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Complete scam. Run as fast as you can and block their number. They say they are with the news station that wants to put a banner up on the local news site. The only thing is that their local site is in Washington state and I'm in Florida. No banner was up in either area and they are not with any local news station. read more

Company is deceptive in their marketing sales pitch and are unreasonable in their cancelation plan. Their sales person told me they would "shoot a commercial", which ended up being a voiced over collage of pictures I sent them (I could have done that myself). They don't even use your image on the advertisement listed on the local news channel (which makes no sense, they are promoting a top/brand I don't even carry in store). And the "guaranteed actions per month" aren't guaranteed apparently. After stating how unsatisfied I was with the outcome, they expect you to pay over $1,000 in order to cancel a plan that is less than a week old after it was agreed that their sales person lied about expectations and services. Do not use this company!! Save your time and money! read more

Help!!! I just recently signed with this stupid company without doin some research on them first! Found them on yelp and now seeing how I was tricked out of my money by reading all the negative reviews. Obviously the positive ones are paid for. Now i want to cancel contract but of course im being ignored like the rest. Anyone who has succesfully cancelled contract with this company before the 12 month term help me On how to get this done. I am a small bussines owner and dont have $1800 To just throw out the window! I would greatly apreciate it! read more

They have a great sales pitch talking about our local King 5 and doing advertising on their homepage... They send records of "hits". After 85-100 "hits" per month, you'd think I would have seen one for myself after 3-4 months... Nope! I haven't seen anything. Not happy about the contact of $169 a month for 12 months. ************************ After posting this review, I was contacted by customer service to help. They shortened my contract from 12 to 6 months. Gave me advice on what they think I should do to get results... (blah, blah, blah) I changed and edited my review from a 1* to a 3*. Still feeling the pain from 6 X $169 = $1014. That money could have been better spent... I will not be renewing my membership. :( read more

This company was amazing to work with on certain levels and not so amazing on others. Some of the staff are helpful and professional, others are rude and snarky. I get it, sometimes you are having a bad day, and when you've been dealing with customers who can be disgruntled occasionally, you may run out of patience. We've all been there. That doesn't give you a pass to pull the "c" card at will. Anyway, the product itself isn't bad, they do help small businesses improve their online presence by partnering with local television news stations and offering free online promotions. Just make sure you know what you're getting yourself into! read more

This piece of shit company convinced a client of mine that they could help her business. They then removed my companies name from the site and added "Site Powered By DataSphere" in its place. What a shitty business practice. They basically plagiarized my site. read more

One day I got a call, and when I picked up the phone I wasn't thinking about my business or goals. The lady on the other line was very transparent with what DataSphere offers and what they could do for my new business. After signing up, she made connecting with the rest of the team effortless. DataSphere's expertise has helped me with major business startup discrepancies as far as linking me to the marketplace in a professional manor and making me a sweet informational commercial video for my website that portrayed my business with accuracy. I signed up both businesses I run and would recommend DataSphere to anyone trying to gain an edge on the competition. read more

Let me start off by saying horrible service/customer service. They never answer when I call or i just get transferred left and right just to get Hong up on. Iv been with them 2 months and I have not had one call or anything having to do with this company. But sure enough iv paid almost $600 should of just donated it instead of going with this company. One other point I wanted to make this company called us saying they would put us on our channel 9 news website and I never seen anything. Sad part is if I cancelle I have to pay. Worst decision was going with this company. read more

Garbage product that would be laughable if their business model wasn't so irresponsible. The sales rep lacked basic understanding regarding Facebook advertising and targeting, which is concerning since they base their fees upon user clicks. Stay away! read more

This company it's a shame, the guy that sold me the plan it was someone i use to play soccer with, and i believed him when he told me it was good, that would drive me a lot of clients and everything, but this is just a waste of money, and now the guy wont even answer me, he told me was a monthly payment of $229, never even MENTIONED that it was a Year Contract, and now to cancel they are charging 40% of the total amount, this is insane.. Please guys dont sign up with this company, nothing but a scam, havent got one call, nothing at all.. I should of known better.. read more

If I could give this marketing company a negative star I would! Run, run far far away as fast as you can! This company is horrible! I tried to see if I could possibly get out of my contract because this company does nothing for my company. After all, I was told upon signing on to this company that I would be able to cancel at any time. I quickly found out that was a lie. This company's goal is to acquire as many companies as possible, claim that they are marketing for them, then leave them out to dry leaving the business owner with the hopes that their small business is being seen. I was forewarned by all of the other complaints. I should have listened. Now unfortunately, I have to wait until my so-called contract has ended. I will never use this company again. So again, please run, run far far away as fast as you can from these people, unless you have money to burn! read more

