Complaint Review: ABT Media and Marketing - Panama City Florida
- ABT Media and Marketing 731 Airport Road Panama City, Florida USA
- Phone: 850-270-3311
- Web: www.abtmediaandmarketing.com
- Category: Media Outlets
ABT Media and Marketing Chris James NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH THEM! Panama City Florida
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: ABT Media & Marketing is Now Veteran Owned
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ABT Media and Marketing has very unethical practices and have been caught in many lies. I have paid ABT Media and Marketing over $8500.00 in the last year for services that were not fulfilled. I had them build a website which STILL ranks as one of the lowest rankings in the industry in Florida! I also had them optimize my other website at $800 per month, which was poorly administered. They even forgot several services including a social media optimizing! I had to call them 3 months after to ask them about it, and they stated that they forgot to include that, however, they DID NOT forget to charge me for it! Their reporting is on an email format similar to this: photo booth ....8 down -2 photo booth rentals....13 up +1.... EVERY month I had to call and remind them to send me a report! They forget to send them! REALLY?!!!! The company I am with now sends me bi-monthly reports and they are an 11 page attachment with graphs, stats, rankings..... I'm a little concerned for Chris, the owner, because she forgets a lot! My mother had alzheimer's and I can sense a little of that. When I switched to ABT from another SEO company that optimizes Websites, my site was ranking number 3 for the key words, "photo booth rental(s)" when I left ABT last month, my company is not even showing up on the 4th page for "photo booth rentals" and I have fallen to number 9 for "photo booth rental." I really think Chris "forgot" to optimize my website every day. Now she is claiming that I owe her for a month of service (8-1 to 9-1) when my month has ALWAYS started on the 17th. I have records to show this. She "forgot" again and said that my month started on the 1st and therefore owe a month of service that was never provided! I have also caught her in another lie from an email I retrieved from my cousin who also uses her services (not for much longer though). In it she states on Aug. 10th "FOR THE RECORD, we did not do ANY website work for him." But now she wants payment for "services" from 8-1-8-3!
PLEASE BEWARE! That if you use ABT Media and Marketing you will be dealing with someone who forgets a lot and has really no track record of bringing rankings up for websites! It would be similar to a personal trainer, training someone for years and the client only gets heavier and heavier! Results don't lie! If the people out there reading this want an excellent SEO company who has ALWAYS produced and has NEVER made excuses, please call Chris Twoomey at Noxter. His number is 812-272-2739. Noxter even told me something VERY alarming, they said that ABT Media and Marketing had deleted a lot of their links, blogs and posts relating to my site (I was with Noxter for 3 hyears before going to ABT), and that was the reason behind my drop in the rankings. ABT Media and Marketing had no real substance on my website linking it to what we do on the internet!
Results don't lie!
I am speaking with my attorney about recouping at least 40% of the money I have paid ABT Media and Marketing. I plan on blogging about them as well. Companies like this should not be in business. Their business hurts other business!
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#1 REBUTTAL Owner of company
ABT Media & Marketing is Now Veteran Owned
AUTHOR: ArmyVet - ()
SUBMITTED: Thursday, June 26, 2014
I want to start out by stating ABT Media & Marketing has changed ownership. One of the big things we are pushing is that ABT Media & Marketing is now Veteran Owned.
1st - I want to start with what I have witnessed during the purchasing process and from hearing first hand knowledge of the situation in question.
* The person that made the complaint owed ABT some money for services rendered and that was completed for the client (Regardless if the client listened to recommendations or not does not matter in the overall point of this). The Previous owner who has been retained by myself as an Executive account manager has paid fees to contractors to complete the work for this individual. She tried to get payment for the services for an extended period of time.
Eventually, being out of pocket for a longer period of time she sent her final attempt by stating she would submit him to the collections agency if he didnt make a payment, and his response was simple "If you do that I will submit your company to ripoffreport and other online business websites", so obviously Chris James did as any business owner would do that was out of pocket as a newer company trying to beat the odds to find anyway to collect what was promised and submitted it to the collections agency as a last ditch effort to recoup her funds.
Now, This could have gone numerous different ways. But as the saying goes there is 3 sides of a story in any dispute, the one being accused, the accuser, and the real story.
Having served for almost half my life in the military you start to see things in a certain way and it gets hard to understand some reasonings people have for what they do. What i do understand is what you do when your pushed in a corner in scenarios you cannot control. What i dont understand is deliberately trying to sabotage a business, that is American based in the United states because of a 'misunderstanding', especially with the way business owners have to struggle to start up in this country as it is.
Anyway, The company is under new ownership and I hope that when the poster reads this he will contact me to see if we can either fix this issue, collect the minimum amount of money to at least pay back what was out of pocket, or we can figure something out together.
Thank you all for reading this and i hope that you will still give ABT a chance. My overall goal with this company is to hire on Veterans and soldiers that were wounded overseas to work for us and this bad publicity over nonsense is detrimental to growing this company the way I would like to, to open up more positions for these warriors.
Feel free to contact me:
james@ABTMediaAndMarketing.com
708-466-7289
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