Glenn Canady - Can he keep his word ?
I can’t even remember how I came across this, but have a look at the following link : http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=Video+Web+Log%3A+Tropisms
.org&url=http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/text8-6-2004-57558.asp
Just in case you have problems with the link I’ll post the relevant part here (Note - posted from the Amazon site, it’s the same as the Buzzle review, but has the date on it.) :
< ====== Start of Paste ======>
Be Warned, May 8, 2004
The website sounds great and the PR is fantastic but be warned when signing up with Glenn Canady. I paid US$4,990 for the Silver package in January 2004 to get to top 10 for my keyword and 100 links. After many months of wait and multiple long distance phone calls, Mr Canady still did not get the reciprocal links partners (RLP) up. He would tell me “next week” and it was always next week. Finally when the RLP were put up, there were 3550+ but none had any traffic. My website traffic did not improve and two independent programs showed only 16 ( not 100)RLP, as promised. When I complained, he was sarcastic and very rude. Worst of all, two weeks later, he had the guts to emails me asking for another US$2000 for 50 more links!! It’s an internet promotion, so be warned!! The person who sent me to him wrote my webcopy (US$6,000) which also did not get any traffic conversion. So I’ve been whacked duobly hard and wonder if there was a plan between the two. BE WARNED!!
Reviewer:
A customer
< ====== End of Paste ======>
Well, well ! So it’s not just me thats unhappy with Glenn Canady and his Gorilla Website Marketing Course. If I’m reading the guys message correctly then it would appear that between Glenn Canady and his ‘partner in crime’ he gave them nearly $11,000 ! And, it looks like Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course was about as useless for him as it was for me.
I don’t know who the guy is that posted that. He just signed himself ‘a customer’. I also don’t know why he posted his message to buzzle.com and Amazon of all places. What I would say though is that if you are that person then please feel free to contact me as I would be very interested to hear from you.
Following on from that posting I then came across a smug, self-congratulatory, look-how-clever-I-am, article about Glenn Canady.
Here is the url : http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/10-10-2003-46362.asp
The heading of the article is :
How to Make Your Internet Site Soar
Surfing the Net to Success - Glenn Canady, 39, of Rocky Mount, N.C., went from a dot-com casualty to a dot-com success in just a year and a half.
The bit I found interesting was the following :
< ====== Start of Paste ======>
Canady is so confident in his methods, he offers a money back guarantee to all of his customers. “No one has taken me up on it yet though,” Canady says.
< ====== End of Paste ======>
Really ? OK then Glenn Canady, I’ll take you up on it. I’ve previously emailed Gorilla Website Marketing about how bad the course was, and the fact that it has delivered nothing like I was promised. I’ve complained bitterly about it, but Glenn Canady doesn’t want to know. Each time I have been told to speak to ABDevelopment. I’ve emailed ABDevelopment a number of times and they never reply (although they tell Glenn Canady they did). Why the hell should I contact ABDevelopment anyway ! I paid to do the Glenn Canady Gorilla Website Marketing Course, not the ABDevelopment course. This course was Glenn Canady’s course and was done in his name, and as far as I am concerned HE is 100% responsible. Trying to weasel out and pass the buck simply is not going to work.
The one thing that struck me was that in my previous emails I had made it very clear that I was unhappy with the course and felt that in no way did I get what I paid for, or what I was led to believe I would be getting from the course. I realised that the one thing I had missed was a direct request for a refund.
Internet marketers always like to tell people that on their sales pages they need to make place a ‘call to action’. Well Glenn Canady, here is my call to action for you. Here is your chance to do the decent thing. It in no way compensates me for months and months of hard slog and wasted time. It doesn’t compensate me for having my Christmas ruined and the months of poverty myself, my wife, and my kids have endured, but my call to action for you Glenn is ‘PAY ME BACK MY MONEY’
Here is the email I sent to Glenn Canady today :
< ====== Start of Paste ======>
To: traci@gorillawebsitemarketing.com, gcanady@gorillawebsitemarketing.com, glenn@gorillawebsitemarketing.com
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:33:20 +0100
Subject: Refund
—-
Hi,
I recently contacted you regarding the fact that I was extremely unhappy
with my The Glenn Canady Gorilla Website Marketing Course. I paid $8000
to do this and despite the extreme amount of effort that I have put in,
and the fact that I followed the instructions to the letter, it has been
a complete and utter failure.
I have already made you aware of the problems but you do not seem
willing to accept your responsibilities in this regard.
Please take this email as formal notification of my request for a refund.
I will wait up to 24 hours for your reply before taking the matter
further.
Thank you
–
Chris O’Connor
< ====== End of Paste ======>
OK Glenn Canady, now someone has taken you up on your money back guarantee. I want AT LEAST my $8000 back. Lets see if you can keep your word. Lets see if you can do the decent thing.