I Was Called By Chris Shrugg, From The Yellow Pages. He Tells That He Will Advertise My Business For Less Than $200 Dollars A Year. He Repeated That A Few Times ..Less Than $200 A Year...14.99 / Month SILVER LISTING.... And Asks Me...Is This Your Credit Card Number? ! Now I'm Thinking About How The Hell He Got My Credit Card Number From Visa! Anyways...I Agree'd To The Advertizment He Says He's Going To Make A Fancy Ad On The YellowPages.com And Advertize On AoL And MSN And Google, Yahoo...All The Major Search Engines And MAKE a Logo, Since I Hadn't Made One Yet....This Guy /copy /pastes a few lines from MY website and puts it on yellowpages.com ...Then He Uses A COPYWRITED(not by me) Picture As A LOGO For MY BUSINESS!!....I Told Him $200 Is A Lot For Me For A Phone Book Listing And I Would Have To Think About It, But At Some Point In The Conversation I Said The Words " Yes, Sure Dude Whatever"...because after HE TOLD ME WHAT MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER WAS I HAD NO INTENTION OF LETTING THAT CREDIT CARD LIVE, thinking he's probably a scammer anyways, I Called The Number For Yellowpages After I Got Off The Phone With Him And A Lady Tells Me That She Has No Idea Who He Is, But After A Few Minutes She Tells Me He Is An Affiliate And He Is Listed With Them As Joe, Scott, And Chris....ok now someone who goes by the name joe, scott and chris That's Shady. I Canceled That Credit Card. And On The Off Chance That He Was Legitimate, I Called His Number ...Noone Answered...So I Left A Message Saying," Hey Man, I Just Got Back From The Bank...I Cannot Afford That Listing, Please Cancel It...My Name And #..." Then I Start Getting These E-mails ....You OWE US $288! ...$25/month for a year.!... I Called His Number Again To Find Out How "Less Than $200 A Year" Turned Out To Be $288/Year...Again No Answer So I Sent Them An Email And Got A Response From A Judy Romo Saying I Agree'd To The Charges And She Would Be Happy To Play Back The Tape For Me...I DID NOT AGREE TO $25/ MONTH...And She Says That There Is NO WAY That This Online AD Can Be Canceled!! ...After Reading Thier Website...A SILVER LISTING THAT I AGREED TO IS $25/Month....NOT 14.99 As I HAD BEEN TOLD! ...They Provide A Number For Their Collections Department So I Called It...800-729-7419... It's A Computer That Tries To Charge $9 / Month For Some Locator Service Called SMS181 .... I Called The Number On Yellowpages.com for customer service...I End Up With An AT&T Employee That Wanted Nothing To Do With Yellowpages.com ....I Got An Email "Scoreboard" From Yellowpages.com ...34 Impressions And 8 Clicks For A Whole Month...And I'm Sure At Least 4 Of The Clicks Were Me. What Can I Do About This? It's A Scam But How Can I Prove It? I'm Sure They Don't Record The Entire Half Hour Long Conversation. And I Didn't Feel The Need To Buy A Recorder For My Phone ...Stupid Me Eh? Is There Anything That I Can Do? I REALLY AM STARTING TO HOPE THAT CALIFORNIA SINKS INTO THE OCEAN.
I Was Called By Chris Shrugg, From The Yellow Pages. He Tells That He Will Advertise My Business For Less Than $200 Dollars A Year. He Repeated That A Few Times ..Less Than $200 A Year...14.99 / Month SILVER LISTING.... And Asks Me...Is This Your Credit Card Number? ! Now I'm Thinking About How The Hell He Got My Credit Card Number From Visa! Anyways...I Agree'd To The Advertizment He Says He's Going To Make A Fancy Ad On The YellowPages.com And Advertize On AoL And MSN And Google, Yahoo...All The Major Search Engines And MAKE a Logo, Since I Hadn't Made One Yet....This Guy /copy /pastes a few lines from MY website and puts it on yellowpages.com ...Then He Uses A COPYWRITED(not by me) Picture As A LOGO For MY BUSINESS!!....I Told Him $200 Is A Lot For Me For A Phone Book Listing And I Would Have To Think About It, But At Some Point In The Conversation I Said The Words " Yes, Sure Dude Whatever"...because after HE TOLD ME WHAT MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER WAS I HAD NO INTENTION OF LETTING THAT CREDIT CARD LIVE, thinking he's probably a scammer anyways, I Called The Number For Yellowpages After I Got Off The Phone With Him And A Lady Tells Me That She Has No Idea Who He Is, But After A Few Minutes She Tells Me He Is An Affiliate And He Is Listed With Them As Joe, Scott, And Chris....ok now someone who goes by the name joe, scott and chris That's Shady. I Canceled That Credit Card. And On The Off Chance That He Was Legitimate, I Called His Number ...Noone Answered...So I Left A Message Saying," Hey Man, I Just Got Back From The Bank...I Cannot Afford That Listing, Please Cancel It...My Name And #..." Then I Start Getting These E-mails ....You OWE US $288! ...$25/month for a year.!... I Called His Number Again To Find Out How "Less Than $200 A Year" Turned Out To Be $288/Year...Again No Answer So I Sent Them An Email And Got A Response From A Judy Romo Saying I Agree'd To The Charges And She Would Be Happy To Play Back The Tape For Me...I DID NOT AGREE TO $25/ MONTH...And She Says That There Is NO WAY That This Online AD Can Be Canceled!! ...After Reading Thier Website...A SILVER LISTING THAT I AGREED TO IS $25/Month....NOT 14.99 As I HAD BEEN TOLD! ...They Provide A Number For Their Collections Department So I Called It...800-729-7419... It's A Computer That Tries To Charge $9 / Month For Some Locator Service Called SMS181 .... I Called The Number On Yellowpages.com for customer service...I End Up With An AT&T Employee That Wanted Nothing To Do With Yellowpages.com ....I Got An Email "Scoreboard" From Yellowpages.com ...34 Impressions And 8 Clicks For A Whole Month...And I'm Sure At Least 4 Of The Clicks Were Me. What Can I Do About This? It's A Scam But How Can I Prove It? I'm Sure They Don't Record The Entire Half Hour Long Conversation. And I Didn't Feel The Need To Buy A Recorder For My Phone ...Stupid Me Eh? Is There Anything That I Can Do? I REALLY AM STARTING TO HOPE THAT CALIFORNIA SINKS INTO THE OCEAN.