- Report: #1281362
Complaint Review: RESOLVE - New York New York
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RESOLVE
825 Third Ave New York, 10022 New York, USA
Phone:
646-216-8105
Web:
www.partners-us.com
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RESOLVE Resolve Executive Marketingpartners-us.comexclusive-ceo.cominnovative-approach.com they represent themselves as an executive marketing firm but are suspicious New York New York
Contacted by a Bart Young with 'Resolve Executive Marketing' who made a short pitch and deferred to a scheduled longer call the next day.
Couldn't figure out most of what was going on with the web site. It is put together poorly - the graphical slickness is not top notch, which makes no sense for a high end search firm. The domain makes no sense for the business they are doing. Not even Bob David - the CEO listed on the site - shows up on linked in - much less the other two that I interacted with.
Contacted by a Sally Burke 30 minutes late, who has a very slick sales pitch, talking me up and making me feel good but not really meshing totally. Appeals to emotion (your gut is the smart one here? really?) particularly make the problem. She's charismatic. Fun to talk to but yeah.
When I balked at paying $3100 up front, they offered to do two 'marketing' sessions for only $250. I nibbled at that, and then went to work researching online. partners-us doesn't show up anywhere, its just too new.
Sally mentioned 'the chamber of commerce' - well, the greater new york chamber of commerce has never heard of them. the MANHATTAN chamber of commerce has. But all they have is a link to a web site - one called 'innovative-approach.com' - hmm. Going to that just redirects to partners-us. they're on the same ip address too.
Researching this site turns up some complaints - here on ripoffreport and elsewhere. I also used Bart's name to dig up some old press releases that talk about Resolve Executive Marketing and point to the url exclusive-ceo.com This is a parked domain no longer active now - but it obviously was the main link from earlier when they were doing this, and they dropped it.
Also researching these domains turned up a couple of mono-blogs - blogs made and posted one entry that promot them, with their exclusive-ceo domain, and that's it.
This doesn't add up. A reputable company has no need to use dodgy dashed domain names and change names frequently. No used to use monoblogs or other wonky marketing techniques. Its like they don't WANT to be found. Even if they WERE legit since 2013, you would establish a stable web presence and have testimonials that were not provided by you. You'd exist on social media at the very least. On top of that the ineptness - continuing to use the name Resolve Executive Search when its been mentioned as a scam several times - changing domain names.
