Permanently Closed Marketplace Sales Thread
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icemetal
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- Aug 25, 2011
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Review
Placed an order for a KGR website because I wanted to save time having to do it all myself. Came across Holzr sales thread and liked what he offered. After a bit of messaging and niche selection I placed an order and began my wait.
His communication was good and everything went well at first.
His stated turn around time is 2 - 5 weeks (depending on demand) and this was reasonable.
July 20th
Order was placed
August 10th
Got an update that the writer got covid and the delivery of the site would be a couple weeks late.
I told him this was no problem and perfectly understandable in these difficult times of the pandemic.
September 7th
(This was more than the two weeks he claimed he would be late by).
He said he was finishing things up and that it should be done by the end of the week. No big deal for me. I was being patient.
September 12th
He messaged me a list of domains to pick from.
This was kinda weird because I wasn't sure if he owned all these domains or thought they would be good choices for my site? I messaged him to ask if I should register one and he said yes. So, that means he didn't own the domains and this service does not include a domain.
I thought this was strange because why message me a list of domains to pick from then? After all couldn't I just have thought of one myself? Anyways no big deal. I registered one of the ones he messaged me and did all the setup for it and messaged him login details for the site.
September 19th
He messages me that the site is just about done and that he's going through fixing up some of the headings for the site.
September 20th
Site is finally done (After 2 months)
Everything looked good at first and was a pretty clean Amazon affiliate site with 10 buyer articles. I was pretty busy during these days and only quickly glanced over the site so I thought everything would be great since I'm dealing with a trusted member of BHW.
However, one thing I noticed right away was that the site logo was nowhere to be seen. After checking various browsers and my mobile phone it appeared to be broken. Again no big deal and I let him know it needed to be fixed. It took him 3 days to reply to that message and the next day he had fixed it.
September 28th and forward
Ok, after 2 months the site was finally ready to promote and get the ball rolling(though I must admit after so much time I wasn't as motivated for this as I was a few weeks earlier).
First things first get my Amazon affiliate links put up which unfortunately has to be done one by one as I'm not aware of any way to automatically do it in one go(There very well might be but the seller didn't provide any instructions to do so).
One of the first things I noticed when I logged in to the site was the massive amounts of plugins and over 20 updates that needed to be done. He did not hold back on the plugins and there were a ton of free plugins used for just about everything. I try and avoid free plugins and I wish he would've asked for my WProcket and Shortpixel info to get it setup but I suppose I should've let him know and that's my fault.
Either way there were a lot of plugins. Also, no security plugin was used so I quickly installed Wordfence and funny enough in Wordfences email newsletter I found out the I had not 1 but 2 malicious plugins on my site! This really irritated me because I was now getting the idea that he rushed my site to quickly complete this order after the huge delay.
Here comes the worst though.
All these previous things I mentioned were no big deal and I was willing to just let it slide. After all I could delete plugins (well not all as I didn't want to break the site and there was at least one that explicitly said not to delete it or you'll break the site!)
I went through reading the articles and adding my affiliate links and to my dismay found quite a lot of typos
Now I was really getting irritated because I felt after 2 months of waiting this site composed of just 10 articles should be flawless but nope it had typos within the first paragraph.
Tried being calm thinking it was just a couple but as I kept reading I was finding more and more. Also, found grammatically incorrect sentences and had to even delete some words (unfortunately this lowers the word count)
That was really the final straw for me and it was clear that this site was rushed and attention to detail was not given. After 2 months and nearly $700 I shouldn't have to go through fixing their mistakes. The whole point for this was to save myself the time.
I messaged him my concerns and he replied that he would fix the mistakes and that I just needed to let him know where the mistakes were. This was completely pointless because I could just correct the mistakes myself far faster than finding them, pointing them out to him, giving him my login details and then waiting for him to fix them.
I replied with this and told him that I don't think what he turned in was acceptable especially after 2 months of waiting when it should've been done within 2 - 5 weeks. He has not replied
Had I known this is the way it would've gone I would not have purchased this service.
I am giving this service a 2.4/5
The only reason for a 2.4 is because the articles are decent and lengthy but of course I have to go through them and fix them up.
Also, one more thing. I'm not sure the legality of making up a fake person but I think it's really shady to make up a fake medical expert and this is what was done for my site. Again I'm not sure but it doesn't really sit right with me. I'll let you be the judge of that.
Another swing and a miss for the BHW marketplace. This is really bumming me out
I do NOT recommend this service.
Placed an order for a KGR website because I wanted to save time having to do it all myself. Came across Holzr sales thread and liked what he offered. After a bit of messaging and niche selection I placed an order and began my wait.
