ePerks- A Scam or A Gem?

1. Sergio,

   Sorry about that. I marked “inguru” as a spammer and since your mentioned his name all your posts were held for moderation. Fixed.

2. ooops I just spammed, sorry about that everybody

3. Sergio,

   I am not at all trying to obtain your company information, believe me I can care less.

   Just because I pointed out flaws in your campaign doesnt mean I am attacking you.

   I am so tired of hearing you talk about yourself and your so called company. I refuse to believe you are a successful broker merely because of the time you spend on this blog. You would think you would’ve just left one or two comments and moved on however you are posting on this blog everyday. To be honest I think you’re on this site more then Vlad (the owner) himself! That is odd and now see why “benjamin” calls you competitor.

   If you are a realtor, then you are worried sick and have probably lost a whole lot of business to these agents that are on the site. and. Be honest with yourself for a moment. Why would any comeptent human being use a full price agent rather then an agent who offers discounts?

   As I stated earlier several times I am NOT an employee. Just because I disagrees with you doesnt mean I work for the company. If I agree with Microsoft on a blog does that make me an employee of the company?

   Too bad Im not looking to buy a home, believe me if I was I would definitly use the site. I am however looking to trade my car in soon, maybe I’ll use one of their dealers. In any regards i am nothing more than a consumer surfing the web. I heard about the site from a commercial I saw and thought I check it out.

   Lastly all my questions in this comment are rhetorical so please do not reply to them. Im sure you have better things to do and if you dont then please find a hobby.

4. Okay, so consider me a “sucker,” and yes, I will be the first to admit it. I signed up for EPerks 5 months ago. I paid for three zip codes for months. I did get two calls from referrals but they both went no where. Everyone at Eperks was so nice and helpful to begin with. As soon as I decided to cancel in October, the gloves came off and the claws came out. They were beyond rude and completely unprofessional. Even though I paid for three zip codes, they refused to refund me any of the money. At that point, they began to say that I had to pay for 8 months, which they did not tell me to begin with. THERE IS NO MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!!! THEY ARE CROOKS!!! DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE!! OR LACK THEREOF. I called me credit card company to dispute the charges and now eperks is threatening to send me to collections. WHAT CAN I DO? I have excellent credit and do not understand how they have the ability to send this so called account to collections. When I called to discuss things with them I was left on hold for over 25 minutes without so much as a “Would you like to keep holding?” HAS ANYONE HAD any success in defeating these crooks? Is this just an expensive lesson learned?

   1. This is exactally what happen to me. I'm trying very hard to find out if anyone has filed any class action against this company. They need to stop scaming people and refund our hard earn money.

5. of course there is a money back guarantee, but you have to be been on the program for 8 months. you can’t cancel midway and request a refund. The contract is month to month, yes. of course you can cancel the program, but you can’t have used the program and take a refund for 3 months. Thats makes no sense. You are choosing not to partake but you can’t have your cake and eat it to. either you are on board and you get your money back if you are unable to close the deals we send you or you cancel becuase we are month to month.

   you accusation is completely contradictory. Other agents are closing, please don’t take your inability to close the referrals out on us. The program is legitimate and agents are closing deals across the entire country in the winter!!

6. Just an update (11/12/07) for this “ePerks – scam or not?” blog, I just wanted to add my 2 cents. I learned a lot from talking to the fellow who was trying to get me to sign up – he said they “launched at the end of July and it took 47 days to close our first deal and now we are up to over 600?. Hmmm – that is extremely small for the entire United States! Over 3 months and only a little over 600 deals, which equals out to less than 200 a month at this time. Ok, our market is soft right now, but that is an extremely small number when you look at the number of cities we have and the number of realtors. It seems they are making out good with the money coming in from the realtors that have signed up and not seen anything or very little that has worked out! I did contact a realtor that is signed up with them in a town not too far from me and this is what she had to say: “I have been a member of E-Perks since it launched which I believe was this past summer, August I believe. I honestly have not received a single phone call from the advertising that I am doing on E-Perks. Hopefully I will in the future but as of now, none. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.” This has caused me to believe that the monthly fee for being in this is money going down the drain! I would rather use it for advertising in the color real estate books!

