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MBM

New DJ
Dec 23, 2007
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Huntsville, AL
www.music-by-mike.com
Saw this site onewed.com and they offered a free listing so I setup a freebie account, with their link on my links page. So then I thought I would give it a test with their referral page. They do allow you to link to your webpage, but they want any quote request to go through their system. So I put in a quote request using one of my extra email addresses, and waited, after a minute or two I got the quote validation email from them at the sending email address. I waited and waited and after a couple of hours decided that my ISP's SPAM filter must have eaten the email. This morning I did have the email but the is no contact information in the email it tells about the request but also says to get the contact info you must be a paid member. So the email is basically useless, and if a possible client sent out the request you would have no way to contact them back on the freebie account, so unless the possible clients hit your website and requests info direct it is more than useless since the client will never hear back from you, they will just write you off. Now my test quote request was an obvious bogus request so I haven't gotten any other quotes from other DJ's but I have a feeling this works like 800dj.com, and sends out quote requests to all the paid members in the area first so they can bid on the job.
 
Dont most sites give you the option to pay to get the leads first?
I know allwedding and others do this.
 
Only option is to sign up and pay at least the $14.95 /month to get the contacts. But my guess is the the two levels above the cheapest will get your quote requests before you do.
 
I know we did paid at 800dj and NEVER booked a job we also noticed we were getting a lot of the same leads we were getting from decidio, allwed etc
 
but I have a feeling this works like 800dj.com, and sends out quote requests to all the paid members in the area first so they can bid on the job.


Yup. Someone chooses YOU to ask for a quote and they send it to "more valuable" members. Free listings are used for the old "Bait & Switch", screwing both the lister AND the prospective client, hitting THEM with unwanted spam and unwanted info. Internet sleaze at it's lowest.
 
Only option is to sign up and pay at least the $14.95 /month to get the contacts. But my guess is the the two levels above the cheapest will get your quote requests before you do.


Two problems. 1) Even after you pay for a listing, YOUR quote requests will STILL be sent to others, essentially making you pay to advertise your competition. In other words, you pay x dollars to get contact info from quotes requested specifically from you, and the site - after taking your money- sends in the unrequested competition to bid against you. They do this to give the illusion of better exposure. Each DJ thinks the request was sent to THEM. Scuzzy



2) The sleaze factor kicks in when a site SAYS they do one thing, and does another.

Run like hell, and do not invest a penny. There are many free listing sites out there that allow DIRECT contact, like Craigslist but with better targeted exposure.
 
I logged in and blanked out all my info, but cannot delete the account myself.


As long as the info's gone. They will delete it eventually. I would, wait a bit, then check the site to find out if they re-entered your info. I've seen that done before......
 
One by one, I've been deleting all of these sleazebag services.

First I stopped buying Respond Leads......I plan to be out of their directory in Nov.

My decidio account has $2 left. I have not seen a lead worth buying in 3 months.

My wed plan account has $12 remaining......no leads worth purchasing in over 6 weeks.

when the money in these accts run out, I won't replenish.

Gigmasters will expire in January. I'm pulling the plug on them too!

(Actually, the Gigmasters is still making $$$, but not enough to warrant keeping the $219 annual expense).

When the dust settles ===

all that remains is Travis for web hosting & web tweakage ($150- 300 per year)

and WeDJie World ($110 per year) and possibly Wed Experts ($110 per year).

My entire cost of advertising & web hosting = under $500 per year!

F*ck OneWed and all the rest.......I'm the SEO king, they can all kiss my ass because my site is ahead of theirs in the Search Engines, usually by several pages!