Total scam never use this service. They called me and completely lied to me over the phone. They have great sales pitches but do not comply none of their services work. Then they lock you into a one-year contract if you're a small business this is the biggest scare of death to small businesses. Do not use or buy this service ever this is a scam. I feel like a complete moron because of Artie purchased this service. Also when I talk to the sales person I told him that I would take the service if it was a month-to-month service only and he locked me into a contract a one-year contract that my business cannot afford. Biggest scam ever. read more

My husband signed up with them last month for our small business. It's been 30 days and NO NEW CLIENTS, INQUIRES OR ANYTHING. I wish he would have read these reviews before signing up. I called and spoke with Ashley today, but since it's 7:00 PST no managers are available. Now how is that??? Well, I'm hoping we can get out of this contract because like others has stated...it's just throwing away money. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!! read more

DataSphere is a s. If I could give zero stars I would. The sales rep was relentless in calling me (violating the fact I am on the Do No Call List). The sales tactics are absent of any scruples or morals. Once they had my credit card, the phone calls and follow completely stopped. My AE did not follow up or work to coordinate the commencement for the setup tutorial. They claimed a multitude of 'impressions' and 'activities' yet despite multiple requests never once provided any empirical data to support such proclamations. My advice is spend your money elsewhere. If you have already wasted your money, DM me. I am working on building a 'class' since their model is consistent and a majority of 'sponsors' seem to share my experience. read more

At least I'm not alone in being the only person scammed by this company. As a new business owner, they targeted me and and of course they only had "one available opening for banner advertising on the home page of King5" and they wanted me to be on it if I would accept and sign a year contract within the next few minutes over the phone. This company is a waste of time, money, and I had no results from their crap advertising package, NOT A SINGLE CALL. I should have known it would be a waste from the sound of the airhead solicitor on the phone who called me sounding like she had just shot herself up with 3 Redbulls and a handful of Prozac. read more

DO NOT USE DATASPHERE SERVICES!!!! I had a hard time getting things set up. After the first month we got everything set up. They guarantee 45 actions a month over a 12 month period. After 3 months I receive nothing. Not the first phone call nor site visitor. I was averaging about 14 actions a month. I called to cancel. This took over 5 emails and 3 phone calls over a 5 day period. I talked to a lady named Erma. I was playing nice at this time. She offered to give 3 months comped and down grade subscription from 229$ a month to $99. I verbally asked her. "Verify that this will only cost me around $1000 now. She stated yes." I was happy and willing to give them a chance. I received a refund for only half. This was a huge mistake on their part. It took another 3 emails and 5 phone calls to talk to Erma again. She tried to play a marketing scheme on me saying "well you were give a discount at the time of purchase and the months have already past so we can not do anything about it." Yes I paid in full up front. I informed her that if it was worth 2500 then that is all it is worth and it will not go back up to 3000 just because of a lower subscription. I have canceled the campaign completely. I haven't received a full refund yet minus the first NON PERFORMING MONTHS and I am sure I will have many more calls to get my monies back. STAY AWAY! THIS MARKETING CAMPAIGN DOES NOT WORK! It took me several minutes to find my own ad much less someone that doesn't know what they are looking for. I PURCHASED THIS CAMPAIGN THROUGH NEWS 2 ADVERTISING FOR GREENSBORO NORTH CAROLINA. read more

I wish I had not agreed to use this company! They DO NOT GET RESULTS for you & it is a waste of money! I had to provide the text as well as the pictures used in my video and it has supposedly been being displayed for four months now and NOT ONE call from the public! A total waste of my money! BUYER BEWARE-DO NOT USE!! read more

1 star because I had to! Why didn't I research this company BEFORE I THREW my money away!!! My complaints are the same as all the others! I lost over $500 before I got anyone to FINALLY call me back to stop my account! I could have gone door knocking and brought a gift to all for this loss. I'm beyond frustrated, disheartened, pissed and disgusted with their lack of customer service and helping me what they promised. Please be aware before you sign up with this company. read more