7. Sergio, Yes I think it is absolutely ridiculous. They have let me cancel but refuse to refund any of the money that I have paid. I canceled towards the beginning of October and had to pay for the entire month. It was not explained to me that you would have to pay for 8 months and then cancel to get a refund and the intentions or guarantee on their website are still unclear. Honestly, I feel like a sucker and will not ever buy into another referral or lead service.
   Ben- What is it that you refer to as the “contract”? As far as being able to close leads, I only ever received three referrals. One of which never called or emailed me back, even though I attempted to make contact several times. The other wasn’t a true referral because he was in no position to buy. He wanted to trade homes with someone in NWFL with his house in Tampa. The third went no where as well.
   My vote, SCAM.
   Sergio ~~~And YES, I will be looking into the matter further. Drop me a line. I am going to find out how they can legally refer you over to collections if there is no contract and even if I didn’t pay a bill it seems like it should take a long time for it to get to that point. They have told me now that if I don’t send them a cashier’s check for the two chargebacks for 2 months that are going to send me to collections tomorrow.

8. YOU ARE SIMPLY TRYING TO DEBUNK A GREAT SERVICE!!!. YOU ARE A CHEAT WITH A FAKE NAME.

   sergio (dan) you are a little child. You are hiding behind your fake name and hurting this company with this bullshit all over this page. You are a lyer, cheater and competitor and you will not get away with this. By the way say hello to vlad for me, the owner of this blog that harbor your negative marketing garbage.

   Agents are closing deals across the entire country. This is fact! And these agents continue to use the program month after month. Those that chose to drop off before 8 months made their choice. But you cannot cancel and expect not to pay for the time you were on board. You either follow the program in full or you don’t but we are not going to provide charity to an agent that cannot close deals.

9. Well, add me to the list of people that got burned. After having a very very specific conversation with the sales rep that initially cold called me regarding and affirming that the ROI guarantee DOES apply to the standard account – I have since been told that it DOES NOT apply and was referred to the fine print.

   There is zero marketing that is visible to me. No reasonable reason to see that they will drive enough traffic to keep even 1/50th of the agents on the site supplied with leads.

   Up until last week a google search for “Eperks” returned a full page of negative reviews above their own site.

   I feel that I was burned to the tune of $240. Live and learn.

10. Scott,

    Clearly you are either sergio, dan or vlad himself. Why, because we have no fine print.

    AGAIN ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO DEBUNK A GREAT SERVICE.

11. Hi

    I joined eperks in Oct 07. Paid 129.95 for a territory. Never received a single lead. Eperks charged my card again in November. I cancelled my subscription with them in December. I just received a collection notice for $129.95. and have no idea what it is for?

12. Charlie,

    Not picking sides here but no one just sends people to collections for fun. Lets be honest you most likely didn’t pay your bill or told your credit company to reverse charges. If its the latter then you’re just playing dumb for some pity.

    It looks like the company has thousands of clients, if all of them were being sent to collections for fun then this blog would be thousands of posts deep.

    please dont insult us.

    Kirk

13. Kirk,

    Please stop insulting my readers and those who left comments here or I am going to ban you from leaving further posts. Just a word of advise start treating your customers even if they are dissatisfied with dignity or you may end up looking for another job soon. 😉

14. what customers?! I am an Broker you idiot! For god sakes the second I argue against someone you like, I am considered spam?

    Your’re absolutely ridiculous. Something is fishy about this blog.

    Kirk

15. Kirk,

    It sure looked like you were taking ePerks’ side replying to Charlie’s comments saying he is “playing dumb”. By the way, if you ever call me or any one else on this blog a dumb or an idiot your comments will be deleted and you will loose the privilege of commenting here.

    Also if you think there is something “fishy” about this blog- stay way.

16. Clearly this is one of those ideas that has to hit the tipping point. If the public lets it of course. Clearly there will be customers that don’t do well but obviously there must be some group of agents, perhaps the ones that purchased the right zips or stayed on long enough, that are doing well as they look to be doing ok. My guess is that it is probably very important in a model like this that you take good zip codes. Perhaps some of the dramatic people purchased less desirable zip code maybe.

    Its an interesting idea for real estate.

