SimplX Is In Love With My Cell Phone
Recently, the urge to grow my eBay store hit me and I started looking for a reliable drop shipping source. What I found was the usual crap offered online, everyone willing to sell me drop shipping lists, reports, and the usual array of nice folks offering to help me avoid this scam or that scam..don’t be caught up in fraud and so on. Luckily a keen sense of bull shit and years of wading through these waters as well as a healthy dose of watching too many late night infomercials, I was ready for it all! I managed to find 2 really good, reliable sources for drop shipping but will keep that for another day since the topic at hand is a so called drop shipping company called Simplx.
I filled out the registration form so as to get a free drop shipping account and more information about their drop shipping service as I always do before jumping into anything…especially doing business with someone at the other end of a computer somewhere in Internet land. After the initial form I was sent to of all things a payment form!?! For the low cost of $19.95 you get the right to have your registration form reviewed for an account with Simplx. Why, well because they get too many requests and the fee is the only way to weed out the non-serious folks from the determined few who want to cash in on the revolution (that’s the drop shipping revolution in case you haven’t been paying attention). In case you don’t follow this advice yet, never and I mean never pay anyone a registration fee for processing a form that will then allow you to do business with them. What’s next, paying to get a job…oh wait that happens too, suckers, but I digress.
Back to my story, I gave up the form without paying the fee (that’s what we call an abandoned shopping cart) meaning the customer opted not to purchase and you’d think that would be the end of it but alas it was not. I went to do my research and found too many negative reports about this company to even consider taking it to the next step. Have even heard quotes of $3000 to get a drop shipping account with them…ouch! That was Friday and then Monday morning the phone rings and it’s an 801 area code, I answer it. It’s a sales rep from Simplx wanting to talk, but he honestly got me at a bad time so I asked him to call back in a couple hours when I would have more time to talk. He calls every day at least 2 if not 3 times and has been doing so for about 10 days straight now. Every 2 or 3 call he leaves a message that he is trying to get a hold of me and I should return his call as soon as possible. I know what you are thinking, cruel man why won’t you answer the phone? Well, remember I did my research and I found out it’s not for me so when I abandoned my cart I didn’t think there would be a phone call, let alone several dozen?!? Ask yourself this, if they are so busy with fake registrations and folks who don’t want to pay the $19.95 fee, then why oh why continue calling me when it’s obvious I’m not interested? I’ll tell you why, because I didn’t give a fake number like most probably do and I answered my phone which confirms to them there is a real person on the other side and a real opportunity for the hard sell…no thank you.
It’s gotten fun now to see my phone ring over and over again and he leaves voice mails non-stop trying to get a hold of someone who is just not interested. But he’s no fool, he just needs to get me on the phone again to start the selling. If it were such a great company you would think folks would be knocking themselves over trying to sign up, not the opposite. Simplx is in love with my cell phone number and I can’t blame them, I have a really funny voice mail message that makes everyone laugh.
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