Total scam everyone don't do it. The worst experience I've ever had. They basically twisted my arm until I said ok finally after days of talking. I was sold a package for a local news station and in the end (at the discounted price they finally offered me) turned out I was never put on a tv station website banner but was on a local deal saver page on Facebook (which the geo tag was out in bellevue Washington, my business is in FRESNO,CA. I'll be posting my review on every outlet I can so no one else gets scammed by this company. Oh, did I mention that they charge you 40% if the total cost for the year to cancel?! Oh yea be advised this is not a place I'd ever do advertising business with again! I'll be calling the better business bureau after this because they are totally scamming innocent people. read more

*****CANCELATION****** They have a 3 month $99 contract that you can switch to then cancel and be at your 40% buyout if you've already paid for 1 month at the $199 price. They will try to tell you that this doesn't work (its 40% of the original contract) but according to the original contract it does work. As most of yall know, this place is a complete scam but this is the easiest way out. read more

Although I liked the short video ad they produced, I decided not to continue with Datasphere. When I realized I had failed to cancel in time to avoid getting charged, I called the company and asked to be canceled immediately and my credit card charge reversed. A representative named Michelle gave me very quick and courteous service and reversed the charge. Thank you Michelle for not giving me the run-around! read more

Like all the other reviews I made a bad decision advertising with DataSphere. I am in Portland OR and was supposed to be advertised on KATU and other platforms. I have yet to see a single one of my advertisements, nor have I received any business, and actually just got off the phone with the advertising department at KATU (They even gave me some great quotes and advertising options directly through them super nice and informative). Giving them the information Datasphere promised me they said that I would probably never see my Ad on their website. For this reason and personally never seeing it myself I believe that the numbers they give me showing how many times my Ad is run on various platforms is false and fabricated. I have contacted DataSphere to cancel my service. They gave me the terms of my "Contract" and options to cancel but come to think of it I never signed a contract in person or electronically. Did anyone else not sign anything? Given no business or visibility that I've seen a contract if I had one should be void. Either way I will be filing a complaint with the BBB and going through the networking groups I'm a part of to make sure no one else falls for this marketing scam. read more

This company takes your money with false promises, claiming to be what they are not. I was cold called after posting my first Yelp Ad as a new business owner. DT called me saying that they were "Parent Magazine online" - and would market my business with promising statistics that guaranteed I would get many new clients and a professional voice-over video that I could use on my own website. All lies. I agreed to pay $150 a month, even when the rep asked me if I wanted to pay the full years cost of $1600 for a discount. Turns out, the rep still tried to take the full $1600 on 3 seperate attempts but my cc declined for that amount - an amount I never approved. He tried to ask me for my bank account and routing number to try the payment that way but I (thankfully) refused. So he "tried" again for the amount of $150 and was able to take that payment. Once payment was received, I STOPPED HEARING FROM THEM. My phone, which had received 2-3 calls a day to "prepare my ad and video" suddenly stopped cold. When I tried calling them to get an update on the status of my ad, I would go to Voicemails or would be tossed around from one person to the other telling me "someone is working on it". The day my ad was to go live, it didn't. And several days passed where I was not able to get ahold of anyone. I realized then that I had been had. I went back to an email from them and found their name to be Datasphere Technologies, and looked them up online -- to find that sadly I am not the only victim of their deceit. I am contacting the BBB and after calling them repeatedly for hours over several days (blowing up their phone lines incessently) -- something that takes a lot of time, patience, and passion for justice --- I was able to get my $150 refunded and my contract cancelled. I fear there are too many victims out there who were not so lucky. read more

They are a horrible company! They claim they are WFAA, they scam people and I would not recommend them to anyone. They tell you things that aren't true and their cancellation policy is horrible. I had a 6 month contract with them and they over charged me and there was no benefit to my business from it. I did not receive what they told me I would get. Do not fall for the scams!!! read more

Solicit call. completely scam, wasted my time.

