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Metaphysical, Spiritual and Psychic Discussions => CaliforniaPsychics.com => Topic started by: Kareena on May 22, 2011, 06:25:06 AM
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I had heard from someone outside this company that they pay only about 0.50 cents a minute to psychics, now this article confirms that.
Their customer service reps make $16-18 per hour, the IT staff salaries are paid well with good benefits package.
http://salaryquest.com/company-outlook-amusements-inc-salary/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1274505/buyers_beware_the_real_truth_behind.html?cat=3
California Psychics is a partner of a company called Outlook Amusements in Los Angeles, California. Management has the primary objective to leave their customers penniless with their outrageous prices ranging from
$3.25-$5.25 per minute, and the worst part is that the "psychics" do not even see $1 per minute of that revenue. Pay is according to a tier which is based on call averages. All psychics who are new or have the tendency to work part time will be paid .32 to approximately .50 cents per minute. The psychics who are higher in demand will get a few cents more, but do not be deceived that amount will never reach $1 per minute because a full sale business is being run. Outlook Amusements and California Psychics has to pay expensive rent for their upscale office overlooking Sunset Blvd. They have customer service agents, IT, Marketing, etc to keep customers hard earned money rolling in.
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My contrubition to CP was 14k between sept 2010 to march 2010 and none of their predictions had happened, if i kept that money in my bank account i would be happy now :(
My lesson is, I'm done with psychics, i have to value the little money i'm making, none of those men deserve that much money to inquire about them.
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good one koukou......but you'll be surprised how things manifest years later lol....My first sm manifestations are happening now...a yr, and another sm later wtffff :o
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The readers arent even allowed to use their real name
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cj - I still can't believe that happened. A year off - but they were right that he was returning.
Never a dull moment.
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I understand a couple of them are accurate about what they see but it might be off a little bit
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A yr off girl ??? lol....but no William didnt predict that wold happen..it was actually Vens..she said he would ask me to move to be with him and he did ::) wtffff is happening>????? lmao
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That is great though that you had a prediciton to come to pass :)
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a yr and a smate :o later sammie :o this is crazy! lol..but it is cool having these things happen
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I know what you mean, but that just goes to show you how timing can be off :(
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A year and a SM later. It's totally crazy.
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I know what you mean kiki it can be crazy :)
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@cj Forgive me if I'm a little confused. But, did you say that Venus predicted some correct things for you? I have also had a couple readings with Venus and have found that she has been quite accurate for me as well. I guess my "dream team" at CP is Jacqueline, Venus, William, and Reed (for his practicality & empath abilities.
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Mine is Jacqueline and Joyce I am going to call Jacqueline in June and find out exactly what going on
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bluesgirl, I've always been intrigued with Reed. I've read a few of his comments on the blogs and like what he has to say, and I always appreciate the practical psychics. So you use him mostly for his empathic abilities?
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Wow!
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kiki - i'm putting my foot down
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Ha ha PT. Don't worry. I'm not going to.
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I am putting my foot down to :)
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yes bluesgirl Venus has gotten a huge prediction right for me. She may be a bit off with timing being that it was a year later but to me that was my fault because I dropped him like a hot tamale...lol
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Well I am fixing to drop Elvin like a hot tamale
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lmaooo....poor tamales! lol ::)
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lol I agree well its the only way that I can get him to stop playing his game
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Has anyone ever read with Marceea?
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Has anyone ever read with Marceea?
I did once only.It was a 2 minute reading. She told me he didn't see a future with me and she was right. She pretty much summed up the whole situation and all she needed was those 2 minutes. I never called her again because I hated the news lol. But she was right.
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Maybe that's what we all need. two minutes with Maceea. I just checked her out! for $9 we could have save thousands of dollars and reclaim our sanity back a tad earlier lol
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Maybe that's what we all need. two minutes with Maceea. I just checked her out! for $9 we could have save thousands of dollars and reclaim our sanity back a tad earlier lol
Ah Cocoa you assume that will be it :P
She'll say, "No I don't see it working out" and then the caller gets all freaked out and thinks, "NO! I must call Jacqueline to tell me he'll come back in 2-3 weeks!" And the cycle begins again :P
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Csj isn't that the truth....people call so many readers and if they hear a negative forecast, they call another...
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I'm beginning to go to the dark side and call psychics to see if they say we're NOT getting back together LOL. I would feel more comfort that way. All it really takes is one.....*sigh
By the way, i called Marceea and hopefully to get that validation from her...NOPE. She said he's coming back before the fall however, i won't take him back. I actually can see that happening because as each day goes on, with no contact and i don't see or hear him physically, it gets easier and soon he will fade away. Unless he does something spectacular....it's really hard to sway me at this moment. lol
CSJ, you know the funny thing is? I called Jacqueline, Seha and Alison back because their timelines were one month gone already and they gave me another 'in 2 weeks'...i feel that it's always a two weeks interval where they dangle that carrot. Just a thought.
