Watch Out for Money Sucking Vendors
Today a reader contacted me to complain about a company whose Web site claims it can help you make a lot of money online. The Sherpa reader said he had contracted that company to help him with marketing… and then when he found the company’s services were not useful for his purposes, he cancelled his account. And was socked with a $700.00 “cancellation fee.”
I’m not going to mention the company or reader name here because fellow-journalists have warned me this company is “law-suit happy” and it’s a time and money suck to fight stuff, even when you’re clearly in the right.
However, I’d like to take this chance to warn all of you — please check out folk’s credentials outside of their sites before you buy expensive marketing-related services and tech online! Ask around on email discussion groups such as i-advertising.com or adventive.com’s groups. Check out folks with both Internet ScamBusters and the Better Business Bureau. There are a lot of too-good-to-be-true creeps out there trying to suck the money from your budget without providing value.
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