Elocal, promised good leads from people who are interested in getting roofing work done. You get nothing that resembles that, you in fact become thier filter. It is a brilliant idea, why should they pay to verify the lead when you can? they simple hide and lie. Elocal is a waste of time and money!
An elocal.com sales representative contacted me about paying them for new business client leads. After his presentation over the phone, I signed up and paid. The main reason I did it was because of the promise made that every call I'd receive was pre-screened by elocal.com. Every caller supposedly agreed with elocal.com that they could actually pay for my services.
Well, here's how it played out: Every call or email I received, whether available to answer or not, gets charged to the account that I made when I signed up. EVERY CALL I received couldn't afford to pay me for my services. Every one asked how much money I'd accept in advance and how much they could pay every month. You have got to be kidding!
When confronted, elocal.com told me that not every potential caller was pre-screened by elocal.com. That actually, elocal.com uses other search sites to find me business. These other sites don't actually pre-screen the customers. Guess what: elocal.com will not refund your initial payment that you used to create the account. Nice, huh?
So, here I sit, months after signing up, with no right to a refund, and NOT ONE new paid customer. Basically, what I have, is a write-off for a bad business expense on next-year's taxes.
Just look at their website. Look at the cheesy, smiling, paid actors they use to lure you toward their scam. That should have been a red flag to me, but I looked past that minor detail. Now, looking back, I want to puke for having done business with a company that uses such cheesy actors to promote their company. They all are smiling, clearly acting, and elocal actually thinks these people accurately represent professional business people. What a joke!
Any sales representative's job is to get you to sign up, I get that. But, in the case of elocal.com, my representative totally mis-represented what would happen if I paid my hard-earned money to them. I considered suing them, but the distance involved made that big-time not worth the fight. I think I have a great case by the way. But the money I paid this company really wasn't enough to deal with it. I just look at this as a really bad decision I made.
Elocal.com has soured me from ever doing anymore advertising and that's not a good attitude to have. However, rest assured that next time a sales representative says something, before I commit dollars, I'm going to get everything in writing. I'm also going to make them agree to a full refund in case they don't comply with the agreement. Sad, but even in 2016 you have to do this lest you get screwed.
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Elocal, promised good leads from people who are interested in getting roofing work done. You get nothing that resembles that, you in fact become thier filter. It is a brilliant idea, why should they pay to verify the lead when you can? they simple hide and lie. Elocal is a waste of time and money!
An elocal.com sales representative contacted me about paying them for new business client leads. After his presentation over the phone, I signed up and paid. The main reason I did it was because of the promise made that every call I'd receive was pre-screened by elocal.com. Every caller supposedly agreed with elocal.com that they could actually pay for my services.
Well, here's how it played out: Every call or email I received, whether available to answer or not, gets charged to the account that I made when I signed up. EVERY CALL I received couldn't afford to pay me for my services. Every one asked how much money I'd accept in advance and how much they could pay every month. You have got to be kidding!
When confronted, elocal.com told me that not every potential caller was pre-screened by elocal.com. That actually, elocal.com uses other search sites to find me business. These other sites don't actually pre-screen the customers. Guess what: elocal.com will not refund your initial payment that you used to create the account. Nice, huh?
So, here I sit, months after signing up, with no right to a refund, and NOT ONE new paid customer. Basically, what I have, is a write-off for a bad business expense on next-year's taxes.
Just look at their website. Look at the cheesy, smiling, paid actors they use to lure you toward their scam. That should have been a red flag to me, but I looked past that minor detail. Now, looking back, I want to puke for having done business with a company that uses such cheesy actors to promote their company. They all are smiling, clearly acting, and elocal actually thinks these people accurately represent professional business people. What a joke!
Any sales representative's job is to get you to sign up, I get that. But, in the case of elocal.com, my representative totally mis-represented what would happen if I paid my hard-earned money to them. I considered suing them, but the distance involved made that big-time not worth the fight. I think I have a great case by the way. But the money I paid this company really wasn't enough to deal with it. I just look at this as a really bad decision I made.
Elocal.com has soured me from ever doing anymore advertising and that's not a good attitude to have. However, rest assured that next time a sales representative says something, before I commit dollars, I'm going to get everything in writing. I'm also going to make them agree to a full refund in case they don't comply with the agreement. Sad, but even in 2016 you have to do this lest you get screwed.
Buyer beware!