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Response from Jazz for Peace ID # [redacted] Buyer admitted to using our official merchandise w/non refundable disclaimer to collect the funds used to pay us thereby completing the transaction for services renderedDear Revdex.com, Thank you for this opportunity to have this response posted in public and for your permanent recordsAs you can see from your archives, precedent has already been established by the Revdex.com by a woman named [redacted] from “Breath of Hope” for this exact same case where someone collected funds using our documentation with our clearly visible disclaimer [redacted] Please note that pre-paid discount tickets do not count against online sales and are non-refundable unless cancelled by Jazz for Peace** listed on it as detailed here in this current instance - [redacted] - and has already been ruled in our favor by the Revdex.com in the one and only other example we have ever had in our year history which has spanned over eventsSince this previous and favorable ruling we have improved our documentation even further and hereby present to you all of the same documentation submitted to us by RF Productions that was submitted to us by [redacted] in the previous case as detailed in the six exhibits located at this link: [redacted] These exhibits numbered 1-in chronology at the link above show clear and undeniable proof that RF Productions used our documentation (VIP INVITE with NON-Refundable Disclaimer) with our visible non-refundable disclaimer which states as follows - “Please note that pre-paid discount tickets do not count against future online sales and is non-refundable unless cancelled by Jazz for Peace.” in order to collect money from VIP Ticket Sales to confirm their event as described in the invitation with funds already raised for their cause The admission by the buyer on their JUMP START AGREEMENT that they have collected the funds necessary to confirm their event “with funds already raised for them” by using our merchandise (VIP INVITE with NON-Refundable Disclaimer) completes the transaction for services rendered and they are absolutely not entitled to a refundHowever, Instead of commenting on or even trying to refute a single one of these facts in the Revdex.comresponse link above, the buyer ONLY mentions diversion after diversion after diversion, each of which has absolutely no basis OR relevance to this dispute For example: This complaint has absolutely nothing to do with [redacted] ***, whose executive director Adam H [redacted] we have a perfectly amicable relationship with and whose most recent email sent to us directly from him and received by us on July **, we would be delighted to share with you at your requestIn addition, [redacted] has NEVER, EVER received a complaint from a Jazz for Peace Benefit Concert Series Grant recipient or Adam would have told us about such in the email he sent or in their other many correspondences with us over the years and our decision to part ways had absolutely nothing to do with our Benefit Concert Series in any way as the email we received from Executive Director H [redacted] along with the corresponding thread that we will be happy to share with you at your request is undeniable proof ofIn addition, we NEVER told the person making this complaint nor any one else in our year history that they could disguise their own VIP Ticket sales as a tax deductible donation via this or any other fiscal sponsor nor have we ever used, tried to use, or allowed anyone else to use a Jazz for Peace fiscal sponsor to avoid paying taxes on their own VIP Ticket SalesThat is because there is absolutely no way that VIP ticket sales collected by them from their own VIP Guests could possibly be disguised or manipulated in such a way to lawfully be considered a tax-deductible donation to Jazz for Peace via ours or anyone else’s Fiscal Sponsor relationshipSo of course we would NEVER tell them such a thing “The money was for a concert to honor Peace Nobel Price Laureate Archbishop Desmond TutuThe honor still happening but not with themAs a matter of fact Archbishop Tutu's Ministry don't want to be involved with them.” Again, despite many attempts, we were never able to get confirmation from them that they EVER had permission to put on an event for Bishop Desmond Tutu or that Bishop Tutu even knows who they ARE in spite of all of the name droppingAnd as you can clearly see on the invitation that we created for them to collect their Jump Start funds and which they approved, they never even requested that his name be placed on it - [redacted] Why would you approve the invite ( [redacted] ), admit that you collected the funds that you used to pay us ( [redacted] ), and then confirm your event with absolutely no mention of Bishop Tutu if you had his permission to put on an event for him? Yet they continue to go on and on (and ON) with this completely irrelevant topic regarding how we facilitate our OWN Tax Deductible Donations via a fiscal sponsor relationship and which has absolutely nothing to do with this case whatsoever while ALSO making bizarre claims with absolutely no supporting facts to back them up whatsoever such as these: A“It appeared to me that they know how to use or bend the laws to their benefit” Exactly WHAT LAW(S) does it “APPEAR” to “***” that we are not following? B“there was no money to pay for dancers and our line up to perform as they promised” Where on ANY of our official documents, email communications or “recorded conversations” do we ever say such a thing? Just like our previous events, they have clearly confirmed their event with funds “already raised for them” thereby completing this transaction, and as we move forward with them all funds that are raised will go directly to their organization and it is up to them to decide how they would like to use these fundsSome organizations use the funds to build a new school, a wheelchair accessible ramp on a church, or