Next time you send an email through the contact me box and try to say I did not do my research you may want to have the intestinal fortitude to actually use an email address I can reply to so I can tell you that you were totally incorrect and have no idea. You, my fine sir, are the one who needs to research.

The letter was in fact from the Yellowpages, and ummm, I have an ex-Yellowpages regional manager who works for me who indicated that they had been getting more aggressive. Not sure what more I need than that to confirm who it was from, research complete at a graduate level there.

Although I agree with you that it is usually the smaller players that do this, in this case it was not. So while you talk about the Yellowpages being such an upstanding company you might want to do YOUR research. Oh btw, that upstanding company recently reused a landing page they sold to one of my customers for another customer after it was done, basically took what was a trademarked name and reused it…. This comes directly from a customer, once again, research complete.

So, let me see, you send me an email and do not allow a reply back because, well, I figure you knew that I could probably reply back with information that you could not respond too.

What is more interesting is the fact that you even searched for Yellowpage Rip offs. Sounds like the Yellowpages may be doing some damage control.

Nice heads up for your readers. A lot of “phone book” companies use this tactic to get people to either “renew” or “secure” their spot in the book. They make it seem as if it is the duty of every business entity to have an ad in their publications. This is based on the long history of the Yellowpages and the old style of advertising that was basically replaced by the internet years ago.

However, their online services are seemingly adequate, so I don’t understand why they feel the need to play these old style marketing tricks anymore. Maybe old habits die hard.

For me, I just ignore them. What domainer is going to go to Yellowpages to search up “Domain Consulting”? lol

cheers bro

Yeah, I know they have sent stuff similar in the past but I usually saw it from “fly by night” type of Yellowpage companies, what made it interesting was that people that had also had them in the past noticed the difference in this one.

I’ve been getting that kind of phone book solicitation for years, and I haven’t been in the business they solicit about for ten years. It’s a part of being in business, like getting phone solicitations for the ‘policeman’s union.’

I got a piece in the mail a couple of weeks ago billing me for ‘renewal’ of websites. It came from a company I’ve never heard of or done business with.

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Sincerely,

I recently got a new client from a referral and they “phone company” had built him a (really bad) web site and charged him a lot more then the contract stated too. I just switched on his new web site this week, it has among other things (missing from his old site) his company logo, pictures that get this, relate to his business and other crazy things. Now he’s either going to send a letter or have his lawyer do so, to get back the money they ripped him off. I thought it was like $200 or so over the past year, but when we talked the other day I found out I heard wrong, they really owe him over $1,000!