If I could leave 0 stars, I would. This company is completely fraudulent. The sales representative will contact you out of the blue to offer you to advertise with a reputable local news source. That's how they seem to be credible. But, watch out. The sales rep will promise you one thing, but what the contract offers is a totally different thing. He will ask you to sign up without actually reading a contract. That's a BIG warning sign. When you read the contract, you'll see how many false promises the sales rep made. He also won't tell you how to cancel the contract, which he is legally required to do, if you change your mind. He'll promise to build ads for you. The ads are awful and basic, and they don't actually represent the services you offer. You can do that yourself! No one takes the time to understand the services you offer so whatever they create for you is misleading and useless. They offer to create a video for you, which is actually a slide show with a voiceover. You can do that yourself! And, again the videos and ads are so bland and off target that you'll be embarrassed that their ad or video is representing your business. You could create better ads and a slideshow by yourself, and if you work with them, you'd probably need to create better ads and a slideshow for yourself, while you still pay them $200/month for 12 months. The BIGGEST misrepresentation is their promise to get you 30 customer actions per month. The contract actually promises an average of 30 actions a month, and if in 12 months, you don't get 360 actions, the company will continue to do the awful job it has been doing until you get the actions it promised. Also, the sales rep told me that customer actions were actual customer contacts made to you such as filling out a contact form on your website or calling your business. The contract doesn't mention anything about filling out a contact form, and the actions surely won't lead to sales. The actions are really useless things like clicking on your horrible advertisement or searching for directions to your business or playing that awful slideshow they make or downloading a coupon you offer on one of their sites. This is a total scam, and they are praying on small business owners, who really need help, but who aren't so business savvy. Here's the good news. You can cancel your contract within 7 days of signing it. I did. Read more about your rights here - http://www.atg.wa.gov/cancellation-rights#BusinessOpp Skip calling the sales rep to cancel your contract. He will do everything include hanging up on you to avoid transferring you to customer service to cancel the contract. I had to do some research to learn that the only way to cancel is by calling customer service yourself. Run as fast as you can from them, but if you're still within the 7-day window, cancel ASAP. read more

This has been more of a financial burden on my business than anything else I've done. When I called trying to cancel, they wouldn't let me. After that phone call they don't even set up monthly "check-ups" like they had before. They somehow found a way to be even less useful to me. I'm heartbroken that they took so much of my small businesses money. Seriously, breaks my heart. read more

Edit: I'm not changing my review score because the services and practices of the company are SO poor, but I did indeed get a full refund AFTER reporting them to the BBB. It got resolved in about a week from submission. My reasoning was because their data is false, with proof because their 'clicks' to my page didn't exist as I can track the numbers. You don't need to send any attachments proving such. My advice is to be firm with how you're not happy with the product and it's not what you were led to believe from their salespeople. Don't let them bully you, simply report them and go through those channels. I think there were two emails back and forth of them saying we discussed and it's okay, which I then denied and requested a cancellation of contract (due to the false data mentioned above) and a full refund. Needless to say, stay away, DataSphere is hot garbage. Read More original comment below: Do not buy into any of what this company is trying to sell you. Their sales people are savvy (aka really crafty liars) and know how to really sell you something... too bad they never follow thru with it. They tell you 13 different social media sites but it's just their own "localsaver" which doesn't even run the adds. They even say they're from a local news network KOMO 4, yet it's just for a banner in their page. There is no functional way to track your own leads through their ads, which is just entering code- they tell you, you can, but you can't. I'm trying to cancel as I type this review and in the process I've been hung up on, been lectured by their sales rep who keeps reducing the package amount and time just to keep me from canceling fully, left voicemail, and been on hold for more than 10 minutes at a time when getting through to someone. Not to mention they've charged me 3 times (they eventually got it squared away). Just false advertisement entirely, I'm going to report to the Better Business Bureau (BBB)- these people shouldn't be allowed to do business. If this get's resolved in a timely fashion I will be updated the review, especially considering the charges are still pending. read more

I am signed up and am totally not happy. I would cancel my account if I could but they made it clear that wasn't an option. They make a big deal out of all the things they offer - like a montage video you could make yourself in an hour or two. Then they show you a list of how many people are seeing your ads and videos and stuff, but there's no way to verify if that's actually happening. You just have to trust them. The video is not on YouTube so you can't see how many people actually do view it. Then there's the fact that you can get messages within their system from potential customers. This was not mentioned at the outset (I assumed people would call or email me directly.) I asked if there's a way to be notified when I get a message. No, there isn't. (This strikes me as an extremely simple feature to implement.) So instead I have to log in frequently to see if any messages have come in. (In 2 months with them, so far 1 contact.) There are better ways to spend your money to get more leads. Pass on this one. read more

So, honesty is the best policy, and I did have a very good experience with DataSphere in the end. I got a call from them today to advertise on WWL. I signed up because it sounded like it was a good proposition. Shortly after signing on the dotted line, I called WWL. I was told that DataSphere was a legitimate company and that they did sell advertising through Tegna Local, Louisiana, but that the WWL website caters to locals and that there was likely very little if any traffic to the site from tourists. This concerned me because our business is a touring company and I need to make sure that every dollar I spend on advertising creates a return. I called DataSphere and spoke with someone in customer service. She was very nice and agreed to cancel my contract and refund the first payment that had already gone through. She did suggest perhaps using them for FB advertising, but after I explained that I really didn't see FB as a viable alternative, she very professionally put my request through. She followed up immediately with an email confirming the cancellation and refund. So, despite everything I have read in other reviews, I did have a good experience with them considering they were under no obligation whatsoever to honor my cancellation request. If you have a business in New Orleans that caters to locals, this could be a cost-effective advertising solution for you. read more

