08-0010-8579

The worst sales team in the uk.

I actually agreed to have a yell advert but there sales tactics were the worst I have ever experienced in my 13 year business career.

Violent sales tactics. Aggressive tactics. Calling me every day numerous times fighting for me to part with my money.

This is why yell.com or as they call themselves hibu ltd is 6 million in debt.

Denny 35 mins ago - Reply
You only have to research online about yells reputation.

From a different tact of a web site I decided to take up paid advertising with yell.com

From the beginning the sales were intense and forcing me to sort the paper work out and abrupt from the outset but I thought they had something good to offer in the way it was sold to me.

I wanted a advert for an area for my profession and I was told by the sales guy this was offered to me on first refusal and he had loads of customers wanting this listing priority and I was very lucky. I agreed with the deal only to find out when I processed the paper work to my head office that the company was hibu not yell.com

This meant the payment procedures I had followed within my company had to be redone and the relevant checks taken care of as this could have been a hoax and we could have paid a company scam type organisation.

However the rep from yell rang me every single day due to the slowing down of the process . He tried to bypass me and speak to my bosses which I would have got into trouble for for giving him my bosses details. So I didn’t.

The rep was angry with me for this ???? This wasn’t even a week into me agreeing the deal ???

Exactly a week later my accounts team were still processing the paper work and then another rep from yell.com rang me up saying if I didn’t do the deal the listing would be sold to some one else and I would miss out altogether. ( a week later this is ???? ) He kept me on the phone for a hour just talking nonsense and being abrupt.

Anyhow I did try to rush the details and payment through but my company has procedures and I told the rep from yell if they have to sell the priority listing to another company then please do so as I can not rush it any faster it would take 2 weeks.

However they continued to harass me and hard sell to me even though the process was in motion my side. It was ridiculous I even stopped answering there calls and they would then withheld the number or try off mobile phones,!

Eventually my accounts department did some checks on yell or now hibu as we know them and found that they are 6 million in debt and my accounts department advised me to not pay it all up front but to stagger the payments over monthly installments.

The rep tore my head off over this . He went mad on the delay and it really worried us as a company the professionalism that was coming across and the safety of the information we were to give them ie: bank details etc.

We decided to research them more on the Internet and found large amounts of disgruntled customers who have experienced the same kind of treatments.

It was a shame because we really wanted the advert as the rep told us we would receive hundreds of sales and there was another company like mine that had become very successfull and these are sort of a competitor of ours.

I can’t understand how they can be a law to the selfs to do business like this am upset so many people.

They ended up bypassing me and going to my boss. How I do not know. I think they went to companies house and found the director listing for my company and ringing up and speaking to him.

My boss went mad and gave me a warning over this and I really need my job.

This was awful treatment towards me from the this company and I think now if I had read Internet reviews first, I would have never agreed !

This company caused me a official warning from my director. All I was trying to do was purchase some more advertising with a company I thought I could work with as a manager. I always trusted the yellow pages years ago you see.

What has happened !

Very aggressive sales call.  Explained I wasn't interested and hung up but they immediately called back and were incredibly rude!

I know it is a pain and costly but if you have a caller display
phone you know that it is 0800 and anything that starts
08 is extremely likely to be nuisance call.  Any number
I don't know, I dial 141 before the no., if I ring them back, and
these calls are getting fewer.  If we had a better government
watchdog they could very easily stop them.

Unsolicited call from this number. Hung up before I could communicate. Caller company identified as yell.com using Google.

Just received a call that I didn't pick up, from reading these postings I have a lot more to expect from Yell.com
I have a free listing....... So bring it on....

Had a few calls from them despite being registered with TPS.  She was slightly rude when i said I would look at the website she was mentioning, and I was busy with customers too at the time.  She said "Is your internet always slow at this time of day", ignored the calls now knowing full well its them, and had time to look up the phone number etc, which, half the time, you don't get chance to when your there on the phone.  She said it was all free, but I said I had a free listing already.  Decided to make a quick exit after mentioning that I reported one company for fraud, and registered for TPS, but still she continued.  The words "Account Manager" crept into the conversation and I just left the conversation.  Had a few phone calls since.  I am a small business who seems to have 'mug' written across our forehead.  No wonder a lot of small businesses are struggling.

The nastiest [***] in business

Just had the call and ignored it ....

Just to answer an earlier comment the apparent member of staff from yell.com

I am in business and have been for a lot of years, myself and my colleagues who are also in business do not have any respect for or hold any high regard for yell.com , it was rubbish as a directory and it is still rubbish as an online directory. You might be partnered with Google which is probably the ONLY reason you still have a business because lets face it who has Yell as their home page lol , you just go to google and ask for what you want. It is more or less validated by the persistent calls of a struggling dying company on its last legs begging for business. Goodbye Yell will be a pleasure to see you go ....

yell called me today said they were now part of google ??offering me all sorts and wanted to send a sales rep to my home,,,i gave them the address of the local cafe and will meet them next week lol

This number calls my mobile on a regular basis and has been doing this for at least two months. I can only assume they are trying to sell me something as they are so persistent!

2 nuisance calls from them today... I'm on the no-call list

They are pain in the a..e they keep calling me from 0800108579, They dont care about TPS . I am absolutely tired of them

NOT IMPRESSED WITH YELL THEY ARE TRYING TO ASK US TO RENEW CONTRACT BUT THEY HAVE LESS THAN HONEST WITH THE PREVIOUS CONTRACT AS THEY TOLD US THAT WE WOULD BE GUARANTEED A TOP 5 LISTING AND WOULD APPEAR RANDOMLY TOP OF OUR SEARCH CRITERIA .
OUR CONTRACT IS PAID UP BUT NOW WE WILL NEVER BE TOP AS WE HAVE BEEN GUZUMPED BY SOMEONE PAYING A HIGHER FIGURE WHICH WE WERE TOLD WOULD NEVER HAPPEN AND WE PROBABLY MAY NOT SUBSCRIBED IF THE TRUTH WAS TOLD AND CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM MORE RESPECT IF THEY WERE HONEST.
THEY MUST REALISE THAT A FEW DOZEN OR FEW HUNDRED BUSINESSES ADVERTISING IS BETTER THAN ONE LARGER ONE WITH LOADS OF CASH
DONT TRUST YELL AND IF SOMEONE VERBALLY GIVES YOU A DEAL GET IT WRITTEN DOWN BEFORE YOU PART WITH MONEY AS THERE ARE MANY COMPANIES LIKE THIS WHO PROMISE THE WORLD AND DELIVER VERY LITTLE

For anyone interested, there is a blog about this number.

Makes a very interesting read.

http://www.dpscomputing.com/blog/tag/0800-108-579/

Mike

0800 108579 nuisance call 12 july 2013

They left a voice message. Scottish voice asking for me by name. a transcript
"Hi Mr (my first name), Darren calling from hibu it's the new name for yell, yell.com yellow pages. I wanted to speak to your about the free/three? line entry that you've got with us yell.com. I wonder if you could give us a we call back on 0141 228 6874. Thank You"

This message was from 0800 108579 left today at 10:05am

You talk rubbish I have had a free listing with yell.com for years and they phone me every year to update and tell me whats available,  nothin wrong with that is there?

Not true, we have had a free listing with them for years and after one call to try get us to pay for proper advertising, we declined and have never had any more calls from them. So it is free, and they don't pester and

YELL HANG UP CALLS ANSWERING MACHINE IF YOU WASTE THE TIME TO CALL BACK VERY ANNOYING