17. By the way, I am just a marketing director but something tells me the owners this blog Vlad or Valdimer is some how earning money for having vested so much interest into this topic on this blog. Actually surprises me how so much work has gone into this topic on this blog. I’ve counted at least 3 articles on this web site. Again, I am no attorney, but I would guess you are bit over doing it and perhaps exposed personally for all the energy put into debunking something.

    Vladimir huh, interesting.

18. John,

    I don’t know who you the hell you are, but you are beginning to get on my nerve. Don’t try to spell my name it just makes you look not so intelligent. In fact if you had read all the threads on my blog you would discover that ePerks were the one to pay me to write my first review. I had little to do what other people have said and am gald they continue to sound out.

    John please stop threatening me. I am no attorney but I do have one who is waiting for me to give him a go ahead. I have less to hide than the crooks at ePerks.

19. Charlie – My guess would be that they are trying to force you to pay for December and hose you like they have so many other people….myself included..

20. Vlad I did not threaten you, but I don’t like your site, your comments or you for that matter. I am aware of your kind. The eperkscom people might not konw what rights they have. So because you and the comment you made iritate me I will personally call their offices and forward this thread and page directly to their mangement team as well as to a legal team that deals with precisely your type of agenda. I do hope they come after you personally. I dont like your kind.

    I understand you are not a lawyer. I do have a real estate background and a legal background and what you have here is not a blog anymore it is vendeta.

    And please don’t threaten me with your attorney threats. I have done nothing to you for you to suggest that your lawyer is just waiting for you to give a go ahead against me. I wish you well volodomir and I hope they do generate costs for you.

21. John,

    You were the first one to bring up the “attorney talk” in your comments.

    You can e-mail this thread any one you wish. If you do not like my website theres is a simple solutions- stop coming here. 😉

    Cheers!

22. John,

    I do not hide the fact that I own http://www.volodymyrzablotskyy.com/ so you can expose me as much as you like 🙂

23. …And I just did some research on you vlad. And you know what, im going to let you find out who I am. I’ve decided to expose you online. Nothing illegal, but I just don’t like you and your tone. Hopefully you enjoy reading about yourself online and from what I have found you do. Chow.

24. John,

    I am assuming you have subscribed to the comments on this blog. There should be a link in each e-mail to let you manage subscriptions. If you can’t find it I can remove you myself and you will not receive further e-mails.

    To be honest I am sick and tired of this thread myself as well and it is my website!!! I personally have no reason to report them to BBB, I never did any business with them as other real estate agents did.

25. I have decided to close this thread and for that matter all the threads concerning ePerks on this blog. I am sick and tired for being attacked by some teenagers who know nothing about real estate yet think they can make a fortune just because they know how to create a website. I really hope these threads where useful to some of you and have saved you some headaches. Or at least you had a place to rant about how badly you were treated. I personally have better things to do than to deal with these insulting attacks. However before I close these topics, I have one question to ask every one who still follows this thread….

    How realistic are the incentives with this company?
    Here is one example right from their website:
    

    

    Let say you are a real estate agent who’s firm charges 6% for the services. You are about to sell a $300,000 house. How in the world can you afford to offer an incentive of $20,000? Even if you sell the listing “in house” getting some extra incentive from your broker you will not be able to offer even $10,000 as an incentive. But let say your listing is sold by an agent from another company. If you work on 50/50 split you probably will end up with about $4,500 in your pocket, right? I personally think you deserve all of it. Tell me how much of that $4,500 hard earned money will you be willing to give away??? Whatever you decide to give will be a far cry from what the advertise on their website!

    Here is another example with a real estate agent offering 20% cash back:
    

    

    My question is 20% of what? Of selling price? Not likely? Of the 6% that your company charges for services? Unlikely. What if house is sold by another agent who is not from your company? That leaves only your portion of commission- the $4,500. 20% of that will be $900. Again far cry from “Up to $20,000 in incentives”.

    As I said I am sick an tired of ePerks. If you would like to respond to this comment please do so by 10 PM eastern time – after that the comments on this thread will be closed. As well as on the rest of the threads about ePerks. John has provided links to BBB- do what you wish with them. The 150+ comments in this thread should give good enough picture what you are getting yourself into.

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