HS Cheer

Potential Business scam alert

By Rae Schmidt | Dec 11, 2024 9:34 AM

Dear Dieterich Business Manager/Owner: Hello! We want to first thank you for everything you do to support our school and community. We recently allowed a company called Elite Sports to call businesses on our behalf to see if they would sponsor shirts and balls for the cheerleaders to throw at games. The expectations they shared with us were a simple phone call and if businesses said yes they would send us these items. We were under the impression we would receive enough of each item to last the year. We recently discovered two businesses agreed to sponsor. They would not tell us who the businesses were for quite some time. We want to thank the businesses who paid to sponsor us wholeheartedly. We so appreciate your willingness to do so. We want to alert ALL businesses though that this company did not follow through with the expectations we agreed to. We have now seen numerous complaints about them including that they will continue to call the businesses even without school permission and that they often do not send the school anything. We wanted to alert all businesses in our community to please NOT do business with this company. In the future we will not allow any company to solicit items on our behalf, if we are in need of items we will reach out to you personally. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience or poor representation this company has given. We do not know what each business gave but we received 20 shirts to throw and 1 banner to put on the wall. We are sure the two businesses gave so much more than the value received and we apologize for the representation again. Thank you for supporting our teams and school! Sincerely, The DHS Cheer Squad