Bruce, I am sorry I misunderstood your earlier post. You were stressing the face to face aspect of your company and yet the address listed as your location is a mail drop. So you either do business out of your home or some other place that you can't receive mail or do not want to reveal the location of your business. Either way is fine but as a business who is asking anyone clients to send several hundred dollars or more based on your "guarantee" I would think your clients would like full disclosure. Again I am still not sure what you do. Now you seem to be saying that your company does not market and meet face to face with buyers but contracts with affiliate companies that do. What companies do you affiliate with? This is also important info for potential clients. Also if your affiliates come to you with a buyer looking to buy a specific property and you have to call owners to get them under contract, why are you paying your affiliates for large marketing expenses when the people they bring in default at an especially high rate and don't go through with the deals (as you said in an earlier post). Maybe you should only pay your affiliates when the deal closes and at the same time you will be paid a commission.
Again you keep referring to your expenses and operation as similar to a developers with the exception that you need to be paid before the deal is completed. But then you say your just an in between step in the process. I guess it just makes no sense that an in between step needs to be paid by the seller.
Although no one here has come up claiming to be scammed I have seen some posters on other sites. And all the people who claim to be satisfied "clients" have a huge odor of shill. One of my biggest concern is I have never heard or see anyone post anywhere that they have bought through an organization that you are a piece of. If you could perhaps reveal who the organization is and it could be verified that they work with you and have satisfied buyers it would be more believable.
One other think. You say you send the contract an encourage people to have their lawyer look it over. I am not sure if it was here or somewhere else though that it is mentioned that if the owner contacted on the phone takes to long to decide the buyer typically moves on to someone who is ready to commit right away. Also getting back to the mail drop- what happens when the property doesn't sell and the seller wants his money back? Since all the person has is a phone number and a mail drop box what would prevent your company from changing to a different mail drop box and a different phone number. How would they find you if they needed to pursue legal action to get you to honor your guarantee. There is a reason people google addresses and like to see "real address" and call the owner of the buildings to verify the business and the length of time the business has been at that location. Again this may be lumping you in with scammers- which you may not be but again your company's business model is so similar to so many other scam companies.
Tracey S.
