local traders .com reviews ????

[beaver74]

hi all

does any one have information on localtraders.com as i had a call today from them and it is only a 6mth contract but i'm afraid i have heard all the spelge before are these any better than the rest ???

 

[Dan]

If they're calling you claiming they have jobs ready for you but you just need to sign up to get them tell them where to stick it.

Generally, you don't need to pay for leads or business. And you shouldn't encourage it either. There's no need to have a middle man, there's you, the customer, and nobody else in between and that keeps profits decent and costs to the customer down.

You end up bidding for work, and paying for that too!

At least with most of these website you do.

I'm still yet to find one with more customers than tradesmen. The moment I do, they'll be sponsoring our several trade related websites.

Until then, you guys stick to all the free directories you can get yourself listed in. And if you have money to spend, about £300 - £500 initial setup and about £50 per year thereafter, get yourself a website and rank yourself in search engines!

I keep repeating myself saying all this. Been saying it for years. But I bet I'll keep saying it for years! They've just not changed these sites at all.

 

[RWJ]

Looks like another myhammer site to me..... 1000's of them just keep popping up

 

[richie777]

hi all

does any one have information on localtraders.com as i had a call today from them and it is only a 6mth contract but i'm afraid i have heard all the spelge before are these any better than the rest ???

BEWARE local traders.com are rogue traders..they have robbed me, providing 0 leads in 6 months and didnt tell me that its a rolling contract so have taken more money out of my bank again -- paper work misleading !!! ROB DOGS DONT GET STUNG LIKE ME!!!!!

 

[hercule]

I'm just coming to the end of 6 months with these jokers and zero work (literally not one job) - now I've read this I'll check they're not going to sign me up again without asking!

 

[telectrix]

but they will steal from your bank account. they have your card details on what i believe is called point of sale, or some such. happened to me. only way out is to go to your bank, cancel your card and get a new card with a different number.

 

[hercule]

I've just emailed them telling them to contact me 1st thing monday to confirm they're not going to automatically renew it - if they don't i'll contact the card company tell them I've not authorised it. Don't know why I ever went for it, I hate companies like this and normally stay well away.

 

[telectrix]

if it's a credit card you may be OK, but if it's a debit card, i don't think the bank can stop payment.

 

[hercule]

I'll find out and post the outcome on here - in case anyone else gets tempted to use these scammers!

 

[nick182]

if it's a credit card you may be OK, but if it's a debit card, i don't think the bank can stop payment.

if you have a debit card and can bank online you can cancel it straight away, also if you read the T&C's you can cancel in writing within 14 days. You Must Always have a copy of the T&C's before you sign anything anyway.. its the law.

Any letters you recieve from them write 'Return To Sender' and contact Trading Standards if they persist.

I too have fallen in that trap with Service Magic... My advice to anyone.. Stay WELL CLEAR! Period!

 

[hercule]

Eventually, Localtraders told me everyone is set up on a rolling contract and its in their t&c's (don't think I got any). My membership is about to expire and they have changed me to a manual renewal - how kind! There is more chance of me putting my danglies in a deep fat fryer than there is of me renewing.

Stay away!

 

[Jel]

These people are a joke, they promised me loads of leads! Have got not one lead from them and im glad someone told me about the rolling contract! Stay well away massive SCAM!!!!

 

[timstevens]

I signed up to localtraders.com about 4 and a half months ago. I must admit at first I was skeptical and after a number of calls from their sales team I decided to give it a go.

At first it was slow and I honestly thought that it was money down the drain, until about 4wks into the subscription when i received 6 txt in one week. I was lucky enough to convert 4 out of the 6 jobs, which I think was down to the fact that I managed to call them straight away(something which was advised to me when I signed up).

Yes Im not receiving txts every day,the fella that sold it to me explained that it wouldnt be my main stream of work, but when they do come through I know that I can follow straight up on the enquiry without any messing about and when Ive completed the work I dont have to chuck them any of my hard earned cash cause the subscription is already paid for!!

I was made aware of the auto renewal when I set it up and in all honesty Im glad I dont have to mes about calling in to renew or even have one of their staff calling me constantly to resign me up. I used the service how I was told and Ive managed to make my money back and then some!

 

[Heisenberg]

I signed up to localtraders.com about 4 and a half months ago. I must admit at first I was skeptical and after a number of calls from their sales team I decided to give it a go.