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i am sorry to hear that, but i know how you feel. I am in the situation. I spoke with jacqueline too.... now i talk to michelle. It is hard....and it sucks.
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How's Michelle for you positive? Has any of Jacqueline's prediction came true for you???
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I dont know about Michelle.
"I called Jacqueline, Seha and Alison back because their timelines...."
never spoke to Jac, Seha gave me a two month timeline and she was right, Alison is a good empath but her timing was way off. (to anyone who wants more opinions)
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What was Seha's prediction right about? "He would return in 2 months"? You would be "back together and exclusive" in two months?
Just curious, CSK.
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I still have the end of Sunday for Seha's 'updated prediction' to come true. I called her on the 15th...and she said he'll tell me he loves me 'soon'....say 7-10days....two weeks max. Well, that 7-10 days is gone...but i'm waiting out on the max part lol. If i still haven't heard a peep from him....even a text or fb msg....i'm cutting her off my list. I'm not spending more money no her giving me another two weeks ~
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jacqueline and michelle stated the same thing... but michelle goes in more detail. she told to pull away and watch how my ex gf will try to contact me and email me... Which she did... Here is the brief situation. My ex and I work together.... and she told to stop calling her and email and im and txt unless it is business related.... So i stop. now she contacting me wanted to talk and wish me a happy bday and told me that she love me. There are alot of issues to work out. but michelle has given me hope and has pray for me to get better.... If the prediction comes true.. i will let you know.... i know time lines suck but i realized it will happen naturally
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I think both Seha and Jacqueline are excellent readers and I've had predictions happen from both.
Jacqueline is the type of reader where I try not to get hung up in her timing and just wait for her predictions to happen. I can also ask her 100 questions about the present and she can usually answer most of them with a great level of accuracy. Some of Jacquelines predictions have shocked me with the level of accuracy.
With Seha, her high level overview of my situation was very accurate and her timing has been pretty good.
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PT, I know you are a huge fan of Jacqueline but i'm not convinced about CPs anymore. Predictions come and go and I find myself hearing 'two weeks' when i call them back.
You know what sucks too? Looking back at my spending, here's the scary thing:
I called Alison a couple days after we broke up and she said early June, and i quote 'June 1st is what i'm getting, the first 10 days.' Well, i called her back in mid-June to tell her NOTHING has happened. It's not contact she predicted for me, but when he will come around. I didn't ask for 'when will he call me, text me etc.'. Then last week on my last CP rampage, i told her that if he's NOT coming back, just tell me. She STILL insisted June and guess what? $110 later, it's June 30th today and NOTHING! All those CPs who told me June....sad to include Arlene from Ellen's crew too.....they were wrong.
With Seha, I think she told me what she thinks i want to hear. When i called her back last week after her time frames came and went 4 weeks too late i asked her again. She said 'Has he told you he loves you?' And i said no....never even mention it. She said 'well he's going to and i get that it's soon so i say 7-10 days....well let's say two weeks'. With Jacqueline it's the same thing so you can't blame me for being frustrated. I actually want a CP to tell me 'no, he's not coming back!!! Move on!'.
I've read everyone's post on this forum, asks other's for their opinion on readers and i thought i did all the homework but seriously, if he hasn't text or call you in weeks......i highly doubt he's going to magically show up one day with a phone call and say he loves me, or as Jacqueline say 'he will fix this and make it better' or London's 'Everything is gonna be ok'. I have Maryanne and Julia's timeframes coming up and the recent ones i read with including Eden, Marceea, Uli, and Sherie gives me stuff like before Fall, August...mostly August times but i'm not clinging to that. Even though Uli is good, she may just be good at past and present.
No more CPs for me. The only reason i'm not closing the account yet is because by Fall if something DOES happen, then i would want the option to leave testimonials to those who deserves it. For now, i'm so repelled and turned off by CP that even the thought of calling them makes me sick. Cuz i know either they will say 'another two weeks' or August or Before Fall.
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cocoapple - I can 100% relate to how you are feeling. I was told I'd be in a committed relationship by April by a million CP's. The fact that timing has and will continue to change has been my hardest lesson to learn with my CP experience. I've also found the more I focus on myself and get on with my life, things seem to happen faster.
I think it is good that you are mad and frustrated. That happened to me as well and I stopped calling and now I only call 2 CP's who had correct predictions for me and I force myself to not call a lot. Like you, I was calling all around and realized I was hearing the same thing over and over with different timelines. So don't call until you do hear from him. You will - if everyone sees him contacting you, it will happen. And once it does and you get some clarity you can take out your notes and decide who was actually accurate for you. Calling them and asking the same questions without any change is a waste of your time and $$. I've been there.
