Good Riddance To Frank Haywood!
I finally said “Good Riddance” to Frank Haywood today! It was a long time in coming and also what I thought would be a great way to start off my new blog. You see, I hate it when people do business with little or no regard to their customers. I can tolerate a lot in life but having people take advantage of me is something I feel strongly about.
A little background first.
I’m an Internet Marketer and businessman. I have over 40 years of Customer Service experience and have always run my business with the customer in mind. I do not hype my products, do not use marketing tricks and deception, and always make certain I give my customer the very best value and service that I possibly can. When I dont get treated the same way in return, I become angry. Hence my cutting ties with Frank Haywood.
Frank haywood is an Internet Marketer who lives somewhere in the UK. His company is called We’re Bazaar. He started out with a digital delivery product that was quite good and I still use it. He was very responsive and his blog had a lot of useful information in it. Support requests were answered the same day and everything was great.
Then he changed. Responsiveness fell way down and some requests went totally unanswered. Then I purchased a product he was promoting for someone else and I was supposed to get a product of his worth $125 for free. That was two years ago and I still have not received the product. E-mails or support tickets inquiring about this were totally ignored after the first request! That should have prepared me for what was to come but it did not.
Frank Haywood blog was a source of useful information but he started a trend of making posts that were all tied to the next product he was promoting. Something that one read and thought was informational was in fact, nothing more than a hyped up affiliate sales pitch, or a pitch for his next product. While there is nothing wrong with trying to sell product, you should not disguise information posting with sales pitches.
The quality of his products declined and deadlines for new products were made and then not adhered to. He would promise something for a certain date and then not deliver in order to build a sense of urgency to increase sales. Again, a hit to his credibility.
Lastly, and this was the reason I finally had enough of his nonsense, was his PLR membership program. For a monthly fee, you were to receive one software product along with resale rights and graphics. A good idea and it was released in what Frank haywood called “beta”.
Unfortunately “beta” meant everything was late and the products often did not work as claimed. These software “products” were mostly little wordpress plug-ins designed to get people to buy products with subliminal messages, plant hidden “cookies” for all osrts of products, or other nonsense like that.
The msot recent product for this month is already one week late and we have already paid for it! He also promises additional benfits and resources that just never come. 3 months ago he promised a E-Cover tool and we are still waiting. Everything is focused on getting you to remain a member but nothing ever materializes.
Here is what really makes me angry and is the reason for this post:
Franks Blog and his PLR membership site have many places to make comments. If they are positive, you will see them in print. If they contain anything negative, he deletes them! So you look at his sites and all you see are glowing tributes to him and his products. Not a single negative thing unless he can use it to sell his next product or spin it into something good.
You see, people like Frank haywood use these techniques and practices to provide a distorted view of their business so you buy from them. If you had seen the negative posts, you might not buy. Let me set the record straight here and be 100% clear about the deleted negative posts. These are not vile, obscene language rantings. These are posts like “Frank, everything is late and you have not responded to my last 4 support requests. What’s going on?”
By censoring the posts, you deny full disclosure to the customer. The customer thinks he is getting one thing and pays his money only to find out the product and support are misrepresented.
For those of you who think I have a vendetta or personal grudge against Frank haywood, Google his name and see some of the other posts. Even better, go to his blog and search through the archives. You will see a post where he actually says it is 100% OK to release a product before the bugs are worked out because that’s the only way to make more money! Slap it together, sell it, and move on.
Heck of a business model isn’t it? Today I am cancelling my PLR Membership and it truly saddens me that Frank Haywood has decided to operate his business this way. Perhaps some day he will see the light and change his ways. The problem is if he does, no one will really know because we can’t believe anything he tells us anymore.
That’s the sad part. It really is.
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