Complaint Review: Apache Leads

I made the mistake of ordering leads in order to have more people to talk to about a company that is somewhat similar to MLM.

Let me tell you folks, just save your money.  I ordered some leads from ApacheLeads.com, based out of Australia and owned by a guy named Don Reid.  He makes it sound like you're going to be on your way to growing your business thanks to his leads.  My experinece was that you get pretty much a very low rate of enrollment, and I mean very low and here's why:  When you order your leads, there is a drop down menu where you pick the company you're working with.  Well, you would think that the leads are going to be just for you, especially when you order the leads as fresh and exclusive right? Wrong!  What they mean by exclusive is that they will only sell those leads to you for your particular company or opportunity for a few days, but meanwhile, at the same time anyone that also orders leads that is working with any of the other companies in the drop down menu will also be getting the same leads, then after the first days of exclusivity even other people working with the same company or opportunity as you will be receiving those same leads.  As you can imagine, the poor saps that filled out the form and became a lead are very grumpy do to all of the calls they are getting!  

Honestly, I don't know how these Lead companies haven't been sued out of existence.  Now, my fist order was for National Leads and they did come in at a reasonable rate of 20 per day.  After realizing that working with people that I don't even know from all over the country wasn't going to be very productive I decided to order only local leads from my particular area so that I could have more in common with the people I would be contacting.  These leads came in at a rate of 3 per month...  just 3.  I contacted Apache via chat and asked if something was wrong or if that is just how slow the leads come in in the particular area where I live.  They said they would look into it and send me an email soon with their findings.  Well, another month went by and I did not receive an email.  2 months later I had a total of 7 leads and nobody ever even got back to me about my previously voiced concerns, so I called them... I got a voicemail greeting telling me that it's better to chat online.  I opened the online chat once more but it showed them as away.  At this point I decided to open a dispute with PayPal.  I asked for most of my money back, not all of it but the amount I felt was fair.  I promptly received a call from a woman with an Australina accent.  I almost didn't answer because the phone didn't show any ID.  The woman attempted to get me to switch my order from local leads to National ones.  I respectfuly declined, stating that I had already tried their Nationla leads and had found that people were upset that they were getting so many calls from people wanting to share their home business ideas with them.  I also told her that it's too difficult working with people that are out of state and that you can't sit down with face to face, at least with the particula company that I'm working with.  The woman told me that it was going to take months to refund my money because the process is long.  I told her that months would be fine with me.  She sounded like I was personally attacking her for wanting a refund, not proffessional at all.

Now, I was going to just move on and not even take the time to write something like I am here but the respnse I received from Apache through PayPal's resolution center was simply unreal.  They wanted to haggle me by 20 dollars, I once again respectfully declined.  Here is what they wrote to me and can be viewed at imgur.com/a/kaOE7 :  

"Now I understand that you're broke and going to stay broke because you clearly have no understanding and no willpower to build a business...go back to your horrid life in your terrible soul destroying job.Buh Bye"

Yeah.., sorry Don but you don't know anything about me, what my life is like, how much money I make and have or if I work for a job I hate.  All I see in that statement you wrote is somebody that is not emmotionally mature enough to reverse a transaction with a customer that didn't feel satisfied with their order.

These are the type of people you, fellow reader, will be dealing with should you decide to buy leads from Apache.

I would recommend that you save your money and add leads to your contact list in a more organic way, people that you meet every day in your life and in your area or people that you personally know in other areas but that is my opinion.