promote literacy to underprivileged children,or possibly in their case to hire additional dancers or musicians, or what ever their outstanding mission isThis is what we say to every outstanding cause that contacts us and is all we have ever said to them as our official documentation and all communication with them will verify Here are testimonials from recent Grant recipients that we have received in just the past few days: R [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] In addition you can also “Carefully Review The Benefits of This Grant” as well as see ALL of our Jazz for Peace Grant Recipient Testimonials HERE (scroll down to “Testimonials” section) C“***” then proceeded to write this: “I know an US Tax IDs are eight digits long, they gave me this tax ID number [redacted] so that number is not their tax ID!” Our JFP TAX ID # is [redacted] We HAVE an email that was sent it to them with this number which we will be glad to share with you at your requestHowever once again - we simply have absolutely no idea what our perfectly correct nine digit JFP TAX ID # [redacted] has to do with this case and the FACT that the admission by the buyer on their JUMP START AGREEMENT that they have collected the funds necessary to confirm their event “with funds already raised for them” by using our merchandise (VIP INVITE with NON-Refundable Disclaimer) completes the transaction for services rendered and they are absolutely not entitled to a refund“This shows that the buyer was able to complete the transaction and was able to use the service.” Once again, this is a smokescreen to divert attention away from that facts of this case and onto irrelevant topics which offer no such supporting documentation to tie them to this case or any of its facts because nothing of the kind nor any reference to such could ever be found in any of our written documentation or email correspondences and the reason for that is because it has no basis or relation to the services that we provide or any of the specifics to this case whatsoever NO organization in our event history has completed the forms necessary to be able to use our merchandise, THEN collected the funds to do so, “taken out the funds already raised for them” and sent us the balance agreed upon - THEN asked to get those same funds that THEY ADMITTED TO COLLECTING BACK To further emphasize the disingenuous nature of this complaint, we would simply like to invite you to actually speak to [redacted] and you will quickly hear that he speaks absolutely perfect english and could never write such incredibly ungrammatical sentences that begin with “Yet they still holding with”, “The honor still happening” or any of the other broken english sentences that we have read in this filing supposedly written to you by “***”Then ask him if you can speak with a woman named [redacted] and you will quickly hear in her non-perfect English (due to the fact that English is not her first language) that SHE, not ***, was the one who wrote this complaint using [redacted] ***, which this case has absolutely nothing to do with, as a smokescreen for her own personal vendetta over a perfectly honest disagreement in musical tastesThe person who actually DID write this text that was supposedly written by “***” (the French Speaking woman named ***) has been told by us from the very beginning that she has both our permission and blessing to add the additional people that she wants (other musical artists) to this bill as funds are raised by her via following our program model and guidance as well as her own even though we do not agree with her musical tastesBut unfortunately she insists on taking our honest musical differences personally even though there is nothing personal whatsoever about having different tastes in musicOn the documentation link above that we provided you can see the “Quick Confirmation Discount Request” letter that they submitted to us which states that if allowed by us to go forward using our special VIP INVITE that they (in their own words as this letter was written to us by them) would be “confirming their event with $already raised“ for their outstanding causeWe have explained that it is perfectly okay with us at any time if she would prefer to simply give those funds already raised to the outstanding cause of their choice, however we are more than happy and would actually prefer for her to simply put aside her personal vendetta (whether real or manufactured by her in order to scam us) for the benefit of doing good for others and to continue forward with the opportunity to raise much more funds between now and the event date for this cause and in doing so make the event as successful as possibleInstead, she has chosen to: Adisingenuously write to you under the name of “ [redacted] ”; Bwhile attempting to deflect ALL of the pertinent documentation and written agreements related to this matter which we have now submitted to you in the link above to a completely irrelevant (fiscal sponsor) topic; Cwith hopes of pocketing the funds she ALREADY RAISED for her cause as detailed in the “Quick Confirmation Discount Request” and RE-AFFIRMED in the JUMP START AGREEMENT also outlined in the link above DAll the while using our official Jazz for Peace™documentation to raise those funds - [redacted] ; EAND pocketing the “non refundable” balance she previously agreed to in accordance with our clear and visible disclaimer [redacted] Please note that pre-paid discount tickets do not count against online sales and are non-refundable unless cancelled by Jazz for Peace** listed on this and numerous other documentation and which we ALSO have an email from her proving that she asked us about it and we clarified to make absolutely sure that there would be no misunderstanding aboutF To offer our FINAL PROOF of HIS/HER/THEIR (?) disingenuous, misleading, untruthful and as you can see below - duplicitous and slanderous intent to mislead the Revdex.com, Jazz for Peace, AND the community