Proxy 1 Media proxy1media.com Unprofessional - Dubious Practices - BE CAREFUL WITH THIS COMPANY! Internet
As a consumer for website and internet marketing services and as a business owner or freelancer, I suggest much care in associating yourself with Proxy 1 Media a/k/a www.proxy1media.com.
The owner of this site is a one man show and brokers his services out to companies in India and freelancers. In formerly conducting business with Proxy1Media, it was determined that this guy is not knowledgeable in what he sells. He does not know how to create a website nor knows the insides and out of various types of sites. In addition, he is not properly trained in internet marketing, thus the reason why he brokers out the services. You might be sold something you don't need or sold what is not necessary due to this guy's improper training. I should know because I have been properly trained in the website design and marketing fields and have been in the business for over 15 years.
As far as professionalism, he truly lacks finesse and polishing. He is rude, obnoxious and uncooperative in his business dealings.
A few months back, I was hired as an outsource to this company for website content for an individual. We offered the pricing on the content way below wholesale for over 10 pages of optimized website content. The content was to be extremely specialized and we would need specifics on the client. David, Proxy 1 Media's owner, was uncooperative and nasty in providing us with proper information on his client and since he was outsourcing to us we were not "allowed" to communicate directly with the client. When requesting information or clarification he rudely responds, "I am to busy to tend to your requests". Furthermore, he expects the work to be rushed and provided without much cooperation on the required information expected from him. ONCE HE GETS PAID FROM HIS CLIENT HE DOES NOT WANT TO WORK FOR IT!!! Needless to say, because of this guy's "I am too busy to help you attitude", we prepared drafts of BLIND content using other website content to narrow down his client's specialties. This content was in no way intended to be published or even published as original content. It was solely intended to narrow down and obtain accurate information on his client. With the client's revisions and edits, the content was to be further edited, revised and made original for his client. Consequently, the content was to be run through copyscape prior to publishing and further edited.
Of course, once the preliminary DRAFTS were submitted to his client, the client informed him that he felt that some of the content was plagiarized. Rather than professionally and properly addressing the issue and explaining to his client our situation on his lack of providing us with information and that we did not have much to work with, David (Proxy 1 Media's owner) emailed us with nasty and unprofessional language full of threats. Not once did he claim responsibility for his lack of involvement in the information required for this project.
As a knowledgeable professional and since the project was not in no way near to completion, I offered to continue working on the project until a FINAL PRODUCT was produced and ready for publishing. David's continual lack of professionalism, rude language, threatening remarks and unreasonable time frames to work on the project he botched caused me to cease working on the project and discontinue any business relationship with him. He has thus felt it necessary to bad mouth our business and I have felt it necessary to let consumers and future businesses to be prepared in dealing with Proxy1Media.
P.S. I had worked for Proxy1Media for quite some time prior to having a similar experience with David and I chose to give him another chance with this project. Obviously, it is not wise to deal with people of this caliber. ALWAYS DEAL WITH COMPANIES OR PEOPLE THAT ARE TRAINED AND KNOWLEDGEABLE IN THEIR BUSINESS. When dealing with David, I immediately discovered that he was just a broker and that in no way he was knowledgeable in website design and marketing. I hope he practices ethics with his clients than what he does with his vendors.
4 Updates & Rebuttals
Dave
Boca Raton,Florida,
U.S.A.
More False Postings by the Crooks We got shut down
#5REBUTTAL Owner of company
Thu, February 03, 2011
It look like More BS From BIM (Yes Beyond Ink Media) the company that is no longer online, the company that was shut down run by Eli that also was also robbing people in Miami trying to sell stolen hand bagsWOWlooks like someone has more time on their hands than should be allowed.
COMPLETEY BS (thats Bull Sh..t / yes I said it) POSTING from a shotty hack-job freelancer we fired for STEELING CONTENT Pay no attention..to this CONTENT THEIF.
P1M
BIM
Florida,USA
PROXY1MEDIA - SAFE YOURSELF THE HASSLE
#5Author of original report
Tue, April 27, 2010
Proxy1Media feels it is necessary to defame our company by falsifying stating information that our company is a one woman shop. You are welcome to visit our corporate offices and consult with one of our 15 professional specialists in either website design, programming, and internet marketing.
Proxy1 Management
Boca Raton,Florida,
United States of America
Proxy1s Continual Battle over 100% Plagiarized SEO content delivered by BeyondInc Media
#5REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, April 27, 2010
We apologize for your valued and wasted time reading this, we are taking matters further in filing suite for slander and reputation damages.
In attempting to be Pro-Active informing the public about Beyond inc Medias (one-woman-band) Shady/Unprofessional Plagiarizing Practices we are damaging our own reputation.
