I'd really like to know which "Pay for Referral" services AR Members have found to be valuable and worth the cost and which services are Shams and Rip-offs!
I recently joined Reply.com ... a referral service that gathers leads and sends them out to agents in the local areas for a fee. It sounded wonderful ... the theory is. Yet, what I have found is that the leads are gathered from a huge variety of sites and many of them aren't really viable real estate leads.
One example ... I received a referral from Reply that was a friend of mine and a local agent who works for another office. I don't think she will buy or sell from me so, of course, I declined the lead. Two leads were homes already listed; one was a man who logged into a site promising they would buy his home. He got mad at me because he thought he would be contacted by a home buyer - not an agent.
So ... any tips or ideas? Who have you used and what has been successful for you?
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I've tried House Values and that is a waste of money and time, ii had 7 leads with no numbers and just 2 emails that worked.
The problem i found with it was that both people from the emails had agents in my own office. Its one of those things that you have to look at (cant believe im going to say it) your ROI return on investment. for the price i judt dont knwo that there worth the money
Christine,
Let me give you "The Rest" of "The Rest of The Story". In fact, I probably should post this so everyone can see it.
Here's the deal, Reply.com was not for me! Their idea is probably good but their internal workings are not quite all together, in my opinion. The sales person offered me one thing, I bit ... the personal rep was gracious and worked hard to help me ... the IT guys didn't come through. The promises made by the sales team and the customer service dept were not backed up by the IT guys, again, in my opinion!
I'd suggest you might give them a try but make sure you monitor what's up. I can't say I'm unhappy with the company but I personally don't think they deliver what they proclaim they do.
Your market might be diferent! Good Luck!
Lisa and Jim
Well, they offered to have me try out their service for $4.00 for a few days and see what I thought. I don't want to get stuck haggling over $ with them and having them billing my card like I have read others on AR have had happen. I also am busy and would rather not be COLD calling folks that are irritated when their phone rings. So...I don't know.
Jeff,
Check out my previous response! I agree with you .... they are just not worth it. I was treated fairly from the reply.com guys but the bottom line is their system just does not work! ... SO! ... OH Opps! ... we just got to go to work!
God Bless your effort!