{"id":19788,"date":"2016-09-13T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=19788"},"modified":"2016-09-13T12:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T16:33:51","slug":"29-prime-subprime-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/13\/29-prime-subprime-bankrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"29 Prime, SubPrime, Bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"screenshot-2016-09-13-12-38-56\"As many of you know 29 Prime has not been a favorite Local SEO of mine. They lied<\/a>, dissembled<\/a>, prevaricated and misled<\/a> thousands of small business folks. They have now gone into Chapter 7 Bankruptcy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was alerted to their bankruptcy\u00a0by Regina Martinez, with whom I had been corresponding over the past year about how badly she had been taken advantage of by 29 Prime and the status of her resulting lawsuit:<\/p>\n

Hello Mike,<\/em><\/p>\n

My name is Regina Martinez, I communicated a little over a year ago (as you can see from the email thread below) about 29 Prime.<\/em><\/p>\n

I finally filed a lawsuit and after they delayed things for over a year they went and filed for bankruptcy. They are stating the company is worth $0 has $0 income and 0 employees.\u00a0I’m just reaching out to my network of others who are familiar with their business practices hoping they can point me in a direction so that (and I’m being incredibly honest) I can stop this fraud of a bankruptcy because they should not get to skate away after everything they’ve done.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kind Regards,<\/em>
\n Regina A. Martinez<\/em><\/p>\n

In early 2015 Regina had first contacted me to request permission to use my 29Prime \u2013 Would you Buy a Used Car From These Guys Let Alone SEO?<\/a>\u00a0article as an exhibit in her suit.<\/p>\n

Apparently Regina’s suit was not the only as Leonard Law in Boston had also filed a class action suit<\/a> regarding their abusive robo calling techniques that was winding its way to victory in a Massachusetts court (despite 29 Prime’s effort to try to get it moved to California).<\/p>\n

We won’t whether it was the likelihood of failure against these lawsuits or the accumulated weight of their deception or just a desire to, as Regina thinks, hide their assets that caused their ultimate demise we won’t know.<\/p>\n

They were sure a fun target for me though and I wrote several articles about them:<\/p>\n