Chris (Christopher) Bassoo: Anthony's Kitchen, Pizza One, Anthony's Pizza Uno
Chris (Christopher) Bassoo
Picture of Mr. Chris (Christopher )Bassoo, who worked with Reza Solhi as a sales agent and known to be worked as executive franchise vice president later.
He is known to be started the following company recently: Blow Test Team
He also known to be involves in the following business: "Mansion of Ads"
posted by sun @ 3:37 PM
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Chris Bassoo has started several companies since Anthony's Kitchen.
He continues to con people to get rich quick.
2 BAZU
Truck of Ads
Tag TV
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I confirm that there are 30-100 people who have been scammed by this man. He continues to operate in a grey-black area of business ethics and accountability. Ten of thousands of dollars of work that was paid for remains undelivered.
As a filmer/renovator/contractor, I worked with Chris for three months in 2012, delivering TAG TV, Tagg Tv Flip, Truck my card(scam),
He scammed Ms. Canada 2012, Jacylyn Miles for several months of free service. He continues to abuse interns for free labour.
Massive promises are used to keep free help around. Contractors were promised to be involved in flipping one house per week, conditional upon the contractor giving a few thousand dollars in free labour right now.
Chris wins by intimidation: we're going to get the big contract later on, and in the meantime I need you to do this small favour.
Ms. Canada was promised a massive media campaign, professionally produced with a wide distribution base. After three months of extremely active involvement, and giving of her time to TAGG TV and Chris' every whim, She was included in a few home-video style short videos that have garnered 10k views, and a few newspaper ads..
Chris is a brilliant salesman, using the power of suggestion to infer rewards that are not being promised.
I kept filming for him, for free, because every time I would want to bail, he would dream up some new sales campaign, and float the big numbers and rewards in front of my face, along with specific dates. He couldn't come up with $500 to cover my gas, so he invented a sales campaign that would net me $5000 in two weeks. He tried to sell it ('Fuzzy Bunny Home Real Estate lottery') by outright lying to customers about where he got their information...
"I got your info from Rebeccca down the street. You know rebecca? We're good friends. I bought Fuzzy Bunny. She has her house for sale, and she bought it, and she recommended I get in touch with you"
Long story short, the whole campaign fizzled. My guess: home sellers weren't interested in a $500 video walkthrough, didn't buy in to the lottery concept, or outright sensed the bullshit and deception of the sales tactic, and wrote off everything afterwards.
Long story short, he couldn't come up with the $500, and, like an idiot, I couldn't see the forest for the trees, and kept working.
I lost two cars, several thousand dollars. I gave up thousands of dollars of free construction/renovation labour, in order to produce his Home Renovation Special Show, after all his contractors bailed. I ran out of money, and patience, before filming half the show.
Also taken down with the show: CityCentre Storage, FrogBox, Two Men with Big Hearts movers, Alarmforce, Casariccio pizza, Alan Lily Locksmith, Jackson Family Farms, and many many many more, that I won't list for privacy concerns.
Tens of thousands of dollars of invoices were paid out, for services that were hardly worth the paper they were printed on, and that were never delivered.
Truck My Card was a last ditch attempt to get-rich-quick, based on the million pixel website. Again, absolutely zero effort requires on Chris' part except sales, and absolutely zero value delivered.
2 Bazu: An animated video that sells for $1500. He has a friend of mine create the video for $300, and pockets the rest.
You won't hear from many of the smaller guys, because Chris used them up and put them out of business, like myself.
The bigger companies absorbed it as a loss.
Be absolutely, absolutely cautious, as Chris will say almost anything, and most of what he says is outright lies, or a complete fabrication of reality. For example: he sells people his Facebook videos for TaggTV based on a reach of 100,000.
Let me break that idea down for you. Chris films a video at Casericcio pizza. He posts it to his personal profile. He tags four people. Of those four people, 3 have blocked tags from being passed on to their friends. Of Chris' 5000 friends, let's say an average of 2500 have actually completely unsubscribed from his posts. Of the 2500 that are left, only 500 actively use their facebook accounts. At any given point in time, of those 500, depending on the time of day that they browse, they may completely miss Chris' posts.
The problem is, Chris told his customer, that he 'goes out to 100,000 people'. He uses the power of suggestion, to let the person assume 'my video will be seen potentially by 100,000 people. If half of those people see it, then it's still ok' ...
In summary, Chris' customer is misled to believe that somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 people are actively waiting to digest their video, when, in reality, perhaps as few as 100 people will end up seeing the finished product.
Granted, that of those 100 people, perhaps 1 person is in the correct geographic location, and of those 1 people, 0 people are left who actually qualify for the service being offered, financially, or otherwise.
We're left with poorly produced marketing, terrible acting, unpaid contractors, a completely useless and unverifiable pieace of rubbish video that either has no impact, or it's impact can never be measured.
Now Chris' biggest successes are always built on the backs of others. I produced his most popular video of his entire video career, for Adrenaline Paintball. It has something like 7000 hits.
