Maryam, this is becoming very tiresome. Why do you continue to attack

me and my business? Your SF Bay business has failed, which means we

are no longer in competition with each other, so why don't you just go

away? I'm tired of having to answer to your lies and conjecture which

are simply the results of you (or someone in your family) doing a

Google Search on my name, finding out everything you can, and twisting

it to make me look bad. Is it because your business is so bad that you

actually have time to do this? Why are you so obsessed? I'm sorry that

we came up with a very generic name "Goddess Extensions" that was

similar to yours, but I had never heard of you before, otherwise we

would have chosen something else, and avoided this whole nightmare

with you-God help me. Everything you have written in your broken

English about me is exactly identical to your faulty claims in your

faulty cease and desist letter from your phony lawyer. You have pretty

much cut and pasted the exact text. You don't even have the balls to

contact me directly, or identify yourself on any of these complaint

boards, because you are a bitter, obsessed coward, replete with

dishonesty. Once again, I will itemize and defend myself to these

vicious attacks and welcome any inquiries from interested parties as

to the slanderous nature and lies you are spreading about me.

THE FACTS (please search Google yourself, for verification)
Maryam Ahmad, an Arizona stylist used to be 'Maryam's Extensions' She

got her cosmetologist license in 2004 and
decided to change her name to 'Goddess Salon' www.goddesssalon.com.

She tried to get the 'Goddess air Extensions" trademark but abandoned

her application because the tm already belongs to a New Jersey

company. She had also purchased www.goddesshairextensions.com, but

didn't use the URL directly, only as a redirect, making it unlikely

that my partners and I would ever even be able to plainly see that she

was even vaguely associated with hair extensions. I, Sheila Matechuk,

started doing hair extensions as a solo stylist in 2004,(which, Sarah,

is why I can claim to have done over 1200 heads of extensions, it's

actually closer to 2000 now) and officialy incorporated as 'Goddess

Beauty, LLC. in California April 2006, with a DBA as Goddess Hair

Extensions. I ran across Maryam's site as Goddess Salon and noticed

that she was using my name 'Goddess Hair Extensions' and the 'Goddess

Hair Replacement system and asked her to stop. My trademark

application as a service is pending. She wigged out and had a lawyer

send me a letter saying I had cybersquatted her domain name (she is a

very small operator, and it's in plain sight that near every single

search engine request clearly shows that we are a much bigger entity

than she, with many more promotions, press stories and clients.) Since

this time, Maryam Ahmad, who claims to have locations in San

Francisco, Arizona, New York and many others (all route to a 1-800

number that forwards to her Arizona salon has been unsuccessfully

trying to ruin my reputation due to the uniqueness of my last name, as

she is angry that we won't give up this corporate name or drop our

trademark application. The shame of this is that as a business owner,

I have worked extremely hard at carving out a company where I help

thousands of women, and these 'anonymous' postings on complaint boards

by a person who does google searches from my past, can create lies and

stories that would be hilarious if they weren't so hurtful. Yes, I was

a marketing consulting in both the US and Canada, and I am also a very

successful self-taught hair extensionist and trainer to over 200

students, yes I do not have a cosmetology license, one is not required

in California. Yes, I have liability insurance-how ridiculous would it

be for a company not to? Yes, I am a recovered alcoholic, that Google

search produced a letter of mine that was published in Psychology

Today. Yes I have a valid US Work Visa-how else could I possibly be

permitted to work here or travel? Yes, I bought

www.hairextensionsalonlocator.com to be more successful, and we happen

to have a lot of the same advertisers as www.hairextensionguide.com.

My sister Elena is not directly involved with the site anymore, but as

a former aircraft engineer, she most certainly does not do phone sex.

That Google search turned up a blog I used to write talking about when

she and I were poor in college and jokingly considered it! The classes

I teach are all methods of extensions application that ALL currently

exist on the market-each company does not patent methods, or else

hairlocs and eurolocs would have sued each other and Dreamcatchers for

patent infringement. If you would take my class, maybe I could teach

you the difference! Our Pink Hair for Hope Campaign was unfortunately

titled the same to Socap's, which is why we are doing better research

before employing new marketing plans, and did not promote that name to

our cancer clients this year. All in Maryam and family (in the above

letter, the lingo 'hater' may very well be a younger relative of Ms

Ahmad's) you are going to be seeing a LOT more of Goddess Extensions,

so you may as well get used to the idea, or else start rounding up

more people to spend many more hours typing up fake complaints.

'Genuine' people have honor and dignity when it comes to competitors,

and speak for themselves, not hiding behind a fake email address.As an

immigrant to this country, I have worked very hard to fulfill my

American Dream, and as 'Ahmad' is a name that originates in the middle

east, you or your relatives are obviously trying to do the same thing,

where is your sense of decency? Finally, Complaints.com and these

other 'consumer' websites are wonderful venues for consumers to vent

about a business that has treated them unfairly, unfortunately, the

'anonymous' aspect of these posts leave innocent businesses and

individuals with no power to refute or remove lies and conjecture from

competitors and disgruntled people, these websites need more

monitoring, or they will eventually be shut down. We are in the

process of contacting the media about our situation, and have

investigators trying to obtain IP addresses from the person who

continues to assault us, so that we can properly sue them for slander.

I welcome any inquiries from businesses going through this as well,

and from any party interested in verifying my information.

Regards,

Sheila Matechuk
CEO
Goddess Beauty, LLC

Laura,
Have you tried to work this problem out with Sheila? Because this is not an accurate description of the Sheila Matechuk that I have been dealing with for the last 3 years. I was a client of Sheila's first before I became her student and am now doing hair extensions myself. The hair extensions that Sheila applied on me were the most natural, undetectable extensions I have ever worn. Not only did Sheila make me look beautiful but her non-damaging method allowed my hair to grow back to its normal, long, healthy length that I had been accustomed to prior to chemically straightening my hair and ruining it in the process. In fact, I was so impressed with the quality of Sheila's work that I took her hair extensions course. I have to say that it was well worth my while because I have my own steady business that has allowed me the freedom to work whenever I want to.
I hope you will try to work this out with Sheila because if by some chance the hair you got was inferior, (I know I got a bad batch of hair once that my supplier was more than happy to replace after I brought it back to him. I redid my client's hair & she's been more than happy with the resutlts). I know she would replace it for you in a second. Please also ask her about her Goddess Locs which use absolutely no glue at all & are much easier to put in & maintain. I think you'll be really happy with this method.
As for Sheila working at a hotel prior to becoming the hair extensions expert that she is now, so what? What does that have to do with anything? I was a police dispatcher for 30 years before retiring & becoming a hair extensionsist myself and my only qualifications were that I am a needlepoint/crochet expert with good hand/eye coordination. Learning to do hair extensions came easy for me and I did NOT go to beauty school nor do I purport to be a hair stylist. I'm just a hair extensionist with lots of satisfied customers & a growing business. Hopefully someday I'll be as good as Sheila, the master, herself.

You have to wonder about the integrity and legitamacy of a member of tribe who's only active involvement has been posting this ONE posting. The same goes for "Sherry" who is only a member of one tribe with a single posting under that name. I would bet that this is one individual rather than two, and that they have WAYYYYY too much free time on their hands. My suggestion would be to take all the time you spend trying to slander Goddess Extensions and start marketing and WORKING!

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