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By: cindy neas Bailey

cindy neas Bailey — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:26:59 +0000

Yes, I FULLY agree with the comment made about Fraudulant business’s being listed through Merchant Circle. Instead of me elaborating now you can just go to merchant cicle and 1st type in Evergreen Nursery Evansville Tn……. Then after reading that blog and review and comments go on over to Custom Landscaping and Design Dayton Tn. The county lines must be right their about 1/2 way between them because they are not even 5 minutes apart! My expierence was sooo unnessary But I honestly thought by being listed under something like Merchant Circle which i happened upon through DavesBackyardgarden.com . But I do believe I am telling you right that Evergreen was also listed as a choice in Daves web site? I would havet
to go back and look BUT i do know for a fact that thats how i stumbled up on Merchants Circle and stupid like took their site as legit just as I did Evergreen? NOT!!!!!!!!!!! So yes, You will see in my complaint to Merchant Circle in their contact us area that I wished they could drive down or up Im not even sure where they are located? Point is I wished that they could drive to EVERGREEN NURSERY in EVANSVILLE TN RHEA HWY. And see what a flimflam outfit they were representing! Thank YOU for the chance to share this with YOUR Reader’s, I want to get this out to as many people as I can EVEN though I hope their not all as gullable as I am!!!!!!!!!!! Truly Cindy/Loudon

By: laura

laura — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:40:59 +0000

MC has agreed to refund my money and they did remove that bogus post for that company I will update on the status of the refund. And the MC staff was helpful

By: laura

laura — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:27:53 +0000

I wanted to respond becuase I had a $348 charge on my debit card. I tried to contact MC many times with great difficulty and did receive a call back from a David . The charges to my account were explained to me because I paid for a website for a company called Bit Market. MC had my credit information and also my home address linked to the creation of this web page called New Zealand Authentics. Long and short of the story they did not have my email address which is needed to sign into the account nor did they have my authority. They are fully aware that my credit card was misused. They explained to me that the company that is listed can’t even be contacted because it is a bogus phone number listed on MC and goes to a fax machine. The so called Bit Market is in Kenosha,WI. Anyhow MC representative David was empathetic to my story and is in full awarement that my debit card was misused by this so called company selling electronics. They got my card information because my son tried to by an Apple Touch off a company called GigaDrive which unbelievably is no longer searchable on the web. Hum how interesting. What I don’t understand is why MC would continue to carry the listing for Bit Market if they know it is bogus and maybe they could be a bit more helpful by sending me a letter to turn into my debit card company so maybe I can recoupe the money when I contest the charges with the card company. And Darren I know you have responded to this site and I will cut and paste this onto the other address you listed. Maybe you can talk to David and get my number he has both my home and work and we can get this taken care of. Sadly enough this isn’t money I worked for but was my son’s child support money. If you don’t believe me look up Pennsylvania Eppicard. Thanks so much and Darren hope to verbally hear from you soon.

By: Beverly Kington

Beverly Kington — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:12:50 +0000

I have 3 locations of The UPS Store franchise in Lakeland, FL and since January have been spending an extensive amount of time trying to get my head around the entire internet search engine / advertising topic.

I am one of the merchants on ML. As a non-tech savy retail operator, I will take any help I can get! I’ve been actively working my site and attempting to involve other retailers in my area and shopping centers.

You all now have a perfectly willing guina pig with sites you can look at from the perspective of this blog and give me insight. Of course, you may also say I’m a trusting idiot for volunteering, but just picture me wearing rose-colored glasses and have at it!!!

Beverly Kington

By: Darren W

Darren W — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:13:19 +0000

Hi Lynda,

Please send an email to our customer support rep at jennifer_at_merchantcircle.com (please replace “_at_” with “@” when emailing). Please mention my name in the subject line of the email and I’ll make sure we take care of you.

Thanks,
Darren

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:12:20 +0000

Darren’s email: darren@merchantcircle.com

Are you saying that the bad info is listed in Google Maps and picked up from something you did at MC?

By: Lynda

Lynda — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:02:29 +0000

I am upset with MC because I naively entered an email message to what I thought was my attorney’s sanctioned site and find that it comes up with every Google search of my name!
My personal contact information is revealed as well as personal comments of a legal nature.
I cannot contact MC’s webmaster as per the Google information removal protocol and need assistance in getting this data removed.
I’ve tried to contact “Darren” from MC in the above string–but cannot get through via an email message.

Any suggestions? I’m not technically savvy.

Thank you.

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MerchantCircle Registering SMB Domains « Screenwerk — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:00:50 +0000

[...] Registering SMB Domains By Greg Sterling Mike Blumenthal sent me a link to this post, where he describes the following: It appears that Merchant Circle has purchased as many as 10,700 [...]