Hello and I hope everyone is healthy and busy. Just wanted to warn everyone of a business that is running a scam. I will be contacting the atourney general about these guys. I have been approached by a couple of companies that want to sell me homeowner leads. They show you the lead and if you want to bid the job they sell you the homeowners contact info. I have said no to all these services untill last month. I don't know if I was just in a good mood or if they caught me off guard, but I decided to give it a try. Here is the deal. The company is called Reliable Remodeler. They waive the monthly fee for the first month. After that it cost $40 a month. They only sell the contact info for a given job to 4 people. After that the lead is closed. This is to help keep the contractor from bidding against 50 other contractors. They also guarantee the lead info. If you buy a lead and the people have already gotten a contractor your money gets put on credit and your next lead purchase will come out of that credit. I hope I explained this right. Anyway here is the scam. I bought a lead for $95. The sales man tried real hard to talk me into buying a package of several leads so he could cut me a deal. I told him I just wanted to try the service out and did not want to spend hundreds of dollars right out of the gate. I am glad I did this. Well anyway the lead I bought never returned any of my calls or emails. When I told the salesman about this he told me I could get a replacement lead . He also told me that if I bought more leads I would have a better chance of getting a good contact. Wait a minute did I hear him right? "If I buy more leads I have a better chance of getting a good lead". Ok call me crazy but what is this service ? Are they not supposed to locate good leads and sell them to contractors? Well appearently they ony get leads. They do not screan thier leads. That is the contractors job. I guess they expect me to spend my hard earned money to buy leads from them that in turn are not even good job leads. Anyway I bought another lead with my credit and again I got no return call or email. What is it with people? Why couldn't they drop a courtacy email to let me know my services were not needed? Now I have 2 bad leads. Hours of waisted time. Spent money with nothing to show for it. At this time I asked for my money back. I was told they do not refund money they let you replace the lead. Great I can keep replacing my bad lead with more bad leads. This is where it gets good. While this is going on and as I am arguing about getting my money back, my free month is ending. Now if I want to get a replacement lead I have to pay $40. They think I will pay $40 for the chance to waist more time and effort to weed through thier homeowners list. I can only immagine how pissed I would have been if I had spent more money in the beginning. If I had spent more money I would be forced to pay the monthly fee in hopes of getting good leads to replace the bad. This is a low underhanded business. I wrote to the BBB and it looks like they are not going to do anything. Stay away from these scammers.
Thanks for reading and be safe
Bill
