Tue 11 Apr 2006
I got this in the snail mail a couple weeks ago. Just another cheap trick by another dime-a-dozen fraudulent traffic monger. They sent this to me making it look like a bill complete with a “notice date” and a perforated pay stub. (I erased my address that was on the pay stub)
This really classy (and by classy I mean misleading) kind of advertising really makes me want to invest $65 in a service that will drive really classy (and by classy I mean fraudulent) traffic to my site. Good thinking, you marketing geniuses. You suck.
April 21st, 2006 at 9:17 pm
keep stickin’ it to the man!
June 13th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
How do we stop them and get our money back? I fell for $40.I emailed hall of shame news. I’m not done yet.
June 14th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Andrea– If you are not satisfied with the quality of traffic from listing corp, I would first attempt to contact them and complain. Most of these traffic brokers have source logs so they can see what kind of traffic they are driving to your site (for instance a lot of low quality traffic brokers get their traffic from Asia or non targetted ads).
If they are not responsive, threaten to do a charge back (if you paid by credit card). I worked for a traffic company (in my naive early twenties I worked at enhance.com– another shady traffic dealer but probably not as bad as listing corp.) and ‘charge back’ was always the magic word. Even if the customer was dead wrong, the words ‘charge back’ would make them refund in full because they were getting so many charge backs that they were in jeopardy of their merchant account fees going through the roof or even cancellation with their merchant account (the service that allows them to accept credit cards).
Another tactic is to report them to the better business bureau. Even if you do get your money back, I’d report them anyway.
Good luck, you are a soldier in the war against these dastardly fiends.