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Complaint Review: Business Card Experts - Minnetonka Minnesota
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Business Card Experts
5929 Baker Rd. Minnetonka, 55345 Minnesota, U.S.A.
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Business Card Experts ripoff Exaggerated the income opportunity ease of sale lack of competition great training and continued support Minnetonka Minnesota
BCE made it sound easy. Call on local businesses and they'll fall in love with the concept and pricing. BCE will provide ongoing marketing ideas, strategies, support, etc.
It's easy to find sales reps and when you do, they'll average 2-3 sales per day at an average of 3 boxes per sale.
Every one of these claims are false or exaggerated. Most business owners are satisfied with the inexpensive business cards they currently have. The pricing sounds good compared to the small local printer but stink when compared to the Internet offerings. There is very little ongoing support (it's virtually impossible to talk to someone), and there are few new ideas after training. It's tough to find sales reps and you'd be lucky if good ones averaged 2-3 sales per week at 1-2 boxes each sale.
The only way I can think of making a six-figure income with this concept is to do what they do--offer dealerships for $4,000 to $5,000 as subdealers to you. You keep the dealership fee and make a little on sales. You can get a wholesale print house to sell you 1,000 full color cards for $19.00 and get a local graphics designer to match or beat their $45.00 design fee.
They actually may have a guy in Ohio with 17 sales reps, but they seem unwilling to show you how he did it and how he operates. However, the references they give are all the same and sound like shills.
At training I counted the boxes in production and should have demanded my money back at that time. Find another bizopp. These guys are con artists with a slick system to separate you from your $19,500.
Fooled by the hype
Dallas, Texas
U.S.A.
It's easy to find sales reps and when you do, they'll average 2-3 sales per day at an average of 3 boxes per sale.
Every one of these claims are false or exaggerated. Most business owners are satisfied with the inexpensive business cards they currently have. The pricing sounds good compared to the small local printer but stink when compared to the Internet offerings. There is very little ongoing support (it's virtually impossible to talk to someone), and there are few new ideas after training. It's tough to find sales reps and you'd be lucky if good ones averaged 2-3 sales per week at 1-2 boxes each sale.
The only way I can think of making a six-figure income with this concept is to do what they do--offer dealerships for $4,000 to $5,000 as subdealers to you. You keep the dealership fee and make a little on sales. You can get a wholesale print house to sell you 1,000 full color cards for $19.00 and get a local graphics designer to match or beat their $45.00 design fee.
They actually may have a guy in Ohio with 17 sales reps, but they seem unwilling to show you how he did it and how he operates. However, the references they give are all the same and sound like shills.
At training I counted the boxes in production and should have demanded my money back at that time. Find another bizopp. These guys are con artists with a slick system to separate you from your $19,500.
Fooled by the hype
Dallas, Texas
U.S.A.
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Cory
San Antonio,Texas,
U.S.A.
Sad But True
#2Consumer Comment
Wed, June 07, 2006
I've posted about this before. If you had worked in any print shop or even an office max or office depot print department for a couple of weeks or a month or two, you would have learned a heck of a lot more AND gotten paid for it AND saved yourself $19,500. It doesn't matter what field you're going into. You need to work in that field BEFORE you invest in that field. My brother-in-law bought into a sandwich shop. Found out he hates being around food and the restaurant. You'll learn more in a week then they'll teach you in 6 months. A lady I know was trying to sell her framing store for $75,000 that she had had for 20 years. She talked to a women who bought into a frame frachise for $100,000. That didn't include anything BUT THE NAME. She got to work in another franchise for 2 weeks and didn't learn a d**n thing. They set her up in a very high rent area with little traffic, with a 3 year lease. She had to hire some guy to do her framing at top dollar. To top it off she has to buy all her overpriced supplies from the home office for the next ten years AND pay the home office ten+ percent of her gross for the next ten years. She's almost set up to fail. The first women sold the frame shop to a 28 year old young man, who had worked for her, parttime for two years. He's set for life, all the customers know him and the ex-owner continues to work for him parttime.