At first it was slow and I honestly thought that it was money down the drain, until about 4wks into the subscription when i received 6 txt in one week. I was lucky enough to convert 4 out of the 6 jobs, which I think was down to the fact that I managed to call them straight away(something which was advised to me when I signed up).

Yes Im not receiving txts every day,the fella that sold it to me explained that it wouldnt be my main stream of work, but when they do come through I know that I can follow straight up on the enquiry without any messing about and when Ive completed the work I dont have to chuck them any of my hard earned cash cause the subscription is already paid for!!

I was made aware of the auto renewal when I set it up and in all honesty Im glad I dont have to mes about calling in to renew or even have one of their staff calling me constantly to resign me up. I used the service how I was told and Ive managed to make my money back and then some!

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[D80]

:sleep1:

Had it been a well respected member posting that it ma have some credit. I wonder who the 1 post wonder works for:jester:

 

[hercule]

What a joke!

Have some dignity 'timstevens', you are unlikely to get anyone from this forum signing up to your website so give up, don't post such transparent rubbish. Move on, try it on with the plumbers.

There are a lot of other things I could mention that I was unhappy with after parting with my hard earned cash with localtraders that I haven't, such as the promise of national tv and radio advertising - I never saw anything. But basically, after 6 months of being one of their only sparks in a large area I had 2 texts - neither of which i even got the chance to quote for the job!

They have no punters - so there can be no work!

 

[Sanke]

Had these on the phone yesterday. Got rid of him quick when I asked for a free trial !!

 

[D80]

Had these on the phone yesterday. Got rid of him quick when I asked for a free trial !!

Yep! If service is that good then a trial should be an option. No wonder they ran quick!

 

[Mark Bridges]

Glad I looked here... Just had a guy offering me a special discount of £145 for six months... he phoned up again later when I hadn't jumped at the offer to say hed give me an additional two months free as well... a Jubilee treat!

He said that he had 16 leads over the last month which I would have been interested in and outlined a couple to me, but I am skeptical as Rated people who actually have been on TV etc havent had that many in my area last month (I cover an area from Plymouth to Weston-super-Mare... massive!). I asked him for a free trial for one month... guess what... he said "no". Now I know to avoid them like the plague!

 

[Prompt Plumbing]

Localtraders.com one word of advise dont touch them they hook you in, you get very little or no work, then they just take another 6 months payment without talking to you again.

 

[gazzamikes]

I fell for this, just walk away

 

[JD Hogg]

Yep I just got fleeced by them on an automatic six month contract renewal had two (waste of time) texts off them the last being February so had completely forgotten about them.

 

[Telx]

I had a Localtraders salesman on the phone this afternoon, he was very slick and promised me the world at £165 for six months, but it had to be paid now or I would lose my chance.
Having learnt the hard way I explained that I was never going to sign-up over the phone without thinking it over first, "oh that's no problem, just pay us now and if you do change your mind we can refund you". Needless to say the call ended abruptly shortly after.

These predatory scumbags deserve a visit from Rogue Traders, I don't care if Matt Allwright has to walk now.

 

[JD Hogg]

The more people that know about this shower of sh*te the better - now been with them 10 months - 3 texts - zero work. Cancelled my "automatic renewal" already.

 

[mckcol]

I signed up to localtraders.com about 4 and a half months ago. I must admit at first I was skeptical and after a number of calls from their sales team I decided to give it a go.

At first it was slow and I honestly thought that it was money down the drain, until about 4wks into the subscription when i received 6 txt in one week. I was lucky enough to convert 4 out of the 6 jobs, which I think was down to the fact that I managed to call them straight away(something which was advised to me when I signed up).

Yes Im not receiving txts every day,the fella that sold it to me explained that it wouldnt be my main stream of work, but when they do come through I know that I can follow straight up on the enquiry without any messing about and when Ive completed the work I dont have to chuck them any of my hard earned cash cause the subscription is already paid for!!

I was made aware of the auto renewal when I set it up and in all honesty Im glad I dont have to mes about calling in to renew or even have one of their staff calling me constantly to resign me up. I used the service how I was told and Ive managed to make my money back and then some!

I wouldn't touch Local Traders.com with a bargepole.

My experience is very few leads (max about 6) over 6 months – all for poor work (refit a storage heater to a wall, replace a thermostat), some of which were hundreds of miles away.

