Near the end of 2007, I took a chance and decided to start expanding my horizons in the field of advertising my listings. I didn't have theknow how with blogs and SEO that I have now. So I took a chance on a solicitors call from The Real Estate Home Show. They were very courteous on the phone and took almost an hour to explain their packages to me. The lady assured me that my account and purchases would never expire and even suggested the idea of reselling my purchases at a raised price if I decided not to use the product. So I ended up purchasing 3 REHS TV Aired 1 week with Web Portals and 1 set of 5 mini-cds at $399. I was so excited I immediately jumped on and created my first video. It was fed to YouTube.com and I received the 5 mini-cds of excellent quality.
Well, then I kept waiting for the just the right property listing to come along that would have been perfect for this source. But eventually, it fell to the weigh side. Until this week....
Tuesday I tried to log in to the link provided to me on my receipt and it says "The Page cannot be found". So I Googled "The Real Estate Home Show". Sure enough the home page comes up but when I tried to log in, it said the same thing "The page cannot be found". So I emailed their customer support. Thinking their website was down, I gave them an extra day and tried again today. Nothing. So I tried called them. THE PHONE NUMBER IS DISCONNECTED. I've been Ripped OFF. No phone call, no email, no refund, just a sour taste in my stomach. Kinda like that feeling when you've showed someone houses for 3 months and they buy a house from someone else.
Please help spread the word to anyone in inventory at The Real Estate Home Show.
I got lots of calls from them but never took the bait. I got ripped off in the sum of $3000 by a SEO company that promised to build me a website and of course get me ranked #1 of google and yahoo. They built me this crappy website that looked like a 10 year old created it in a word template.
When I said I wanted my money back they sent their lawyers after me (or who knows maybe faked it) and said that they would file a complaint againist me with my association and NAR if I slandered them in any way.
I was dumb and it was my first year in business, but it taught me a valuable lesson....never to sign up for anything without thoroughly inspecting things myself.