While you at it, could you also ask who posted following on Yahoo! Answers?

http://www.go-beyond-mls.com/silencing-a-blogger-with-discusting-tactics/

Good luck with your position at ePerks. I hope to see you here an leave comments a week from now. If I were you, I would not inquire about this cease and desist letter, if you want to keep this job. I am serious about it.

Unless of course you are just here to create more hype for this company.

Best of luck!

Wow, I never knew there was so many mixed feelings about ePERKS. I JUST started working here 2 days ago (I have not even hit the phones yet) and I definitely want to make sure my team manager is aware of this and I will inquire about the class-action lawsuit and cease and desist blogs. (??? C&D, honestly … who thinks they can silence people like that?!?)

Many of my co-workers are a bit less customer service savvy and more “get it now” type attitude. However, that is the attitude they want us to take because we do face a lot of rejection and in order for employees to not feel like complete failures, they want us to toughen our hides. I think this could contribute to poor service. I want to improve it.

In all honesty, this method of generating business is going to work for some and not for others. Whether it is simply the lack of business in zip codes that are chosen or if people aren’t willing to really invest time into marketing themselves in many additional outlets instead of just waiting for the phone to ring, it just depends. Everyone’s experience is going to vary.

How I see it, not only as a new employee, but as someone who takes what I do personally and wants to help as many people as possible, I think it overall is a product that is valuable and makes sense but might not be right for everyone.

Unfortunately, people who do not hold themselves to standards like I do may burn valuable bridges. I used to work for ELOAN, until they laid off 500+ people and I loved them too, until I was let go for a bogus reason to avoid being paid severance. And do I have a bad taste in my mouth from that? Hell YES I do. Does that mean that ELOAN is a bad choice for everyone? Not in the least.

What I can say is the job looks like it is going to be really hard, and there is a high turnover even for people who have early success. I want to be successful there so I am trying to know as much as I can from all angles. They have told me that the cancellation process has been crappy because of the way it has to be done and some employees aren’t clear to their agents how to do it. Agents are calling to cancel WITHOUT SENDING WRITTEN EMAIL CONFIRMATION to clientservices@eperks.com (OMG I will TOTALLY make sure this is the right email, I still haven’t had my work station 100% set up!!!) I’m sure that plays a part in miscommunication about payments and unauthorized charges.

Wow, this is long. I tend to do that. If you ever hear from a Jennifer from ePERKS, I won’t ask you to give me any special treatment, but I am driven to be better than anybody else, and will make sure ROI gurantees are fulfilled on agents I sign up and that if they need to cancel for whatever reason that it gets DONE. (my referral ID: jp10) ^_~

I can’t make the same promise for my co-workers, everyone has a different ethical sense.

I hope things work out for people who give ePERKS a try. If they find it doesn’t, I hope they don’t try to rain on anyone else’s success and be sure to follow through on cancelling the service as completely as possible. If it works, share great success with others! I tried recruiting tons of collegues to ELOAN while it was riding the wave. ePERKS is NEW NEW NEW only since July 2007! They already have commercials running (although I didn’t like the truck hitting the lady one at all!) but still, it’s got to mean something.

I am going to stop typing, I promise, I seriously try just way too hard to say everything I want in one shot! This is one of my “tasks” to overcome at work coincidentally, as well as the homework I have to do tonight. So good luck everyone, and I am going to make sure I know all about these incidents before I hit the phones tomorrow. Thanks for reading, I’ll keep checking back and see how things go.

Thanks Vlad for your desire to help others. That is really all we can do in life or why bother with the freedom we are given here?

-jen-

Interestingly enough, when the controversy broke on my blog some “fans” of this company would say that no one should expect results first month or two… yeah right at the cost of $250 a month???

Thanks for stopping by and sharing.

This was not the only place I’ve heard negative information about eperks. I also posted an agent 2 agent question on trulia and 3 out of 3 responses had negative experiences.

I was interested in 2 zip codes to buy exclusive rights. That was $259/month. I asked how many agents are currently listed in those zips with non-exclusive rights. He replied, “about 20″. My next question was, “So how many deals have closed in those zips (through eperks) in the last 6 months.”

The sales guy said he didn’t have that information, but even worse said that he couldn’t/wouldn’t get it because…(insert BS here). Then he said maybe if we were discussing a bigger account they might be able to do that type of research yada yada yada.

Then I found this site and hung up on him!

Some most recent revelations about this company’s tactics to disparage my name made me convinced more than ever that I have done the right thing by publishing this cease and desist notice.

I am glad that body of the same cease and desist notice had serve the purpose of becoming anchor text for the links to my articles.

Look for tomorrows article describing how low this company is willing to go to disparage and defame me.

This only part of the story. I can’t even begin to describe here how low this company is prepared to go…. But not to worry, I am going after every single ass involved in all of this.

Does your blog platform support closing comments on a per post basis? It sounds like some of those older posts needed a line drawn under them.

Anything they want to accuse you of they have to prove both here in the UK and in the USA. If they make claims against you then you can always demand in a cease and desist that “you are advised to demand proof of these claims” - there are plenty of templates for that sort of thing ont he web.

Don’t let them bully you.

I am not sure there will be any heat. As I mentioned elsewhere. I needed to do this to be at peace with myself. I moving pass this. There are so many better things to write about.

You know they say in show business that bad PR is better than no PR. I think it funny that ePERKS is getting the publicity out of this. I had never even heard of them before now.

I can’t say from one side or the other as I have not used the service, but I can say as a fellow Realtor that (in the video) hitting a Realtor with a truck is no better than blogging about a service. One is defamation and so is the other.

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License Type:
BROKER

Name:
Birla, Ramesh Kumar

Mailing Address:
8796 FELIZ WAY
TRACY, CA 95304

License ID:
01301364

Expiration Date:
06/09/10

License Status:
LICENSED

Broker License Issued:
06/10/06 (Unofficial — taken from secondary records)

Former Name(s):
Birla, Ramesh Kumar Jr

Main Office:
8796 FELIZ WAY
TRACY, CA 94566

DBA
Birla & Associates Realty
ACTIVE AS OF 08/21/2006

Branches:
NO CURRENT BRANCHES

Affiliated Licensed Corporation(s):
01825903 - Officer Expiration Date: 09/18/11
Action Realty Group Inc

01818017 - Officer Expiration Date: 08/06/11
Brabus Ventures Corporation

01522498 - Officer Expiration Date: 07/12/10
Rescal Realty Inc
OFFICER CANCELED AS OF 11/30/07

Comment:
NO DISCIPLINARY ACTION

07/27/02 - CONDITIONAL LICENSE SUSPENSION. EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS NOT FILED.

11/27/02 - CONDITIONAL SUSPENSION REMOVED. EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS MET.

>>>> Public information request complete <<<<

From my understanding there is a class action suit being brought upon eperks.com so maybe that is why one of there key board of directors has resigned.

I also think it’s silly. Especially in view that my blog is not even that known. Did you hear about me before???

Sorry for keeping your comment in moderation…. You placed three links and whenever that happens the comment goes into moderation.

Thanks for stopping by.