Beware of this company and it's many names, i.e. Accessory Plus, Final Touch Jewelry, Rike Enterprises, I'm sure that I am forgetting one or two. I was preyed on by Gary Ray Rike off of careerbuilder.com. He also emailed me by saying that my resume' criteria was just what they were looking for. They were looking for a sales manager for my area to take over existing jewelry accounts and make, "unheard off 40% profit" off of gold, silver, watches, fine jewelry and fashion jewelry. Sounded like what I was looking for. I was promised accounts from JC Penny, casinos, hospital gift shops, and otheer small boutiques in my area. He told me that I would need to travel to Dallas to get trained. He told me that my travel expenses and the money that I would have to put up for fashion jewelry, would be reimbursed as soon as I reached $25, 000 in sales. When I asked him how long that could take he told me as quickly as 6-8 weeks. I asked how much the samples were and he told me that the full line is $3000. I flew to Dallas, rented a car and hotel and went on my "training" excursion. The training was in the World Trade Market at his showroom. The showroom that didn't stay open too often. He told me it was used to train and if local rep needed to meet customers there. His showroom was fully stocked with fine sterling silver necklaces on flat boards. I'm sure this was one investment that he needed to have to put up a good show. Prior to arriving he told me that he only accepted cash and cashier's checks. A company not taking credit cards? So I listened to the spill signed a contract that stated that I could not get my money back, and handed him $1500 cash. He said, "Let me be the first to congratulate you on your acceptance of the job and part of the company that he had made a good living at for 16 years. ". He said that I would receive samples from their warehouse in a few days. My interview was Thursday and by Tuesday with no samples, I began to investigate his company. I found several victimized souls listed under a different company name but attached to his name. The company that he hired me for was Select Jewelry Designs. Before I left I could not find anything bad about this company when I investigated. The reason is, I was the first victim under this company name that he went the day after my training to apply for a business license under the assumed name of Select Jewelry Designs. After reading several post by his victims, I kept reading that the samples that they received was junk and that they couldn't even be sold to a gumball vending machine company. Some of the jewelry was already broken when they received it. And was charged for his catalogs. I also came back home to read an email from their "warehouse" office that stated on top selling the jewelry at half of the cost that was printed in the catalog, I now had to add a 15% surcharge for the increase in price of gold and silver. I was not told of this in the contract that stated cost was half of retail. His "fine jewelry" turned out to be a joke. When the package arrived, it was shipped from a PO box. Who ships UPS with a PO? I refused the package and demanded my money back. He said that it was impossible since I signed the contract. I explained to him that I had not even received anything for my $1500. He stood his ground. After finding out that his "good living that he had made in the jewelry business" was basically a business of taking peoples money. His so-called good life was apparently affected by his filing of bankruptcy in 1997 and 2007. See a pattern here? After several emails and unanswered phone calls, he sends me an email and tells me to sign an agreement that as long as I didn't smear his name online about his company that he would refund me my money. What kind of agreement is that? Must not want me to blow it for his next victim. After several days of not receiving this agreement and unanswered phone calls and emails, it was apparent that I was not getting such agreement. So I posted a complaint on Ripoffreport.com and then I get a letter stating that he had read my complaint and that I had violated the terms of his agreement. Surprise? No. I'm sure that he was waiting for me to post something. How else would he have read it unless he was searching for it. So I filed a compaint with the Texas State Attorney General's office along with 8 others at that time. Now there are a total of 12. Ball should get rolling now. What I do find funny about this is when I called him to tell him that I wanted my money back and how was he going to handle it, he told me that he didn't know that it had never happened before. That no one had requested their money back. This was while I am sitting in from of the computer reading all of the complaints and how people also requested their money back. BEWARE OF THE COMPANY AND THIS MAN. HE WILL EVENTUALLY BE STOPPED AND RESTITUTION WILL BE AWARDED AND JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED. It is sad to know that there is someone out there that can sleep at night knowing that they have preyed upon desperate people looking for work.