in general, please take a closer look at the complaint under “Desired Settlement” where you will see the following words supposedly written and submitted by " [redacted] " which, in return for a completely unjustified refund, makes the following threat: “I won’t publish reviews and articles that that will certainly harm their reputation.” WITH THOSE VERY WORDS ABOVE I RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT TO YOU THE ICING ON THIS CAKE: Below is an "article" of a “review” that was “published”but NOT by ***, instead it was "Written by Dr [redacted] ” and the entire article that she wroteis about ***Fusion - CD Reviews - Miles Away by [redacted] **Written by [redacted] [redacted] In closing, we would just like to reiterate our thanks and appreciation for this opportunity to have this response made public with the hopes that neither she, “***”, anyone in any supposed “community” she/he claims to be a member of, nor anyone else in our great country who thinks they can get away with such grossly unjust behavior which as you can see in the Desired Settlement paragraph above clearly threatens to FURTHER slander our acclaimed (see example [redacted] - and many more - [redacted] ) organization, will forever refrain from doing so after carefully reviewing the details of this appeal and reversal which we hope will deter ANYONE that might ever try to scam and then slander Jazz for Peace, our Founder, Donors, Supporters and Volunteers, or anyone else in the futureSincerely, Debra RC [redacted] - Senior Event Coordinator, Eva V [redacted] - Grant Facilitator, Rick D [redacted] - Founder, Jazz for Peace™

Revdex.com: I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted] , and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolved Sincerely, [redacted]

Dear Revdex.com,We are so sorry and surprised to find out that this was still an open case as this person *** *** is part of a closed case which was ruled in our favor and is fully detailed HERE:***We only know of this person (*** ***) and his email address
because he was INCLUDED by the sore losers of this case in emails sent by THEM to Jazz for Peace and proof of this inclusion can be found at the bottom of the "case details" page at *** where you will see emails from these people to Jazz for Peace which INCLUDE this persons*** email address BY THEM TO US.For example:*** *** ***
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Please note that the email address *** was included in the Cc: above (and in NUMEROUS other emails ) NOT by Jazz for Peace but instead by the losers of this case in emails sent by them TO Jazz for Peace because he is apparently either friends and/or partners with them and any email that was sent to him by us would simply be from clicking “reply all” when responding as detailed further in the complete summary and additional info below.Sincerely,Debra R C*** - Jazz for Peace™ IN SUMMARY and to completely clarify:AWe have never heard of *** *** (*** *** *** *** ** *** *** * ** *** Daytime Phone: ###-###-#### E-mail: ***) nor has he ever been on our email list.BHe was added to emails sent by the losers of a previously closed case as detailed HERE - *** HERE - ***and HERE -***Cand PROOF of his inclusion by his own friends and/or partners can be found HERE - *** (scroll down to bottom for examples).While I would assume this is more than enough information I would just like to add that this “victory” for us was actually an incredibly time consuming nightmare of having to stand up against a bunch of scammers who were obviously using OUR Jazz for Peace Documentation to collect funds on their end and then trying to scam PayPal at the expense of our good name and reputation and it took us many hours of letters and calls in to PayPal and an enormous amount of our staff time and energy to right this calculated injustice on their behalf and at our expense.The time that their scamming took away from us and other than the knowledge that the case has been fully ruled in our favor is time that we will never be able to get back and put toward the good, honest, and useful services that we provide.Other than this previously unbeknownst situation which we are correcting today I am unaware of ANY valid complaints against Jazz for Peace in our entire year history of over events as the small handful or less of complaints that HAVE been recorded to the best of my knowledge have ALSO been ruled IN OUR FAVOR
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Revdex.com:
I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID# ***, and have determined that my complaint has NOT been resolved because:
[Your Answer Here]Dear Revdex.com, Thank you for your diligence.Paypal etc forced Jazz For Peace to pay me back.All that diatribe is defamatoryThey are losers.$are back in my pocket!I recovered my moneyHow wonderful!!As for Jazz for Peace : I know is hard to lose...Thanks!! *** ***
In order for the Revdex.com to appropriately process your response, you MUST answer the question above
Sincerely,
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Revdex.com:
I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID# ***, and have determined that my complaint has NOT been resolved because: on my end $2,from Paypal.
Sincerely,
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Revdex.com:
I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID# ***, and have determined that my complaint has NOT been resolved because:
[Your Answer Here]
Dear Revdex.com,
Thank you for your diligencePaypal etc forced Jazz For Peace to pay me backAll that diatribe is defamatoryThey are losers$are back in my pocket!
I recovered my moneyHow wonderful!!
As for Jazz for Peace : I know is hard to loseThanks!!
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In order for the Revdex.com to appropriately process your response, you MUST answer the question above
Sincerely,
*** ***

Revdex.com:
I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolved.
