I was looking to make some money to supplement my retirement. The possibility of running an online store with products drop-shipped directly to the customers sounded like a good opportunity. I paid Direct Wholesale Solutions for a pre-designed website that would permit me to select products and price.
The idea was that customers would see the products and then buy them using the purchasing tool included in the website. This sounded reasonable, but I recognized that I would need to get the website found by the internet search engines. I needed people to come to my site.
Direct Wholesale Solutions persuaded me that by paying for a marketing campaign I would be able to get people to find my website. They guaranteed me that the campaign would produce 500,000 hits on the site within a year. The percentage of purchases might be low, but with the volume of hits, an income could be made.
Here was the problem: the purchasing tool never worked. After a couple of months of no sales, I decided to buy something myself. It took me through the process online, but the order went nowhere. Technical support said the problem was that the particular product had been discontinued. I was assured the purchasing tool was working and that I should be patient.
A month later I still saw no sales, so I tried to purchase something again. The purchasing tool didn't even take me through the process. It timed out every time I tried to make a purchase.
I called Direct Wholesale Solutions technical support, but all I got was an answering machine, which eventually filled with messages preventing me from even leaving that. I called the company's other number, and only got a recording. I sent them emails that have never been acknowledged.
How did the marketing campaign go? After four months I was getting a little less than 100 hits a month. Early on I asked for a list of the search engines my site had been submitted to. The excuse was made that the list was in the desk of their boss and it was locked, and he was gone for the day. I was promised Direct Wholesale Solutions would send me a copy, but I never received it.
Without any communication from Direct Wholesale Solutions addressing the problems I have mentioned, the company canceled by account. I have been ripped off of thousands of dollars!
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