[michael papworth]

I received this in my Inbox this morning:

Hello Sir or Madam
 
My name is Alan Taylor, I have set up a website to advertise Window Cleaners across the UK and the Republic of Ireland on one site. If you and your company would like to advertise on this website, please contact myself on taylor_services@btinternet.comor 0161 230 8928
 
The price for a
Small advert is             £12.50 per Month            £130 per year
Medium advert is             £20 per Month            £210 per year
Large advert is         £25 per Month            £260 per year
The website is http://INeedAWindowCleaner.synthasite.com
 
I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this email
Alan Taylor
 
PS 10% off yearly subscription if you order before 25th May 2009.

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My reply was:



Hello Alan,

Here's what I'll do. If you give me a free advert for 6 months and I get plenty of work from it, I'll pay for an advert for the next six months.


It's called try-before-you-buy. When you prove that I get value for my money, I'll buy.

Up to you, Alan.

Best wishes

Wally

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What do you think. Will he give me a free advert?

[Mr Formby]

Have you looked how many are listed on it .
2 and 1 of them is him.

[pjulk]

He not even using proper paid hosting he is using a free host

[Art]

Can't see the point in paid directories when there's so many free ones.

I've never of heard anyone getting loads of work from any paid one  :

[daniel worgan]

I started the Upvc blog up as a way to allow others to put their details up for FREE....
How can you charge someone for advertising when you haven't even established a site properly......opprtunists.

I may well start another blog for uk window cleaners....FREE ADVERTISING...WHAT DO YOU THINK....ANYONE INTERESTED?

Dan

[Chris B]

Heres a free one.  www.justyourarea.co.uk  and i will upgrade you to featured, but dont tell everyone...... :

[RO-Sheen]

Hey Wally

Let us know if he replies. Doubt it though as he probably has loads of homework to do for school! 

[simon knight]

  I think the site is cute in it's naivity...is Mr Taylor unaware that the whole country is in the middle of an infestation of geezers with pointers tied to the roofs of the family car?  Call me a cynic but I suspect that any "potential customer" doesn't need to log onto ineedawindowcleaner.com when they are already hanging off her doorbell canvassing. It follows that it wouldn't be cost effective to advertise on such a site...gosh I'm being polite tonight!

Mr Taylor, sex and travel spring to mind...damn I just knew the politeness wouldn't last

[Nathanael Jones]

Yikes! For less than the price of a small advert for 1 month, you can join the Guild for an entire year and get your name listed on www.mgwc.org (Which has a google pagerank of 2 already!) and get all the extra benefits too!

[Window Washers]

And people thought I was expensive  : my page rank is good  and with paid hosting to boot

[R W C]

I got the same email.