Useless!!. They have ABSOLUTELY done nothing to help my business. Paying $199.00 for datasphere is a complete waste of money. Its a scam. Another company that I pay only charges $60.00 and atleast brought me good for my business. read more

The salesperson alluded to this being a piece about my business. They just needed some information to get the article written and start with the video to be placed on my local broadcast TV station. Is this journalism or an advertisement, I asked. That's when the salesperson started arguing with me, finally saying if I don't do the ad, one of my competitors surely will. I complained to the sales manager and was assured this was an experienced salesperson. A salesperson arguing to get the sale? Not for me. read more

The salesperson called claiming to represent our local news station KENS5, which was absolutely false. I was surprised a local news station would cold call me asking for advertising and was very interested in doing business with KENS5; however, when the high pressure salesman sent me the contract to sign it, the contract said "DataSpehere." A quick internet search showed me they were not a company that I would want to do business with, so I did not sign the contract. Very deceitful to use such sales tactics! read more

There's so much fishiness going on here...they guarantee an average of 45 actions per month, and the goal is met the last week of my contract? They were no nice in the beginning, saying that my business was a perfect fit and they had limited space available, they were so responsive to get everything set up - then nothing. I've spent $2,500 to have 25 people actually use the discount code and sign up for classes, that's easy math of $250/customer acquisition, more than any of our class offerings. This just reeks of scam. read more

Though I have given the review below, the company did contact me to show me the contract had been cancelled since I asked to cancel the same day. My wife finally got a hold of someone after a few tries. ----------------- Though I signed up initially, I was very hesitant about working with Datasphere after reading the Yelp reviews, so I contacted to cancel right away. Initially my representative, Joey Mara, did pick up the phone, and did offer a six month option, though my wife had seen a one month trial offered on the homepage of Datasphere.com. We declined and Joey told us he would send it to his manager for cancellation. Now things have grown silent with emails and phone calls and it seems they are pretending to not get my messages. They even warned me they are making my ad without my permission. I would like to think my rep was honest and the company would make good but I sense the company is hiding something and is not acting in good faith. I would like to give them a chance to perform but they are not helping their cause by hiding from these bad reviews. Their reviews should be an F on BBB in my opinion unless they start putting their customers first. http://www.bbb.org/alaskaoregonwesternwashington/business-reviews/internet-marketing-services/datasphere-technologies-in-bellevue-wa-22524740 read more

Apparently I got a initial call in August that I do not remember and told the gentleman to call me back. Here it is December and I get the phone call. Then I told him I'm not interested and he questions me 15 times before I have to hang up on the person. I normally don't like to hang up on people but he left me no choice. Very harassing and a very poor concept of business. Avoid this company. They are worse than HomeAdvisor. You can tell that they are out to take your money and give you nothing in return. You're better off spending the money on your own marketing and not using a middleman. It's common sense. You don't need them to sell anything for you. I was forced to leave a star. Would have left nothing if I could. read more

WHAT A JOKE!!! DO NOT USE DATASPHERE!!!! The sales person was so nice and, like a fool, I fell hook-line-and sinker! (Ugh... if only I had spent that money on tackle... or a fishing trip... or lit it on fire and enjoyed the heat from the flame...) ZERO return. Don't do it! read more

Horrible, horrible company. Datasphere has not delivered on their promises of actionable leads, and after two weeks of leaving messages during business hours, I've yet to hear from a single person from DataSphere. I also submitted a ticket requesting assistance with cancelling. It was assigned to "erma.thompson" and is marked as "solved", even though no one has contacted me. To top it off, I can't even find the ad they supposedly put up on our local news station. I'll be going to the Better Business Bureau with my complaint as well. If you're thinking of hiring this company, just don't. read more

Can't believe i fell for this scam!!! The sales rep, Adam misrepresented himself saying he was calling on behalf of Channel 11 alive station in Georgia and that our company will be advertised on their website. Found out two days later after signing the contract they have nothing to do with them. Called to cancel only to be informed i will be charged 40% for the buyout. Just met with my lawyer to discuss legal action. `i think anyone that has been scammed should consult a lawyer as well. They should not be in business. This is wrong read more