So we will leave it up to our legal team to resolve, again if you have questions about any of this please contact us directly. Sincerely Management.
BeyondInc Media was used because of several social media needs we inquired that we were not prepared to currently handle in house.
Beyond Inc Media provided us with 2 social media profiles in the past with some Expected time lag and typical Outsourced Vendor-Related issues that we were prepared to mange and did manage for the end result of a happy/content client. Realizing that Beyondink Media is the one-man-band we were very flexible to their turn-time with projects for they are just one person with a life outside their profession.
Proxy1Media has since hired two additional staff members to handle the building, management and marketing of such social media profiles and will not longer need to outsource / broker such needs to companies like Beyondinkmedia provided.
Our Problem with beyond inc media occurred when time lines were extended not Once, Twice but three times. We had to threaten to retract our payment for our latest project that was SEO Content for a Local Attorney here in Ft Lauderdale. Due to the project timeline for this project the SEO Content that was created by Beyondinkmedia.com was past directly to the Attorney for Review. Our Attorney Client noticed some related content he had been reading and after running a content check found out that 95% of this content was not Paraphrased, Not Re-Worded but 100% Plagiarized from over 5 law firms here in the state of Florida.
BeyondInkMedia was notified and even given the change to Rewrite said content but 1st argued that is was original, then admitted several times thru email that it was copied 100% then swore to us that the next batch of content would be Beneficial and Original.
Proxy1Media decided to give BeyondInkMedia a second chance by extending our end-of-project deadline with original Attorney Client and was yet Burned Again by Elan at beyondinc. She attempted to extend the second time line twice and then refused to return funds once we decided to end the relationship.
The five law firms that were plagiarized against were immediately notified and actions are still underway for reclaiming our funds. Her Ridiculous comments about us being a On-Man-Band is ludicrous, for we have an in house Pay-Per-Click department that manages over $200,000 in monthly spend just on Google alone. As you will see by our company profile Proxy1Media has We were 100% fair if any mistakes had been maid by her and offer 100% to help resolve the solution.
We were repetitively lied to, mislead before we terminated our relationship. Were we 100% professional absolutely were we happy that this Hassle ate into our production of products and services for more than our 20 SEM Clients NO.
Was I personally aggressive with Beyond Ink Media absolutely so it seem that by dialing up my enthusiasm level be in temper, tone or choice of verbiage was the only way ANYONE could get thru to her. Do I regret it absolutely not, I would do it exactly the same 100times over. I have the backing of the client that knows 100% of what happened (even reading her email Admitting to Copying Other Law Firm Content Directly) as well as many satisfied customers including two of the largest law firms here in the city of Boca Raton Florida where we reside. Please ignore the Ignorant, Misleading Comments from this FLAKY / Unreliable / Unpredictable Vendor. Please Save your self the trouble for using her for any SEO related material, or website for you will be in for more work hiring them that you could have just produced it yourself. We have many satisfied clients, we have testimonials from mom and pop shops to INC 5000 clients that we are professional, reliable, knowledgeable and provide 100% transparency in what we offer (yes, we broker our design work to make it competitive in todays market place) for we are Search Engine Marketing Consultants 1st that provide design work to simply offer our clients sometime to market on line.
You may contact our office at our office (we cant list the full number here) 4353 directly to inquire about any of this instance or you may contact me directly on my cell phone most any hours of the day at 7735 as well.
I will be happy to discuss any or all of this. I can assure you, we are an agency 10x time the size of beyond one-man-band with more experience and value added solutions and sincerely regret that you are spending your valuable time (as we are) in reading this rebuttal starting the process of securing our online reputation and helping that companies like Beyond Ink Media do no further damage to any end users or value-added resellers.
We have contacted the Better Business Bureau and many other agencies to also spread the word in deeming this unacceptable Online Business Practices.
Our Law Firm on Retainer that helped us file our 1st compliant that Eli at Beyond Ink Media thinks is Fictitious (this is what a nut-job she is) is Glantz & Glantz in Plantation Florida and can be found by Googling Glantz & Glantz Law firm in Plantation FL.
We thank Rip Off Report for providing and online solution in helping get the word out about unreliable vendors such as beyondinkmedia. Sincerely Management
BIM
Florida,USA
PROXY 1 MEDIA PROXY1MEDIA PROXY1MEDIA.COM
#5Author of original report
Mon, April 26, 2010
Company can be found at www.proxy1media.com with various subdomains brokering numerous related services. Both consumer and vendor, be careful with this company. Owner is as shady as an umbrella. Brokers services that he is not fully trained on causing many headaches to true professionals.