29 Prime
Reviews and Complaints

Completely agree - 29prime is scam company

Complete scam company

This company 29 prime is all a scam they take your money do nothing for you they promises you in top of google never deliver, to convince you i was told that my phone was going ring off the hook never jappened. (Do not fall in their trap) i still trying to disputed this chages with my credit card.

I have been with the company five months and nothing happens. They do not know what they are doing. They make all kinds of promises and fail to deliver on all of them except charging you for services not rendered.

I would be very cautious when any unsolicited SEO company contacts your business claiming they found you on-line, that they have done a review of your web-site stating "We can get you! better results." I have personally experienced this form of solicitation, and fell for their pitch from firms such as 29 Prime / Reliable places claiming the same end result only to have been scammed out of thousands of dollars.

In my case they offered to place my website on the first page of several search engines for a monthly fee per market, or fixed price. they claimed that within 60 day, or less, they would have my website showing up on the front page, or it's "FREE." Don't you fall for it, I am my company and am personally pursuing legal action against one of these mentioned firms. First of all when they were not able to place me they blamed me for not giving them the CODE the Google sent me, well I didn't get the CODE to Send them, then they claimed it was my website that prevented them from getting me placed as they had promised, that I would have to hire them or an ISP consultant to make my website show better. "that's not what they told me on the initial phone call soliciting my business. Not to mention the automatic role-over to their monthly payment plan wherein it would cost my 3, 000.00 per market andi had agreed to 2markets for a fixed rate of nearly 1, 500.00.
I am hopeful that others that have been ripped-off as I have, will somehow join forces to stop this unscrupulous and unethical business practice of bilking small business owners out of thousands of their HARD EARNED $$$. I'm real and I'm tired of being robbed willingly, thinking that if I only do this my business will survive. I'm not a crook! I work hard for my money and it's time companies like these realize that they can't be conducting themselves in this manner.

AGAIN Stay away from these types of companies, I personally went directly to Google told them my story and talked with them about putting my website on the top of my market area. They had my site up the very next day. I have control on the budget and monies spent - I strongly recommend going directly to the source if you are not Search Engine savvy like me. You can get great results - NO, I DON'T WORK FOR GOOGLE " am Design/Build General Contractor.

I worked for them when they operated as Reliable Listings. "Scam" could be too strong a word. "Ripoff" maybe. The problem was they just didn't do what they claimed they would do and then continued to charge clients and making it nearly impossible to block the charges on their credit cards. I sold the service while working out of a "boiler room", a telemarketing operation with dozens of us talking on the phone all day as the "robo dialer" kept feeding us small business owners culled from various list services.

Too bad really. What they say they can do isn't rocket science and could be a huge benefit to small businesses. But talking the talk without walking it, is just wrong. So I quit.

It is NOT a scam. I see it working for small business owners all over the country. The proof is in the pudding. You are probably just an SEO consultant yourself trying to scare off customers from YOUR competition. Sad attempt.

Leonard: Telling people to cancel their credit cards is not good advise. This could ruin their credit rating. Just back-charge your credit card. Let the card company fight for you.

29 Prime is a scam company! They keep charging my credit card after I made it clear for them not too. They were suppose to get me up on Google and never did. Cancel your credit cards and report these crooks.

29 Prime is a scam company! Formerly known as Your Local Merchant, the owner Russell Wallace has now changed the name for the 5th time in 3 years! Defines unethical business practices! There foundation of 29 prime is based on the company merging with another. Yet the other company is your local merchant! So Russell shuts down yet another name(YLM) buys it for a $1 then opens up new shop after screwing not only customers nut his own staff and calls it 29 prime. WOW BRILLIANT ACQUISITION Russell. This guy schemes on opening up a boiler room, hiring dirtball telemarketers to lie over the phone to get a sale, bring in what revenue he can, then once he hits so many accounts, shut the company down, not pay reps, new name and figures he will also have a fresh start while avoiding all consumer complaints under the old name. Everything is lie including there physical address! BUYER BEWARE...REALLY $600 SET UP FEE? you might want to improve your telemarketers pitch before trying to collect that. Just stating "250 directories and bleeding your company name out to several cities wont cut it bud! First off that is nothing more than BS! This guy is comical...

