Comments on: Merchant Circle’s Cold-Calling Campaign Continues

By: woody

woody — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:59:16 +0000

Yup me too. We became the target of a sick twisted scam artist who is using merchant circle “talk to me” feature to hrass us and poste hateful messages defying the police to do anyyhing about it. In order to control this psge instead of our stalker we are now paying a monthly fee. merchantcircle refuses to respond to our urgent requsts to turn off the “talk to me” feature. Merchantcircle says they do live chat for one hour a day on certain days but They weren’t there when we tried to get them. Where is the responsibility of this Merchantcircle? Don’t they care about their “customers”? We’re more like captives to this Merchantcircle and our sick stalker who keeps posting crap to “talk to me” on our paid merchantcircle listing.

By: JBJ

JBJ — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:12:05 +0000

There are 50 directories that use public information about local businesses to create listings, include Google and Yahoo. You can just grab the page and edit it how you want and use if to get more customers.

By: Heather Devlin

Heather Devlin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:30:15 +0000

I was shocked to discover Merchant Circle by accident one day. My business was listed,had a negative comment on it and I had no idea it even existed!
The complaint was bogus and promoted a competing business in my town. I had no record of that person as a client. No other business in my town even have comments or ratings on them.
What is this site? Where did it come from? Why can they list businesses without their knowledge or permission?

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By: Jana Cooley

Jana Cooley — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:54:58 +0000

Well- interesting. I have a different dilemna. There is an inappropriate review on this website and I am having a really hard time getting this account closed, despite calling AND emailing MC. A former employee had set this up some time ago and has all the login info. I want this entry completely canceled so I can start fresh. Ideas? No phone calls to us- but no action on deletion of the account either.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:32:51 +0000

I have a free account with Merchant Circle, which I became aware of due to the fake bad review call. It seems like a beneficial site, but they have my address wrong. When I try to correct it, nothing changes. Very weird. They have no contact # listed, no email listed. Do they even exist?? I have a client who swears by Merchant Circle. Very weird. Thanks for the phone #. Now i can bombard them with calls and emails until i get answers. To be continued….