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Service & timeliness had been absolutely fine! Thank you very much Scott!
The professionalism of how the site was put together is impressive, it is very clarified and easy to navigate. It really makes my business stand out!
I tried the free listing first to see if this was legitimate. My short letter below explains my experience. ĺ
Dear Mr. Adams.
I have had 3 enquiries YOU say have shown an interest in my business. And to pay a fee to be put in touch with them.
So... I tried an experiment.
I sent in my own enquiry on my own business. My daughter sent in one. And an associate sent in another. Thats 3 times.
I did this, as I was content to pay the money, but wanted to check if your enquiries were legitimate.
I believe they are made up, to entice me to pay the money. If this is true, this is an appalling way to run a business. I am reporting this, and if I do not get a satisfactory answer, will post on social media.
I awate your response.
Regards
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Very nice layout design, me and my team like what we have so far!
Jeff is the reason I am still with the company, I am very satisfied with his service.
Hello Barry,
We are disappointed to read your review.
We are a family run business which has helped thousands of business owners sell their business by using BusinessesForSale.com, which has been trading for 25 years.
We would like to help you sell your business and change your mind about our service as you have only tried a limited version of our product and not yet experienced the full service that we can offer you.
The Limited Trial is there to help sellers test the market and see if there is buyer demand for their type of business – if they feel the demand is there they can commit to pay for their advertising and unlock the contact details of interested buyers. We think this is a fair model; it has worked and is working incredibly well for thousands of sellers.
When you sign up, there is a notification message explaining that buyer details will be available after you upgrade your advert to a paid subscription. We have tried to make this as clear as possible.
Once you receive your first buyer lead this will trigger a 20-day countdown timer, after which time your limited free trial will end and you will need to upgrade to a paid subscription to receive these buyer leads.
To address your claim that you received fake buyer leads, it seems you are the reason for these fake leads as you asked family members and an associate to make enquiries on your own business. You have disregarded all the positive reviews from successful sellers, who have found legitimate buyers from using our service.
We have an in-house team dedicated to reviewing any potential spam leads that pass through our system and removing them before they are even delivered into your account inbox. We do try our upmost to remove and limit any potential spam before it reaches you. However, we are not able to do background checks on every individual buyer lead that you receive, this will be why your family member and associate’s enquiries were able to be processed via our system. We always advise contacting your interested buyers to vet them yourself to find out if they are genuine buyers.
If any business seller does receive leads that do turn out to be spam, we always ask the seller to forward them to us so we can investigate and remove them from abusing our service further.
It takes on average 6 to 9 months for sellers to find a buyer through our website and we are still committed to helping you achieve your goal of selling your business.
Regards,
Shaun, BFS Customer Service