Glenn Canady’s people phone me
I can’t remember the date. It was something like September or October of last year when I got the first call. Out of the blue I got a call from a guy in the US, who if he had told me he was calling from Mars I would have believed him. The call quality was shockingly bad. I think it was probably one of those IP calls to the voice network. Why do people use these things when they are phoning up trying to impress people ? It certainly doesn’t impress me when I can barely make out what someone is saying to me. It impresses me less when I think they are ringing up on one of these things and I think that they are also trying to sell me something. Cheapskates ! Anyway I don’t know if it was one of those IP things or not, but the quality was bad.
The guy introduces himself and tells me he is ringing me because I purchased Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing e-book. Well, thats what he told me eventually, after we had several ‘Sorry, what did you say’ and ‘I can’t hear you’ sessions.
I mentioned in my previous post that I was not happy with Glenn Canady’s book. Not the message that ‘linking is a good thing’, but with the feeling that I had been conned. I felt that the book was so much about Zeus that it was unreasonable to say that you didn’t need to buy Zeus. If nearly 50% of the book is about a software product that you don’t own or can’t afford to buy, and you feel you were led to believe that you wouldn’t need to pay a dime extra then I think you are bound to feel cheated.
Anyway, the guy at the other end of the phone asks me ‘what did you think of the book ?’. Boy, was that the wrong question ! I start to tell him EXACTLY what I thought of the book. I told him I thought it was one of the biggest rip-off’s that I’d fallen for and that I was kicking myself for forgetting to ask for my money back, etc. etc. And then I realise that there is no answer from the other end. His crappy ip to phone, or whatever the connection was, had dropped the line and I’ve been ranting away to myself for the past minute or two. So basically, the guy hasn’t heard a word I said !
I figured that was that out of the way and I wouldn’t be hearing from him again. WRONG !
Over the next couple of weeks the guy rang me numerous times, but by some amazing stroke of luck I had managed to miss every call. Dashing up the stairs to get the mobile, just for it to cut off as soon as I pick it up (it happens 9 times out of 10 for me). He left voice messages. I never rang back. And then he finally got me, but I’ll leave that for tomorrow.