Saturday, February 2, 2013
Please Share Your Brio Birth Experience!
At the top of this page, you will find a new tab called "Brio Birth Testimonials". Please comment on that page to share the story of your personal experience with Brio Birth. Only factual comments sharing personal experiences will be permitted on that page. Any other comments will be deleted, though you are welcome to post them on other blog posts as appropriate. Thank you for sharing your stories! Hopefully they will give good information to those considering involvement with Brio Birth.
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Maybe you should post that on your Facebook page too.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'll put that right out there. I saved my BBB complaint in full. You can read clearly my story and the responses from Brio Birth, LLC for yourselves. I think it clearly shows how they manipulate the truth and never admit their own faults.
ReplyDeletehttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxnTkCqTpLlOUEdwRkwzdVZNTEE/edit?usp=sharing
I'll be honest. I'd really like to share my story, but the Brio Dark Era was not pretty at our house, and it took a long time to recover, financially, emotionally and mentally. I am very open with sharing my story with individuals, but posting it online somewhere, I'm afraid, would simply invite drama and re-open a massive can of worms that it took a ton of work to close. I would do it anonymously, but in order to fully share the story, it would require sharing details that would most definitely alert the Brio crazies to my identity. So let me simply say that what I experienced was a time of being used, abuse, and conned. Kyle Thomas is a master manipulator and smooth talker. I'll just tell the folks considering jumping in with Brio, if something doesn't add up, or if you have red flags, please, don't ignore them. Ask the tough questions that you have, and don't accept answers that don't make sense.
ReplyDeleteKarl can you tell us what is happening with getting back control of the Facebook group?
ReplyDeleteI think Kylomi must have found some money, cause their Facebook likes are going up even though they aren't posting much.
ReplyDeleteKarl when can you put a stop to this scam?
Wow Naomi is complaning about people stealing her Facebook content? Really?
ReplyDeletehttp://resourcefulmommy.com/10259/hands-off-our-content/comment-page-2/
Ironic and hypocritical. That's really the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it? (And for those of you who want to see what the above post is talking about, scroll down to the very last comment in the comments section.)
ReplyDeleteWhy is Brio's website now pointing to this website: http://www.blogher.com/bloggers-beware-you-can-get-sued-using-photos-your-blog-my-story ????
ReplyDeleteI guess Karl corrected it. The brio website now points here.
DeleteYes, and I called her out on the comment and it was deleted. Twice.
ReplyDeleteKarl,
ReplyDeleteYou were finally doing the right thing and helping to put an end to this scam, but now you've disappeared. We know you are around, since you now have briobirth.com going to the blog about IP theft.
Would you give us an update? What is happening with criminal complaint you filed against Kyle? What is happening about shutting down the Facebook group? How can we finally stop more damage from being done to the birth community?
Karl has been super duper busy building his newest business. He's up working until about 2 and up around seven every morning and only take Sundays off for church and the family, plus I won't let him work on Sunday's out of observance of the Sabbath (but he stays up until midnight so he can work for a few hours before going to bed), so he really just doesn't have any extra time at the moment. Facebook has been unresponsive as far as I know, which is frustrating and disappointing. We had a bit of trouble for a short period of time (when briobirth.com was pointing at the other place) because the Thomas's filed an official complaint with ipower, but we got it sorted out. That's all I know as of now.
ReplyDeleteAnyone else hear that Naomi is no longer an admin on the BPI Facebook page?
ReplyDeleteAs far as I can tell, she's not.
ReplyDeleteDebbie Young used to be aligned with Brio, right? This just in from InJoy:
ReplyDelete"n our continuing efforts to better support our customers, InJoy welcomes Debbie Young, CD, PCD, as our new Customer Relations Manager.
"As the former president of DONA International and a Certified Childbirth Educator, Debbie has spent 20+ years working with more than 2,000 families as an educator in hospitals and as a postpartum doula and doula trainer. She brings her vast experience in the maternal health profession to work alongside InJoy’s sales team by educating customers to get the most out of InJoy products.
"'I’ve been fortunate to have found my passion in helping pregnant, birthing, and postpartum families while at the same time raising my own children,' says Debbie. “Joining InJoy feels like an expansion of my heart-work."
"In her role, Debbie will help InJoy customers maximize the impact of their educational offerings and is available for eClass and other product demonstrations."
Has anyone heard anything new? Karl disappeared, Brio is still on facebook, and the site is still pointed here. Are they still doing anything other than scamming people on facebook?
ReplyDeleteKyle is still registered with the State of Colorado owning the TM (trade mark) for Brio Birth LLC. Karl has been registered with the State of Colorado owning the Brio Birth(tm) since January 2012 with an address in Castle Rock, Colorado. This was news to me, maybe it is old to you.
ReplyDeleteWhere do you see that? I see that they have registered businesses with those names, but that is different than owning a TM. Oh and Kyle's company is now Delinquent, and Karl's is Noncompliant. Also Embrion Group's corporate status in Nevada is now Revoked.
ReplyDeleteThe Colorado Secretary of State website
ReplyDeleteI see them registered as an LLC, although they are delinquent, but it doesn't say trademark.
ReplyDeleteNo clue what you are talking about. Go to the trademark section and you will see that they have registered what I mentioned above...that means that they own the name they have submitted and no one can use it...unless it is challenged.
ReplyDeleteI register several words to be registered TM...I own those words now and others can not use them.
When you go to http://www.sos.state.co.us/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do and you search for Brio Birth you get two records. Neither of them is a Trademark registration. One is an Articles of Organization and the other is a Foreign Entity Authority registration. Those are not Trademark registrations. The Colorado Secretary of State website does not return any Trademark for Brio Birth.
ReplyDeleteAlso both Kyle's record(Brio Birth LLC) and Karl's record(Brio Birth) are either Noncompliant or Delinquent for failing to file their paperwork. Big surprise there. Even if they did registered it on this site that only covers Colorado, and there is no Federal request to register Brio Birth at all.
At one point Kyle put Trademark Pending on the Brio site, but that was never true.
Due tell...I guess it was in March when I looked this all up and Brio Birth, with Karl K filling the TM, was in good standing with some kind of Colorado Seal of Good Standing. I nearly puked.
ReplyDeleteI ran into this blog in April...I just checked it again and your current information is correct.