Anyone used these? http://www.localtraders.com/ Had a bloke on the phone today for 43 minutes. Trying to sell me it. He wouldn't take no for a answer. He had too in the end. It's £115 plus vat for 6 months. They text you leads. But they also text other flooring people the same leads. I said ring me back next week.
Ive not used them, but I have heard of somthing similar. They charged you for each lead/txt sent to you. I think you had to buy credit`s to get the txt`s
A lot of them are legal scams to make money, I get about 6 a month most of them are 0161 numbers from Manchester I think, all you can hear is loads of people in the call centre there a pain in the arse I just ask them to hang on a min while I google them it will come back with loads of complaints and if they don't hang up then they normally hang up when you start asking them questions about the complaints on net
Ask them to phone you from there personal mobile number so have there number so you can contact said person directly if any problems,
Daz, tell him for £20/month you'll text him with numbers for fitters from your own list of fitters (here) and see if he's interested Andy, I use freeindex and have made some good money out of their leads.
I wouldn't touch Local Traders.com with a bargepole. My experience is very few leads (max about 6) over 6 months – all for poor work (refit a storage heater to a wall, replace a thermostat), some of which were hundreds of miles away. What is worse is the contract and their automatic renewal. I was caught by this after the first 6 month period. I accepted that I had not cancelled, in writing, and accepted a discounted fee for a further 6 months. At this time I emailed them and stated “Further to this renewal, can you confirm, as stated by phone, that this package will NOT automatically renew at the end of the next period”. Their response was “we can confirm that your package is set up as a manual renewal which means no automatic payments will be taken”. What I missed after this statement was that they also needed me to cancel in writing, by post. What a nonsense – I had clearly stated I did not want a renewal by email. Having missed this deadline (end Feb) – you guessed it, automatic renewal for a further 6 months. They again offered a discount if I paid on the day, and surprise, have accepted now that I wish my contract to end – no letter required! Extortion in my view – don’t touch them.
