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Hello Fellow HB People,
I don’t know how many of you use or have used the services of ServiceMagic, but I’m sure quite of few of us have.
I tried them and I did not like the way it worked…seemed like forced competion to me, but that’s neither here nor there because I closed the account last year.
I’ve noticed that ServiceMagic misrepresents itself at my or should I say at OUR expense.
For wahtever reason I happended to Google “Heaven’s Best Carpet Cleaning Paramus, NJ” and guess what came up as a sponsored result.
First Line said “Heaven’s Best”, second line said something about carpet cleaning and the third line had the link to the ServiceMagic site.
I kind of equate this to me hanging a McDonalds sign on a building and when people come in for a Big Mac I say, don’t worry we make burgers too.
Some people do actually Google local Heaven’s Best Companies because they may have lost all those follow up postcards or newsletters you’ve sent them but they remembered our name.
Now they think they found you and before you know it they’re filling out a ServiceMagic form thinking it’s Heaven’s Best.
I’m not an advertising or internet lawyer but something doen’t seem right here be it outright illegal or considered SPAM by Search Engine standards.
Enough said, PLEASE give me your thoughts.I have had this happen to me. They had 800 number to schudule with heavensbest and so I called. The guy told me that Heavensbest was not available, but he could put me in contact with an equally reputable company. I asked for his supervisor and then I threatened to sue the s@#t out of them if they did not take this down. It took a couple of days and then it was gone. Good luck
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