May 10, 201016 yr BE WARNED ! yell.com is runing scams ! I had call from one of their sales girls. THE FREE 30 DAY TRIAL ! I repeatedly told her I wasnt intrested because I had ben scammed before and I couldnt afford it, and also I didnt believe it would work. She went on for an hour. I still didnt beleive it would work, BUT ! she did manage to convince me to give it a try though. I asked her if she was sure it was totaly free and that I wouldnt end up with them sending me a bill etc. Obviously, she insisted that it was genuine and totaly FREE ! She even stated that becaue it was free, she didnt even need bank details as their was nothing to pay. The clincher was the fact it was... yell.com... A company you would expect to trust ! All seemed to be OK. The add was rubbish and realy hard to find, but I didnt care or say anything...... After all... It was Free ! As I susspected the add did nothing at all. I actualy forgot all about it. I did in the end remember the add and tried to find it. It was, as I said, dificult to find, but then I didnt expect to find it as I noticed It was at least a week after the 30 day trial. I was just about to come off it when I noticed it was still there. I was very surprised to see it... After all.... it was a 30 DAY FREE TRIAL ! Not wishing to con yell.com I mailed them right away. I wasnt worried as I thought it was a simple mistake on their part, and they would rectyfy it. WRONG ! Right away they were saying I should have read the small print at the bottom of the accetance letter ( or whatever they caled it ) They told me I couldnt cancel by phone. I explained everything that had happned and I was as good as laughed at ! I was told by them they had sent me this that and the other etc. This was total rubbish ! By this time, I knew I had fallen for a scam ! I have tried everything in my power to be resonable. They are having none of it. I had at first thought it was perhaps down to an over zelous sales girl, simply lying to earn her commision. After loads of letters and phone calls, Im now totaly convinced that yell.com know all about the scam and seem to be openly supporting it ! I was shocked to find hundreds of victims on the net. They should be stopped from trading in the UK ! Yell.com are a cowboy company that are running scams !
May 10, 201016 yr I had the sales pitch from a very nice lady. I almost agreed except I said if I get into a 12 month contract and my business doesn't bring in revenue (god forbid) for the £37 a month (this was web link/yellow page printing etc) she said I could cancel anytime. WRONG. I read the contract 10 times until I finally managed to decode their wording. Once you're printing in the book you're stuck with the contract making it - not cancel anytime with no fee. I ignored her calls. Also, look up distance selling on consumer direct, you may have some way to wriggle out of it. Charlotte
March 19, 201115 yr i don't really understand the scam in the original post? You're getting free advertising by the sound of it?
July 6, 201115 yr I got a call from Yell last week and after 40 minutes on the phone I ended up signing up to an advertising campaign for £39 per month where they say they promise to get me 10 clients a month and if they dont't I get some or all of my money back. I havn't had any conformation email from them and I don't think they have taken the money out yet! How do I cancel this and make sure it doesn't come out of my account? Thanks for your post I didn't know Yell where big scammers!!
July 6, 201115 yr Yell died as soon as every one knew what google was, why on earth you would want to target yell users is beyond me, the people who use that book are not the kind of customers you want
July 6, 201115 yr Yell died as soon as every one knew what google was, why on earth you would want to target yell users is beyond me, the people who use that book are not the kind of customers you want They told me they would advertise within Google and that they where working closely with Google. That my advert would appear in the sponsored links section.
July 6, 201115 yr They told me they would advertise within Google and that they where working closely with Google. That my advert would appear in the sponsored links section. that old chestnut eh
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