Sincerely,
[redacted]

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[redacted]I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID# [redacted], and have determined that my complaint has NOT been resolved because:“on my end $2,500 from PayPal.” ~ Sam M[redacted]Below is the Jazz for Peace Response to Complaint # [redacted]This response is exactly what we have been waiting for because it shows the DEGREE which PayPal has gone out of their way to recognize that they had originally made a mistake and how important it was to them that it is corrected even if they had to do so WITH THEIR OWN FUNDS!The above response from “Sam M[redacted]” unequivocally proves once and for all the following:A. After PayPal refunded $2500 to Sam M[redacted] WITHOUT making a proper revue of the case, Jazz for Peace contacted PayPal and submitted all of the documents that proved without a doubt that "Sam M[redacted] and RF Productions had admitted to using our merchandise (VIP Invite with "Non Refundable Disclaimer" - see proof here - [redacted]) to collect the funds which enabled them to confirm their event with funds ALREADY raised for their cause - See proof here -  [redacted]) thereby completing the transaction for services rendered."B. After this additional and more detailed revue by the PayPal Team we then received a written confirmation from PayPal that they had made a grave mistake with regards to their original decision and that it would only be a matter of time before Jazz for Peace would be re-credited with the original $2500 amount as detailed in this letter from PayPal to Jazz for Peace on December **, 2015 - [redacted]  However, what this PayPal Customer Solutions Support Specialist may not have realized at that time was that in order for this situation to truly be corrected PayPal would have to do so WITH THEIR OWN FUNDS!VERY RARE INDEED.C. So we now waited patiently until finally on January **, 2016 a call from PayPal Executive Offices came in directly to our Founder.  The executive from PayPal apologized PROFUSELY telling us that after HIS Executive Offices review, the complaint RF Productions submitted to them had absolutely no merit whatsoever!He also agreed that the case had absolutely NOTHING to do with our fiscal sponsor relationship and that we were 100% right in telling RF Productions that they could absolutely NOT "disguise their own VIP Ticket sales as a tax deductible donation via this or any other fiscal sponsor”. That is because there is absolutely no way that VIP ticket sales collected by them from their own VIP Guests could possibly be disguised or manipulated in such a way to lawfully be considered a tax-deductible donation to Jazz for Peace via ours or anyone else’s Fiscal Sponsor relationship ([redacted] Please note that Ruby Flowers Organization (RFP) had originally appealed to the Arts Organization Fractured Atlas after previous attempts by RFP to defraud the United States Government of tax revenue were denied by Jazz for Peace[redacted]).  In addition this fiscal sponsor that RF Productions met with (Fractured Atlas) was 100% wrong in advising RF Productions to go forward and in doing so they conducted themselves "in such a way that it fails to carry out its exempt functions.” which in accordance with the charitable purpose or purposes outlined in its application for recognition of tax-exempt status (Form [redacted]) are thereby "grounds to lose its 501(c)3 tax exemption” [redacted] as well as violated Fiduciary Duties by acting in their own best interests and profit motives based on the many postings of complete email conversations from Fractured Atlas to RF Productions that had been revealed in this process.D. Following this discussion the entire pathetic set of ludicrous grievances by Sam M[redacted] and RF Productions was finally IRREVERSIBLY ruled in our favor by PayPal as detailed here - [redacted]And as our final proof based on this latest response from “Sam M[redacted]” (see above) in conjunction with the letter we received from PayPal's Office of Executive Escalations ([redacted]), PayPal THEMSELVES took a $2500 loss in order to show Jazz for Peace how sorry they really were about THEIR mistake by originally refunding Sam M[redacted] in the first place and how correct Jazz for Peace really was and IS about our position in this matter.We have since been told that it is really a DOUBLE ruling in your favor when the adjudicating party (in this case PayPal) uses their OWN FUNDS to correct the situation like they did in this case. Very special thanks to PayPal for their professionalism in this matter and of course also to the diligence, dedication, and commitment of our outstanding staff and volunteers!

Response from Jazz for Peace ID # [redacted]  Buyer admitted to using our official merchandise w/non refundable disclaimer to collect the funds used to pay us thereby completing...

the transaction for services rendered. Dear Revdex.com,  Thank you for this opportunity to have this response posted in public and for your permanent records. As you can see from your 2012 archives, precedent has already been established by the Revdex.com by a woman named [redacted] from “Breath of Hope” for this exact same case where someone collected funds using our documentation with our clearly visible disclaimer ** Please note that pre-paid discount tickets do not count against online sales and are non-refundable unless cancelled by Jazz for Peace. **  listed on it as detailed here in this current instance - [redacted] - and has already been ruled in our favor by the Revdex.com in the one and only other example we have ever had in our 13 year history which has spanned over 850 events. Since this previous and favorable ruling we have improved our documentation even further and hereby present to you all of the same documentation submitted to us by RF Productions that was submitted to us by [redacted] in the previous case as detailed in the six exhibits located at this link: [redacted] These exhibits numbered 1-6 in chronology at the link above show clear and undeniable proof that RF Productions used our documentation (VIP INVITE with NON-Refundable Disclaimer) with our visible non-refundable disclaimer which states as follows - “Please note that pre-paid discount tickets do not count against future online sales and is non-refundable unless cancelled by Jazz for Peace.” in order to collect money from VIP Ticket Sales to confirm their event as described in the invitation with funds already raised for their cause.  