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A company called “Prineville Treasure Chest” or “Pot-O-Gold” is contacting local citizens businesses trying to sell ‘a coupon book filled with Redmond and Prineville coupons’.
This company is not a local business and to the knowledge of the Chamber of Commerce, the proceeds of this coupon book are not supporting any local businesses or organizations. The Chamber has had a number of complaints already about this company, with varying stories as to what the proceeds will be used for from funding a statewide Amber Alert function to supporting local school children.
The Chamber has researched the company through the Better Business Bureau and found that all listed phone numbers for this company have been disconnected and we have been unsuccessful at finding any legitimate contact information.
We want to remind all businesses that your local Crook County Schools, booster clubs, fraternal organizations, Chamber of Commerce, City, and County will always contact you directly and do not hire outside companies to fundraise on their behalf. Local media will also contact you directly if they are doing something on behalf of other organizations. These organizations use their own membership and participants to fundraise and all money raised remains local. This is not the case when these organizations, which are often out of state, contact you.
If one of these organizations contact you, do not agree to anything and then follow-up with the School District, Chamber of Commerce, or local media to confirm that this is a valid fundraiser. Also, please report any suspicious fundraising efforts to the local police and sheriff’s departments as well as to the Chamber of Commerce and local media so that the information can be passed on to other businesses.
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