Business Development Consultants, Inc. Know how to get you excited about the prospects of growing your business by promising to find you customers that only they can find for a hefty fee. They fax you a list of customers to contact about the services they offer along with information about their company. Everything seemed legit and above board even the Better Business Bureau report at the time was good.
Once you are satisfied this is a good deal you send them your money to the tune of $2,995.00. Then oops, they don't send you any contact information so you give them a call. They apologize, they got your start date wrong.
You receive your first phone call followed by a fax with contact information for your first "confirmed" appointment. You give the contact a call and guess what, they can't meet with you or some other excuse, or the one I like best, I don't want to do business with anyone associated with a company that pressures you into making an appointment. Bells and whistles should be going off by now but they aren't because, hey it was one person, two, then three.
But, you tell yourself this is just part of it and after all they DID promise me 10 legitimate contacts. Contacts where you actually get to meet with people so everything is good because these three do not count against me as part of the 10. So you wait. And you wait.
Three months go by so you give them a call and now it's your fault that they have not contacted you. Confusion sets in followed by irritation which you politely express to your account representative. Your account representative calms you down with a promise that the promised contacts will be coming, they are working on it.
Your 10 months are up and surprise, you still haven't heard from anyone, and no contacts. You place another phone call to the company but your account representative no longer handles your case, she fell down on the job so her supervisor will be personally handling your case.
So you play the waiting game again. Now you are irritated to the point your blood is boiling as you place another call. You insist on speaking to someone in charge and low and behold you are put through to the top dog who promises to personally see to your account. She begs you to please give them another chance even though your contract time has expired. She says she will make sure that you receive all 10 of your promised contacts and she will call you once a week to give you an update. You reluctanly agree to give it one more shot.
Everything is great. Your new account representative is calling with updates every week just as promised. You receive information about a contact. You give them a call, they actually agree to meet with you. This is great you tell yourself, this time it is going to finally pay off. That was the first 4 weeks and only 2 contacts that you actually got to visit with in person then nothing. No phone calls, no emails, no faxes. Nothing. So you wait... And wait.
My first contact was February when they received their money. This is October and I am still owed, by their contract, 8 more contacts. I do not think this company has any intentions of fulfilling their part of the contract or they would have done so long before now.
I have called the number they gave me and that I had been using, but that number has been changed. I finally got their new number, gave them a call, no one is available please leave a message and someone will call you back. I'm still waiting, but not patiently. Now I'm taking action and filing complaints with everyone and anyone who will listen.
If you own a business and someone very polite person calls you from Business Development Consultants, Inc., BDCI, hang up quickly. You can build your business better by yourself and by building a good reputation for yourself. Please learn from my mistake.
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