UKNM: Just 35 - the Search Engine that offers less and less and ....

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Hi list,

I've been lurking now for a couple of weeks and was particularly interested

in the thread concerning Just 35 recently.  I was contacted by them last

week

with a view to a listing.  I was offered "10-15,000 visitors" (to each and

every participating web site) and by inference this was per week.


I have learned from bitter experience not to accept these type of bland

inducements and asked to receive a written offer.  This verified their

claims

and they called me again.  I had by now spoken to somebody more experienced

in these matters who said that I should look for some kind of confirmation

of

these figures as he didn't see how they could be substantiated.


I spoke to them again asking for verification and now 10-15,000 became

2-3,000 and it went from visitors to hits.  I spoke to my contact again who

insisted that we should clarify if we were talking about unique visitors or

hits as in his view hits meant nothing.  As an inducement I was offered a

credit card sized ad in the Sunday paper of their choice if we got fewer

than

2,000 (it's dropped again!) hits in any one week.  Not unique visitors, but

hits.


Asking how they could prove the number of hits to my site they told me that

they could only provide limited statistical information and not (surprise,

surprise) unique visitor stats.  In that case, will you refund our money if

we don't get the visitors?  Hoarse laugh at the other end - "it's only �950

and you're the only person who cares if it works".


The Just 35 conversation then took an abusive turn finishing with "if it's

good enough for the BBC it should be good enough for you.    Everybody else

has said that if it works, great and if not, they don't care".  And I was

left holding an empty phone.


Am I the only person out there that wants to get what I pay for? As for the

BBC - why would they care anyway - it's not their money they're spending.


I noticed in last week's thread that Just 35 seem to like defending their

service - I wonder if they would be good enough to respond to this.


Regards

Sandra Lees

www.slimsteady.co.uk



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