I owe my CP change to Libra. So Libra - if you're still out there - thank you! xxoo
All the best
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Hi coco & pt2,
Coco, I'm sorry you haven't heard yet...and I completely can identify with your frustration and the almost sicklike feeling you get when you think of calling another cp reader...seriously...and I think of this often since I joined this forum....not a whole lot of predictions have manifested for anyone on here...makes me very sad and almost taken advantage of....especially since we do tend to develop friendships with the readers....I sometimes wonder if its just a very well played game...and then I think no....because look at some of the tetimonials for these psychics...Alisons recent testimonials for example....right on the money with some people...down to the dates!!! Why can't that be us? Anyway...like pt2 said...try to go on with your life, listen to your gut...your own intuitive voice...and you know the minute you stop worrying is when it will happen...hang tight coco. PT2...if I may ask...who are your two favorite readers? You guys take care...love, tippy xo
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Tippy: I know. I read that testi. on Alison's page too and that NEVER happens with me. But you know what? After all that CP experience, I NEVER trust those testi. on the CP site. I only pay attention to testi. who left their names and look through their list and see if they posted another testi. in another time. Kinda see if i can gauge a timeline of events. It really does suck because i have spoken to Summer on several occasions and they were long calls too because it's like talking to a friend. I didn't call her back of course, after she was one month over her timeframe.
PT: I hope your posting is my catalyst for change, just as Libra did for you. Paying if forward :) I'm not even interested in calling them anymore. I would be much happier keeping my monies where it belongs, ON me lol....and paying off all those money i spent on these readings. -_-" thank you for your words of encouragement guys!
I hope this gives new psyhic junkies on this forum an eye opener. I don't want them to get to where we are after countless of monies have spent already. For that, i'm greatful that this forum exist~
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My 2 favorites are Jacqueline (as everyone knows) and William. I've tried everyone. Allison I LOVED for a long time but none of her stuff happened when she said it would. I'm at the point where I don't call anyone else. I liked Amy on PS but I can't deal with their phone system. But Amy has been very accurate for me as well. With Jacqueline, a lot of her predictions happen and the details are usually right on so I look past the timing issues. I've had some luck with William's timing and his details are pretty good too. I have found with both, the longer you read with them the better they get. Like a hairdresser - they get to know you and the energy. I swear when Jacqueline is "on" , she can tell me what SM had for breakfast. I also think they get more info after there has been a change - like a phone call, or email, whatever.
So I've found it is worth the $$ and energy to find who you really connect with and stick with them. And then most importantly - LISTEN TO THEIR ADVISE. And no, they don't tell me what I want to hear. William especially has told me some stuff that was very hard to hear. Jacqueline has too but she has such a loving "sunshine" personality that it doesn't hit you until you're off the phone with her. lol. Narrowing it down to 2 readers has also helped me save $$. If you think about it, it makes sense. We're not friends with everyone we meet because we simply don't connect well. I think it is the same with a psychic connection.
One person I forgot is Casey. I read with her once and LOVED LOVED LOVED her and one of her predictions happened on the exact day. I have another prediction coming up so I'll let you know. But she is impossible to get in with. Talking with her was like getting a reading from another dimension or something. It was cool.
ugh - all of this SUCKS!!
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"I only pay attention to testi. who left their names and look through their list and see if they posted another testi. in another time"
The few credible positive feedback posts that i have made, have been anonymous. usually you can tell when the company "fakes" a testimonial. its something like..."i cant believe it, everything you said came true!! when i lost faith and didnt think it would happen you were right!! exactly the time and date and everything wow!!"
thats how you know lol....even though most of us are very serious about our situations and the money we spend on there, use your best judgement for testimonials. I think the NUMBER of testimonials also matters.
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do you think california psychic write their own feedback... the customer service reps?
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You are welcome PT, I wish you enlightenment on your spiritual path.
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I dont know about Michelle.
"I called Jacqueline, Seha and Alison back because their timelines...."
never spoke to Jac, Seha gave me a two month timeline and she was right, Alison is a good empath but her timing was way off. (to anyone who wants more opinions)
Just wanted to note that back in December Alison had some incredibly accurate contact timelines for me.
I talked to her on 12/3 and she said that he would contact me 12/18-20. He called me on 12/19 and asked me to bring him something and I spent a couple of hrs at his place - first time I had been there in 6 months! (he had also called me the weekend before on help with something else but I felt being in his place was more thrilling :) )
At that time she felt that by June 2011 we'd be back in a r/s if I wanted, but so much happened in his life starting in January I think that has just skewed everything.
On Jan 6 I called her again. He had unexpectedly called me Jan 1 and we spent 24 hrs together. It showed me he still loved and cared for me, but the next morning he gently pushed me away again. She did say we'd have contact the following weekend and we did, via fb and I called him the next week to leave him a vm as he sounded really down about something. He picked up and we actually talked for over 30 mins. She still felt a r/s in June.
