Comments on: A Brief Tale of Sleaze

By: Trina

Trina — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:22:40 +0000

Thank you for blasting these damn scammers! I just received a bogus call from a “Marie” and within the first 10 seconds of her intro, a red flag went up and I immediately sensed “SCAM”, so I proceeded to rush her off the phone by requesting more info via email (which I knew she wasn’t gonna send me anything), she had the nerve to say “can you first tell me are you interested or not because I don’t want YOU to waste my time”. Huh? I politely ended the call with “no thanks” and hung up before she could say “bye-bye”.

By: Mechelle

Mechelle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:37:23 +0000

Thank you!! I received a call from Mario(sales rep) yesterday- took up over 45 minutes of my time to just tell him “NO-THANKS!” and even left him on eternal hold for an additional 10 minutes and then called 5 more times after! I am very relieved to see that there are sites about many of these scams-man, who trains these guys? Oh yea, I am waiting for the big media launch today????

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:16:13 +0000

I received a call yesterday and got the one hour pitch as well. I told the sales guy (JP) to call me back today b/c I needed to talk it over with my biz partner. I thought the idea was great. Then…I started reading! I could not find one good word!

I called him back to ask a few more questions. How many hits does the site get? Was told the CEO does not disclose this information. HMMM…Wonder Why?

He also told me their “big launch” was this week so I asked what the marketing plan was. I was told viral? Seriously? Is that a marketing plan? I can do that all day long and yes it drives business in, but not what is needed! I am sooooo glad there were several sites like this with great information. I found this blog to be the best!!

Sad thing is many have already been taken by the scam I’m sure! One of which is a consultant of mine!

Can’t wait to see all the media exposure next week after their launch from the media….

By: Veronica

Veronica — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:23:35 +0000

I received a call from Leapfish last week and it sounded… in a word, fishy… I’m glad to see that my google search resulted in your blog post. Thank you for saving me the time of responding to a deceptive advertisor. Let this be a reminder to us to honor and celebrate our detectors and keep our integrity in check. Warm regards, Veronica Wolfe

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By: Ricardo Bueno

Ricardo Bueno — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:11:35 +0000

I appreciate it much more when people are upfront from the very beginning. My BS detector goes off too when I get these types of calls (that and sometimes I answer the phone directly the first time)… I’m polite but of course I don’t appreciate their approach.
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By: LeapFish In The Words of Other Bloggers

LeapFish In The Words of Other Bloggers — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:47:20 +0000

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By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:24:09 +0000

Rob, thanks for sharing this information. I am surprised that one of their blowhards PR is not here to claim to you misrepresents the facts.

It is only matter of time before Google shuts their API on LeapFish- behaving like this they only make Google (and other search engines) look stupid.

I have shared your post with friends, hopefully other people will avoid falling for this “investement”.
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