The admission by the buyer on their JUMP START AGREEMENT that they have collected the funds necessary to confirm their event “with funds already raised for them” by using our merchandise  (VIP INVITE with NON-Refundable Disclaimer) completes the transaction for services rendered and they are absolutely not entitled to a refund. However, Instead of commenting on or even trying to refute a single one of these facts in the Revdex.comresponse link above, the buyer ONLY mentions diversion after diversion after diversion, each of which has absolutely no basis OR relevance to this dispute.   For example: 1. This complaint has absolutely nothing to do with [redacted], whose executive director Adam H[redacted] we have a perfectly amicable relationship with and whose most recent email sent to us directly from him and received by us on July **, 2015 we would be delighted to share with you at your request. In addition, [redacted] has NEVER, EVER received a complaint from a Jazz for Peace Benefit Concert Series Grant recipient or Adam would have told us about such in the email he sent or in their other many correspondences with us over the years and our decision to part ways had absolutely nothing to do with our Benefit Concert Series in any way as the email we received from Executive Director H[redacted] along with the corresponding thread that we will be happy to share with you at your request is undeniable proof of. In addition, we NEVER told the person making this complaint nor any one else in our 13 year history that they could disguise their own VIP Ticket sales as a tax deductible donation via this or any other fiscal sponsor nor have we ever used, tried to use, or allowed anyone else to use a Jazz for Peace fiscal sponsor to avoid paying taxes on their own VIP Ticket Sales. That is because there is absolutely no way that VIP ticket sales collected by them from their own VIP Guests could possibly be disguised or manipulated in such a way to lawfully be considered a tax-deductible donation to Jazz for Peace via ours or anyone else’s Fiscal Sponsor relationship. So of course we would NEVER tell them such a thing.    2. “The money was for a concert to honor Peace Nobel Price Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The honor still happening but not with them. As a matter of fact Archbishop Tutu's Ministry don't want to be involved with them.”   Again, despite many attempts, we were never able to get confirmation from them that they EVER had permission to put on an event for Bishop Desmond Tutu or that Bishop Tutu even knows who they ARE in spite of all of the name dropping. And as you can clearly see on the invitation that we created for them to collect their Jump Start funds and which they approved, they never even requested that his name be placed on it - [redacted]   Why would you approve the invite ([redacted]), admit that you collected the funds that you used to pay us ([redacted]), and then confirm your event with absolutely no mention of Bishop Tutu if you had his permission to put on an event for him?     3. Yet they continue to go on and on (and ON) with this completely irrelevant topic regarding how we facilitate our OWN Tax Deductible Donations via a fiscal sponsor relationship and which has absolutely nothing to do with this case whatsoever while ALSO making bizarre claims with absolutely no supporting facts to back them up whatsoever such as these:   A. “It appeared to me that they know how to use or bend the laws to their benefit”   Exactly WHAT LAW(S) does it “APPEAR” to “[redacted]” that we are not following?   B. “there was no money to pay for dancers and our line up to perform as they promised”    Where on ANY of our official documents, email communications or “recorded conversations” do we ever say such a thing?    Just like our 850 previous events, they have clearly confirmed their event with funds “already raised for them” thereby completing this transaction, and as we move forward with them all funds that are raised will go directly to their organization and it is up to them to decide how they would like to use these funds. Some organizations use the funds to build a new school, a wheelchair accessible ramp on a church, or promote literacy to underprivileged children,or possibly in their case to hire additional dancers or musicians, or what ever their outstanding mission is. This is what we say to every outstanding cause that contacts us and is all we have ever said to them as our official documentation and all communication with them will verify.   Here are testimonials from recent Grant recipients that we have received in just the past few days:   R[redacted]  
 
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[redacted]   In addition you can also  “Carefully Review The Benefits of This Grant” as well as see ALL of our Jazz for Peace Grant Recipient Testimonials HERE (scroll down to “Testimonials” section)      C. “[redacted]” then proceeded to write this: “I know an US Tax IDs are eight digits long, they gave me this tax ID number [redacted] so that number is not their tax ID!”   Our JFP TAX ID # is [redacted]. We HAVE an email that was sent it to them with this number which we will be glad to share with you at your request. However once again - we simply have absolutely no idea what our perfectly correct nine digit JFP TAX ID # [redacted]  has to do with this case and the FACT that the admission by the buyer on their JUMP START AGREEMENT that they have collected the funds necessary to confirm their event “with funds already raised for them” by using our merchandise  (VIP INVITE with NON-Refundable Disclaimer) completes the transaction for services rendered and they are absolutely not entitled to a refund. “This shows that the buyer was able to complete the transaction and was able to use the service.”   