SCAM ALERT

Anybody heard of CD Data Direct? Yeah, well they just scammed us. No kidding. Here's the story.

We got a phone call. My husband talked to a guy, saying he didn't need any yellow pages thing for our farm... we are a farm, after all. Well, the guy somehow scammed him into it. Made my husband believe we were already in there, owing hundreds of dollars, and that we just had to get this cd and only owe 100. My husband believed him (since we had just had dealings with some idiot who was sending us bills for hundreds of dollars for some online business listing we had never signed up for... we thought we had finally gotten that taken care of). We got the cd, and when I finally got the bill, I called the lady immediately.

We were told that if we sent it back, our bill would be cancelled. The lady was very nice. I sent it in the next day. Well, lo and behold, a week later, we got these phone calls from this loser guy again. One of the two guys my husband talked to the first time. The one who claimed he was the only guy my husband talked to (the phone records that the woman had when I talked to her showed that my husband had indeed spoken with two seperate people, and that is why the lady said there was probably a miscommunication). We owed them...

There was a refund only if the disc was sent within 30 days of recieving it. My husband signed for it on the 28th of June. It sat, unopened, for weeks, until I saw it and dealt with it. I shipped it out the 27th of July. WITHIN the 30 day deadline... but just barely.

They wouldn't accept that.

So now, we paid some loser company money for absolutely NOTHING. What &!(@&)#$&!

Sorry... I don't normally have a foul mouth.

Edit: I just went online and found a whole bunch of info on data direct... it's technically free. This CD data direct IS a scam. We reported the credit card lost or stolen. So, they won't get their money. Ha. Technically... it isn't theirs to begin with.

Here's some info.
Small business blog
Business Derictory Scam Target Publications

Don't fall prey to these scammers! Please! For your own sanity, if you get a phone call from anyone claiming you owe money for data distribution/ yellow pages directory, or anything of the sorts, HANG UP! Don't answer them, give them your name, or anything!