I spent the last two years studying and practicing cinematic and filmic techniques...something Chris' last cinematographer has no idea of, and can't produce, even though the other guy gets top dollar.
I filmed all day, on my own equipment, and edited the piece in the last 2 hours that I roomed at his house, before I took the last $20 I had left to my name, and drove to the new house that I couldn't afford. I uploaded the video, in good faith, and it took off.
The other video that i produced for him was for New Future Farms. It was a highly animated, very cinematic collaboration with the farm owner. Chris did more to get in the way of the creative process than he did to help. And so his contributions to the final product were nil, or zero. We got several hundred, if not thousands of views, and sincere compliments from CTV producers of the Dragon's den. Nice! Thanks guy! I love what I do, and I like to think my desire for excellence comes out, even under the harshest of conditions.
I created the New Future Farms video for free, on my own dime, with my own gas. Chris was paid $5500, in advance, on the premise that he needed to pre-pay his crew. After wrapping two weeks of filming, the farm owner asked me if I had been paid...I hadn't been told about the payment. Chris scrambled to pay me $900...the only money I received in the entire 3 months of full-time work.
I do video because I love it, not always because I get paid for it. Normal, ethical people pay me all the same, or accomodate me, or are at least honest with where it's headed.
Con-men, and charismatic, unethical businessmen see people like me coming a mile away, warm up their forked tongues, and slowly rub their hands while their cold heart beats slowly....
Chris has all the aspects of a cult-leader: he can spin a bullshit story so long that he'll have your head spinning. The key to disarm Chris is this: check your facts. If he says 100,000 viewers, ask for direct proof, and keep asking hard hard questions until he outlines his whole distrubution process. He doesn't have 100,000 viewers. At best I'd estimate he has 500.
Dear Members of the Media,
I want to draw your attention to the questionable business practises of Chris Bassoo and TaggTV. As you know, Mr. Bassoo arrived in Guyana last spring with a promise to create a large number of videos to promote your beautiful country. The idea was that the videos would be tagged through social media.
Mr. Bassoo employed employees from both Guyana and London, Ontario Canada. He took in thousands of dollars (U.S.) in sponsorship to date has not paid his employees their contracted fee of $5,000 U.S. each.
Further, prior to leaving Canada, he sold a large number of advertisements and videos to Canadian businesses and received the funds upfront. He has never provided them with the advertisements of videos.
Mr. Bassoo was involved in a fraud investigation in Canada regarding Anthonys Franchise and the story about his involvement was telecast nationally on the CTV program W5 February 3, 2007 (http://chrisbassooinfo.blogspot.ca/ ).
Mr. Bassoo continues to promise to pay his employees. He has told them the money will be deposited and transferred to accounts only to then say the money has been held at the bank “because Guyana has a drug problem and the government wants to ensure the money is not being laundered.” At the end of the day, the money is never transferred. Mr. Bassoo talks a good game, but has never produced.
His Canadian passport has expired but cannot be renewed because he is in arrears on his child support payments with his first wife. He recently left his second wife (a Guyanese woman) and their baby for a 26- year old woman. He has left her with nothing and no place to go.
Mr. Bassoo needs to be exposed in Guyana and Canada before he destroys anymore lives.
Should you wish to speak to any individuals directly involved, please let me know and I will forward you contact numbers. I can be reached by email at whoistherealchrisbassoo@live.ca
Dear Members of the Media,
I want to draw your attention to the questionable business practises of Chris Bassoo and TaggTV. As you know, Mr. Bassoo arrived in Guyana last spring with a promise to create a large number of videos to promote your beautiful country. The idea was that the videos would be tagged through social media.
Mr. Bassoo employed employees from both Guyana and London, Ontario Canada. He took in thousands of dollars (U.S.) in sponsorship to date has not paid his employees their contracted fee of $5,000 U.S. each.
Further, prior to leaving Canada, he sold a large number of advertisements and videos to Canadian businesses and received the funds upfront. He has never provided them with the advertisements of videos.
Mr. Bassoo was involved in a fraud investigation in Canada regarding Anthonys Franchise and the story about his involvement was telecast nationally on the CTV program W5 February 3, 2007 (http://chrisbassooinfo.blogspot.ca/ ).
Mr. Bassoo continues to promise to pay his employees. He has told them the money will be deposited and transferred to accounts only to then say the money has been held at the bank “because Guyana has a drug problem and the government wants to ensure the money is not being laundered.” At the end of the day, the money is never transferred. Mr. Bassoo talks a good game, but has never produced.
His Canadian passport has expired but cannot be renewed because he is in arrears on his child support payments with his first wife. He recently left his second wife (a Guyanese woman) and their baby for a 26- year old woman. He has left her with nothing and no place to go.
Mr. Bassoo needs to be exposed in Guyana and Canada before he destroys anymore lives.
Should you wish to speak to any individuals directly involved, please let me know and I will forward you contact numbers. I can be reached by email at whoistherealchrisbassoo@live.ca
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