I am a part owner in a small local mortgage brokerage. We were contacted by Carl Ball from Whoesale lists.
After a detailed conversation regarding mail leads, we opted to try them out. These leads came with a guaranteed 94% or better results from the data. We paid 670 dollars for 5,000 leads and proceeded to buy postage and professionally done postcards to the tune of more than 2000 dollars on top of the 670.
We mailed the cards and within two days, started getting the cards returned in the mail for reasons like no address found, unable to deliver, no such person at this address. Almost 100% of these cards were returned.
We contacted Carl Ball and he proceeded to blow more sunshine and suggested that this batch of leeds was just bunk for some reason and he would replace the list plus an extra free 1000 leads to try again.
This new batch of data was no better than the first batch with returned cards pouring in daily and not a single call from any of these leads. Perturbed, we again contacted Carl Ball who tried to replace the list yet again so we could waste even more money on postage and cards. We were only interested in a refund at this point. There was too much of a risk to try them again and waste yet another batch of postage and cards.
So at this point we are approximately 2000 dollars upside down because of these garbage leads. As I said previously, we are a small family run business and do not have the capital to just throw away like that. We have almost had to close our doors because of this fiasco.
Wholesale Lists still refuses to refund our money and compensation for the cards and postage has also been refused. This has put a huge strain on our budget.
This corporation should not be trusted or used by anyone interested in seeing a return on their marketing.
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