Plenty. But do not take my word for it. Mashable, a popular social networking news blog, reveals following information:
ePerks is a site that offers consumers cash-back incentives, and businesses with a way to get their products in front of potential customers.
Launched by Ben Behrouzi, who also founded Reply.com, ePerks was funded with his own venture fund.
I have to admit. Every time I read the above two sentences I can’t help but wonder if the coward who posted on Yahoo! Answers was paid and who paid him? I may never find answer… But then again, I may just get lucky. There are a lot of good people out there.
But the venture capital and the founder are not only things these to company have in common. They both shared good amount of criticism. One round of criticism took place on my blog. Which, as many of you know, lead to cease and desist notice which eventually misfired- my blog ranks #2 on Google for the term “eperks”.
Reply.com received a share of negative reviews as well. But it was almost two years ago. Reply.com just underwent a major “face lift”, and even embraced the new social media element into their new website- a blog, even though my comments did not stand a chance to survive there. But I don’t blame them. I might have deleted many comments by the “fans” leaving suspiciously positive comments on one of my posts. It this respect I can call it “fair enough”.
I have spoken, if you have anything “juicy” on either company- be my guest help yourself to the comment form below. Positive (if there is any) feedback is also welcomed.
UPDATE: I have had a pleasure of speaking with Mr. Payam Zamani, the Chairman and CEO of Relpy.com. Mr. Zamani had clarified to me that Reply.com has nothing to do with ePerks and that Benham Behrouzi had left the Reply.com back in 2006. I appreciate Mr. Zamani’s transparency, and felt it was my duty to update this post for my readers.
I skipped the article and just taking a guess here: THEY WERE BOTH FOUNDED BY SAME PERSON AND THEY BOTH SUCK!
They DONT know what they are doing..I agreed to the subscription then they could not deliver what they said.SO I said cancel my subscription they they said OK..Then a few weeks later someone calls about the $100 bill. The salesmen calls a few times a month to get us to subscripe..WSe told him no thank you..Then they threaten to send the bill to collections..We left several messages and said WE NEVER GOT THE SERVICE…they sent the erroneous bill to collections..WHAT A RIP OFF>DONT SIGN UP WITH THAT COMPANY>
Yeah – Payam is Ben's uncle.. Ben is a little crazier though. Blood is thicker than water, but when Ben walked out of Reply without notice and took a bunch of the engineers, it ended in a lawsuit between the two (who says blood is thicker than water.) Now apparently Ben is running after his former employees, threatening lawsuits and harassing them for leaving his company. He's even stalking one guy. What a mess! Guess that's what happens when you want to be rich and don't want to bother making money the honest way!
Here's something you might find interesting, written approximately two months before Ben Behrouzi parted ways with Reply.Com. Many of the links have rotted away, but there's some telling details about BB's “management style”…: http://despondev.blogspot.com/2006/08/o-sweet-v…
reply.com is really spam.com will not let you unsubscribe, run by monkey's, should be shut down.
you guys are stupids they are just doing their own bussines.
Consider this a last warning. No one calls me or my readers stupid. Get your own blog and do whatever you like there.
I just got a collection notice from eperks. They said they would report me to the credit bureaus and send it over to an attorney. They lied to me about giving a full refund and that they heavily advertised when I do not a single ad on TV or the web. I was promised leads that never came. I disputed this with my credit card company and eperks is bullying me into paying them for something they did not deliver.
Vlad, I am so happy the case is over for you. But, for allot of us who signed up it is not over and eperks threats and lies as well as collection practices need to stop. it is one thing to pay for a service and get what was promised. It is another to be lied too, and misled into believing full refunds were to be given and advertising would be done and was being done. If you have been sent to collections by eperks, please let us all know what happened. Did they really send it to collections? Did they send it to an attorney? Thanks
Kathy,
I don't know if they did all those things you are asking. In fact, they will probably accuse me of writing your comments myself, as they did in the past.
Judging by the recent BBB ratings of ePerks, you are not the only one having the problems with them:
http://goldengate.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?s…
I can't give you advise either way, but maybe your attorney can.
Kathy,
I don't know if they did all those things you are asking. In fact, they will probably accuse me of writing your comments myself, as they did in the past.
Judging by the recent BBB ratings of ePerks, you are not the only one having the problems with them:
http://goldengate.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?s…
I can't give you advise either way, but maybe your attorney can.
The saga continues… Leapfish.com another Ben Behrouzi