Anna Klejnowski exposed

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Posted by Jim on Oct 4, 2008 6,955 views

Who is Anna Klejnowski and how is she a local pageant coordinator. I want to sit down and have a face to face interview with Anna Klejnowski. In the latest mailing for a possible scam pageant, this time from Nationals Miss Teen South Jersey 1951 Shenango Valley Freeway, Suite 2 South Hermitage, PA 16148 800 454-3426

Our oldest received this piece of junk mail claiming to be from Anna Klejnowski. And why did we get this? Because someone nominated my daughter. Anna - you purchased a mailing list. Anna the Nationals Miss Teen South Jersey mailing list came from names scavanged from other events. Anna the Nationals Miss Teen South Jersey purchased a mailing list of teenage girls based upon geography or school or parents income or zip code which tells you hoiusing pirces or some other demographic piece of data - and then you flooded the local post offices with these junk mail invites.

Anna Klejnowski I would invite you here and now to phone me for an interview so we can all hear the answer to this simple questions:

Who owns the domain southjerseypageant.com?
Why is it southjerseypageant.com and not southjerseypageant.org?
How many other pageant domains does this company own?
Why are you domain names registered with GoDaddy since 2006 and using Private Registration to hide the owners?
Why do you hide your domain names ownership if this is a legitimate business?
What do you do for a living Anna Klejnowski?
How much money do these pageants bring in each year?
What is the salary and commissions paid with all of the income from these pageants?
How many pieces of junk mail did you send out last year?
How much junk mail did the Nationals Teen Miss South Jersey sne dout in 2008?

Anna let people know you are running this as a business. Thats all. Tell us up fron who you are, who owns these events, where the money goes. And be honest about it. What do you have to hide?

And I quote your own letter - The South Jersey Pageant Production is sponsored through different businesses and organizations in the South Jersey and surrounding areas. Tell us who these people are, and how much they paid to be sponsors? Or do you just mean its a private business, you sell spots to photographers and such to work the event selling their services and products, and you consider them sponsors of the event. Did you sell space to merchants to be at the hotel on registration day?

Can I open a booth at your event on Sunday October 12, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Cherry Hill 2349 West Marlton Pike, Cherry Hill, NJ 856-665-6666 ? How much will it cost for me to open a booth at the event? Is there still space available? I would be interested in knowing for my services.

Filed Under: soapbox

Tags: business, family, fraud, junk mail

summershome said,

Anna Klejnowski just so happens to be the 2008 Cleveland (OH) Coordinator and we received the exact same letter you did here in Cleveland OH. Not only that - the titles they were using here infringed on a trademark from another local pageant. AND when you go to clevelandpageant.com - the tab in Explorer says Miss Teen Newark Pageant.

I went to the information session and the “local sponsors” are businesses you and your child have to go out and seek to make the $495 fee they charge you to be in this ridiculous thing. AND they made it sound like your daughter would be lucky to even get chosen to be in the pageant, although everyone who went got picked.

What it really boils down to is only those who actually raise the $495 in 1 1/2 weeks and pay their money at the training class are the ones to get picked. The pageant is this Sunday the 26th - I should take the time to see who actually paid this ridiculous fee.
squiresmnr said,

Unfortunately, my niece entered the cleveland pageant and what a horrible experience. At 14, it was a real challenge coming up with the $495, then the dress, etc. She was so excited. The interview was suppose to be 5 minutes, she got less than 2. Some woman had a stop watch and messed up her time. We were told each contestant got some free tickets, but then were told we had to buy them for $20 each. She was there from 9:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m.

When the pageant started, we sat right behind the judges. ALL of whom had NO experience in pageant judging. The coordinator kept going around explaining to them how to judge the girls. During the pageant, at least 4 of them left the auditorium during the pageant for periods of 5 to 20 minutes at a time. How can they judge the girls who were performing or answering questions if they werent even there?

There were 4 girls left to go in the MISS Teen q&a session when the judges passed their score cards to the girl handling the computer. How could u rate the last 4?

They picked top 10 in each division. What a joke. All the girls were onstage for the walk and q&a. So they knew who did good and who didnt. In the Jr. Teen top 10, 3 girls advanced that were horrile in there walk and 2 barely answered their question. Miss Photogenic Miss Teen was a joke. This girl submitted a professional photo, one taken of her 4 months ago. The photo didnt even resemble the girl on stage at the pageant. Parents questioned it, but no answers.

Miss congeniality was a real joke. The girls were asked to pick one person, they didnt know each other at all, none had numbers on to pick from. They asked a few people what their numbers were and everyone picked that number? What is that about?

If u look at the brochure for the pageant, the girls who had the large number of sponsors ended up in the top 10. 2 of the pageant contestants were sponsored by two of the judges businesses they own?

Where was Anna? She never showed up. Thank god my niece is old enough that she didnt take it very hard although she did realize this was a joke. But some poor girls were crying their eyes out when we left.

Anna, dont go around telling young ladies this isnt a J Renee Ramsey pageant, its all about self esteem, self confidence, etc. If you were there to see what this pageant did to some of these girls, u wouldnt have the nerve to keep preaching that stuff.

These girls deserve their money back. All they got was a cheap piece of paper for their weeks of effort. Shame on you.
Jim said,

squiresmnr, I am sorry you had a horrible time with this outfit. But unfortunately you have set your expectations too high. If you had gone in expecting to have your money taken, your time wasted, and the overall experience a rip off, you would have walked away satisfied.

We had one of our best cruises on a trip we went on expecting to be horrible. Under commit and its easier to over deliver

Now, as for your niece, how did she do? Did she get a nice dress? How can you use it again for another event? Is it doable for a Christmas tea party for her and some of her friends at your house?

Most important, as adults it is our job to help guide our children, wether they are our nieces daughters or second cousins, the same as parents and grandparents do. Don’t focus on how horrible the pageant was, or how much of a joke it was from your perspective.

Instead take that picture of her in her dress, print it out and hang it on the wall, email it to your friends and family. let her know how proud you are of her for being who she is and who she is gowing up to be in so many ways from poise and confidence to grades. Just don’t mention the pageant. Seperate her from the pageant and seperate your rightful disgust with Anna’s money maketing machine from your praise of your niece.

Besides, she would rather have a warm hug and a kiss while you tell her how proud you are of her and how much you love her then a lame award. Years later she will learn how worthless the award is, but she will always know the deep value of your love for her.