Deluxe Partners with Website Pros, Losses Customer
They say that nothing in life is for free. I learned that lesson again when I ordered some "free" business cards from Vista Print. Vista Print offers "free" business cards, but the price of them aren't always clear up front.
Soon after I received the cards, I started to receive hang up calls on my corporate phone number. Caller ID showed the number as 888-682-0313. The only time I was able to pick up the phone fast enough I got a hard sell about SEO and website submission for an outrageous amount of money ($69.96 per month).
I told them (several times) that I wasn't interested and to stop calling.
Well, since the beginning of this month, the hang up calls started again, from 888-682-0313. Today I snatched the phone was surprised at the greeting:
This is xxx from Website Pros, calling on behalf of Deluxe. We just wanted to call and see how your order went from September.
Then I was the target of a hard sell for search optimization services and search engine submission.
I am fuming mad. I took the effort to call Deluxe and tell them I wasn't happy that an organization that had my banking information was so free about selling my information.
Sure enough, Deluxe has sold my information to Website Pros and happily proclaimed the relationship in press releases. This is contrary to Deluxe's own privacy policy which states that they will NOT disclose any consumer information to third parties.
