To add insult to injury, unlike Steve Barnes above says – I asked SEVERAL times if we could have a free listing and I was told it was not possible.

When I asked about the non-featured, free listings that were already on there, I was told that they are only on there because they have bought another product or service from Infoserve and that they do not offer free listings of any description.

Quite laughably – I was given a quote on the phone for sponsored results. The only way to get a free listing in another category and when I asked to be emailed a copy of what I was being offered I was told that the email would come from his manager as the person who phoned was not permitted to send emails.

On checking out our listing it turns out Yahoo Local does not even have any business in London listed for Spray Tanning but Dennis kept telling me how great yahoo was over google search…. He even went on to tell me how much better Bing and Yahoo was over google at which point I gave up on him as he started to tell me how Bing was going to take over the desktop and how he worked with FreeServe oops another flop

Anyway Yahoo dont call its a company trying to sell you a listing and im not going to spend £160+vat for 6mths listing when I dont get any traffic from Yahoo only google and that cost me nothing.

I feel better now getting that off my chest.

The next day he rang as aggreed, however i wansnt at home, so my mother answered, And she got done by the hard selling techniques this company uses. My mum being the nice lady she is, cannot say no, stand firm, or put the phone down, she listened, and of course this guy, used the sales tricks of “logic” to close my mum..

So when i got back and i found out my mum had spent £400 on an emailed invoice which didnt even item-ise what she ordered, i called them to find out what she had actualy bought and it was standard entry on yahoo local uk, with only 5 key words! for only six months! and to top it all off the county of north lincolnshire where we are, isnt even listed on yahoo!!! so they only way that we would ever be found is by typing scunthorpe camping or campsite, eitherway it was difficult to find. So I demened it be canceled. they said “You have no rights of a refund and their is no ‘cooling off’ period as this is business to business sales” I stood firm, and the lady on the phone eventualy said we will put you on cityvisiter.com but it cannot be cancelled.

Over the course of the next few months i watched carefully where the web traffic was coming from. And this is no exageration. We had 4 people come through from yahoo in the first 3 months. and they could have come from the main yahoo search, not the yahoo local site. 4 VISITS!!!!! compared the the whopping 100+ from google where we have no sponsored listings! Just a lot of hard work by myself to get us near the top….

I know google is always going the be the biggest traffic source but that ratio is pathetic!!!

Six months went by and the figures wernt much better, so when “Steve” called again from “yahoo”. I didnt want to renew the listing, i was very pleasant with him, i just said we havnt had the traffic to justiy the price, he came back and said to me “Youve had tonnes of traffic, im reading your report now” i said thats rubbish im looking at the stats too and they given me the refferal numbers from all different websites that link to my page. He said “No, yahoo local works the same as when you type in the address in the bar, a direct entry” I couldnt believe what i was hearing. He was blantantly lying to me about how the whole system works. then he told my that my hosting company are “google” biased and that the stat counter i have is wrong….. he then started getting aggressive and telling me the website ive made is shabby etc etc….. I ended up putting the phone down.

A few days later the phone rang again, a bloke with the same northern accent. Wanting to speak to heather (my mum) i said she is not here, what is this regarding? He explained he is from the cancelation department, and needed to ask a few questions before they cancel my listing….. The call very quickly turned into another attempt to close me, and i know for a FACT it was Steve, pretending to be someone else. he thought he could have a stab at the easy target of my mother.

If this company Claims they dont use high pressure selling techniques they are quite frankly talking s**t. My brother used to work in a “boiler room” scam selling overpriced restricted stocks. And he said the selling techniques used by this company are very similar.

Beware!!! Dont buy from these guys unless you really really want to have a sponsored listing on yahoo. Your best sticking to the FREE google local maps service.

http://www.snozwangler.com/search.php?q=08453677200

and this:

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/08453677200