I would like to strongly caution anyone who is contemplating purchasing leads from Ryan Garner at topinvestorleads.com. I spoke to Ryan about purchasing well qualified, "front called" oil and gas investor leads. I stated that I was looking for fresh leads that had recently been called and qualified as to being accredited, liquid and interested in oil and gas projects. He told me that he had just what I was looking for and that he could sell me 3200 of them for $ or 500 for $300.
Knowing full well that these "front called" freshly verified leads typically sell for at least $18.00 a piece, I assumed that he must have misunderstood. I explained again exactly what I was looking for and he assured me that is what he had. He advised that these leads were no more then a week old and that each one of them had been called by a telemarketer and qualified. According to Ryan, they all stated that they were accredited, liquid, and interested in oil and gas projects. Believing that this was to good to be true, I ended the phone call by telling Ryan that I wanted to do some due diligence and think about it.
A short time later that same day, Ryan called back and offered me a free sample of his leads. He then sent three (3) leads to me via email. Now let me ask you experienced salesman a question. How often have you called three leads in a row and the following happened: 1) They all answered. 2) They all were friendly 3) They all were qualified and very interested? Not very often right? Would you think that maybe those leads were actually his friends and or business associates posing as investors? Well, those three aforementioned things occurred and I thought that there was a strong possibility that these so called leads were fake.
Over the next several days Ryan called me daily and urgently tried to get me to purchase his leads. He told me that he had other interested people and that I had better act quickly if I wanted them. That of course created even more suspicion on my part because we all know that lead brokers typically sell the same lead to multiple salesman. That is unless you are buying "exclusive" leads and how many times have any of us seen "exclusive" "front called" "qualified" leads for less the one dollar a piece?
That is a lot like buying a brand new Corvette for $2000. Ryan then became arrogant and rude and said that most of his clients order a couple thousand dollars worth of leads at a time and for me to be hesitant about spending a couple hundred indicated that I was a waste of time. He then said..."good luck with your free leads" and he hung up the phone.in my opinion if Ryan was a honest professional, he would not have called me a waste of time but rather would have remained friendly and asked me to please provide him feedback as to how his sample leads worked out.
A couple days later when I made follow up calls with the (3) sample leads, I discovered that one of the numbers was no longer in service and I left voice-mail messages for the other two. Much to my surprise one of the two called me back and told me that he had been advised by an "investment company" that his number had been given out in error and that he should not invest with anyone. I then informed this gentleman to please tell Ryan Garner that I would be making a post on usacomplaints.com in order to warn other people about his extremely questionable business practices. This gentleman then became upset which I found quite odd considering that he had told me previously that he did not know who Ryan Garner was.
While it is true that I did not spend/loose any money with Ryan Garner, I strongly caution anyone who is thinking about doing business with him for all of the reasons stated above. Good Luck in your endeavors
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