Simon
hatfield,#2General Comment
Fri, August 14, 2015
This is a report of the fact that some organiusations employ sales companies to market their products and services. And that some of the people who do the actual calling use over pushy techniques (either with or without the consent of the company they are working for). And like a couple of the other reports its also a critical opinion of how certain sale procceses such as upselling work.
It is also a statement that a certain product or service is quite expensive. Again this tells us nothing particularly useful: many things have a high price tag and a sales proccess attached to that high price tag. None of this makes something a 'rip off'.
Entries like this one begin to turn the rip off report into a general moaning ground rather than a listing of companies who have delibertaly over charged and/or scammmed customers. As the commenter themselves states
The only actually relevant piece of information in this report is the claim that Jim Cockrum's organisation deliberately gave private contact details to a thirs party. Whether that is what actually happened is far from clear in this report.
Adam
Los Angeles,#3Consumer Comment
Wed, July 08, 2015
The only reason I had to write this rebuttal is because I saw the posts by people claiming that the critical report was false. I had the exact same experience with the Cockrum Coaching call center. They "prepared" me for days over several phone calls continually asking me if I'm the kind of person that can make quick decisions and if I'm able to take instruction. Multiple times they told me how exclusive they are that they need to know that I'm right candidate.
The price for their coaching was very high, $4,000 and when I started to ask what that entailed, they said that the program was tailored to my situation (which they really had no idea what that was) and wouldn't give me references or show me the supposedly successful coach's business record.
In my view, if you are going to charge a substantial amount of money but start getting cagey when a potential client asks what any smart consumer would ask, to make sure they are spending their money wisely, I say it's time to re-think that investment.
If the service is legitimate then being open with potential client's shouldn't be a problem.
Finally, there is very little information online about the coaching program. The only "rave" reviews I could find were from affiliated websites or proprietary websites and of course there is nothing critical or even slightly fair in those sources. The only type of review you are going to find are raving endorsements and nothing else.
A fair and balanced review would be appreciated. I wonder if the "expert" marketers have a way of pushing the bad reviews out of the search engine results by flooding them with fluff pieces.
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Escondido,#4REBUTTAL Individual responds
Wed, November 20, 2013
Jim Cockrum is a very close and dear personal friend of mine. He is also my mentor. I keep in touch wtih him all the time by both email and phone. For every one story you see like this it can easily be followed up by a 100 with a totally different opinion.
Go to IMReportCard.com which in an independent watch dog for online marketing and see who is listed as the #1 most trusted Internet Marketer in the world. You will see Mr. Cockrum right there and has been for quite some time.
I also know the guy that runs Jim's coaching center. He is under strict orders not to pressure any one into anything. He does not want to hear about closing numbers or revenue genrated. Rather how many success stories has he genrated and testmonials he has collected.
Not sure what or why you went through this but you are painting a totally false image of this guy.