This is one of THOSE SEO scam companies which loves to annoy business owners with robo-marketing calls promising top Google placement. They even go so far as to imply that they are affiliated with Google. You can try the automated opt-out (it will do no good), you can tell them to stop (it will do no good), you can file a complaint to the FTC through the do not call registry - even if your number is not on the registry (it will probably do no good). What does seem to have some effect is to go after their reputation - they deserve a bad one. They made the mistake of buying into the BBB accreditation program which means that they must respond to complaints. Anyone who receives one of their Robo-calls from the number [protected] should immediately file a complaint to the BBB and reopen the original complaint every time they get another call. Also submit appropriate feedback on any online review sites you can find. Finally submit an FTC complaint via http://www.donotcall.gov They will only stop this practice if the cost/pain of continuing exceeds the profit of their illegal robo-calling practice.

Changed business address made me loose business scam artist just type in 29 prime scams in google and you will see be ware.

They lied and lied. Amen. They insisted they were Google. This number on my caller id [protected], if you call it they say This is Google voice. They send a message to your cell phone that says "Google" and your number. They give you a "Google Verification" number. They use the word Google to deceive you. They reel you in with "updating" your "Free Google" account . They ran on and on about how bad my web site optimization is, they went on and on about I did not even show up properly and they would help, because they are Google. Do not listen to anyone who works there ever. They are notorious scammers. There are numerous businesses that got nothing for their money. They are a scam.

THEY SUCK EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS A LIE 29 PRIME IS A RIPOFF

I tried their one months trial offer then cancelled after the first month then he proceeded to bill our credit card illegally 159.00 for the next 8 months. I filed a claim with my cc company and they will be refunding me. I will be contacting the state attorney general. I am sure he is going to be investigated along with all of those idiot customer service ###s.

Best thing to do is get them worked up into thinking they have a sucker on the phone. Be sure to give a false name and slightly change your voice since they record the calls for proof you accepted their [censored] offer. Then after a few minutes ask them if they swallow? or if they are a pitcher or a catcher? or if they have ever taken it in the rear while on an elevator? If this happens enough they will seek other employment leaving the company with no one to do their dirty work.

This is a total sham company - these people have called me dozens of times and I have, on countless occassions, followed the instructions for having my number removed. To no avail. They keep calling. By checking these complaint forums I found out that the number calling me is from a company currently named 29 Prime - their number is on their website: www.29prime.com - I called a bunch of times trying to get a supervisor, they keep saying he's not available, what a bunch of bull. There seems to be only 2 people answering the phone Kelly and Marcus, if you have a problem with these people, I'd suggest hitting them where it hurts, so to speak, just start calling them incessantly, if everyone with a gripe against them does this on a regular basis, they'll be so busy answer complaint phone calls that they won't be able to stay in business. Their number is [protected]...start calling and don't stop. Give them a taste of their own medicine!

If 29 Prime is a skilled, professional corporation, they would be able to make an update to their call list. But they can't.

A friend of mine that worked there and I tried some online ads. But somehow it put my number on their list. I got a phone call and thought it was a joke.. but after reading this board, now I realize why he left there and saud that they smelled like a scam and are changing company names.

Boss made the mistake of signing up with 29prime, once I got here I decided to do some investigation as more SEO companys contatcted him trying to sell there services, what I have read here and other places is scary! So today about 20 min ago 29 prime called because there are billing issues>? I giggled and said I think the issue might be every phone number we have for you is diconnected, she sounded shocked and assured me I could reach her at the number I already had even went on to give me her extention. I then said I will call you back at the number and extention you provided as soon as we hang up and as long as I can reach you we will take care of any billing issues there may be... hung up, dialed the number the woman gave me less than 1 min before and surprise surprise the number is disconnected! Beware!

well i have been wth 29 prime now for one year iam a real Business owner i been through alot of money starting from telephone books websites ect different other companys through out i own a company myself every one talks about this person this company more then likely it was a past employee or another owner talking bad to make a sale or a promise or can do better i have nothing to say about 29 prime its one year now and iam still on the front page .