Re: UKNM: Scoot

[Kevin Rice]

At 13:18 23/07/98 +0100, you wrote:


The Scoot guys came to see us last January. I wouldn't want to claim that

they "lied" but the benefits that they described have certainly failed to

materialise. That's right, following a very professional sales pitch I

reached for the cheque book and signed up, before other training companies

knicked all the good slots!


Since then I would say, that on average, our phone lines have been

"slammed" by a "whopping" 2 calls a month from Scoot users!, none of whom

were looking for Internet training, all of whom wanted to train for either

Win95 or MS Office!


Of course no advertising can guarantee a return and so the above may sound

a little like "sour grapes", but I've also been very disappointed with

Scoot's web site (I hope it wasn't designed by any of you lot, otherwise

I'm about to put my foot in it!). From using it myself I've discovered many

incorrect/out-of-date telephone numbers and broken or miss-directed links.

Also if you sort suppliers by location you frequently get companies listed

as being within say a 2-mile radius of central London when their address

and phone number are in Yorkshire or something! (I was going to give a real

life example at this point, but unfortunately the Scoot web server is not

responding to my browsers requests!)


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>We had a sales guy from Scoot come in on Monday to try to sell us premium

>space on their directory. One thing he mentioned was that ASDA found their

new

>agency through Scoot and were oh so happy.

>

>Of course, you can never trust sales people, so we had to check.

>

>Anyone else had Scoot sales guys telling little white lies?

>

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