Qire.co.uk, DIRECT DATA SERVICES LTD TRADING AS QIRE, E-mail Appending Plot Thickens, Another Marketer Has Surfaced Claiming To Have Been Ripped Off qire.co.uk, DIRECT DATA SERVICES LTD TRADING AS QIRE, DIRECT DATA SERVICES LTD Old Hall Street Liverpool
Another marketer has surfaced claiming to have been ripped off by an e-mail appending company and there's evidence the firm is related to US scam appending company, which is in a dispute with another U.K firm and possibly related to or operated by the same India-based spamming operation.
Two recent articles published here one detailing a dispute where Javelin Marketing claimed it lost $14,000 on a garbage list from U K appending company, and another showing that Qire U.K operations may be nothing more than a rented UPS box prompted Scott MacAdam, proprietor of MacAdam Magazine Marketing, to e-mail this newsletter to tell of a similar deal gone bad with a firm calling itself Direct media.
Could it be the same or a related company to the firm that operates Qire? he asked.
Indeed, it could.
According to MacAdam, he signed a deal on behalf of a client under which Qire was to append e-mail addresses to the client's postal file.
He added he paid upfront.
The agreement was that for any undeliverables exceeding 20%, we would get a refund, said MacAdam. About half of the addresses were bad. So I asked for a refund, and that started a process that was unbelievable.
By MacAdam's calculations, Direct media owes him a refund just over $3,000. He added his representative at Qire, Kevin Daniel, was unresponsive and stopped answering his e-mails completely after he threatened to take the matter to his client's attorneys.
Qire
Manchester, Alabama
Europe
1 Updates & Rebuttals
John Turtle
Liverpool,Europe,
United Kingdom
Direct Data Services and Qire strongly refute any allegations
#2UPDATE Employee
Thu, February 12, 2009
Direct Data Services and Qire strongly refute any allegations that we are involved in spamming or any email scams, or that we are nothing more than a rented UPS box'. We are a reputable established company with offices in Liverpool (UK).
We have never done any business with Javelin Marketing or MacAdam Magazine Marketing and were unaware of their existence until the Rip-off Report article appeared. We are also unaware of a company called Direct Media.
We do not, and have never, employed either directly or indirectly anyone named Kevin Daniel. The report in RoR appears to be based on a Jan 1 article on Directmag quoting Scott MacAdam where no mention is made of Qire or Direct Data Services, and Kevin Daniel is clearly stated to be a representative of Sales Universe.
Direct Data Services does provide email appending services, but all addresses supplied to our clients are fully opted-in and all bounces are removed. We do not market our service in the USA.
We have, in the past, obtained email addresses from both Six Channels and Email Appenders, but stopped using them some time ago.
There may have been some confusion between Qire' and Acquire Lists' a company which we believe has connections with India.
We applaud your campaign to get rid of the rip-off merchants in the online marketing business, but suggest that unfounded and unchecked allegations simply damage those companies that trade honestly and bring your publication into disrepute.