- Report: #1295075
Complaint Review: eMerchant Club - Internet
-
Author Not Confirmed
Why?
eMerchant Club
Internet, USA
Phone:
8773844691
Web:
emerchantclub.com
Categories:
Business Rating:
(0)
Tell us has your experience with this business or person been good?
eMerchant Club SmartLiving Company Emerchant Club Rip Off-Not rankable-No amount of marketing can NO help semi valley Internet
I purchased a webstore from Emerchant Club and it looked nice (my own looked better). The problem came when I could not get it ranked. Come to find out it is a replicated site and not rankable in google. No amount of marketing helped. Nor did the countless number of hours I spent trying to fix the search engine optimization or keyword placement.
I did however rank my page that I made and put on my webstore. It ranked on the first page of google. However, TCL BBS Online webstore never ranked. I did all sorts of marketing and nothing helped. The problem is, its so replicated (duplicated) that no amount of work that you do will make it a profitable site. Emerchant Club Misrepresents this product. They say that you will make all kinds of money when n reality they know it wont bring you in much of anything.
I lost approx $500 just in the purchase of the site. Then another $20 a month on hosting fee , I attempted to close the account after realizing I was not going to make any money to cover the costs, (I did their "2-STEP" cancellance policy, and they insisted that I do an upgrade, I never agreed to), and just received a collection notice that I still owe almost $400 for hosting fees, even though I had cancelled the site and account.
I was smart enough not to purchase a lot of merchandise or catalogs that I did not need. I did purchase merchandise for a flea market and since half of the flea markets I sat up in were selling the SAME thing, I could make no money. They also prohibit your interacting with anyother webstore purchaser or they can sue you.
They also make it where you cannot make a class action suit against them, as far as I know. If I am wrong about this please , some lawyer let me know. I am willing to be a member of a class action suit agains Emerchant Club. I have had an account with SMC (now known as SmartLiving) in 1982. Thats why I purchased the webstore from Emerchant Club in the first place
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Fred
Columbus,Ohio,
United States
Funny it took 5+ years for a response
#2Author of original report
Mon, February 22, 2021
I had been using SMC since 1982, never had an issue until they pressured me into getting a website from them. I was using my own site, my own domain, and everything was working 100%. When I got their website is when things started going south. Read my Original post. BTW- I majored in marketing in school, so telling me to take a "marketing class" is like telling a fish to take swimming lessons. Get your head out of their buttcheeks and look around. If they were a REAL wholesale company, they would not be charging a yearly fee. They are no better than Sam's Club or Costco.
arai
Costa Mesa,California,
United States
E-merchant club!
#3Consumer Comment
Mon, February 22, 2021
Like any business, you need to market the website! just because you have a website it's like a little spec of dirt in a gigantic world! E-merchant offers a turn-key way to own a business. I have been with E-merchant for the last 15 years and I make good profits. But I also spend a few thousand dollars on advertising? Just because one doesn't know how to operate a successful business does not mean a distributor such as an E-merchant club is a fraud!
My advise is to take a Marketing class at your local college!