Once again, this is a smokescreen to divert attention away from that facts of this case and onto irrelevant topics which offer no such supporting documentation to tie them to this case or any of its facts because nothing of the kind nor any reference to such could ever be found in any of our written documentation or email correspondences and the reason for that is because it has no basis or relation to the services that we provide or any of the specifics to this case whatsoever.   NO organization in our 850 event history has completed the forms necessary to be able to use our merchandise, THEN collected the funds to do so, “taken out the funds already raised for them”  and sent us the balance agreed upon  - THEN asked to get those same funds that THEY ADMITTED TO COLLECTING BACK.   To further emphasize the disingenuous nature of this complaint, we would simply like to invite you to actually speak to [redacted] and you will quickly hear that he speaks absolutely perfect english and could never write such incredibly ungrammatical sentences that begin with “Yet they still holding with”, “The honor still happening” or any of the other broken english sentences that we have read in this filing supposedly written to you by “[redacted]”. Then ask him if you can speak with a woman named [redacted] and you will quickly hear in her non-perfect English (due to the fact that English is not her first language) that SHE, not [redacted], was the one who wrote this complaint using [redacted], which this case has absolutely nothing to do with, as a smokescreen for her own personal vendetta over a perfectly honest disagreement in musical tastes. The person who actually DID write this text that was supposedly written by “[redacted]” (the French Speaking woman named [redacted]) has been told by us from the very beginning that she has both our permission and blessing to add the additional people that she wants (other musical artists) to this bill as funds are raised by her via following our program model and guidance as well as her own even though we do not agree with her musical tastes. But unfortunately she insists on taking our honest musical differences personally even though there is nothing personal whatsoever about having different tastes in music. On the documentation link above that we provided you can see the “Quick Confirmation Discount Request” letter that they submitted to us which states that if allowed by us to go forward using our special VIP INVITE that they (in their own words as this letter was written to us by them) would be “confirming their event with $500 already raised“ for their outstanding cause. We have explained that it is perfectly okay with us at any time if she would prefer to simply give those funds already raised to the outstanding cause of their choice, however we are more than happy and would actually prefer for her to simply put aside her personal vendetta (whether real or manufactured by her in order to scam us) for the benefit of doing good for others and to continue forward with the opportunity to raise much more funds between now and the event date for this cause and in doing so make the event as successful as possible. Instead, she has chosen to:  A. disingenuously write to you under the name of “[redacted]”; B. while attempting to deflect ALL of the pertinent documentation and written agreements related to this matter which we have now submitted to you in the link above to a completely irrelevant (fiscal sponsor) topic; C. with hopes of pocketing the funds she ALREADY RAISED for her cause as detailed in the “Quick Confirmation Discount Request” and RE-AFFIRMED in the JUMP START AGREEMENT also outlined in the link above  D. All the while using our official Jazz for Peace™documentation to raise those funds - [redacted] ; E. AND pocketing the “non refundable” balance she previously agreed to in accordance with our clear and visible disclaimer ** Please note that pre-paid discount tickets do not count against online sales and are non-refundable unless cancelled by Jazz for Peace. **  listed on this and numerous other documentation and which we ALSO have an email from her proving that she asked us about it and we clarified to make absolutely sure that there would be no misunderstanding about. F.  To offer our FINAL PROOF of HIS/HER/THEIR (?) disingenuous, misleading, untruthful and as you can see below - duplicitous and slanderous intent to mislead the Revdex.com, Jazz for Peace, AND the community in general, please take a closer look at the complaint under “Desired Settlement” where you will see the following words supposedly written and submitted by "[redacted]" which, in return for a completely unjustified refund, makes the following threat: “I won’t publish reviews and articles that that will certainly harm their reputation.” WITH THOSE VERY WORDS ABOVE I RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT TO YOU THE ICING ON THIS CAKE: Below is an "article" of a “review” that was “published”...... but NOT by [redacted],  instead it was "Written by Dr. [redacted]” and the entire article that she wrote......... is about [redacted]. Fusion - CD Reviews  - Miles Away by [redacted].05.2005 Written by  [redacted]
  In closing, we would just like to reiterate our thanks and appreciation for this opportunity to have this response made public with the hopes that neither she, “[redacted]”, anyone in any supposed “community” she/he claims to be a member of, nor anyone else in our great country who thinks they can get away with such grossly unjust behavior which as you can see in the Desired Settlement paragraph above clearly threatens to FURTHER slander our acclaimed (see example [redacted] - and many more - [redacted]) organization, will forever refrain from doing so after carefully reviewing the details of this appeal and reversal which we hope will deter ANYONE that might ever try to scam and then slander Jazz for Peace, our Founder, Donors, Supporters and Volunteers, or anyone else in the future. Sincerely, Debra R. C[redacted] - Senior Event Coordinator, Eva V[redacted] - Grant Facilitator, Rick D[redacted] - Founder, Jazz for Peace™

Response from Jazz for Peace ID # [redacted]  Buyer admitted to using our official merchandise w/non refundable disclaimer to collect the funds used to pay us thereby completing the transaction for services rendered. Dear Revdex.com,  Thank you for this opportunity to have this...

