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Bad Customer Service –News will travel

April 21, 2008

Recently I got put on Ben Hart’s mailing list–(I am not sure how–I had never heard of the guy before I got an e-mail). Now I really enjoyed some of his information and I gave serious thought to trying out, his Inner Circle which was only $1.00.

However it was a subscription payable by Credit Card only. I hate subscribing to a credit card subscription,(hate it)… and most people I know do too.

We have asked several people this question over the last few months. We realized though that we had not done any formal research on this. We are all about research. So to answer this question we have created a poll at Ask500people.com.

If you have not visited Ask 500 people you are missing out on one of the true market research places on the internet.

NOW back to Mr. (no)Hart. I sent him an e-mail…to the address on his site explaining this very thing, and letting him know that I don’t buy subscriptions with a Credit Card.

As usual I have a theory …on why Marketers do this. It is much harder to stop a subscription on your credit card than on your pay-pal. You have to notify them and jump through all sorts of hoops then much of the time they don’t stop it in time and you have to pay an extra month. This is just plain and simple greed.

Here are the screen captures of my experience with Ben Hart, including his totally awful reply. When I went to reply to this ……I found that he had blocked me. Now isn’t that strange. Would you block a potential client from your customer service address? I have other e-mail addresses but…. I decided I would post here instead. I knew that I would not be blocked. Maaawaawwwaahhaaaaa

Here is the Email response that I received from him this morning ….with my original message below it.

Ben Harts Customer Service Response

This is the Reply I sent to his reply. He will never see it in his e-mail where he should have been able to because he was a total jerk and blocked me from sending.

My Response to him.

He Blocked Me

Now had he even been a decent and respectable marketer…he would have never responded in the way he did the first time. He not only lost my business forever…but I hope many of you see what kind of service you can expect from him.

Moral of this story………Bad News or Bad Customer service travels rapidly. It is time all of the Marketers out there that are making these big money claims …stand behind their products, and services. I know that many of them have staff, but they are ultimately responsible. Please Vote in the Poll, we will be adding more of these in the future.

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3 Responses to “Bad Customer Service –News will travel”

  1. Anonymous Coward on April 22nd, 2008 9:52 pm

    If you’d never heard of him before you got his email… doesn’t that make him a spammer?

    This is yet another reason to never (EVER) buy anything from an email. Couldn’t you just as reasonably assume that he wants to bill your credit card for $1 (instead of the vastly more secure PayPal) is not for greed but for a more illicit reason like identity theft?

    Besides, what kind of customer service could you really expect from someone who stole your email address and wants to steal your credit card, too? I really don’t think it was *your* loss at all.

    (Stumbled. Sorry for the anon. I’m @ work)

  2. Greg the Niche Blog Dude on April 23rd, 2008 12:29 am

    WOW! I am shocked. No surprise on the spam but the comment that it is your loss. Then to go further and block you.

    Funny thing is you provided him outstanding information to improve his conversion rate. If he listened to your request (which others probably would agree), then he would be making more sales.

    To me feedback is a gift and when a prospect or customer takes the time to give you more information about your marketing then you should listen and make your offer better.

    He doesn’t sound too successful.

    Greg

  3. admin on April 24th, 2008 5:56 am

    Thanks Anon
    I can not say I didn’t sign up for his list for sure so …..could not blatantly call him a spammer. I may have signed up for a free product somewhere that put me on his list. However he does have a “Cody Moya Tactic” with flooding the e-mails like 2 or 3 a day pushing his ” Inner Circle” …..the funny thing to me is that he could not accept the second e-mail from me, but I am supposed to enjoy all of his.

    Yes Greg I agree. Any feedback is beneficial. I would have been happy with a potential customer letting me know what I could do to earn their business. Since there was not a place for comments either on his sales letter or website….I mistakenly assumed that he wanted feedback by e-mail.

    Thank you for the comments they are very appreciated by us here at Ka-Boom and we will always try to make things easier and better for any of our customers, or potential customers.

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