Hi, My name is “abc” from “xyz” company and we are interested in your Web services. “Can you please tell me how much you charge for one, two, and three?”, the fake prospect says. So you say that every project is different and we have to check out your needs deeply and see what we can do for you first, and then we’ll get down to the figures. So you go and spend so much of your time preparing a good proposal preceded by a questioner, you spend time on it. The next day you hear the same name, but wait, this time he is the Business Development Manager of another Web agency.
On the twist
It’s really unethical to do that so. We at dots & lines take such incidents very seriously. We’ve been having fake prospect for exactly six times since the time of launching. So, six web agencies have tried to exploit our open end communication channels. First through e-mail, then telephone, and yet the worst, I even arranged a meeting and met one of them.
Is that a way of researching a market? Cuz it definitely is a dirty one. Among the six incident of Fake Prospects we gave up really valuable information to two of them, information such as what we could do for their projects and what exactly it takes to make it happen, be it Financially or Timely. We gave up our time, energy, and thoughts, not forgetting that being a start-up Time is really expensive.
Exploiting the Good
So you try to make it easy for the real clients to get in touch as quick as possible, as easiest as possible, but these Jerks have to come down and try to waste your time.
That’s fraud!
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2 Comments
1 Ali wrote:
I bet you guys wasted much of your time on phony people
2 Ali wrote:
It reminds me of a time when I first came to Dubai everyone kept asking me questions in the Dubai Media Show it turned they were rivals. They could simply ask while giving up their real identity I don’t know why they did not.