My story has to be shared! USASEOPROS are 'shammers'! Choose to ignore this report at your own risk. This is my experience with them and it has been absolutely unpleasant and as such, I see the need to communicate that experience with anyone doing their research on them.
Im an small business owner based overseas (outside USA) and when I started marketing my business online, I was contacted by some Julie with a sweet voice from USASEOPROS. I was intrigued by what she had to say and so stayed on the phone. After about 10 minutes with me, she passed me over to Troy who claimed to be an expert at internet marketing. I was sceptical from the beginning as I had heard of many stories of people being ripped off on the internet and I thought I was well versed with how scams operate. But the way these people operate is completely baffling. They use brainwashing, high powered sales tactics, relationship building and humour in their approach to entice you into this sham. Anyway, he spent close to 2 hours on the phone with me promising me the world and first page google rankings. He kept making me click this and click that on their website and before I knew it, I was duped into purchasing their sham product for $4,000 in my currency! We sell high ticket items so I make that back in a week easy but it was still a lot of money towards advertising for a small business starting out.
After the phone call, alarm bells started ringing in my head and I had a nasty gut feeling. I did some research straight away and came across numerous reports similar to this about them. I contacted people in my network here and discovered that a large number of people had fallen for their tactics and had lost thousands in advertising dollars because of them with zero return on investment. Convinced that I had been duped and pressured into a sham, I took action immediately to reverse the transaction within an hour of getting off the phone with them.
I contacted my bank and PayPal and lodged fraud disputes. PayPal rejected my claim after a few days stating that since I had conducted the transaction on my end, I had basically authorised it and my bank told me that the credit card authorisation had gone through so there was no way of stopping the transaction. So I took things further and had my card cancelled and got in touch with the fraud department and explained my situation.
In the mean time, USASEOPROS became aware of me actions to cancel and contacted me again. This time by a guy named Tony who claimed to be the Director of Operations. He spent another hour on the phone with me trying to convince me to cancel the dispute I had lodged and that he could really help me. He told me he would look after me personally as an exception (BS!!) and that all the reports we have seen on the internet are from disgruntled employees. Well, I dont even live in the same country! I was not buying into his theories and told him I wanted my money back. That is when he got shitty with me and said that I had accepted the contract by making payment and they would not give me a cent back. I was furious with this guy! These people know very well that small business owners dont have the resources to chase after them with law suits due to limited resources and it would end up costing us much more.
It took 6 weeks of waiting and fighting but in the end, my bank was extremely helpful and they were able to chase them up and have my money refunded. Phew! Im writing this after seeing the refund in my account. What a bloody relief! I hope is that anyone who is contacted by these scammers or another Julie from that company does not do what I did and sign up straight away. Hang up the phone and do your research and do not fall for lines like, "If you hang up now, I will have to pass up your offer to the next one waiting in line and you will miss out on the $1000 saving".
In the end, they never contacted me once after selling me their sham products and I have not seen any results. Obviously since it was a scam! I wasted 6 weeks fighting this headache but glad that I won in the end. If you are reading this after being 'sold' go to your banks and PayPal and do WHATEVER you can to cancel or reverse the transaction. DO your research! No one is obliged to believe my report or my experience. In my opinion, they are scammers who target small businesses globally knowing that for most, they do not have the resources to fight back especially if you do not take immediate action to rectify the situation as then it will only be viewed as a bad business decision on your part if they dont produce results for you as was the case with many locally here.
More over, More research revealed that the strategies they employ to market your business are illegal and can have your websites banned and blacklisted from most search engines. My advise, save your dollars! Otherwise you might be the next one compelled to write a report similar to this and I would be saying, told you so!...
This report is simply information for you to utilise in your decision making. I wish you all the best and I also still have the contact details for Troy and Tony written down. They gave me their phone numbers and email addresses so if anyone wants them for some reason, please contact me. Im hoping there are enough cases like this built up so one day they can have a class action law suit filed against them and some attorney puts them out of business!
USASEOPROS are definitely PROS! Pros at Scamming and not search engine optimisation! SCAM SCAM SCAM!