Just an FYI – I received a phone call from a company calling themselves Webxcites and the gentleman I spoke with told me how he could increase my ranking in the search engines. I told him I was not interested. He cut me off saying, “well, what we do is make sure that you rank in the top when people search for you on the web.”
Again, I said I was not interested. He again cut me off with, “if someone is looking for your company on the web, you will miss out on that business.”
After getting the spelling of his company so that I could use it if they ever call me back, I said, “I am not really interested and please take me off your call list.”
He apologized and thanked me for my time – right? NOPE! This mental giant decided that his best strategy now would be to insult me – that will surely close the sale.
“Its your loss, idiot!” Was this designed to make me realize that him no longer calling me was indeed “my” loss? How could I have been so naive… of course, it would be my loss. Without him calling, I would have peace and quiet – I would have more cell minutes – I would have… well, it didn’t matter – what I wouldn’t have is a good ranking in a search engine. Oh wait, I already have that.
I guess the dumb folks need jobs too.
Their number is 713-780-2296… It would be wrong for me to recommend that everyone prank call them, but it would make me laugh if someone decided to do it on their own. 😉
Do you know how to get in touch with this company? They called one day with the same speech while I was driving, and I asked they just email me the info and I would get back to them.
I never received the email, but now I receive one phone call every day around the same time (9:15EST). Because I am work, my voice mail picks it up. I get a 1-2 minute (wasting my minutes) message of nothing…background noise, people talking, etc.
I have tried to call the number 713-780-2296. The line stops ringing, but no sound on the other end.
Any ideas of what a main number to this organization is, as this is bordering on ridiculous.
I tried webxcites.com, but there is no contact info. Any would be appreciated!
Thanks
The compay is called WebXites.com, probably why you wern’t able to find contact info.
I’ve never dealt with the company or received a call from them but they are actually some what of a tremendous success in the web design/hosting world. They were one of Entrepreneurs Magazines top 100 companies (8.5 million revenue last year). I had never heard of them until I was on a plane and happened to be reading the magazine, however since reading the article I’ve looked into them. Apparently they are really big on the direct mail/telemarketing but I guess it has really paid off.
It doesn’t seem like they hire many good employees though.
I spoke with Gene at Webxcites after he heard about this posting and he assured me that what I experienced was not normal and indeed an anomoly. He sounded sincere in his assertion that the company not only disapproved of the action of this one employee, but wanted to make sure that I knew it was an isolated event.
The company is called webxites. You want to know a little about them? Just google or yahoo webxites. You will find many attorney general bbb complaints ect on the first page of the search results. Interesting I guess they do know how to get on the first page of the search results. Check it out.
It is indeed normal for these fu*#tards to be rude. I asked them to stop calling and the pea brain on the phone kept on going with his spiel so I told him again and he started mocking me, WTF?
Also, THERE SEEM TO BE MANY REPORTS OF RIP-OFFS AND FRAUD BILLING ONLINE. LOOK FOR YOURSELF.
I have had the service of webxites for 3 or 4 years and the only reason I am still with them is to get them to release my domain name and because I have not had the time to rebuild my site until just recently (I have lost thousands of dollars in sales and revenue because of them).
Otherwise I should have been gone a long time ago. They made all sorts of false promises to me about my shopping cart and credit card acceptance was included (a BIG LIE!) So I got my own credit card service so I could at least process orders through the shopping cart. That did not work because they failed to renew the secure certificate which I found out this year expired in 2006. No wonder I had so few orders. When I contacted their supposed customer service I was given repeated assurances by the customer rep that this would get taken care of. After that I than forwarded numerous emails with this request with no response at all. Now I find out that my website is usually down over the weekends, but they still know how to charge my credit card on a timely basis. If I was anyone even considering this company I would run away from them as soon as possible.
I am astonished that the Fed’s or the Attorney General has not taken them to court and thrown the whole lot of them in jail for being rip-offs. The article in Entrepreneurs Magazines mentioned can be purchased by any company who wants to look good and I am astonished they have not been shut down for publishing these lies.
I hope to be rid of them very soon and I recommend anyone else to stay as far away as possible!