What is worse is the contract and their automatic renewal. I was caught by this after the first 6 month period. I accepted that I had not cancelled, in writing, and accepted a discounted fee for a further 6 months. At this time I emailed them and stated “Further to this renewal, can you confirm, as stated by phone, that this package will NOT automatically renew at the end of the next period”. Their response was “we can confirm that your package is set up as a manual renewal which means no automatic payments will be taken”. What I missed after this statement was that they also needed me to cancel in writing, by post. What a nonsense – I had clearly stated I did not want a renewal by email.

Having missed this deadline (end Feb) – you guessed it, automatic renewal for a further 6 months. They again offered a discount if I paid on the day, and surprise, have accepted now that I wish my contract to end – no letter required!

Extortion in my view – don’t touch them.

 

[Spurs]

I got mugged by this lot around 3 years ago. He must have been a good salesman cos i don't normally have any time for this ****.
I was lucky enough to read on hear about five months in to the contract, about the automatic renewal. Called them, sent written cancellation and sorted.
By the way, think I got 2 or three texts through in the last month after receiving none in previous 5 months.

 

[shanky887614]

I wouldn't touch Local Traders.com with a bargepole.

My experience is very few leads (max about 6) over 6 months – all for poor work (refit a storage heater to a wall, replace a thermostat), some of which were hundreds of miles away.

What is worse is the contract and their automatic renewal. I was caught by this after the first 6 month period. I accepted that I had not cancelled, in writing, and accepted a discounted fee for a further 6 months. At this time I emailed them and stated “Further to this renewal, can you confirm, as stated by phone, that this package will NOT automatically renew at the end of the next period”. Their response was “we can confirm that your package is set up as a manual renewal which means no automatic payments will be taken”. What I missed after this statement was that they also needed me to cancel in writing, by post. What a nonsense – I had clearly stated I did not want a renewal by email.

Having missed this deadline (end Feb) – you guessed it, automatic renewal for a further 6 months. They again offered a discount if I paid on the day, and surprise, have accepted now that I wish my contract to end – no letter required!

Extortion in my view – don’t touch them.

All you have to do is ring your bank and they can cancel the direct debit or whatever they call it.

I got caught out by one of these and you are within your right to cancel and get money back if they didnt cancel when you requested

 

[Medwayprofessio]

Hi guys

May I start with saying I haven't heard of or heard of anything regarding localtraders.com so I couldn't tell anyone if it would work or not but working in this industry I would just like to say:

If they're physically selling you leads then its likely to be too good to be true as all they tend to just want to sell that lead to whoever will buy it. 9/10 the lead isn't qualified either so the majority of the leads are people looking for prices or advice rather than work.

Having a middle man isn't always a bad thing as they can go out and find you work whilst you are concentrating on your own work, as a busy electrician it isn't always easy to find time to leaflet drop etc but the right middle man can do this on your behalf however it isn't always easy to find the right middle man. Its always best to look locally as it seems the larger area they cover the less focus they can give your business on generating enquiries for you. We run a local find a trader site for our local area and we don't sell leads as we think it's not right to have people bidding for someones details, we qualify all enquiries, we only strictly allow 5 businesses per category and we will give a full refund should our clients not get anything at the end of their contract.

My advice would be if you can't physically walk into their office should you not be happy, they have over 5 electricians signed up in your area and don't offer you any security (as in the form of a performance refund) then you run the risk of being unsatisfied. Always do research before agreeing anything - the salesman wants you to sign there and then but its always best to sleep on it.

If you've been ripped off you could try your luck with contacting the ASA. feel free to contact me if you want anymore information on getting out of these contracts or even getting your money back if you have been let down by anyone.

Best of luck - Remember recommendations are the best form of advertising so speak to other tradesmen on where they advertise if you're looking for more advertising.

I hope this information helps - Thank you for your time.

 

[Marvo]

Hi Medwayprofessio, welcome to the forum.

Please feel free to participate in this or any other discussion on the forum but please also be aware we have an advertising policy so I'm afraid you'll have to avoid outbound links to your website.

Thanks.

 

[Medwayprofessio]

Hi Marvo,

Oops, sorry, new to this - just wanted to put a link to our contact page should anyone need any advice but have noticed they can private message me. Feel free to remove it.

Thank you.