. Sincere apologies to everyone that was effected in some way from this scam.

My elderly ***her placed an add in his small local community paper to sell hay.  a couple of months later he s****ed getting harassing and threatening calls from a company in another state - South Dakota (EZADS aka siouxlandmarketplace both at the same number). They said he had placed an add on their website and he owed them a past due amount of $50 and threatened if he didn't pay they would turn him over to collections and it would affect his credit rating.  My ***her is not internet savy and would not place a local ad on a national site. He was scared and afraid of the calls and threats so he paid them the $50 to get them to stop.  He knew he had been scammed and was ashamed and didn't say anything.  When I found out I alerted in writing the State Attorney General's office, the local Police Department, the local newspaper, and now this website.  I believe these people scan ads in local papers, pull promising prospects, place ads on the web kind of like the original ad, then after a couple of months s**** a program of calling and harassing and threatening.  Its likely this happens a lot as the company lists 19 employees and claims over a million in business. (I'll bet the IRS would like to know that too).  They harass people until some of them pay.  According to the posts on this site and others, what happened to my ***her is happening around the country.  My guess is that because the amounts are small, $15, $50, $149, etc they fly under the radar of law enforcement.  But this is an interstate fraud operation that does volume business.  The owner is listed as a guy that in 2004 was still in school (Jason LaQua), when I called him he said he was  "just a low level bookkeeper"  but oddly Moorehead School lists him as "Graphic Designer" for the operation.  Elder LaQua is a fellow by the name of Gerald LaQua a.k.a "Jerry" LaQua.  He was the owner of Siouxlandmarketplace with the 6052758555 number but there was an "announcement" that he had retired and a new guy by the name of "Brock Vardsveen" was identified as General Manager.  Interestingly "Brock" claimed to have "7 million hits" to his Agri Classifieds, which implies you advertise with him and you reach an audience of 7 million, such a deal for $50!  but the web tracking sites list the  number of hits to his website in less than 2000 range, not even a good liar lies with easy to verify data like that.  There is a Sales Manager listed as Patrick Winklepleck but I got nothing else on him.  Also a common tactic for scammers is to c****e their name after it gets too hot.  So these guys went from siouxlandmarketplace to the national ezads.com but they kept the same two numbers  6052758555 and 6052711646 and both these numbers have numerou*****s on the telemarketing complaints sites.  And further the dog company that posted above saying they posted on their site and had a good response is linked officially to ezads.com and if my research is correct, they have their own set of complaints from fraudulent sales of exotic pets and rip offs.  The last connection is a guy named Travis LaQua, he has a real estate company.  Interestingly tho, Gerald LaQua is listed in SouthDakota as having his real estate license pulled by the Board of Real Eestate and his reinstatement appeal was rejected by that state board.  so it looks like these guys are still in operation, are running a shady business that is thinly vailed behind legitimate ads.  I looked up a couple of common farm items on their ad site and got NO ads at all listed. Its time for authorities to look exhaustively at these individuals. They targeted my ***her and ripped him off and that isn't o.k. When I called them they flatly refused to return the money, stating that because my ***her paid, he was "guilty".   So for all the other victims who never made it this far, they should be stopped.

The actual address for these con artisits is in the Cedar Plaza on west 12th st.

this is an update. I made a report with the Better Business Bureau yes****ay just after finding this "blog" and adding the above comment. Since I have been home I have been contacted by the BBB and Guess what?  They got in touch with a Jason at this Sioux land Market Place & EZ adds. To day he has said that I will not be charged (and get this) he says that he will leave my add on the web site untill it is sold.  (I just wanted it off and not be charged or reported).  Too bad the BBB had to get involved to get the right thing done, but I sure am glad they did.

I have an add in the local paper to sell my s******. A gentleman called and said that he could "help me sell my s****** infact he had a buyer RIGHT NOW for it. He took down my information and what have you. I called back in less then 30 minutes to have the "order" cancled. I told him that I wanted to check the Better Business Bureau first. He said that he could take it off the web page but I would still have to pay $50.00 I ask to talk to a supervisor at that point. After he told me that he infact was a supervisor and a bunch of other hub-bub I finally got to talk to a "supervisor" who said that they could discontinue the whole transaction but it would cost me $15.00 for the trouble of have putting it on there web page. (I remind you when I called it had been 30 minutes or less). I agreed to that. Then I was told that, to get that $15.00 "Deal" I would have to pay RIGHT NOW by credit card or check by phone. I explained (several times) that THEY had iniated the first call and I was not about to give out my information over the phone that for all I knew I had reached someone's residence.Finally she agreed to send me an Invoice for the $15.00 but threatened that if it was not paied IMMEDIATLY that this would go on my credit report. I Think I have learned a $15.00 lesson not to deal with ANYONE who calls trying to push this type of service on me. If I had found this web site first I would have not had to go throught this much trouble.P.S I did check the BBB web site (you can do it for free by phone number) and they as of today have an UNSATISFACTORY rating.

They called me and I listed two pick ups on their websites and they both sold with in 2 weeks, I never heard of them, but I will pass the good word on to others.

I got a call from them wanting to advertis my business with a online business card and i said yes paid with a credit card and they have brougt a lot of traffic to my website which they said they would. I always ask how people find my website and I've got a lot of peaople saying siouxlandmarketplace i have sold 6 dogs from there site

We had an Ad on Pupppy Find and they called our number (which is on the DO NOT CALL LIST) and tried to sell us a Business Card Ad on their site. They wanted our Credit Card info and my wife declined. She said they could call back the next week and talk to me (her husband). The salesman said that he had our business card ad all set up and we just had to approve it. After some discussion I told him I wasn't interested and he could just take the ad down. He said ok but you still have to pay $149.00. I said we never agreed to by anything and that we don't wqant it and ***g up. The VERY next day we got a bill in the mail for $149.00 that was mailed the day after my wife had talked to him the week before.These people need to be shut down!

I have my motorcycle listed for sale in a couple of local papers in Eastern Iowa .  I received a call from them wanting to put my ad on their site.  I declined.

They called twice on different days. I missed their call each time. they left no message. I called back. they wanted to list my item for sale on their site. This is illegal. This exact phone is posted elsewhere also from people who have had the same problems. I'm going to put an end to this soliciting. its from: Siouxland Marketplace2409 S. Marion Rd.Sioux Falls, SD 57106Sales Staff:     (605) 275-8555Billing & Technical Questions:     (605) 275-8555Email Address:     [email protected]

They wanted to list my car for sale on THEIR website...