I ordered an email and telephone contact list to market my offering to on 06/02/2014 for $250. The list subject was "unemploed americans". The list was to contain Names, Email addresses and Telephone numbers.
The list that they sent to me out of the first 21 names had the following results
12 disconnected numbers
04 wrong numbers
04 numbers that just kept ringing
01 person whos wife stated her husband had been dead 5 years.
I spot checked the rest of the list with similar results.
I contacted Ellen Greenfield at The Data Boutique and she resent the same list with the names rearanged. I demanded a refund and the Data Boutique refused. Also this transaction occured on 6/02/14. They kept BSing me around until 06/16/2014 when I finally said I will take it up with my credit card company.
I'm puting a fraud claim through to my CC company.
P.S. Ellen Greefield of the Data Boutique has custumers Fax an authorization to charge the credit card. I should have been more suspicious...20/20 hindsight.
Mark W.
Los Angeles,#2Author of original report
Sat, June 21, 2014
Hi Fellow Marketers.
As you can see from the rebuttal Ms. Greefield is educated, well spoken and writes very professionally. But the FACT is at the time Data Boutique asked for my $250 they did not even have the specific list I asked for, which was a list of "Unemployed Americans". Data Boutique never varified even ONE of the contacts. I was required to to spend my own time substantiating that the list they gave me was not only NOT a list of Unemployed Americans but it was YEARS old as well. I spent 2 weeks rangling around and got SQUAT!
The list I ordered is not a usual type of list as out of 20 places I contacted 15 of them said WE DON'T HAVE SUCH A LIST. The fact of the matter is DATA BOUTIQUE did not have the list eigther but they took my money and tried to pass a GENERAL CONSUMERS LIST off as the TARGETED one I asked for. Data Boutique might have gotten away with it if the list they sent was not so old. A significant portion of the list had AOL AND HOTMAIL email addresses....come on! That list is just as old as she is.
All I'm really saying here is BUYER BE WARE AND DON'T SIGN ANY CREDIT CARD AUTHORIZATION FORMS! The Data Boutique will use it to counteract a FRAUD claim.....YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Fellow Marketer
Ellen Greenfield
aventura,#3REBUTTAL Owner of company
Wed, June 18, 2014
Hello, I am Ellen Greenfield, owner of the Data Boutique. Below is the actual email response sent to the customer on Monday June 16th. This outlines all the facts of the issue that he is stating. Please feel free to contact me directly at 877.663.5536 oron my cell at 305.785.8226. I 100% stand behind all my products and make sure that all my clients needs are met.
Mark
Los Angeles,#4Author of original report
Mon, June 16, 2014
I ordered an email and telephone contact list to market my offering to on 06/02/2014 for $250. The list subject was "unemployed Americans". The list was to contain Names, Email addresses and Telephone numbers.
The list that they sent to me out of the first 21 names had the following results
12 disconnected numbers
04 wrong numbers
04 numbers that just kept ringing
01 person who's wife stated her husband had been dead 5 years.
I spot checked the rest of the list with similar results.
The fact is at the time they asked for the $250 for that particular list they had no such list available and they just sent an arbitrary and out dated list to say they sent "a list"..
I contacted Ellen Greenfield at The Data Boutique and she resent the same list with the names rearranged. I demanded a refund and the Data Boutique refused. Also this transaction occurred on 6/02/14. They kept BSing me around until 06/16/2014 when I finally said I will take it up with my credit card company.
I'm putting a fraud claim through to my CC company.
P.S. Ellen Greenfield of the Data Boutique has costumers Fax an authorization to charge the credit card. I should have been more suspicious...20/20 hindsight.