“Complete waste of time and money!
After paying them for 2 years and not getting anything from it whatsoever I have cancelled and cancelled my direct debit I have been approached by a dept management company on behalf of Yell saying I owe them money
A complete joke.”
“Yell remove genuine negative reviews (N&N Removals) because the owner asks, regardless of it being a genuine negative review - how is that informative? 22 FAKE 5 stars reviews though, from profiles with no other reviews? This enables theses rogue traders. Poor service, Trading Standards anyone..?”
“Do not use yell we have been with yell since may 2022 and have payed them £3000 per month for there service with very little return and then we find out they look at the website 2 times per month
then to top it up they will not relieve my google account back to me so are very happy To ruin my business terrible company”
“Terrible service charge so much for little return will not return my google ads account as the locked me out of admin even thought we have payed £3000 per month from last march 2022 we keep ringing them for them to hand my account back and they seem to ignore me and say it can take up to 3 week to transfer back to me which I have been explained to it take 10 mins we have been in touch with trading standard as well and are keep an eye on this company”
“Extremely disappointed and feel I was sold a dream for a quick buck/ commission. £7k down with £0 return and nothing to show for it other than almost losing my premises as the cost of the PPC plus was not breaking even or making a profit. Reposts show 0% improvement or growth each months for 6 months at £1,200 a month. No care for the customers success they just want the contract and your hard earned money. Avoid!”
“The worst experience of being a…
The worst experience of being a business owner so far! Not only have I tried to cancel due to lack of productivity and updates but I’ve also had nothing but trouble and false promise.
I’ve had the website designer go missing mid website build and it’s all just been a total waste of my time!! This has taken so long that I'm no longer in my 14 day trial period and have been forced into a 12 month contract, despite Yell not delivering. Yell should have my entire account up and running befor starting my trial period.
I want to cancel everything and I do not want any charges”
“They are the worst company to use. They are now trying to charge me over £1000 per year and will literally do nothing for it. I should have been more diligent, and for this, I will know try to leave (after paying 80% of what is left... near to £700). Please do your research and find someone who won't charge you this amount”
“I have join yell and paying £138 a month for business and I have not received one customer and is coming up 4 months I can’t wait to delete my account and the end of the 12 months contract there sold me lie and i don’t Recommend anyone to here please don’t be fooled by the sales team total lies believe meeeeeeeee”
“Been paying a rather high price to grow my business and not had a single customer interested. Waste of my time and money don’t bother!!!! Only work they done is copy and paste from my other page. Will not be paying!”
“I can't believe I finally got my money back It took about 3 months but finally I got all my money back I just want to thank cp-investigation.com, they originally called me I was so skeptical this all seemed to good to be true because I was sure I lost my money. However, after our conversation I understood that they really can help me. Then I met kate she is just the most professional person I have ever dealt with she kept fighting for me no matter what even when we got 50% settlement offers and 70% settlement offers she kept fighting and made it a 90% offer from the bank.”
“£840 a month for absolutely nothing, Worst company in the world never experienced anything like it from any company before
Colin the rep is an absolute nightmare
DONT TOUCH WITH A BARGEPOLE!!!!!!!!!”
“This company are con merchants we had a website made from them never again, it took us 4 weeks to sort out which I 5 year old could do better, they charge you £30 a month for a site that's £7.50 a month. They also charge you over the odds for a free site, I have made my own website now which is 10x better than there's which cost me a fortune. They also charged us £60 for a logo which we didn't want and argued to give us our money back. AVOID AT ALL COST!!!”
“Unscrupulous company as a new business yell called me promising me work via there app with job listings. Only on this point I signed up. Reality is totally different as I found out the hard way. All your paying for is be listed in towns, cities etc. Which when I cancelled my DD the advisor confirmed you only pay for listings. There is no jobs which to get me signed up was told otherwise. Avoid these scammers at all costs. My experience 5 months into 12month contract not had 1job via them! Do not engage into any business with them!!”
“I’m not getting any customers , very disappointed I feel I was miss sold and want to cancel my yell add , And nobody has followed up my calls , it’s disgraceful .”
“I was contacted by yell for advertising and was miss sold as I have had no customers and I cant see any difference I’m basically getting charged for free add , I have complained but they try to sell me another package on top of what I’m paying so I’m not having that .”
“I received a call from a Yell sales man who was very good at his job. Sticking to his script which had been very well thought out and designed by the compliance staff. The salesman made strong points to make Yell seem much better than they have proven to be, I.e 'Yell have 50+million people visit the directory every year, which is drastically better than Checkatrade or Mybuilder who have 4.5million and 3million'.
Being a new company I have to make sure I spend money wisely advertising my services. I don't feel spending £80 a month on a service which has generated one new lead is by any means sufficient. Checkatrade manage 3-5 new leads a week and Google SEO optimisation is about the same. Which then compared to Yell's 1 in 4 months is insane, especially when you take into account Yell charge more than the Google SEO optimisation and the same as Checkatrade.
After speaking to the customer services team about the lack of leads I received they looked into my ad then and there with me on the phone. They told me my pictures were good as was the description. The only thing they could think of to help generate new leads is to customise a new banner to make the ad look more aesthetically pleasing. Why this wasn't done in the first place when they helped me create the ad sounds unprofessional and lazy. Since the new banner I have yet to receive any new leads....
The fact Yell made me sign up to a 12 month contract when they know their directory is severely flawed is just deceitful business. Instead of spending money to try to make their business model change with the times, they instead get businesses involved with a 12 month contract which they full well know isn't going to generate the companies a sufficient amount of business.
I have pleaded with Yell to remove me from their directory to no avail. I won't be paying for a service which doesn't work and if Yell feel they have to keep threatening me with a debt collections company then that's what they'll have to do but that won't change my mind and I wont be bullied into paying for something which DOES NOT WORK.
Looking back on some of the points the salesman made I see how what they said was suppose to mislead me. For example, people go to Checkatrade and Mybuilder solely for tradesman whereas people would go to Yell for anything from a barbers to a train station.... When you take this into account the more realistic comparison could be Checkatrade have 4.5M+ people a year visit their platform for tradesman whereas Yell have 100,000 people look through their platform for tradesman.”