She NEVER picked up on the fact he was seeing someone else.
Feb 24 I'd say she picked up his current state of mind pretty well but no real timelines. Didn't like the reading much at all, I felt she pumped me too much.
June 4 I called her again. I had seen him in early May for the first time since NYD. He had ended that other r/s as well. She felt we'd be connecting more in June/July.... kind of have but from nothing to a little, I guess that can be more..... Said he had been confused from Dec and Mar/April were difficult with him and that was all true once I found out about the r/s he tried. The one thing she really impressed me with, she kept asking what happened in August 2009. She even gave me the exact date but I don't know if I can confirm it. Aug 2009 was when his cousin introduced him to a girl via fb, this girl was supposedly getting divorced (she is still married 2 yrs later but still "in love" with him and still hangs around). They went out for dinner a couple of times and she's made his sister her special charity case. Alison said this time she feels July/Aug we'd be moving forward. Call me nuts but he called me last week about an upgrade and then dropped something off to me Friday night.
I called her again Aug 1 and she said again we'd be working our way back in August and should be back in a r/s in December.
So for me a lot of her contact timelines and some past/present has been very accurate.
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I am glad Alison has been right with timing for you. Even though she wasn't for me, she WAS able to pick up the fact that mine was in a relationship. I think she actually said "Looks like he was in a relationship earlier this year but there were problems" (this was last year and it was true)
"Both were saying that after waiting for so long, nothing had happened and the customer was done. Those testimonials disappeared after a couple of days. I guess someone was new on the job and didnt know they werent supposed to post the negative responses, lol. Really seems dishonest though to not let customers know that not all predictions happen."
It is LYING, and its totally wrong. I honestly respect psychic source more because of the fact that they allow honest feedback to be shown to customers. Its just wrong for them to only post positive testimonials.
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Someone, I think Reed, explained the other people to me in this way. I had called him asking specifically about the other girl (the one he actually had the r/s with as opposed to the one that's been hanging around for 2 yrs). He had broken it off with her (she was married) and she was suddenly not only moving out of her house but to a place a mile from him. Reed said that he couldn't really feel her and he felt that it was because there was no deep connection between the two of them. He said he went from me to him and felt a huge connection and from him out and really felt very little. So maybe that's why very few picked up on the r/s. Typically they'd pick up on someone near him and they'd describe his sister to a T - they are very close.
The only one that seemed to was Winter. The end of March I called her as he had been really quite. She told me of course that he still loved me. She said he would open up more by mid-April (which did happen but note the 2-week timeline).
This is what she said about the other woman: there may be someone trying to be with him romantically
but they are not together
someone from his past
she doesn’t see anything happening with them
he told her about us and she is trying to pursue him
This was all true, once I found out about the r/s.
So the end of May I find out this girl is getting divorced and moving near him. I freak out again and in re-reading my notes I am thrilled Winter was the only one that picked up on her. So I call her back in early June. She tells me the EXACT same things since I just let her talk, someone from his past is around, gave me a two week timeline for things to open up again (did NOT happen), he takes me for granted because I am still around, it was like she was reading a script.
I wish I had known that you could ask for a refund as I really felt scammed that day.
I agree they should allow negative feedback. I left neg feedback at Keen for someone pretty $$ and admitted hey maybe she had a bad day but you know, it wasn't what I was told and no way did we connect. It was posted right away. I can see them still monitoring it in case of profanity or something. HOpefully at least internally they use the negative feedback to rate them.
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Just a warning to people who are new to the boards, please be careful with California Psychics and their fairytale readings. Almost all of the readers I read with on the site a few years back gave me positive readings about someone who I never entered a relationship with. The majority of them said we would be in a committed relationship
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Same thing for me. I read with them for years and I don't want to kn ow how much money I spent. But long story short, the person married someone else and now has 3 children when I was told for years that we were destined to be together. Some of the psychics actually used the word "guarentee" that he would never marry anyone else but me. And I am talking about their top, $13 a minute psychics.
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Same thing for me. I read with them for years and I don't want to kn ow how much money I spent. But long story short, the person married someone else and now has 3 children when I was told for years that we were destined to be together. Some of the psychics actually used the word "guarentee" that he would never marry anyone else but me. And I am talking about their top, $13 a minute psychics.
This actually happened to two other members on this board except from keen. I am SO sorry.
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It's ok Rediska. I have finally moved and got married and have an amazing husband. I knew I was finally over it when I thought of my ex and didn't cause me pain anymore. I actually wish him all the best.
But would I ever consult a psychic again? Not in this lifetime. I had so much hope and it was my own fault because I let them string me along and told me what I wanted to hear. I think the future is best left unknown. Not one of them predicted my husband and he turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me, so go figure.