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We’re a web development company. We used vendorseek for two months. We thought that this was a quality company that would offer quality leads. But we were wrong. Once we started to pay for leads from vendorseek we started to see what kind of leads we were receiving.
We would receive leads that:
- didn’t want web design (even though thats what we were paying for),
- leads that weren’t going to pay the price that vendorseek told us they would (the amount the prospect is willing to pay determines the price vendorseek charges its advertisers),
- and people that weren’t even looking for our services.
We received leads where people only wanted to work with someone local. Not something that we could control so we returned the lead. Vendorseek refused to refund our money. With Vendorseek they will find a way to reject each and EVERY lead you return so that they don’t have to issue a credit or refund.
Our company paid 40 dollars (per lead) for prospects that wouldn’t work with us because we weren’t local (seems like something vendorseek should have screened for), didn’t have the money, weren’t even looking to redesign their site, were just “testing vendorseek”, or were our competitors. We will be canceling our account and we will not use them in the future. Learn from our company’s mistake and don’t use vendorseek.
Posted by: Jade Ibis | December 18, 2007 2:57 PM | Permalink to Comment