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Posted By: Mr. Questions In Response To: To: Rebecca Re: AWSM Technologies, Arizona (CJ)
Wednesday, 5 October 2005, at 8:34 p.m.
> In searching for information about people who are actually using AWSM I
> ran across your message here from 3 September. I signed up with AWSM at
> about that time but cannot give you a report yet. Before I signed up, like
> you I could find very little about AWSM but did not find anything negative
> - and a listing here provided no response either, which I took as good
> news or at least neutral. What I can tell you is that I have not been
> pleased with their customer service. They tell me the service is poor
> right now because they are growing so quickly they cannot keep up with the
> demand. I can't say that I believe that, nor is it a good excuse, but I am
> willing to give them a chance. In fact, I am calling them tomorrow to see
> why my ads are not showing up as expected. Hopefully I will be able to
> report back that my site is up and running and making money and AWSM
> Technologies will NOT be added to the list of internet scammers.
> Hi mr_bmw01,
> I'm sorry you've had trouble with AWSM Ads. My experience with them has
> been good. After hearing favorable comments about AWSM from two of my
> friends who own small businesses, I decided to spend approximately $8000
> on their services for my small business. These services included design
> and hosting of a portal Web site advertising my products as well as many
> other brand name products, design and hosting of a search engine friendly
> site map of this Web site and my company Web site, and 200 first or second
> page ads in the major search engines for my ads and/or Website. I am into
> the seventh month of this advertising campaign and my ROI due to AWSM Ads
> is already about $41000 - a profit of $33000 in seven months. I highly
> recommend AWSM. I had a few problems with their service early on, but a
> few calls to them cleared things up.
> -Nathan
All,
Check out the below - look familiar? Either Mr. John Teague below is in fact Mr. Nathan Martin above - or we are looking at a bold face lie. Understand there are minor word differences here, but I think we're being set up....
It took some researching, but I found some evidence which debunks AWSM's claims. It's not the venerable smoking gun, but the word still needs to get out nonetheless. See for yourself, and then you make the choice...
Mr_bmw01 = 1 / AWSM = 0; score 1 for the good guys.
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Posted By: John Teague
Friday, 9 September 2005, at 8:00 a.m.
In Response To: AWSM Technologies, Arizona (Rebecca)
> Any info on AWSM?? Seems OK, but use pressure to "buy before it's too
> late!"
After hearing favorable comments about AWSM from two of my friends who
own small businesses, I decided to spend approximately $8000 on their
services for my small business. These services included design and
hosting of a portal Web site advertising my products as well as many
other brand name products, design and hosting of a search engine
friendly site map of this Web site, and 200 first or second page ads
in the major search engines for my ads and/or Website. I am into the
forth month of this advertising campaign and my ROI is already about
$41000 - a profit of $33000 in four months. I highly recommend AWSM.
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