His communication was good and everything went well at first.
His stated turn around time is 2 - 5 weeks (depending on demand) and this was reasonable.
July 20th
Order was placed
August 10th
Got an update that the writer got covid and the delivery of the site would be a couple weeks late.
I told him this was no problem and perfectly understandable in these difficult times of the pandemic.
September 7th
(This was more than the two weeks he claimed he would be late by).
He said he was finishing things up and that it should be done by the end of the week. No big deal for me. I was being patient.
September 12th
He messaged me a list of domains to pick from.
This was kinda weird because I wasn't sure if he owned all these domains or thought they would be good choices for my site? I messaged him to ask if I should register one and he said yes. So, that means he didn't own the domains and this service does not include a domain.
I thought this was strange because why message me a list of domains to pick from then? After all couldn't I just have thought of one myself? Anyways no big deal. I registered one of the ones he messaged me and did all the setup for it and messaged him login details for the site.
September 19th
He messages me that the site is just about done and that he's going through fixing up some of the headings for the site.
September 20th
Site is finally done (After 2 months)
Everything looked good at first and was a pretty clean Amazon affiliate site with 10 buyer articles. I was pretty busy during these days and only quickly glanced over the site so I thought everything would be great since I'm dealing with a trusted member of BHW.
However, one thing I noticed right away was that the site logo was nowhere to be seen. After checking various browsers and my mobile phone it appeared to be broken. Again no big deal and I let him know it needed to be fixed. It took him 3 days to reply to that message and the next day he had fixed it.
September 28th and forward
Ok, after 2 months the site was finally ready to promote and get the ball rolling(though I must admit after so much time I wasn't as motivated for this as I was a few weeks earlier).
First things first get my Amazon affiliate links put up which unfortunately has to be done one by one as I'm not aware of any way to automatically do it in one go(There very well might be but the seller didn't provide any instructions to do so).
One of the first things I noticed when I logged in to the site was the massive amounts of plugins and over 20 updates that needed to be done. He did not hold back on the plugins and there were a ton of free plugins used for just about everything. I try and avoid free plugins and I wish he would've asked for my WProcket and Shortpixel info to get it setup but I suppose I should've let him know and that's my fault.
Either way there were a lot of plugins. Also, no security plugin was used so I quickly installed Wordfence and funny enough in Wordfences email newsletter I found out the I had not 1 but 2 malicious plugins on my site! This really irritated me because I was now getting the idea that he rushed my site to quickly complete this order after the huge delay.
Here comes the worst though.
All these previous things I mentioned were no big deal and I was willing to just let it slide. After all I could delete plugins (well not all as I didn't want to break the site and there was at least one that explicitly said not to delete it or you'll break the site!)
I went through reading the articles and adding my affiliate links and to my dismay found quite a lot of typos
Now I was really getting irritated because I felt after 2 months of waiting this site composed of just 10 articles should be flawless but nope it had typos within the first paragraph.
Tried being calm thinking it was just a couple but as I kept reading I was finding more and more. Also, found grammatically incorrect sentences and had to even delete some words (unfortunately this lowers the word count)
That was really the final straw for me and it was clear that this site was rushed and attention to detail was not given. After 2 months and nearly $700 I shouldn't have to go through fixing their mistakes. The whole point for this was to save myself the time.
I messaged him my concerns and he replied that he would fix the mistakes and that I just needed to let him know where the mistakes were. This was completely pointless because I could just correct the mistakes myself far faster than finding them, pointing them out to him, giving him my login details and then waiting for him to fix them.
I replied with this and told him that I don't think what he turned in was acceptable especially after 2 months of waiting when it should've been done within 2 - 5 weeks. He has not replied
Had I known this is the way it would've gone I would not have purchased this service.
I am giving this service a 2.4/5
The only reason for a 2.4 is because the articles are decent and lengthy but of course I have to go through them and fix them up.
Also, one more thing. I'm not sure the legality of making up a fake person but I think it's really shady to make up a fake medical expert and this is what was done for my site. Again I'm not sure but it doesn't really sit right with me. I'll let you be the judge of that.
Another swing and a miss for the BHW marketplace. This is really bumming me out
I do NOT recommend this service.
Dankedydank
Junior Member
- May 31, 2014
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Did you ask for samples? If so, how does what you received compared to that?
OP, Can I please see a sample?
porati2815
Junior Member
- Nov 28, 2020
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Sample please
- Oct 27, 2005
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This thread has been closed as the member is no longer active on BHW or has decided not to renew their service.
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