response posted in public and for your permanent records. As you can see from your 2012 archives, precedent has already been established by the Revdex.com by a woman named [redacted] from “Breath of Hope” for this exact same case where someone collected funds using our documentation with our clearly visible disclaimer ** Please note that pre-paid discount tickets do not count against online sales and are non-refundable unless cancelled by Jazz for Peace. **  listed on it as detailed here in this current instance - [redacted] - and has already been ruled in our favor by the Revdex.com in the one and only other example we have ever had in our 13 year history which has spanned over 850 events. Since this previous and favorable ruling we have improved our documentation even further and hereby present to you all of the same documentation submitted to us by RF Productions that was submitted to us by [redacted] in the previous case as detailed in the six exhibits located at this link: [redacted] These exhibits numbered 1-6 in chronology at the link above show clear and undeniable proof that RF Productions used our documentation (VIP INVITE with NON-Refundable Disclaimer) with our visible non-refundable disclaimer which states as follows - “Please note that pre-paid discount tickets do not count against future online sales and is non-refundable unless cancelled by Jazz for Peace.” in order to collect money from VIP Ticket Sales to confirm their event as described in the invitation with funds already raised for their cause.  The admission by the buyer on their JUMP START AGREEMENT that they have collected the funds necessary to confirm their event “with funds already raised for them” by using our merchandise  (VIP INVITE with NON-Refundable Disclaimer) completes the transaction for services rendered and they are absolutely not entitled to a refund. However, Instead of commenting on or even trying to refute a single one of these facts in the Revdex.comresponse link above, the buyer ONLY mentions diversion after diversion after diversion, each of which has absolutely no basis OR relevance to this dispute.   For example: 1. This complaint has absolutely nothing to do with [redacted], whose executive director Adam H[redacted] we have a perfectly amicable relationship with and whose most recent email sent to us directly from him and received by us on July **, 2015 we would be delighted to share with you at your request. In addition, [redacted] has NEVER, EVER received a complaint from a Jazz for Peace Benefit Concert Series Grant recipient or Adam would have told us about such in the email he sent or in their other many correspondences with us over the years and our decision to part ways had absolutely nothing to do with our Benefit Concert Series in any way as the email we received from Executive Director H[redacted] along with the corresponding thread that we will be happy to share with you at your request is undeniable proof of. In addition, we NEVER told the person making this complaint nor any one else in our 13 year history that they could disguise their own VIP Ticket sales as a tax deductible donation via this or any other fiscal sponsor nor have we ever used, tried to use, or allowed anyone else to use a Jazz for Peace fiscal sponsor to avoid paying taxes on their own VIP Ticket Sales. That is because there is absolutely no way that VIP ticket sales collected by them from their own VIP Guests could possibly be disguised or manipulated in such a way to lawfully be considered a tax-deductible donation to Jazz for Peace via ours or anyone else’s Fiscal Sponsor relationship. So of course we would NEVER tell them such a thing.    2. “The money was for a concert to honor Peace Nobel Price Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The honor still happening but not with them. As a matter of fact Archbishop Tutu's Ministry don't want to be involved with them.”   Again, despite many attempts, we were never able to get confirmation from them that they EVER had permission to put on an event for Bishop Desmond Tutu or that Bishop Tutu even knows who they ARE in spite of all of the name dropping. And as you can clearly see on the invitation that we created for them to collect their Jump Start funds and which they approved, they never even requested that his name be placed on it - [redacted]   Why would you approve the invite ([redacted]), admit that you collected the funds that you used to pay us ([redacted]), and then confirm your event with absolutely no mention of Bishop Tutu if you had his permission to put on an event for him?     3. Yet they continue to go on and on (and ON) with this completely irrelevant topic regarding how we facilitate our OWN Tax Deductible Donations via a fiscal sponsor relationship and which has absolutely nothing to do with this case whatsoever while ALSO making bizarre claims with absolutely no supporting facts to back them up whatsoever such as these:   A. “It appeared to me that they know how to use or bend the laws to their benefit”   Exactly WHAT LAW(S) does it “APPEAR” to “[redacted]” that we are not following?   B. “there was no money to pay for dancers and our line up to perform as they promised”    Where on ANY of our official documents, email communications or “recorded conversations” do we ever say such a thing?    Just like our 850 previous events, they have clearly confirmed their event with funds “already raised for them” thereby completing this transaction, and as we move forward with them all funds that are raised will go directly to their organization and it is up to them to decide how they would like to use these funds. Some organizations use the funds to build a new school, a wheelchair accessible ramp on a church, or promote literacy to underprivileged children,or possibly in their case to hire additional dancers or musicians, or what ever their outstanding mission is. This is what we say to every outstanding cause that contacts us and is all we have ever said to them as our official documentation and all communication with them will verify.   Here are testimonials from recent Grant recipients that we have received in just the past few days:   R[redacted]  
 
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[redacted]   In addition you can also  “Carefully Review The Benefits of This Grant” as well as see ALL of our Jazz for Peace Grant Recipient Testimonials HERE (scroll down to “Testimonials” section)      C. “[redacted]” then proceeded to write this: “I know an US Tax IDs are eight digits long, they gave me this tax ID number [redacted] so that number is not their tax ID!”   Our JFP TAX ID # is [redacted]. We HAVE an email that was sent it to them with this number which we will be glad to share with you at your request. However once again - we simply have absolutely no idea what our perfectly correct nine digit JFP TAX ID # [redacted]  has to do with this case and the FACT that the admission by the buyer on their JUMP START AGREEMENT that they have collected the funds necessary to confirm their event “with funds already raised for them” by using our merchandise  (VIP INVITE with NON-Refundable Disclaimer) completes the transaction for services rendered and they are absolutely not entitled to a refund. “This shows that the buyer was able to complete the transaction and was able to use the service.”   Once again, this is a smokescreen to divert attention away from that facts of this case and onto irrelevant topics which offer no such supporting documentation to tie them to this case or any of its facts because nothing of the kind nor any reference to such could ever be found in any of our written documentation or email correspondences and the reason for that is because it has no basis or relation to the services that we provide or any of the specifics to this case whatsoever.   NO organization in our 850 event history has completed the forms necessary to be able to use our merchandise, THEN collected the funds to do so, “taken out the funds already raised for them”  and sent us the balance agreed upon  - THEN asked to get those same funds that THEY ADMITTED TO COLLECTING BACK.   To further emphasize the disingenuous nature of this complaint, we would simply like to invite you to actually speak to [redacted] and you will quickly hear that he speaks absolutely perfect english and could never write such incredibly ungrammatical sentences that begin with “Yet they still holding with”, “The honor still happening” or any of the other broken english sentences that we have read in this filing supposedly written to you by “[redacted]”. Then ask him if you can speak with a woman named [redacted] and you will quickly hear in her non-perfect English (due to the fact that English is not her first language) that SHE, not [redacted], was the one who wrote this complaint using [redacted], which this case has absolutely nothing to do with, as a smokescreen for her own personal vendetta over a perfectly honest disagreement in musical tastes. The person who actually DID write this text that was supposedly written by “[redacted]” (the French Speaking woman named [redacted]) has been told by us from the very beginning that she has both our permission and blessing to add the additional people that she wants (other musical artists) to this bill as funds are raised by her via following our program model and guidance as well as her own even though we do not agree with her musical tastes. But unfortunately she insists on taking our honest musical differences personally even though there is nothing personal whatsoever about having different tastes in music. On the documentation link above that we provided you can see the “Quick Confirmation Discount Request” letter that they submitted to us which states that if allowed by us to go forward using our special VIP INVITE that they (in their own words as this letter was written to us by them) would be “confirming their event with $500 already raised“ for their outstanding cause. We have explained that it is perfectly okay with us at any time if she would prefer to simply give those funds already raised to the outstanding cause of their choice, however we are more than happy and would actually prefer for her to simply put aside her personal vendetta (whether real or manufactured by her in order to scam us) for the benefit of doing good for others and to continue forward with the opportunity to raise much more funds between now and the event date for this cause and in doing so make the event as successful as possible. Instead, she has chosen to:  A. disingenuously write to you under the name of “[redacted]”; B. while attempting to deflect ALL of the pertinent documentation and written agreements related to this matter which we have now submitted to you in the link above to a completely irrelevant (fiscal sponsor) topic; C. with hopes of pocketing the funds she ALREADY RAISED for her cause as detailed in the “Quick Confirmation Discount Request” and RE-AFFIRMED in the JUMP START AGREEMENT also outlined in the link above  D. All the while using our official Jazz for Peace™documentation to raise those funds - [redacted] ; E. AND pocketing the “non refundable” balance she previously agreed to in accordance with our clear and visible disclaimer ** Please note that pre-paid discount tickets do not count against online sales and are non-refundable unless cancelled by Jazz for Peace. **  listed on this and numerous other documentation and which we ALSO have an email from her proving that she asked us about it and we clarified to make absolutely sure that there would be no misunderstanding about. F.  To offer our FINAL PROOF of HIS/HER/THEIR (?) disingenuous, misleading, untruthful and as you can see below - duplicitous and slanderous intent to mislead the Revdex.com, Jazz for Peace, AND the community in general, please take a closer look at the complaint under “Desired Settlement” where you will see the following words supposedly written and submitted by "[redacted]" which, in return for a completely unjustified refund, makes the following threat: “I won’t publish reviews and articles that that will certainly harm their reputation.” WITH THOSE VERY WORDS ABOVE I RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT TO YOU THE ICING ON THIS CAKE: Below is an "article" of a “review” that was “published”...... but NOT by [redacted],  instead it was "Written by Dr. [redacted]” and the entire article that she wrote......... is about [redacted]. Fusion - CD Reviews  - Miles Away by [redacted].05.2005 Written by  [redacted]
  In closing, we would just like to reiterate our thanks and appreciation for this opportunity to have this response made public with the hopes that neither she, “[redacted]”, anyone in any supposed “community” she/he claims to be a member of, nor anyone else in our great country who thinks they can get away with such grossly unjust behavior which as you can see in the Desired Settlement paragraph above clearly threatens to FURTHER slander our acclaimed (see example [redacted] - and many more - [redacted]) organization, will forever refrain from doing so after carefully reviewing the details of this appeal and reversal which we hope will deter ANYONE that might ever try to scam and then slander Jazz for Peace, our Founder, Donors, Supporters and Volunteers, or anyone else in the future. Sincerely, Debra R. C[redacted] - Senior Event Coordinator, Eva V[redacted] - Grant Facilitator, Rick D[redacted] - Founder, Jazz for Peace™